| Thales Leverages Altera's DO-254/ ED-80 Certifiable Nios II Processor In Safety-Critical Avionics System Certified by EASA |
December 20, 2010 -- Altera Corp. today announced that the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) certified a safety-critical avionics system that includes a DO-254/ ED-80-certifiable version of Altera's Nios II embedded processor. Thales ... read more |
| Cosmic Circuits to Develop Foundation Analog IP for GlobalFoundries 55-nm, 40-nm and 28-nm Technologies |
December 20, 2010 -- Cosmic Circuits Pvt., Ltd. today announced that GlobalFoundries has selected Cosmic for foundation analog IP development in 55nm, 40nm and 28nm. Cosmic Circuits offers a broad portfolio of differentiated analog ... read more |
| SPIRIT Signs Licensing Deal with Polycom |
December 20, 2010 -- SPIRIT DSP announced today that it has signed a fourth contract with Polycom, a global conferencing equipment provider. In this agreement, Polycom has licensed SPIRIT's wideband voice-processing product for its multi- ... read more |
| Wind River and VIA Telecom Collaborate on Android Solution for Smartphones |
December 20, 2010 -- Wind River has teamed with VIA Telecom on a multi-year project, code-named Kunlun, to help bring low-cost Android smartphones featuring high-end capabilities to regional original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) for the ... read more |
| Mentor Graphics Joins Linux Foundation |
December 15, 2010 -- The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux, today announced that Mentor Graphics Corp. is its newest member. Companies like Mentor are seeing an increase in e ... read more |
| Jasper Introduces Intelligent Proof Kits for Faster, More-Accurate Verification of SOC Interface Protocols |
December 14, 2010 -- Jasper Design Automation today introduced Intelligent Proof Kits for accelerated certification of advanced SOC interconnect protocols. Jasper Intelligent Proof Kits encapsulate critical behaviors for popular protocols ... read more |
| CEVA Announces Licensing Agreement With PMC-Sierra to Enable VoIP in Fiber-to-the-Home SOC Solutions |
December 14, 2010 -- CEVA, Inc. today announced that PMC-Sierra, Inc. has licensed its CEVA-VoP voice-over-IP platform for use in PMC-Sierra's next-generation system-on-chip (SOC) devices for Fiber-to-the-Home applications. CEVA-Vo ... read more |
| AuthenTec Introduces High-Performance FIPS 140-3-Compliant True Random Number Generator |
December 14, 2010 -- AuthenTec, Inc. today introduced the True Random Number Generator (TRNG) solution that complies with the FIPS 140-3 draft federal standard for cryptographic security modules. The new SafeXcel EIP-76 TRNG p ... read more |
| Altera Acquires Avalon Microelectronics, Extending Its Communication System IP for FPGA and ASIC Product Portfolio |
December 14, 2010 -- Altera Corp. has acquired Avalon Microelectronics, Inc., a leader in flexible Optical Transport Network (OTN) IP, for use in its FPGA and ASIC products. With the acquisition of Avalon, Altera expands its portfo ... read more |
| DarbeeVision Selects Altera As Exclusive FPGA Silicon Provider |
December 15, 2010 -- DarbeeVision, Inc. today announced it has selected Altera Corp.'s Cyclone family of FPGAs (field programmable gate arrays) to enable its Darbee Visual Presence Technology. Recognized for its ability to add depth and r ... read more |
| Mistral Solutions' CraneBoard Simplifies Design on TI's AM35x Sitara ARM Microprocessors |
December 15, 2010 -- Mistral Solutions Pvt, Ltd. today announced CraneBoard, a new low-cost ARM-based development board, offering designers a fully open-source printed circuit board (PCB) and design to reduce development costs. CraneBoar ... read more |
| Iskratel Chooses Octasic's Vocallo MGW to Support Demand for IP-to-IP Transcoding |
December 14, 2010 -- Octasic, Inc. today announced that its Vocallo MGW multi-core DSP platform has been selected by Iskratel, a developer of adapted and highly-integrated solutions in the field of communications for fast-growing converge ... read more |
| Chip Path Design Systems Secures $3M In Venture Funding |
December 15, 2010 -- Chip Path Design Systems has secured $3 million in Series-A funding from Scientific Ventures, Lanza techVentures, and Xilinx Corp. The company focuses on a new area it calls "Semantic-IC Design," aimed at revolutioniz ... read more |
| TI's DM8168 DaVinci Digital Media Processor Speeds Development a New Generation of Enhanced DVR Products for Hikvision |
December 14, 2010 -- Utilizing the TMS320DM8168 DaVinci digital media processor from Texas Instruments, Inc. (TI), Hikvision, a supplier of video surveillance products and solutions, recently introduced a new generation of digital video recorder ... read more |
| austriamicrosystems Upgrades Non-volatile Memory Portfolio With Ultra-High-Reliability and High-Temperature EEPROM Blocks |
December 14, 2010 -- austriamicrosystems AG Full Service Foundry business unit announced today a further expansion of its non-volatile memory portfolio for its 0.35-µm process family. The entire EEPROM IP block portfolio now includes 14 n ... read more |
| ON Semiconductor Unveils BelaSigna R261 High-Performance Voice-Capture SOC |
December 14, 2010 -- ON Semiconductor today introduced BelaSigna R261, a complete system-on-chip (SOC) solution for portable consumer electronics that incorporates a highly optimized digital signal processor (DSP) with an advanced dual-mi ... read more |
| STATS ChipPAC and Intersil Qualify and Ramp Copper Wire Interconnect for High-End Analog and Mixed-Signal Devices |
December 14, 2010 -- STATS ChipPAC, Ltd. and Intersil Corp. today announced they have qualified copper wire interconnect on a number of high-end analog and mixed-signal devices that are in volume production.
Utili ... read more |
| Mixel Gains Momentum With MIPI M-PHY IP |
December 14, 2010 -- Mixel, Inc. continues to gain traction with its MIPI MPHY SM offering by adding one more licensee to its growing list of MIPI PHY customers. Earlier this year, Mixel announced its support of the MIPI Alliance M-PHY. M ... read more |
| DVCon 2011 Announces Technical Program |
December 13, 2010 -- The 2011 Design and Verification Conference (DVCon), sponsored by Accellera, continues its tradition of providing a technical program unparalleled in its industry. The advance program and registration informati ... read more |
| AppliedMicro's Mamba Single and Dual-Core SOCs Enable Breakthrough Power Management, Concurrency and Security |
December 13, 2010 -- AppliedMicro Corp. (AMCC), today announced the Mamba single- and dual-core embedded processing devices as the first members of its PacketPro system-on-chip (SOC) family. With the choice of one or two 1.5-GHz PowerPC 4 ... read more |
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