| Power.org and Power Architecture Community Members Offer Open Android OS Source Code |
February 9, 2011 -- Power.org has announced the first Android operating system (OS) port available as open source code for the embedded community. A collaborative effort between IBM, Mentor Graphics, XGI (now part of SIS) and AppliedMicro, the c ... read more |
| Study Released on Collaborative Innovation in the Global Semiconductor Industry |
February 9, 2011 -- The Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA) has announced the release of "Collaborative Innovation in the Global Semiconductor Industry," a joint effort between GSA and faculty at the Wharton School of the University of Pe ... read more |
| MediaTek Licenses Coresonic DSP Architecture |
February 10, 2011 -- Coresonic AB today announced that MediaTek, Inc., a fabless semiconductor company for wireless communications and digital multimedia solutions, licenses its SIMT DSP architecture. Through this cooperation, Medi ... read more |
| SST and StarChip Announce Licensing and Design Partnership |
February 10, 2011 -- StarChip SAS today announced a licensing and design partnership agreement with Silicon Storage Technology, Inc. (SST), a wholly owned subsidiary of Microchip Technology, Inc. This agreement is for the purpose o ... read more |
| Altair Semiconductor Licenses MIPS Technologies' Multi-Threaded IP for LTE Broadband and Mobile Devices |
February 9, 2011 -- MIPS Technologies, Inc. announced today that Altair Semiconductor, a developer of ultra-low power, small-footprint and high-performance 4G LTE chipsets, licensed MIPS Technologies' multi-threaded synthesizable p ... read more |
| Skyworks and Ember Partner to Deliver Next-Generation ZigBee System Solutions |
February 8, 2011 -- Skyworks Solutions, Inc. and Ember Corp. today introduced solutions for ZigBee applications targeting the growing energy-management, home area network and industrial-automation markets. ZigBee is a wireless netw ... read more |
| Analog Bits Unveils Industry's Lowest Power 40-nm High Bandwidth SerDes |
February 8, 2011 -- Analog Bits, Inc. today announced the commercial availability of what the company boasts is the industry's lowest-power 40-nm, high-speed Serializer/Deserializer (SerDes) IP. The new macro is programmable to support m ... read more |
| Green Hills Software Compilers Produce Record EEMBC Automotive Benchmark Results |
February 8, 2011 -- Green Hills Software, Inc. today announced that its optimizing compilers for Power Architecture were used by Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. for certified, published Embedded Microprocessor Benchmark Consortium (E ... read more |
| Mindspeed and CEVA Collaborate to Bring Software-Defined Radio Technology to LTE Wireless Infrastructure Market |
February 8, 2011 -- CEVA, Inc. and Mindspeed Technologies, Inc. announced today that the two companies are collaborating to bring the benefits of software-defined radio (SDR) technology to wireless infrastructure equipment. Mindspe ... read more |
| MunEDA Joins the Silicon Integration Initiative and the Open Process Design Kit Coalition |
February 8, 2011 -- The Silicon Integration Initiative, Inc. (Si2) and MunEDA GmbH today announced that MunEDA GmbH has joined Si2 and will take part in the Si2's Open Process Design Kit Coalition (OPDKC).
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| Silicon Image Expands Its Low-Power Camera Processor IP Core Family to Support 3D Video and Resolutions Up to 64MPixels |
February 8, 2011 -- Silicon Image, Inc. has introduced the camerIC-3D/64MP, the newest member of its camerIC family of camera processor IP cores capable of supporting 3D and up to 8Kx8K (64 megapixel) still images and video. camerIC-3D/6 ... read more |
| Altera Delivers First Interface Targeting MoSys's Serial, High-Density Bandwidth Engine Device |
February 8, 2011 -- Altera Corp. successfully completed interoperability testing between its Stratix IV GT FPGA and the Bandwidth Engine device from MoSys, Inc. in a serial memory application. Stratix IV GT FPGAs leverage the GigaC ... read more |
| Presto Engineering Becomes IBM Business Partner for RF Testing of SiGe Devices |
February 8, 2011 -- Presto Engineering, Inc., a semiconductor product engineering company, announced today that it has become an IBM Business Partner and has been awarded "Ready for IBM Technology" validation for RF test services. Foundry ... read more |
| Tensilica Announces Availability of Atlas Reference Architecture Dataplane Processors for a Complete Baseband PHY for LTE, HSPA+ and WiMAX |
February 7, 2011 -- Tensilica, Inc. today announced that all the optimized programmable DPUs (dataplane processing units) of its Atlas Reference Architecture are now available for evaluation. The Atlas Reference Architecture uses the Tens ... read more |
| HDL Design House Joins the Hellenic Semiconductor Industry Association |
February 7, 2011 -- HDL Design House (HDL-DH) has joined the Hellenic Semiconductor Industry Association (HSIA) as a full member. With this, HSIA and HDL-DH join forces to extend the reach of the association and help advance the high-tech ... read more |
| Tensilica Announces ConnX BBE64-128 High-Performance DSP IP Core for LTE Advanced |
February 7, 2011 -- Tensilica, Inc. today extended its Baseband Engine (BBE) family with the ConnX BBE64-128, the next-generation architecture for DSP (digital signal processor) IP (intellectual property) cores for SOC (system-on-chip) de ... read more |
| VIA Technologies Adopts Mentor Graphics Calibre PERC for Critical ESD Checking |
February 7, 2011 -- Mentor Graphics Corp. today announced that VIA Technologies, Inc., a fabless supplier of power-efficient x86 processor platforms, is adopting the Calibre PERC electrical rule-checking product to ensure that elec ... read more |
| SynthWorks Announces Methodology and Open-Source Packages for Creating Constrained Random Tests in VHDL |
February 7, 2011 -- SynthWorks Design, Inc. has announced its proven VHDL-based constrained-random and coverage-driven random-testbench methodology. At the heart of this methodology are packages for randomization and functional coverage t ... read more |
| Lattice Announces Five New IP Suites for the LatticeECP3 FPGA Family |
February 7, 2011 -- Lattice Semiconductor Corp. today announced the immediate availability of five new comprehensive intellectual property (IP) Suites to accelerate the design of electronic systems in a variety of industries using the Lat ... read more |
| CEVA and mimoOn Offer Complete LTE PHY Reference Architectures for UE and eNodeB Applications |
February 7, 2011 -- CEVA, Inc. and mimoOn GmbH, the leading licensor in LTE software implementation for programmable radio platforms, announced today a range of LTE reference architectures based on the CEVA-XC communication process ... read more |
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