| IAR Systems Provides Complete Starter Kit for High-Performance STM32 F-2 MCUs |
July 8, 2011 -- IAR Systems AB has announced a complete starter kit for STMicroelectronics' ARM Cortex-M3 based high-performance STM32 F-2 series. The new STM32F2xx series combines 90-nm process technology with the adaptive real-ti ... read more |
| Valens Semiconductor Closes $14 Million Investment B Round |
July 6, 2011 -- Valens Semiconductor, Ltd., a provider of semiconductor products for the distribution of uncompressed high-definition (HD) multimedia content and the inventor of the HDBaseT technology, announced today that it has raised $ ... read more |
| Microsemi Acquires ASIC Advantage |
July 7, 2011 -- Microsemi Corp. today announced that it has acquired privately-held ASIC Advantage, Inc. is a fabless semiconductor company that designs and manufactures high-performance, high-voltage and radiation-hardened mixed-signal ... read more |
| SPIRIT DSP Signs Fifth Licensing Agreement with Polycom |
July 7, 2011 -- SPIRIT DSP has signed its fifth licensing agreement with Polycom, a provider of videoconferencing hardware. Under terms of the agreement, Polycom has licensed SPIRIT's product to support videoconferencing on the Polycom ... read more |
| Taifatech Selects Elliptic Technologies' HDCP 2.0 Content Protection Solution to Deliver High-Performance Streaming Media |
July 7, 2011 -- Taifatech has joined forces with security IP supplier Elliptic Technologies, Inc. to build a comprehensive content-protection solution for its wireless digital TV streaming controllers.
"Elliptic Technolo ... read more |
| Mentor Graphics Expands Verification Academy Portal with Additional UVM/OVM Content Featured |
July 7, 2011 -- Mentor Graphics Corp. today announced that the Mentor Verification Academy website, which provides access to information and online training on advanced functional verification technologies, has been expanded to serve the ... read more |
| VIA Technologies Sells Stake in S3 Graphics |
July 6, 2011 -- VIA Technologies, Inc. has signed definitive agreement to sell all of its shareholding in S3 Graphics Co., Ltd. to HTC Corp.
VIA acquired S3 Graphics in 2001 with the intention of accelerating inte ... read more |
| CEVA Enhances CEVA-XC DSP Product Offering with HSPA+ Software IP |
July 6, 2011 -- CEVA, Inc. today announced the availability of fully optimized HSPA+ software libraries for the CEVA-XC DSP. The addition of these new libraries to the CEVA-XC software-defined radio (SDR) reference architecture enables th ... read more |
| MegaChips Selects Arteris High-Speed Inter-Chip Communications IP |
July 6, 2011 -- Arteris SA today announced that MegaChips Corp. has selected Arteris' IP solutions for multiple semiconductor designs. MegaChips chose Arteris IP to support the high-speed inter-chip communication requirements in ne ... read more |
| Microchip Launches 60-MIPS Enhanced Core dsPIC33 DSCs and PIC24 MCUs |
July 5, 2011 -- Microchip Technology, Inc. today announced 60-MIPS 16-bit dsPIC digital signal controllers (DSCs) and PIC24 microcontrollers (MCUs). Based upon the next-generation dsPIC DSC/ PIC24 MCU core, the 60-MIPS dsPIC33 and PIC24 ... read more |
| Innovative Logic Announces Free Licensing of Its USB 3.0 SuperSpeed IP |
July 6, 2011 -- Innovative Logic, Inc. announced today it will start free licensing of its USB3.0 Device Controller IP for prototyping purposes. Innovative Logic will also help designers in creating prototypes by sharing its expertise in ... read more |
| Xilinx ISE Design Suite 13.2 Boosts Designer Productivity and Brings Partial Reconfiguration to Kintex-7, Virtex-7 FPGAs |
July 6, 2011 -- Xilinx, Inc. today released ISE Design Suite 13.2, providing support for the 28-nm 7 series families including the recently introduced Virtex-7 VX485T device being demonstrated to customers.
In addition, t ... read more |
| Cortus APS3 Processor at the Heart of PointChips Touch Screen Controller Chip |
July 6, 2011 -- The Cortus SA APS3 processor is being used by PointChips Co., Ltd. in its latest advanced touch-screen-controller chips. The APS3 provides the processing power to translate the signals received from the sensors on a ... read more |
| Imagination Technologies Enables META Connected Processor Embedded System Development by University of Southampton Students |
July 5, 2011 -- Imagination Technologies, Ltd. has donated a set of embedded systems development kits to the Electronics & Computer Science department at the University of Southampton. The development systems, called METAmorph ... read more |
| Lattice Announces First PCI Express 2.0 Compliant Low-Cost FPGA |
July 5, 2011 -- Lattice Semiconductor Corp. today announced that its LatticeECP3 FPGA family is compliant with the PCI Express 2.0 specification at 2.5Gbps. The LatticeECP3 FPGA and its PCI Express (PCIe) IP core passed PCI-SIG PCIe v2.0 ... read more |
| Logicview Selects Xilinx Virtex-6 FPGAs for Next-Generation SOC Prototyping System and Emulation Platform |
July 5, 2011 -- Xilinx, Inc. today announced that Beijing Logicview Electronic Technology Co., Ltd. has selected Virtex-6 FPGAs for the company's next-generation prototyping system and hardware emulation platform slated for introduction i ... read more |
| Tektronix Acquires Veridae Systems Featured |
July 5, 2011 -- Tektronix, Inc. today announced the acquisition of Veridae Systems, Inc. Founded in 2009 to commercialize research from the University of British Columbia, Veridae delivers three leading products for ASIC/ FPGA prot ... read more |
| X-FAB Adds eFlash to High-Voltage 0.18-micron Foundry Offering |
July 5, 2011 -- X-FAB Silicon Foundries AG today enhanced its XH018 0.18-µm high-voltage process with a highly reliable new embedded Flash solution. It offers the industry's lowest mask count of 32 mask layers in total for the modul ... read more |
| Adesto Technologies and Altis Semiconductor Announce Partnership on CBRAM Memory Technology Platform |
| July 4, 2011 -- Adesto Technologies and Altis Semiconductor have announced the formation of a development and manufacturing partnership that will lead to the delivery of the first Conductive Bridging RAM (CBRAM)-based devices in 2011. ... read more |
| Chips&Media Video Codec Technology Used in Freescale's Latest i.MX 6 Series |
July 4, 2011 -- Chips&Media, Inc. today announced that its CODA960 hardware video acceleration technology is utilized in the Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. i.MX 6 series of SOCs.
The i.MX 6 series is a scalable mul ... read more |
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