| SMSC Introduces New High-Speed, Single-Wire Simple Serial Transport Sensors |
June 19, 2006 -- SMSC today introduced a new set of temperature sensing devices, the EMC1102 and EMC1152, that are compliant with Intel's new high-speed, single-wire simple serial transport (SST) bus. Both devices employ beta compensation ... read more |
| TI Simplifies Audio/Video Synchronization with Cost-Effective, Single-Chip Digital Audio Delay |
June 19, 2006 -- Texas Instruments, Inc. (TI) has introduced the TPA5050 digital audio delay with I2C control. Designed for high definition and flat panel TV applications, the TPA5050 digital audio delay provides cost-effective synchroniz ... read more |
| TI Unveils Capacitor-Free LDO Family with One Percent Accuracy |
June 19, 2006 -- Texas Instruments, Inc. (TI) today introduced a series of 1.5-A and 3-A low-dropout linear regulators (LDOs) that feature a 1% voltage regulation accuracy rate over line, load and temperature. The easy-to-use LDOs meet th ... read more |
| Trident's HiDTV Powers Haier's New ATSC LCD TVs |
June 19, 2006 -- Trident Microsystems, Inc. today announced that Haier, China's leading consumer electronics brand, has chosen Trident's HiDTV and SVP EX ten-bit video processor featuring the Digital Cinema Reality Engine (DCRe) to power ... read more |
| IDT Enhances Efficiency of Next-Generation Wireless Infrastructures with Pre-Processing Switch |
June 19, 2006 -- Integrated Device Technology, Inc. (IDT) today announced the industry's only off-the-shelf pre-processing switch (PPS) for digital signal processor (DSP) clusters. Optimized for wireless baseband processing applications a ... read more |
| Renesas Electronics Develops Technique that Overcomes Effects of Threshold Variation to Stabilize the Operation of Embedded SRAM Built with 65-nm Process |
June 15, 2006 -- Renesas Electronics Corp. today announced the development of a technique that enables stable operation of an SRAM produced with a 65-nm manufacturing process. The new technique uses a straight-pattern-shape layout and re ... read more |
| Magma Opens Second Facility in India |
June 14, 2006 -- Magma Design Automation, Inc. announced its expanding presence in India continued today with the opening of its new office in Noida, and that the company plans expansion of its operations in Bangalore. These additions wil ... read more |
| Xilinx CoolRunner-II CPLDs Adopted in Wilcom's Handheld Information Terminal Manufactured by Sharp |
June 14, 2006 -- Xilinx, Inc. today announced that Sharp Corp. has adopted Xilinx CoolRunner-II CPLDs for its W-ZERO3 series of mobile information handsets. Sharp developed and manufactures the handsets for Wilcom, a leading Japanese cell ... read more |
| IXYS Announces New Family of Micro-Power Hall-Effect Switches |
June 14, 2006 -- IXYS Corp. announced today that its Micronix division has introduced a new family of low cost micro-power Hall-effect switches. The new MX887P, MX887D, and MX887U are designed as reed switch replacements for a wide variet ... read more |
| Skyworks Offers Breakthrough Module Packaging Solution |
June 14, 2006 -- Skyworks Solutions, Inc. has unveiled a new ceramic packaging process that allows many of the company's existing linear products to operate at higher frequencies and with a smaller footprint when compared to other standar ... read more |
| austriamicrosystems Unveils 5-V 130-mA Step-Up DC-DC Converter |
June 14, 2006 -- austriamicrosystems AG has announced the AS1321, a high efficiency step-up DC-DC converter with a fully integrated synchronous rectifier. The AS1321 improves on the performance of the existing AS1320 while boosting the ou ... read more |
| STMicroelectronics' SMIA-Compatible Video De-Serializer for Camera Phones Extends Mobile Multimedia Processor Capability |
June 13, 2006 -- STMicroelectronics has introduced the first video de-serializer interface for use with MIPI CSI-1 and SMIA CCP2 class 0 serial interfaces. The CSI-1 interface is part of the MIPI (Mobile Industry Processor Interface) stan ... read more |
| SEMATECH Engineers Achieve Major Milestones in High-k Metal Gate Technology |
June 13, 2006 -- In two key presentations at the 2006 Symposium on VLSI Technology, SEMATECH, Inc. engineers today shared technical details on metal electrode materials that can be used to build low threshold voltage (Vt) nMOS transistors ... read more |
| Sphere Medical Selects AMI Semiconductor for Design and Fabrication of State-of-the-Art Sensor Interface ASIC |
June 13, 2006 -- AMI Semiconductor, Inc. (AMIS) and Sphere Medical, Ltd, a developer of next-generation critical care patient monitoring systems, today announced that Sphere Medical has selected AMIS to design and fabricate a state-of-the ... read more |
| Texas Instruments 45-nm Chip Manufacturing Process Doubles Output per Wafer, Lowers Power and Boosts Performance |
June 13, 2006 -- Texas Instrument, Inc. (TI) has unveiled details of a 45-nm semiconductor manufacturing process that leverages a "wet" lithography process to double the number of chips produced on each silicon wafer, increase processing ... read more |
| TI and Tata Elxsi Deliver 802.16e Demonstration System to Support Emerging Mobile WiMAX Infrastructure Market |
June 13, 2006 -- Texas Instruments, Inc. (TI) and Tata Elxsi, Ltd. have announced their collaboration on an end-to-end base band demonstration system for IEEE 802.16e infrastructure products, enabling manufacturers to quickly roll ... read more |
| Vitesse Extends Serial Attached SCSI Product Line with Next Generation NexSAS Expanders |
June 13, 2006 -- Vitesse Semiconductor Corp. has extended its NexSAS line of Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) expanders with the introduction of VSC7156 24-PHY, VSC7157 36-PHY, and VSC7158 18-PHY enhanced SAS expanders. These new devices delive ... read more |
| OCP-IP Releases Functional Coverage Guidelines Featured |
June 13, 2006 -- OCP International Partnership (OCP-IP) has announced the availability of functional coverage guidelines. The guidelines eliminate the need for "best guess" verification by engineers making certain an OCP interface complie ... read more |
| Silicon Laboratories Introduces Highly Integrated Power over Ethernet Controller |
June 13, 2006 -- Silicon Laboratories, Inc. has announced what the company claims is the industry's most highly integrated, IEEE 802.3af compliant, Power over Ethernet (PoE) controller for powered device (PD) applications. The Si3400 int ... read more |
| Yogitech Extends OCP Verification Component Functionality |
June 13, 2006 - Yogitech SPA today announced the release of version 2.0 of their OCP 2.1 e-language Verification Component. The new release introduces a major enhancement of the embedded Protocol Checker by incorporating the Functional Co ... read more |
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