| Aldec Announces Support for Altera's Stratix III Devices |
November 8, 2006 -- Aldec, Inc. has announced System Verification Environment (SVE) support for Altera Corp.'s new high-end Stratix III FPGA device family. SVE supports all aspects of system-level design development and verificati ... read more |
| Altera Announces High-End Stratix III Family Featured |
November 8, 2006 -- Altera Corp. today announced its Stratix III FPGA family, boasting the lowest power consumption of any high-density, high-performance programmable logic device. Built on TSMC's 65-nm process, Stratix III FPGAs feature ... read more |
| Atmel's New AT98SC032CT-USB for Embedded Systems and e-Tokens |
November 8, 2006 -- Atmel Corp. announced today the introduction of its new AT98SC032CT-USB, a fully-integrated solution designed to secure embedded systems. Based on Atmel's smart card chip-design expertise, the AT98SC032CT-USB is intend ... read more |
| UMC Delivers Leading-edge 65nm FPGAs to Xilinx |
November 8, 2006 -- UMC (United Microelectronics Corp.) has delivered the world's largest 65-nm FPGAs to Xilinx, Inc. The new devices deliver a 65% logic capacity increase over previous generation FPGAs to enable the industry's hig ... read more |
| NVIDIA Unveils CUDA Featured |
November 8, 2006 -- NVIDIA Corp. has unveiled NVIDIA CUDA technology, a fundamentally new architecture for computing on NVIDIA graphics processing units (GPUs), and the first C-compiler development environment for the GPU. GPU computing w ... read more |
| VSIA Publicly Releases Updated Hard and Soft IP Tagging Standards Featured |
November 8, 2006 -- The VSI Alliance (VSIA) today announced that the organization has updated the Hard IP Tagging Standard (IPP 1 3.0) and Soft IP Tagging Standard (IPP 4 2.0) and will release both documents to the public. In ... read more |
| IPextreme to Sell Cypress Semiconductor's USB 2.0 Low-Power Hub IP |
November 8, 2006 -- IPextreme Inc. and Cypress Semiconductor Corp. have signed an agreement where IPextreme will sell and support Cypress' USB 2.0 high speed hub intellectual property (IP) into third-party system chips. Cypress' US ... read more |
| Catalyst Semiconductor Adds Two New Open Drain Output Devices to Its Line of Industry-Standard Supervisors |
November 8, 2006 -- Catalyst Semiconductor, Inc. has added two new open-drain output devices, the CAT803 voltage supervisor and CAT808 voltage detector, to its line of industry-standard voltage supervisors. The new CAT803 voltage supervis ... read more |
| Next-Generation FlowThrough Security Processors Uses Denali DDR Controller IP |
November 8, 2006 -- Denali Software, Inc. today announced that its Databahn DDR memory controller IP has been utilized in Hifn's HIPP III security processors; the 4450 for internet protocol network storage applications and 8450 for ... read more |
| TI Introduces ±0.5°C Accurate Temperature Sensor for Precision Measurement Applications |
November 8, 2006 -- Texas Instruments, Inc. (TI) has announced a low-power, ±0.5°C accurate, digital-output temperature sensor. The TMP275 is well-suited for precision temperature measurement in a wide range of communications, computer, c ... read more |
| New Cypress 4-PLL Timing Chip Is First with 2-Wire I2C Interface, Allowing On-Board Programming |
November 8, 2006 -- Cypress Semiconductor Corp. has introduced the first 4-PLL (phase-locked loop) timing device with a 2-wire I2C programming interface. The I2C programming lets manufacturers reduce time-to-market by programming frequen ... read more |
| Marvell Completes Acquisition of Intel's Communications and Applications Processor Business |
November 8, 2006 -- Marvell Technology Group, Ltd. has completed the acquisition of Intel's cellular and applications processor business. On June 27, 2006, Marvell announced that it agreed to purchase Intel's cellular communications and a ... read more |
| Atrenta Donates Low Power Constraint Format to Accellera |
November 8, 2006 -- Atrenta, Inc. has donated its SpyGlass Design Constraints (SGDC) for low power design to Accellera's Unified Power Format (UPF) Technical Subcommittee. Atrenta's constraint format lets IC designers specify desi ... read more |
| Progate Tapes Out Advanced Mobile Communications Chip Using Synopsys IC Compiler |
November 7, 2006 -- Synopsys, Inc. today announced that Progate Group Corp., one of the largest SOC/ASIC design service providers in Taiwan, has successfully taped out an advanced mobile communications chip using the Synopsys IC Co ... read more |
| MunEDA Closes Exclusive Distribution Agreement for Taiwan |
November 7, 2006 -- MunEDA GmbH and Grand Technology Inc., an EDA distributor in Taiwan, have closed an exclusive distribution agreement for sales and support of MunEDA tools and solutions in the Taiwan market.
"GTI is an outstandi ... read more |
| ORBexpress FPGA Speeds FPGA Integration on SDRs, Other Signal Processing Applications |
November 7, 2006 -- Objective Interface Systems, Inc. has announced a new version of its communications middleware product. ORBexpress FPGA, designed specifically for FPGAs, is a VHSIC Hardware Description Language (VHDL) implementation o ... read more |
| Mirics Chooses Jazz Semiconductor's SiGe BiCMOS Process to Introduce a Poly-Band Tuner for Mobile Broadcast Reception |
November 7, 2006 -- Mirics Semiconductor, Inc. has partnered with Jazz Semiconductor to deliver its MSI001 poly-band tuner for mobile digital broadcast reception. Mirics designed its product using Jazz Semiconductor's high-volume s ... read more |
| Tower Semiconductor Launches 0.18-micron High-Voltage Technology |
November 7, 2006 -- Tower Semiconductor, Ltd. has announced the availability of a Laterally Diffused Metal Oxide Semiconductor (LDMOS) process, its latest addition to the 0.18-micron technology platform. The technology is produced in Towe ... read more |
| STMicroelectronics Announces Compact 3-Output Bus-Controlled Audio Power Amplifier Solution for Mobile Phones |
November 7, 2006 -- STMicroelectronics has introduced a compact stereo headphone and loudspeaker driver chip, with a flexible I2C bus control interface, which is intended for mobile phones, PDAs and laptop computers. The new TS4956, in a ... read more |
| Spansion Announces First MirrorBit HD-SIM Solution |
November 7, 2006 -- Spansion, Inc. has announced its first secure MirrorBit HD-SIM solution and that the company is actively working on select pilot projects with leading smart card manufacturers to begin by December. The first secure HD- ... read more |
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