| AMCC's Expanded Family of PowerPC Evaluation Kits Accelerates Time-to-Market |
October 30, 2006 --Applied Micro Circuits Corp. (AMCC) today announced an expansion of its family of PowerPC evaluation kits, with the addition of four new, low-cost kits supporting the 440EPx, 440GRx, 440GX and 440SPe processors. These e ... read more |
| Calypto Expands India Operations |
October 30, 2006 -- Calypto Design Systems, Inc. today announced thatit is increasing local sales, support and research and development teams in Noida, India. Calypto also has named CMR as its exclusive distributor in India. In addition, ... read more |
| Chartered Invests in Design Services Firm to Enhance Design Readiness of Value-Added Solutions |
October 30, 2006 -- Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing, Ltd. today announced it is making a strategic investment in Gateway Silicon, Inc. (GSI), a Taiwan-based firm specializing in ASIC/system-on-chip (SoC) design services and intellec ... read more |
| Conexant Launches Next-Generation A/V Decoder to Improve Video Quality on Televisions and Personal Computers |
October 30, 2006 -- Conexant Systems, Inc. has introduced a next-generation audio/video (A/V) decoder for PC TV applications and consumer electronics products including digital televisions, set-top boxes, digital video disc recorders, and ... read more |
| Exar Introduces High Performance Low Voltage (2.25V-3.6V) Quad UART |
October 30, 2006 -- Exar Corp. has added a high performance, low power Universal Asynchronous Receiver Transmitter (UART) to its portfolio of serial communications solutions. The XR16V794 is a highly integrated 64-byte FIFO UART supportin ... read more |
| National Semiconductor Debuts Fast, 3-Channel, 16-bit Analog Front End with CCD Timing Generator, Serial LVDS Outputs |
October 30, 2006 -- A new three-channel, 16-bit analog front end (AFE) from National Semiconductor Corp. improves the performance of multi-function peripherals (MFPs) targeted to small office environments, allowing color copying speeds e ... read more |
| Vitesse and Promise Technology Unveil RAIDScale for SAS RAID-On-Motherboards |
October 30, 2006 -- Vitesse Semiconductor Corp. and Promise Technology today announced RAIDScale, which the companies say is the industry's first affordable, high-performance solution for SAS RAID-on-Motherboard (ROMB) designs. RAIDScale ... read more |
| Texas Instruments Announces Complete Small Form Factor Reference Design for Hands-Free Car Cellular Phone Kits |
October 30, 2006 -- Texas Instruments, Inc. (TI) has announced the availability of a complete Hands Free Kit (HFK) Reference Design for use with the new TMS320C54HFK digital signal processor (DSP). This complete small form factor referenc ... read more |
| Texas Instruments Extends Battery Life in Portable Systems with Low-Power Programmable DSP |
October 30, 2006 -- Continuing to drive low power audio/voice applications, Texas Instruments, Inc. (TI) announced today the lowest-power addition to its line of ultra low-power programmable digital signal processors (DSPs). The new TMS32 ... read more |
| Pixim Extends Licensing Agreement with MoSys |
October 27, 2006 -- MoSys, Inc. announced today that Pixim, Inc. has extended the license of MoSys' 1T-SRAM high-density embedded memory technology to include products manufactured at 90-nm silicon process geometry. Pixim has been a licen ... read more |
| Prism Electronics Selects XJTAG to Speed Debug and Test of Complex BGA-populated Circuits |
October 27, 2006 -- Prism Electronics, a UK-based contract electronics manufacturer, has selected the XJTAG boundary scan development system to speed up the process of debugging and testing highly complex printed circuit boards fea ... read more |
| ARM Selected to Deliver Low-Power and High-Performance Libraries for IBM, Chartered and Samsung 45-Nanometer Common Platform Technology |
October 27, 2006 -- ARM today announced that Common Platform technology business partners IBM, Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing and Samsung Electronics have licensed ARM Metro low-power and Advantage high-performance products, part o ... read more |
| VeriSilicon Licenses ZSP G2 Processor Family to Yamaha for Advanced Multimedia Applications |
October 27, 2006 -- VeriSilicon Holdings Co., Ltd. (VeriSilicon) today announced that Yamaha Corp. has renewed its commitment to the ZSP architecture by licensing VeriSilicon ZSP500 DSP for use in its next-generation, high-end audio/video ... read more |
| Freescale Continues Successful Migration to Cadence Encounter Test |
October 26, 2006 -- Cadence Design Systems, Inc. today announced that Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. is continuing its migration to Cadence Encounter Test to improve the testability and manufacturability of its nanometer products. T ... read more |
| Unigen Introduces Small Footprint Wireless Modules Built Around Cypress's 2.4-GHz WirelessUSB LP Radio SOC |
October 26, 2006 -- Cypress Semiconductor Corp. and Unigen Corp. today announced a new family of wireless modules based on Cypress's 2.4-GHz WirelessUSB LP radio system-on-chip. Unigen's new LETO family offers a module footprint measuring ... read more |
| Qualcomm Announces Manufacturing with Common Platform Technology Partners IBM, Samsung and Chartered |
October 26, 2006 -- Qualcomm, Inc. today announced the production of 90-nm chips sourced to all three Common Platform alliance partners IBM, Samsung and Chartered. The Common Platform approach is designed to enable volume manufacturing of ... read more |
| ARM Announces Release of Multiple Standard Cell Libraries on TSMC 90-nm and 65-nm Processes |
October 25, 2006 -- ARM has released multiple standard cell libraries on TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company) 90-nm and 65-nm processes covering a broad range of mobile and generic applications. The ARM Advantage stand ... read more |
| Altera Now Shipping Complete Line of RoHS-Compliant Development Kits |
October 25, 2006 -- Altera Corp. today announced that all development kits supporting its latest generation of FPGAs and CPLDs are compliant with the European Union's (EU) Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) Directive. Altera offer ... read more |
| Cadence Expands Design Chain Through Encounter Test Collaboration with Source III |
October 25, 2006 -- Cadence Design Systems, Inc. and Source III, Inc., a developer of test conversion and verification programs, have announced a collaboration to enable improved test validation and faster test conversion for enhanced chi ... read more |
| Advanced Analogic Introduces 600-mA Current-Output Charge Pump with Programmable Flash Timer |
October 25, 2006 -- Advanced Analogic Technologies, Inc. today announced the AAT3170, a high output, high efficiency current-output charge pump IC for white LED flash applications. The new device combines a 600-mA dual regulated current o ... read more |
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