| Cypress and Mobilygen Offer Two Video-Over-USB Reference Designs for High-Quality H.264 Video |
December 5, 2007 -- Cypress Semiconductor Corp. and Mobilygen, Inc. today introduced two reference designs to convert any video file to H.264 format in mobile devices. The new Crusher and Crusher-Capture reference designs use Cypre ... read more |
| Real Intent Ships Next Generation of Ascent Automatic Verification Software |
December 5, 2007 -- Real Intent, Inc. is shipping a new version of its Ascent software for automatic formal verification of electronic designs. Ascent finds bugs in Register-Transfer-Level (RTL) designs and improves design quality, with s ... read more |
| TI Introduces Low-Noise, High-Accuracy DAC for Industrial Process Control and Test Equipment |
December 5, 2007 -- Texas Instruments, Inc. (TI) today introduced a 16-bit, single-channel, buffered voltage-output digital-to-analog converter (DAC) with excellent linearity (1LSB max INL), low noise (24nV/rtHz) and fast settling time (5 ... read more |
| Stone Pillar Technologies Joins Stratosphere Solutions' ICTrust Partner Program |
December 5, 2007 -- Stratosphere Solutions, Inc. today announced that Stone Pillar Technologies, Inc. has become as a member of its ICTrust Partnership Program. Under terms of the partnership agreement, the companies have integrate ... read more |
| Berkeley Design Automation Analog FastSpice Selected by Axiom Microdevices for Full-Circuit and Complex-Block Verification |
December 4, 2007 -- Berkeley Design Automation, Inc. today announced that Axiom Microdevices, Inc., a provider of the fully integrated CMOS power amplifiers for mobile handsets, has selected the company's Analog FastSpice circuit s ... read more |
| ARM and Esterel to Deliver Software Development Tools for Safety-Critical Systems |
December 4, 2007 -- ARM and Esterel Technologies, Inc. have announced their collaboration on a toolchain for safety-critical systems requiring IEC 61508 certification. Under the agreement, work has been done to ensure that Esterel ... read more |
| Atmel Offers a Feature-Rich UHF ASK/FSK Receiver/ Transmitter Family for Industrial Applications |
December 4, 2007 -- Atmel Corp. today announced the availability of its feature-rich UHF ASK/FSK receiver/transmitter family ATA8x0x. Applications include remote controls for consumer and industrial systems, access control, alarm and tele ... read more |
| OSCI Advances IP Interoperability and Reuse with New Draft Standard for Transaction-Level Modeling Featured |
December 4, 2007 -- The Open SystemC Initiative (OSCI) today announced the release of the new transaction-level modeling (TLM) standard, TLM-2 draft 2. This standard enables model interoperability and reuse at the transaction level, provi ... read more |
| Vector Informatik Adopts Altera Cyclone III FPGAs for Network Interface Products |
December 4, 2007 -- Altera Corp. today that announced Vector Informatik is adopting low-cost, low-power Altera Cyclone III FPGAs for its network interface product line. Enabling automotive network designers to interconnect their PCs with ... read more |
| VirtualLogix Secures Collaboration Agreement with TI for Virtualization |
December 4, 2007 -- VirtualLogix, Inc. today announced that Texas Instruments, Inc. (TI) has made an equity investment in the firm as part of a collaboration agreement aligning VirtualLogix’s virtualization software roadmap with TI’s emb ... read more |
| Xilinx Delivers Complete Virtex-5 FPGA Based Solutions for SPI-4.2 and SFI-4.1 Interfaces |
December 4, 2007 -- Xilinx Inc. today announced complete solutions for the Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF) System Packet Interface (SPI) 4.2 and SerDes Framer Interface (SFI) 4.1 standards, the industry's highest performance channeliz ... read more |
| Shinko Electric Industries Licenses Vertical Circuits' 3D Interconnect Technology |
December 4, 2007 -- Vertical Circuits, Inc. (VCI), a lsupplier of advanced die-level interconnect technology and intellectual property, today announced a long term license agreement with Shinko Electric Industries, enabling Shinko to util ... read more |
| Chipidea Achieves Certification for USB High-Speed PHY IP on Chartered's 90-nm and 65-nm Technologies |
December 4, 2007 -- Chipidea, the Analog Business Group of MIPS Technologies, Inc., today announced that its USB high-speed physical layer (PHY) IP has been certified on 65-nm and 90-nm process technologies available from Chartered Semico ... read more |
| Ramtron Expands Line of Grade 1 Automotive F-RAM Memory Devices |
December 4, 2007 -- Ramtron International Corp. has added another 4-kbit F-RAM memory device to its Grade 1 AEC-Q100-qualified automotive product line. The FM25040A-GA, a 4Kbit, 5-V F-RAM with a high-speed serial peripheral interface (SPI ... read more |
| Atmel Unveils RFID Device with 64-bit Embedded Cryptographic Engine |
December 4, 2007 -- Atmel Corp. announced today CryptoRF, the first 13.56-MHz RFID devices with a 64-bit embedded cryptographic engine, mutual authentication capability, and up to 16 individually configurable zones. These devices prevent ... read more |
| Semtech Debuts Fully Integrated ATE Pin- and Software-Compatible Pin Electronics Solutions Up to 2Gbps |
December 4, 2007 -- Semtech Corp. has announced its Cobalt automated test equipment (ATE) pin electronics product family (E84XX), which is the first family of off-the-shelf pin electronics devices to integrate two complete channels of hig ... read more |
| austriamicrosystems' New 12-bit ADC Offers High Speed and Increased Channel Count |
December 4, 2007 -- austriamicrosystems AG has introduced the AS1542, a multi-channel successive-approximation ADC with low power consumption, excellent DC performance and outstanding dynamic specifications, expanding austriamicrosystems ... read more |
| TI Introduces Versatile Family of High-Speed Variable Gain Amplifiers |
December 4, 2007 -- Texas Instruments, Inc. (TI) has introduced a family of integrated wideband variable gain amplifiers with an architecture that provides designers with a highly flexible combination of bandwidth, gain and analog input v ... read more |
| Toshiba Information Systems Adopts Catapult C Synthesis for Next-Generation ASIC Design |
December 4, 2007 -- Mentor Graphics Corp. announced today that Toshiba Information Systems (Japan) Corp. has adopted Mentor Graphics Catapult C Synthesis tool to develop its next-generation ASICs for audio, communication and image process ... read more |
| CSR brings Bluetooth Connectivity to Ford's In-Car Communication and Entertainment System |
December 3, 2007 -- CSR, plc today announced that its BlueCore4-ROM Bluetooth silicon features in Ford’s in-car communications and entertainment system called SYNC. As well as offering hands free operation of personal media players (PMPs) ... read more |
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