| CAST Expands Image Compression Line with New JPEG-LS Encoder Core |
April 16, 2007 -- CAST, Inc. has expanded its family of image compression IP products with a new loss-less compression core using the JPEG-LS standard, which the company believes is the only commercially-available JPEG-LS IP core. Accordi ... read more |
| Real Intent Announces Meridian Clock Domain Crossing Verification Software |
April 16, 2007 -- Real Intent, Inc. today announced Meridian Clock Domain Crossing (CDC) verification software. Meridian is a new approach to CDC verification and is engineered to verify that data traversing asynchronous clock domains on ... read more |
| Raul Camposano to Lead Xoomsys as CEO |
April 16, 2007 -- Xoomsys, Inc. today announced the appointment of Dr. Raul Camposano as Chief Executive Officer. Before joining Xoomsys, Dr. Camposano held several senior roles in industry and in academia, both in the United States and ... read more |
| MOSIS Delivers Economical Access to IBM 65-nm Process |
| April 16, 2007 -- MOSIS Integrated Circuit Fabrication Service has announced access to IBM’s 65-nm silicon foundry process through its multi-project wafer (MPW) service. The service means that system-on-chip (SOC) designers can obtain sample ... read more |
| MIPS64 Architecture Licensed by NEC Electronics for Next-Generation VR Series Processor Core |
April 16, 2007 -- MIPS Technologies, Inc. today announced that NEC Electronics Corp. has renewed its MIPS architecture license and licensed MIPS Technologies’ 64-bit architecture for use in the company’s digital consumer ASSPs and VR Seri ... read more |
| e2v Chooses 32-bit Processor for Upcoming Products: the Cortus APS3 Core from CAST |
April 16, 2007 -- CAST, Inc. has announced that e2v technologies has selected the APS3 IP core as its embedded processing core of choice for upcoming mixed-signal sensor and imaging system products. e2V specializes in the design, d ... read more |
| Mentor Graphics Launches Veloce Product Family Featured |
April 16, 2007 -- Mentor Graphics Corp. has announced three new next-generation hardware-assisted verification platforms. The Veloce Solo, Trio and Quattro products are based on a new "Emulation-on-Chip" architecture enabling megahertz-cl ... read more |
| National Semiconductor Introduces Industry’s Lowest Jitter 3-Gbps Serial Digital Interface Chipset |
April 16, 2007 -- National Semiconductor Corp. has introduced a 3-Gbps (3G) serial digital interface (SDI) chipset that National says provides the industry’s lowest jitter transmission of 1080p high-definition (HD) broadcast video at up t ... read more |
| Lattice Releases Reference Design for GPON Burst Mode Receiver |
April 16, 2007 -- Lattice Semiconductor Corp. has announced the availability of its PureSpeed I/O Burst Mode Receiver (BMR) FPGA reference design for Gigabit Passive Optical Networks (GPON). This reference design uses Lattice's Adaptive I ... read more |
| Harris Chooses Altera Stratix II GX FPGAs for New Multi-Format Broadcast Router Line |
April 16, 2007 -- Altera Corp. announced today that Harris Corp. has selected the Stratix II GX-based development kit and 3-Gbps serial digital interface (SDI) intellectual property (IP) MegaCore function to reduce development time by sev ... read more |
| Tessera Introduces Next-Generation Interconnect Platform |
April 16, 2007 -- Tessera Technologies, Inc. has announced the µPILR Interconnect platform, a technology designed to revolutionize the interconnect within semiconductor packages, substrates, printed circuit boards (PCBs) and other ... read more |
| Cypress Semiconductor and Newark Sign Agreement to Distribute PSoC Devices |
April 12, 2007 -- Newark has signed a franchise agreement with Cypress Semiconductor Corp. to introduce design engineers to the manufacturer's PSoC (Programmable System-on-Chip) mixed signal arrays, USB controllers, and timing solution pr ... read more |
| Dongbu Electronics Expands Image Signal Processor (ISP) Design Library |
April 12, 2007 -- Dongbu Electronics has pushed the development of an Image Signal Processor (ISP) design library that speeds the design of CMOS Image Sensor (CIS) devices at the 130-nm node while also improving their image quality. Avail ... read more |
| Sirenza Microdevices Announces Production Release of a New High Linearity Amplifier IC with Patented Self-Bias Operation |
April 12, 2007 -- Sirenza Microdevices, Inc. today announced the production release of the SXE-1089Z, a new high linearity cascadable pHEMT amplifier IC. Its patented self-bias Darlington topology, coupled with a robust e-mode pHEMT proce ... read more |
| TI Introduces Very Wide Dynamic Range, Fast and Accurate Logarithmic Amplifier |
April 12, 2007 -- Texas Instruments, Inc. (TI) has introduced a high-speed, precision logarithmic amplifier that computes the logarithm or log-ratio of an input current or voltage relative to a reference current or voltage. The LOG114 can ... read more |
| Soligie and Thin Film Electronics Sign Development Agreement for Volume Production of Printed Memories |
April 12, 2007 -- Soligie and Thin Film Electronics AB have entered into an agreement to jointly develop processes for producing printed memory in commercial volumes. In the agreement, Soligie has been granted an option to acquire ... read more |
| CoFluent Design Opens U.S. Operations |
April 12, 2007 -- CoFluent Design today announced the opening of its U.S. operations and the incorporation of CoFluent Design, Inc., a fully-owned subsidiary of CoFluent Design. Also announced was the appointment of Hagay Zamir as the com ... read more |
| Honeywell Security's HCU484 Family Leverages Pixim's DPS Technology |
April 11, 2007 -- Pixim, Inc.'s Orca chipset is integrated into Honeywell Security's new remote-controlled HCU484 surveillance camera series to offer the best image quality available in a wide variety of lighting conditions. Security prof ... read more |
| CAST Selects Avery Design Systems for PCI Express Verification IP |
April 11, 2007 -- CAST, Inc. today announced that it has begun using the PCI-Xactor test environment from Avery Design Systems, Inc. to verify its current and future PCI Express IP cores. Creating high-quality intellectual property ... read more |
| Gaisler Research Announces ThreadX RTOS Support for the LEON Processor |
April 11, 2007 -- Gaisler Research AB has announced that Express Logic, Inc.’s ThreadX RTOS now supports the LEON3 processor. A port, a board support package and a demonstration application are now available for the GNU-based softw ... read more |
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