| Silicon Image Announces General Availability of Second Generation SteelVine Storage Processors |
March 26, 2007 -- Silicon Image, Inc. has announced the general availability of the second generation SteelVine storage processors, the SiI5723, SiI5734, SiI5744 and SiI5733. The new, higher performance SteelVine processors have been desi ... read more |
| LG Innotek Selects Microtune's 3-in-1 Tuner for Super Multi-DVD Recorder Component Products |
March 26, 2007 -- Microtune, Inc. today announced that LG Innotek Co., Ltd. has designed Microtune's 3-in-1 TV tuner as a strategic core component into LG Innotek's new DVD component products. LG Innotek, a subsidiary of LG Electronics, I ... read more |
| Magma FineSim Spice Supports STARC HiSIM Model with Proven 20x Faster Circuit Simulation and Nearly Exact Correlation to Silicon |
March 26, 2007 -- Magma Design Automation, Inc. and the Semiconductor Technology Academic Research Center (STARC) today announced FineSim Spice support for the HiSIM model. STARC leveraged the FineSim Spice proprietary Native Parallel Tec ... read more |
| Marvell TopDog WLAN Supports 802.11n Draft 2.0 Specification |
March 26, 2007 -- Marvell Semiconductor, Inc. today announced that the company's TopDog WLAN solutions support the new IEEE 802.11n Draft 2.0 specification as approved during the latest round of balloting by the IEEE 802.11 Working Group. ... read more |
| Mentor Graphics Announces Subsystem Intellectual Property Launch with First Delivery of Integrated USB Solution |
March 26, 2007 -- Mentor Graphics Corp. has announced a technology launch of subsystem intellectual property (IP), beginning with the first USB subsystem solution from a single-source EDA provider. Mentor Graphics is the only EDA company ... read more |
| National Semiconductor Delivers First LVDS Buffers with Equalization and Pre-Emphasis |
March 26, 2007 -- National Semiconductor Corp. has introduced three new signal-conditioning buffers to its low-voltage differential signaling (LVDS) product portfolio. These buffers are the industry's first LVDS devices to offer transmit ... read more |
| Discera Raises $17.5 Million in Funding |
March 26, 2007 -- Discera, Inc. announced today the completion of a $17.5 million Series C round of funding led by Scale Venture Partners. Discera, which recently began shipping its first products for direct replacement of quartz crystal ... read more |
| Xilinx Simplifies Embedded Development with New EDK 9.1i Suite |
March 26, 2007 -- Xilinx, Inc. has released version 9.1i of the Xilinx Embedded Development Kit (EDK) with the Xilinx Platform Studio embedded tool suite, providing full-access processing support for the company's newest 65-nm Virtex-5 SX ... read more |
| Cadence Global Route Environment Technology Offers New Approach to PCB Design |
March 26, 2007 -- Cadence Design Systems, Inc. has announced the Global Route Environment technology for Cadence Allegro PCB design. This technology combines a graphical interconnect flow-planning architecture and a hierarchically-aware g ... read more |
| Atmel and Micrium Announce RTOS Embedded Component Support for Atmel's AT91SAM7 and AT91SAM9 Product Lines |
March 26, 2007 -- Atmel Corp. and Micrium today announced that Micrium now supports Atmel's full line of AT91SAM7 and AT91SAM9 ARM-based microcontrollers. Included are Micrium's real-time operating system (RTOS), TCP/IP stack, file ... read more |
| AMCC Ships First Fully Integrated Dual-Port SFP+ Transceiver |
March 26, 2007 -- Applied Micro Circuits Corp. (AMCC) announced its latest product resulting from last year's acquisition of Quake Technologies. The QT1215 transceiver, with an advanced reprogrammable, mixed signal electronic dispersion c ... read more |
| Ubicom Selects Cadence Encounter Timing System for Timing and Signal Integrity Sign-off |
March 26, 2007 -- Cadence Design Systems, Inc. today announced that Ubicom has incorporated the Cadence Encounter Timing System into its overall design flow. The Encounter Timing System has allowed Ubicom to streamline the overall time ne ... read more |
| Atmel Introduces a $69 Linux Based 32-bit AVR Networking Processor Kit |
March 26, 2007 -- Atmel Corp. has introduced a low-cost AVR32 Network Gateway design kit based on its 32-bit AT32AP7000 application processor. The AVR32 32-bit architecture, introduced in 2006, is optimized to achieve more processing per ... read more |
| Virage, Tower Agreement Provides Mainstream NVM Availability for RF and Mixed-Signal Applications |
March 26, 2007 -- Virage Logic Corp. and Tower Semiconductor, Ltd. have signed a license agreement that allows Virage Logic's NOVeA nonvolatile memory (NVM) modules for radio frequency Identification (RFID) and mixed-signal applica ... read more |
| Kozio Diagnostics Software now Supports Freescale MPC832x Series Processors |
March 23, 2007 -- Kozio, Inc. has announced support for custom product designs using Freescale’s MPC832x series of PowerPC processors, including the e300 core as well as the QUICC Engine technology. Through its partnership with Freescale, ... read more |
| DAC Announces Technical Program Featured |
March 23, 2007 --The Design Automation Conference (DAC) has released the complete technical program for the 44th DAC, to be held June 4 to8, 2007, at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego. This year's technical program features 161 ... read more |
| STMicroelectronics Announces Serial EEPROM Families Now Available in 2x3-mm MLP8 Packages |
March 23, 2007 -- STMicroelectronics today announced that all of its Serial EEPROM devices, from 2- to 64-kbit density, and from both the SPI and I2C interface series, are now available in the tiny 2x3-mm MLP8 package, compared to the pre ... read more |
| NVE Notified of Grant of VMRAM Patent |
March 23, 2007 -- NVE Corp. has been notified by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) of the expected grant of a patent relating to Vertical Transport Magnetoresistive Random Access Memory (VMRAM). MRAM is an integrated-circuit me ... read more |
| Catalyst Semiconductor Expands Digitally Programmable Potentiometer Family with New One-Time-Programmable Device |
March 23, 2007 -- Catalyst Semiconductor, Inc. has added a new 32-tap device to its family of over 35 Digitally Programmable Potentiometers (DPP). The CAT5126 offers one-time wiper programmability via a simple two-wire serial interface, ... read more |
| Zuken Offers Free Footprint Design Data for Altera’s Cyclone III FPGA Family within Zuken’s CR-5000 Enterprise Wide Design Suite |
March 23, 2007 -- Zuken, Ltd. has announced the availability of free footprint data for Altera Corp.'s recently announced low-cost Cyclone III FPGA family. Users of Zuken’s CR-5000 enterprise wide design solution can download the Cyclone ... read more |
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