| Motorola Expands Strategic Relationship with Texas Instruments to Include High-Volume 3G, WiMAX and OMAP Technologies |
January 29, 2007 -- Motorola, Inc. and Texas Instruments, Inc. (TI) are expanding their strategic relationship to include 3G, WiMAX and OMAP technologies in the design and development of new, experience-optimized mobile devices. Th ... read more |
| Fukuoka Intelligent Cluster Laboratory Chooses eASIC’s Nextreme Devices for Its System-in-Package Development |
January 29, 2007 -- eASIC Corp. today announced that Fukuoka Intelligent Cluster Laboratory for Emerging and Enabling Technology of SoC (FLEETS) has selected eASIC’s Nextreme family of 90-nm Structured ASIC devices for its unique system-i ... read more |
| Intersil's PWM Controller Increases Efficiency and Saves Space |
January 29, 2007 -- Intersil Corp. has introduced the ISL6535 high-performance PWM (pulse width modulation) controller. This device integrates the control, gate drivers, output adjustment, monitoring and protection functions into a near-c ... read more |
| Mixel Announces New Quad 1.25-Gbps/Channel LVDS Serializer and De-Serializer |
January 25, 2007 -- Mixel, Inc. has announced availability of the MXL-LVDS-SR-4CH Serializer and the companion MXL-LVDS-DS-4CH De-Serializer IPs. These LVDS SerDes IPs are new additions to Mixel’s existing family of SerDes products which ... read more |
| Athena Design Completes Series B Funding, Two New Investors Join EDA Start-Up |
January 29, 2007 -- Athena Design Systems, Inc., an EDA start-up focused on critical implementation issues in physical IC design, has secured an additional $4 million in investment capital. The Series B opportunity attracted two new inves ... read more |
| 2007 SEMATECH Knowledge Series Focuses on Lithography, Materials and Manufacturing |
January 29, 2007 -- Content for the 2007 SEMATECH Knowledge Series (SKS), a lineup of seminal public meetings on critical issues affecting the semiconductor industry, was announced today. This year's SKS focuses on leading-edge trends in ... read more |
| Actel Expands Configurable Offerings with Smallest Soft Micro and New 8051 Controller Core |
January 29, 2007 -- Actel Corp. has introduced two free controller cores; the small CoreABC and the configurable Core8051s. These cores complement the company's existing library of industry-standard options, including a variety of ARM, 80 ... read more |
| Agilent Technologies and Xilinx Offer New High-Speed Serial I/O Link Test |
January 29, 2007 -- Agilent Technologie, Inc. and Xilinx, Inc. today announced a collaborative solution for testing and optimizing high-speed serial links implemented with Xilinx RocketIO multi-gigabit transceivers (MGTs). The new ... read more |
| Altera, National Semiconductor and MorethanIP Announce 8-Port Switch Development Board with IEEE 1588 Timing Control |
January 29, 2007 -- Designers of next-generation industrial control and automation systems challenged by requirements of the IEEE 1588 standard for precision clock synchronization can now accelerate their connectivity designs with the first 8-po ... read more |
| Cadence Delivers Complete Low-Power Solution; Leverages Si2-Approved Common Power Format |
January 29, 2007 -- Cadence Design Systems, Inc. today announced the Cadence Low-Power Solution, a fully integrated flow for logic design, verification, and implementation of low-power chips. The Cadence Low-Power Solution integratesits d ... read more |
| Exar Unveils Dual-Channel Integrated UART and RS-232 Transceiver Family Supporting 1-Mbps Data Rate |
January 29, 2007 -- Exar Corp. has announced the industry's first dual-channel 8-bit integrated Universal Asynchronous Receiver Transmitter (UART) and RS-232 transceiver combination device family which supports data rates of up to 1Mbps. ... read more |
| Intel's Transistor Technology Breakthrough Represents Biggest Change to Computer Chips in 40 Years |
January 29, 2007 -- Intel Corp. today revealed that it is using two dramatically new materials to build its 45-nm transistors that will be inside the next generation Intel Core 2 Duo, Intel Core 2 Quad and Xeon families of multi-core pro ... read more |
| Winbond Electronics Selects Aprio's DFM Solution |
January 29, 2007 -- Aprio Technologies, Inc. today announced that Winbond Electronics Corp. has selected Halo-Fix, Aprio's rapid localized optical proximity correction (OPC) repair and optimization solution. Released last year, Halo-Fix ... read more |
| Altera's FPGAs First to Demonstrate Support for PCI Express 2.0 |
January 29, 2007 -- Altera Corp. is demonstrating support for the PCI Express (PCIe) 2.0 specification, as well as showing PCIe 1.1 and 2.0 signals on cables and backplanes, with its Stratix II GX FPGAs. With up to 20 low-power transceive ... read more |
| STMicroelectronics Tapes Out 65-nm Mixed-Signal Design Using Cadence Space-Based Router |
January 26, 2007 -- Cadence Design Systems, Inc. today announced that STMicroelectronics has taped out a 65-nm, next-generation mixed-signal communications design using the Cadence Space-Based Router and achieved a faster tapeout with imp ... read more |
| Gaisler Research Announces VxWorks 6.3 Support for the LEON processor |
January 26, 2007 -- Gaisler Research AB today announced the immediate availability of a complete port of the Wind River Systems VxWorks 6.3 real-time operating system for the LEON processor. The combination of VxWorks 6.3 and the L ... read more |
| Mitre Selects Comtech AHA LDPC IP Core for Demonstration on High Data Rate Test Waveform |
January 26, 2007 – Comtech AHA Corp. (AHA) today announced that the Mitre Corp. has selected Comtech AHA’s Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) coding technology to demonstrate the effectiveness of LDPC on the High Data Rate Test Waveform. Thi ... read more |
| Accent Licenses ARM Technology |
January 26, 2007 -- Accent S.p.A. has entered into a technology licensing agreement with ARM for the ARM7TMI-S, the ARM926EJ-S and the ARM1136J-S synthesisable processors, as well as a range of PrimeCell peripherals and physical IP techno ... read more |
| Analog Devices and Legend Silicon Open Design Lab in Shanghai |
January 26, 2007 -- Analog Devices, Inc. (ADI) and Legend Silicon Corp. today announced the opening of a joint design laboratory to develop reference designs for China's emerging mobile TV market. The design lab, which is located i ... read more |
| STARC Standardizes on Calibre YieldAnalyzer as Reference Tool in DFM Flow for Critical Area Extraction |
January 26, 2007 -- Mentor Graphics Corp. today announced that STARC (Semiconductor Technology Academic Research Center), a research consortium co-founded by eleven major Japanese semiconductor companies, will standardize on Calibr ... read more |
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