| Garmin Integrates New GPS Chipset from STMicroelectronics |
August 27, 2007 -- STMicroelectronics has launched volume production of its Teseo GPS engine designed for use in certain Garmin Portable Navigation Devices (PNDs) and handheld GPS receivers. ST’s Teseo platform is a turn-key solution that ... read more |
| TI Unveils Low-Power Zero-Crossover Op Amp for Battery-Powered, Portable Applications |
August 27, 2007 -- Texas Instruments, Inc. (TI) has introduced what the company says is the industry's lowest power zero-crossover operational amplifier (op amp). Featuring a unique single-input-stage architecture, the OPA369 achieves rai ... read more |
| MIPS Technologies Acquires Chipidea Microelectronica Featured |
August 27, 2007 -- MIPS Technologies, Inc. will acquire privately-held Chipidea Microelectronica SA, a leading independent supplier of analog and mixed signal intellectual property (IP) for the wireless, digital consumer and connec ... read more |
| Spreadtrum Announces first Commercial AVS Audio/Video Decoder Chip |
August 27, 2007 -- Spreadtrum Communications, Inc. announced its new SV6111 product, the irst commercial AVS audio/video decoder chip. AVS is the audio and video coding- decoding standard independently created by China. The SV6111 product ... read more |
| Micron Advances 3G Video-Phone Calling with Introduction of MIPI Standard-Compliant Receiver in New Sensor |
August 22, 2007 -- Micron Technology, Inc. has designed a receiver interface into one of its new mobile imaging sensors, helping to advance 3G video-phone calling. The receiver, compliant with the Mobile Industry Processor Interface (MIPI ... read more |
| Salamander Error Correction Announces 1-Gbps Viterbi Decoder |
August 22, 2007 -- Salamander Error Correction, a division of Komodo Industries, Inc, has announced the availability of the SALxx304d, a very high speed (1Gbps) Viterbi decoder for telecommunications and high speed wireless networking app ... read more |
| Xi An Huaxun Licenses ARM7TDMI Processor |
August 22, 2007 -- ARM today announced that Xi’An Huaxun, an emerging Chinese fabless semiconductor company, has licensed the ARM7TDMI processor via the ARM Processor Foundry Program. This licensing agreement enables Xi’An Huaxun to devel ... read more |
| Mentor Graphics Offers Sonics SMART Interconnect Solutions |
August 22, 2007 -- Sonics, Inc. announced today that its SMART Interconnect solutions are now available as library elements for Mentor Graphics Corp.'s Vista and Visual Elite products. Mentor Graphics now offers a complete configur ... read more |
| Luminary Micro Closes $25M in Series C Round |
August 22, 2007 -- Luminary Micro, Inc., creator of the Stellaris family of ARM Cortex-M3-based microcontrollers, announced today that it closed its Series C funding round for $25 million. New investor Adams Street Partners of Chicago, Il ... read more |
| Kilopass Announces Embedded Non-Volatile Memory for 65-nm Low-Power and General-Purpose Processes |
August 22, 2007 -- Kilopass Technology, Inc. has announced that its XPM technology is now available for 65-nm low-power (XPM-65LP) and general-purpose (XPM-65G+) processes. Kilopass XPM technology is the first high-density embedded NVM te ... read more |
| Impulse C Adds Six New Xilinx Virtex-5 Based Computing Platforms and ISE 9.2 Support |
August 22, 2007 -- Impulse Accelerated Technologies, Inc. has extended its support for Xilinx Virtex-5 based FPGA development and co-processing boards and systems, and has updated its compiler tools in support of Release 9.2 of the Xilinx ... read more |
| TI Introduces Two High Performance HDMI Switches |
August 22, 2007 -- Texas Instruments, Inc. (TI) has introduced two new video switches for digital video interface (DVI) or high definition multimedia interface (HDMI). The new devices connect either two or three digital video signals comi ... read more |
| ChipX XPath Methodology Enables Seamless Migration from Structured ASIC to Standard Cell |
August 22, 2007 -- ChipX Corp. has announced a new methodology that enables cdesigners to launch their products quickly with a structured ASIC and then seamlessly migrate their design to a standard cell device once the product features an ... read more |
| Agilent Technologies Integrates 3D-Planar Electromagnetic Simulation into Genesys EDA Platform |
August 22, 2007 -- Agilent Technologies, Inc. has announced Momentum GX, a planar 3D electromagnetic (EM) simulator designed to significantly expand the accuracy and range of passive circuit libraries, including parasitic models and entir ... read more |
| TSMC Starts Production of 0.13-Micron Embedded Flash Process |
August 21, 2007 -- (TSMC) Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company announced today that it has qualified its 0.13-micron embedded Flash process and has entered production. TSMC is the first pure-play foundry to launch production of a fu ... read more |
| Wipro Technologies Designated as Authorized Test Laboratory by Wi-Fi Alliance |
August 21, 2007 -- Wipro Technologies, the global IT services arm of Wipro, Ltd., today announced that it will serve as a Wi-Fi Alliance Authorized Test Laboratory. The Wipro facility in Bangalore will streamline certification and provide ... read more |
| ASSET and Agilent Technologies Integrate In-Circuit and JTAG Test |
| August 21, 2007 -- ASSET InterTech, Inc. and Agilent Technologies, Inc. have extended their long-standing joint sales, marketing and licensing agreement under which ASSET’s ScanWorks JTAG system has been integrated into Agilent’s 3070 ... read more |
| Snowbush Microelectronics Announces Silicon Verified 6-Bit, 2.5 GSPS, ADC IP Core in 90nm CMOS Process |
August 21, 2007 -- Snowbush Microelectronics has announced the availability of a silicon proven, 6-bit, 2.5-GSPS ADC IP core for the most demanding data-conversion applications. Snowbush's 6-bit ADC is compact, low-power, and by utilizing ... read more |
| Raza and Lenovo Security Technologies Enter Into Strategic Relationship Built Around Multi-Core Multi-Threaded XLR Processor Family |
August 21, 2007 -- Raza Microelectronics, Inc. (RMI) and Lenovo Security Technologies, Inc., a leading supplier of IT Security firewall and VPN solutions in China, have entered into a strategic relationship to develop next generation solu ... read more |
| Qimonda Selects Denali to Enable Rapid Deployment of Industry's First GDDR5 Memories |
August 21, 2007 -- Qimonda AG and Denali Software, Inc. today announced a collaboration to provide simulation models for the industry's first Graphics Double Data Rate 5 (GDDR5) high-end memory devices. GDDR5 offers a low-power cap ... read more |
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