| SIA Reports March Chip Sales Grew by 4.6% Month-on-Month |
May 3, 2010 -- The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) today reported that worldwide semiconductor sales in March were $23.1 billion, an increase of 4.6% from February when sales were $22.0 billion. Sales increased by 58.3% from Marc ... read more |
| IDT Announces High-Accuracy All-Silicon CMOS Oscillators in Package and Die/Wafer Form |
May 3, 2010 -- Integrated Device Technology, Inc. (IDT) has announced the availability of its all-silicon CMOS oscillators, the MM8202 and the MM8102 in wafer and package forms, making IDT the only company to offer quartz-crystal-level pe ... read more |
| NetLogic Microsystems and TSMC Collaborate on 28-nm Process Technology |
May 3, 2010 -- NetLogic Microsystems, Inc. and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) have extended their long-standing collaboration to include TSMC’s NEXSYS 28HP (28-nm high performance) semiconductor process node for ... read more |
| Synapse Wireless and Silicon Labs Introduce Complete Solution for Wireless Mesh Networking |
May 3, 2010 -- Synapse Wireless, Inc. and Silicon Laboratories, Inc. have introduced a jointly developed wireless mesh networking solution that combines the Synapse SNAP network operating system with Silicon Labs’ Si1000 wireless m ... read more |
| Synopsys Launches Industrys First MIPI DigRF v4 IP |
May 3, 2010 -- Synopsys, Inc. today announced the immediate availability of the DesignWare® MIPI® 4G DigRF Master Controller IP. By complementing its current silicon-proven DesignWare MIPI 3G DigRF Controller and PHY IP, Synopsys becomes ... read more |
| Mentor Graphics Calibre InRoute Delivers True Manufacturing Sign-Off During Physical Design Closure |
May 3, 2010 -- Mentor Graphics Corp. today announced the new Calibre InRoute design and verification platform, which now enables designers to natively invoke Calibre tools within the Olympus-SoC place-and-route system to achieve true manu ... read more |
| Microtronix Introduces Scatter Gather DMA Engine for Altera PCIe Hard IP Cores |
May 3, 2010 -- Microtronix today announced the release of its new Lancero Scatter-Gather DMA Engine for PCI Express for Altera FPGA's incorporating PCI Express Hard IP cores. The kit provides the IP and Linux software drivers to implement ... read more |
| Sierra Wireless Licenses Arasan Chip System's SDIO Host Controller IP Core |
May 3, 2010 -- Arasan Chip Systems, Inc. today announced that Sierra Wireless, a provider of hardware, software, and connected services for mobile lifestyles and machine-to-machine communications has licensed Arasan's Secure Digital Input ... read more |
| Microchip's New DACs Enable Resolution, Output and Voltage-Reference Selection Flexibility |
May 3, 2010 -- Microchip Technology, Inc. today announced the MCP4801/2, MCP4811/2 (MCP48XX) and MCP4901/2, MCP4911/2 (MCP49XX) digital-to-analog converters (DACs). The new products expand the company’s portfolio of DACs with single- and ... read more |
| Silicon Laboratories Acquires Silicon Clocks and CMEMS Technology |
April 28, 2010 -- Silicon Laboratories, Inc. has announced the acquisition of Silicon Valley-based Silicon Clocks, Inc., an early-stage company developing microelectromechanical system (MEMS) technology. Silicon Clocks’ CMEMS (CMOS ... read more |
| New Synopsys Universal DDR Controllers Improve Performance and Reduce Cost of Embedded DRAM Interfaces |
April 28, 2010 -- Synopsys, Inc. today announced the availability of the high-performance DesignWare® Universal DDR Protocol and Memory Controllers, both supporting the DDR2, DDR3, Mobile DDR and LPDDR2 SDRAM standards. The DesignWare Uni ... read more |
| Xilinx Unveils New ARM-Based Processing Architecture |
April 28, 2010 -- Xilinx, Inc. has introduced the architecture for a new Extensible Processing Platform that the company says will deliver unrivaled levels of system performance, flexibility and integration to developers of a variety of e ... read more |
| STMicroelectronics' Adopts Magwel's Full-Wave 3D Product for Advanced Signal-Integrity Analysis and Visualization |
April 28, 2010 -- Magwel NV today announced that STMicroelectronics has selected Magwel’s DevEM tool for use in design and verification of high speed I/O circuitry. This selection comes after extensive evaluation of DevEM on structures an ... read more |
| Atmel Launches New Microcontroller Solutions for Battery-Operated Products |
April 26, 2010 -- Atmel Corp. announced that it will launch several new microcontroller products, solutions and platforms. As more consumer, industrial and wireless applications require lower power consumption for portable, battery-operat ... read more |
| Atmel Targets Smart Energy, Building and Home Automation with BitCloud Profile Suite |
April 28, 2010 -- Atmel Corp. today announced the availability of Atmel BitCloud Profile Suite, a ready-to-use framework for rapid development of ZigBee-certified applications. The suite includes a complete set of fully functional referen ... read more |
| Wolfson Licenses Tensilica HiFi Audio to Provide a High-Quality, Power-Efficient Sound Platform |
April 28, 2010 -- Wolfson Microelectronics and Tensilica, Inc. today announced a license agreement to create a low-power, high-definition (HD) sound platform. Combining Wolfson's mixed-signal technology and audio expertise with Ten ... read more |
| Realtek Licenses Imagination Technologies' High-Performance Graphics Processor Core |
April 26, 2010 -- Imagination Technologies, Ltd. has signed a license agreement with Realtek Semiconductor Corp. for a member of Imagination's PowerVR SGX graphics processor family. Realtek will deploy the technology in future syst ... read more |
| CriticalBlue and Freescale Collaborate to Streamline and Simplify Multicore Software Development |
April 27, 2010 -- CriticalBlue and Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. have collaborated to make CriticalBlue’s Prism development environment available to support Freescale’s QorIQ multicore processor families. Software developers will b ... read more |
| Cosmic Circuits Reaches New Milestone in Wireless Analog IP Collaboration with GLOBALFOUNDRIES |
April 27, 2010 -- Cosmic Circuits Pvt., Ltd. and today announced the availability of Cosmic's WiMO platform of mixed-signal IP cores for wireless communication applications, silicon-proven in GlobalFoundries' 65-nm LPE process nod ... read more |
| CodeSourcery to Port GCC to Texas Instruments’ C6000 Processors |
April 27, 2010 -- CodeSourcery, a provider of tools for professional embedded C and C++ developers, is working with Texas Instruments, Inc. to port the GNU Toolchain to TI’s C6000 family of digital signal processors (DSPs) and multicore s ... read more |
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