| Synopsys Enables Silicon Success for GlobalFoundries' First Complex 20-nm Design |
December 14, 2011 -- Synopsys, Inc. today announced that IC Compiler-Advanced Geometry (AG) drove silicon success for GlobalFoundries' first major 20-nm chip. Recently announced, IC Compiler-AG is the 20-nm edition of IC Compiler. ... read more |
| GlobalFoundries and ARM Deliver Optimized SOC Solution Based on ARM Cortex-A Series Processors |
December 15, 2011 -- GlobalFoundries and ARM today revealed the latest advances in their long-standing collaboration to deliver optimized system-on-chip (SOC) solutions for ARM Cortex-A series processor designs using ARM Artisan ad ... read more |
| Renesas Electronics Develops 40-nm Embedded Flash Memory Technology IP for Automotive Real-Time Applications |
December 14, 2011 -- Renesas Electronics Corp. has developed what the company claims is the industry's first 40-nm memory intellectual property (IP) for automotive real-time applications. Renesas will also launch 40-nm embedded Flash micr ... read more |
| Blu-Wireless Technology Selects Sonics' On-chip Networks for New Class of High-Speed Wireless Communications |
December 14, 2011 -- Sonics, Inc. today announced that it has signed Blu-Wireless, Ltd. as its newest customer to help the company design ultra high-performance wireless communications processors targeting the new globally unlicensed 60-G ... read more |
| Wind River and Infineon Expand Software Tools for TriCore Microcontrollers Used in Complex Automotive Applications |
December 14, 2011 -- Wind River is collaborating with Infineon Technologies as part of a multi-year partnership to extend its integrated software tools portfolio by optimizing Wind River Diab Compiler for the Infineon Technologies ... read more |
| Global Unichip Achieves Gigahertz-Plus Frequency on ARM Cortex-A9 Processor with Synopsys IC Compiler |
December 14, 2011 -- Synopsys, Inc. and Global Unichip Corp. (GUC) today announced that GUC has achieved more than 1GHz on a dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 MPCore processor with Synopsys IC Compiler, a key component of Synopsys' Galaxy Im ... read more |
| HiSilicon Licenses eSilicon's 40nm Silicon-Proven TCAMs for High-Performance Network Chips |
December 13, 2011 -- eSilicon Corp. announced today that HiSilicon Technologies Co., Ltd. has licensed eSilicon's silicon-proven 40-nm ternary content-addressable memory (TCAM) macros for its next generation of high-performance net ... read more |
| New Op Amps from STMicroelectronics Add Precision and Save Space |
December 12, 2011 -- STMicroelectronics has introduced two new families of low-power operational amplifiers (op amps) with enhanced accuracy and reduced package size. ST's TSV85x and LMV82x devices aim to upgrade the LMV321 in signal-cond ... read more |
| TI's New Stellaris ARM Cortex-M Microcontroller Motor Control Kit Quickly Spins and Tunes 3-Phase Brushless Motors |
December 12, 2011 -- Texas Instruments, Inc. (TI) today announced a new motor control kit for spinning 3-phase brushless motors with a Stellaris Cortex-M3 microcontroller (MCU). The new DK-LM3S-DRV8312 motor control kit features a 32-bit ... read more |
| Mentor Graphics Announces First Integrated Solution for Component-to-System Thermal Characterization and Analysis |
December 12, 2011 -- Mentor Graphics Corp. has announced the electronic industry's first combined technology for thermal characterization and simulation with T3Ster hardware test products and its FloTHERM software. Mentor's FloTHERM produ ... read more |
| Atollic's TrueStudio for ARM C/C++ Development Tool Supports Giant Gecko and More |
December 12, 2011 -- Atollic has announced that its Atollic TrueStudio for ARM C/C++ development tool now supports the Giant Gecko and Leopard Gecko series of ARM-based microcontroller devices from Energy Micro AS.
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| Avnet Electronics Marketing Introduces the Spartan-6 FPGA Motor Control Development Kit |
December 13, 2011 -- Avnet Electronics Marketing has launched its latest development platform for designers implementing motor control systems, the Spartan-6 FPGA Motor Control Development Kit. Designed in collaboration with Xilinx, Inc., ... read more |
| Atmel Broadens Portfolio of Low-Power, High-Performance 32-bit AVR UC3 Microcontrollers |
December 12, 2011 -- Atmel Corp. has released 13 new devices in three different product series in its 32-bit AVR UC3 product portfolio. The AVR UC3 microcontrollers (MCUs) feature high-performance, digital signal processing (DSP) instruct ... read more |
| ThreadX RTOS Adds Support for Xilinx Zynq-7000 Extensible Processing Platform |
December 12, 2011 -- Express Logic, Inc. has announced that its ThreadX RTOS now supports Xilinx's Extensible Processing Platform (EPP). ThreadX is the one of the first RTOSes to support Zynq EPP devices, enabling developers of high-perfo ... read more |
| Cypress's PSoC Creator 2.0 Design Environment Now Available to All Users |
December 13, 2011 -- Cypress Semiconductor Corp. today announced that Version 2.0 of its PSoC Creator Design Environment for the PSoC 3 and PSoC 5 programmable system-on-chip families is available for free download for all users. Among th ... read more |
| Navigate Through Microcontroller Development with TI's MSP430Ware Software and Resource Package for MSP430 Microcontrollers |
December 13, 2011 -- Providing a comprehensive software ecosystem for simplified microcontroller development, Texas Instruments, Inc. (TI) today announced the new MSP430Ware software and resource package. MSP430Ware offers a sleek graphic ... read more |
| STMicroelectronics Introduces Smallest 3-Axis Digital Gyroscope |
December 13, 2011 -- STMicroelectronics has expanded its motion-sensing portfolio with the addition of the smallest three-axis digital-output MEMS gyroscope. ST’s L3G3200D enables advanced motion sensing in ever-shrinking form factors of ... read more |
| Cosmic Circuits' MIPI Alliance M-PHY-DigRFv4 Licensed by Multiple Customers |
December 13, 2011 -- Cosmic Circuits, a provider of differentiated analog and mixed-signal IP cores, today announced that its M-PHY-DigRF v4 solution has been licensed by multiple customers in Asia.
Cosmic Circuits' solu ... read more |
| Cadence Palladium XP Verification Platform Speeds Deployment of Panasonic SOCs for Digital Consumer Products |
December 13, 2011 -- Cadence Design Systems, Inc. today announced that Panasonic Corp. has deployed the Cadence Palladium XP Verification Computing Platform, part of the Cadence System Development Suite, to speed the design of systems-on ... read more |
| Dolphin Technology Achieves 6X Faster Simulation Run-Time, Reduces Time-to-Market and Improves IP Quality Using Magma's FineSim |
December 12, 2011 -- Magma Design Automation, Inc. announced that Dolphin Technology, Inc., a provider of performance-optimized system-on-chip (SoC) memory cores and performance-matched standard cell libraries and input/outputs (IO ... read more |
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