| EnSilica Launches Version 2.5 of Its eSi-RISC Development Suite |
October 25, 2011 -- EnSilica, Ltd. has launched the eSi-RISC Development Suite v2.5, a major new version of its development environment for evaluating the EnSilica family of eSi-RISC highly configurable and low-power soft processor cores. ... read more |
| EnVerv Selects Tensilica for Smart Grid Power Line Communications |
October 25, 2011 -- Tensilica, Inc. today announced that EnVerv, Inc. has licensed cores from the ConnX DSP (digital signal processors) family for use in a power line communications (PLC) system-on-chip (SOC) design for smart grid applica ... read more |
| Freescale's New Product Platform Integrates ARM Cortex-M4 and Cortex-A5 Cores |
October 25, 2011 -- Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. today announced a new product platform that incorporates a high-performance microcontroller (MCU) and an energy-efficient applications processor. This asymmetrical-multiprocessing-architec ... read more |
| Mentor Graphics Delivers Emulation Solutions for the Verification of USB SuperSpeed Products |
October 25, 2011 -- Mentor Graphics Corp. today announced hardware and software solutions to accelerate the verification of Universal Serial Bus (USB) SuperSpeed (3.0) products. These new solutions, connected to a Veloce emulator, enable ... read more |
| Micrium and Redpine Partner to Offer Support for Redpine's Embedded Wi-Fi Solutions on Micrium's uC/TCP-IP Stack |
October 25, 2011 -- Micrium, Inc and Redpine Signals, Inc. today announced the integration of Redpine's embedded Wi-Fi solutions into platforms running the uC/TCP-IP protocol stack. With this, embedded systems developers building d ... read more |
| South Korea's LG U+ Signs Licensing Agreement with SPIRIT DSP for Mobile VoIP and Video Engine |
October 24, 2011 –- SPIRIT DSP announced today that LG U+ (formerly known as LG Telecom), South Korean's leading mobile and telecommunications service provider, has licensed SPIRIT's TeamSpirit Voice & Video Engine Mobile to power HD-qual ... read more |
| Triad Semiconductor Introduces Three New Configurable High-Voltage Mixed-Signal ASICs |
October 25, 2011 -- Triad Semiconductor, Inc. today announced the availability of a family of three new high-voltage via-configurable arrays (VCAs). The new arrays, VCA-9, VCA-10, and VCA-11 enable the integration of high-voltage analog, ... read more |
| NXP Cortex-M0 Microcontrollers in TSSOP and SO Packages Target 8/16-Bit Applications |
October 25, 2011 -- NXP Semiconductors today announced the availability of new low-pin-count package options — SO20, TSSOP20, TSSOP28 and DIP28 — for its ARM Cortex-M0 LPC1100 family of microcontrollers. The new LPC111x devices are the fi ... read more |
| VIA Telecom Selects Arteris C2C High-Speed Inter-Chip Communications IP |
October 25, 2011 -- Arteris SA today announced that VIA Telecom has licensed the C2C Chip-to-Chip Link interconnect IP solution for high speed inter-chip communication between mobile phone modem baseband chips and application processors.< ... read more |
| Xilinx MicroBlaze Model Provided by Imperas and OVP |
October 24, 2011 -- Imperas, Ltd. today announced that a model of the Xilinx MicroBlaze soft processor core has been developed. The OVP Fast Processor Model and example virtual platforms including the MicroBlaze core are available from th ... read more |
| Xilinx Ships Highest Capacity FPGA; Shatters Record for Number of Transistors by 2X Featured |
October 25, 2011 -- Xilinx, Inc. today announced first shipments of its FPGAs, the world's highest-capacity programmable logic device built using 6.8 billion transistors, providing users access to a 2 million logic cells, equivalent to 20 ... read more |
| eSilicon Selects Synopsys' Custom IC Design Solution and Tapes Out 28-nm Designs |
October 25, 2011 -- Synopsys, Inc. today announced that eSilicon Corp. has deployed Synopsys' custom IC design solution to streamline its custom memory intellectual property (IP) business. Synopsys' comprehensive unified custom imp ... read more |
| TSMC 28-nm Technology in Volume Production |
October 24, 2011 -- TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company) today announced that its 28-nm process is in volume production and production wafers have been shipped to customers. TSMC's 28-nm process offering includes ... read more |
| Arasan Chip Systems Demonstrates First UFS 1.0 Link Layer IP and Hardware Development Platform |
October 24, 2011 -- Arasan Chip Systems, Inc. has successfully demonstrated its UFS Link Layer IP and its associated UFS hardware development platform (HDP). Arasan demonstrated its UFS 1.0 compliant UniPro on an FPGA, running full Gear 1 ... read more |
| Ashling Microsystems Announces New High-Performance Debug and Trace Probe for ARM Devices |
October 24, 2011 -- Ashling Microsystems, Ltd. has launched a new high-performance real-time debug and trace probe for ARM devices. According to Ashling, the new Vitra-XD debug probe is the highest performing debug probe for embedded deve ... read more |
| Atmel Reduces Total System Cost by Integrating LCD Controller into AVR XMEGA Family |
October 24, 2011 -- Atmel Corp. is adding an LCD controller to devices in the AVR XMEGA microcontroller (MCU) family. The integration of an LCD controller offers designers reduced design complexity and lower overall system cost, while pro ... read more |
| Atrenta Joins Cadence System Realization Alliance |
October 24, 2011 -- Atrenta, Inc. has joined the Cadence Design Systems, Inc.'s Realization Alliance. The initial focus for the alliance will be to verify that output of the Cadence C-to-Silicon Compiler passes a set of high-level ... read more |
| Mentor Graphics and MoreThanIP Collaborate to Deliver Veloce Emulation Solutions for Multi-Gigabit Ethernet Verification |
October 24, 2011 -- Mentor Graphics Corp. and MoreThanIP GmbH today announced they have collaborated to deliver emulation solutions for the verification of Multi-Gigabit Ethernet Systems-on-Chips (SOCs).
The combi ... read more |
| Microchip Introduces Smallest, Lowest-Cost PIC32 Microcontrollers |
October 24, 2011 -- Microchip Technology, Inc. today announced a new series of low-pin-count 32-bit PIC32 microcontrollers (MCUs) that provide 61DMIPS of performance in packages as small as 5x5mm for space-constrained and cost-sensitive d ... read more |
| SiTime Delivers Highest-Performance Differential Oscillators |
October 24, 2011 -- SiTime Corp. today introduced what the company claims is the timing industry's highest-performance differential oscillators with 10-ppm stability and only 500fs of jitter. The SiT9121 and SiT9122 MEMS oscill ... read more |
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