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Partnership targets high-end computing
Tensilica and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's supercomputing collaboration aims to make "exascale systems"feasible and cost-effective.
News from Tensilica ( 6 May 2008)
Audio core adds Blu-ray Disc support
Tensilica's HiFi Audio Engine is a fully programmable processor core optimised for audio applications, with a library of over 30 of the most popular audio software packages.
News from Tensilica ( 1 May 2008)
Broadband gateway processor uses two ARMs
User application article Mindspeed Technologies has used two ARM1136J-S processors in its Comcerto 100 series of broadband gateway processors.
News from ARM ( 1 May 2008)
PCI Express IP moves to next generation
Industry's only complete silicon-proven PCI Express 2.0 IP solution from a single vendor includes digital controllers, PHY and verification IP.
News from Synopsys (29 April 2008)
Instant RFID data prevents car theft
User application article Ship2Save's RFID cabinet key solution, with Impinj's UHF Gen 2 RFID chips, readers and antennas, provides a way to authenticate car keys upon their return from a test drive.
News from Impinj (24 April 2008)
Extra-permanent memory proves popular
User application article Embedded extra-permanent memory technology has been used in several security applications, such as digital content protection and rights management.
News from Kilopass Technology (21 April 2008)
USB2.0 IP receives PHY certification
Synopsys' DesignWare USB 2.0 nanoPHY uses half the power and die area of previous USB PHY IP solutions and enables faster time to market with reduced risk.
News from Synopsys (18 April 2008)
Nonvolatile memory IP qualifies for 80 and 90nm
Target applications for the 80 and 90nm processes include general purpose consumer as well and mobile and wireless applications.
News from Kilopass Technology (18 April 2008)
IP programme shows initiative for FPGA designers
Programme delivers the industry's first and complete universal, encrypted design methodology for FPGA implementation.
News from Synplicity (16 April 2008)
Processor suits low-power applications
The Cortex-M3 processor is supported by the ARM Power Management Kit (PMK) and is optimised for low-power physical IP standard cell libraries and memories from the ARM Artisan physical IP family.
News from ARM (15 April 2008)
Embedded memory enables wireless home control
User application article XPM technology allows Zensys to contain its costs and add new features to its SoCs.
News from Kilopass Technology (15 April 2008)
MIL-STD-1553 controller joins core options
Optimising Sital's MIL-STD-1553 controller design into a PSB for QuickLogic's programmable fabric will help give a long life to military and civil aerospace designs.
News from QuickLogic (15 April 2008)
SPARC processor core gains royalty-free RTOS
The Nucleus OS unlocks the full performance of the Leon processor family.
News from Gaisler Research (14 April 2008)
IP core puts 1394b Link Layer on FPGA
The increased bandwidth of the 800Mbit/s 1394b bus will accelerate applications such as storage systems, digital cameras, printers and other computer peripherals.
News from Imaging Solutions Group (ISG) ( 9 April 2008)
Reuse methodology makes more of IP assets
Semiconductor designers can now license a proven IP core reuse methodology and toolset from IPextreme.
News from IPextreme ( 8 April 2008)
Memory compilers streamline SoC design
The SiWare Memory compilers and SiWare Logic libraries provide designers with options for maximum flexibility in effectively managing design tradeoffs to meet their specific requirements.
News from Virage Logic ( 8 April 2008)
Avago adopts nonvolatile memory technology
Production proven in more than 800 million units shipped, Aeon memory cores have been proven in some of the world's highest volume applications.
News from Impinj ( 4 April 2008)
PCI Express endpoint controller runs on FPGAs
The DesignWare LE IP for PCIe is a cost-effective solution that provides innovative ease-of-use features to simplify the complexities of transitioning to PCI Express.
News from Synopsys ( 3 April 2008)
Graphics cores enhance Atom-based systems
User application article Graphics and video technologies enable the user to enjoy a richer Internet multimedia experience while consuming low power.
News from Imagination Technologies ( 3 April 2008)
Multiprocessor core incorporates multithreading
The 1004K core optimises CPU performance on a shared memory system, enabling multiple functions and applications to be implemented in a single product.
News from MIPS Technologies ( 2 April 2008)
Cores form basis for software defined radio
Core set includes an ultra-high-speed ADC core that addresses 50Gsample/s sampling.
News from TiaLinx (28 March 2008)
Block speeds data transfers to mass storage
The UDMA Proven System Block adds to QuickLogic's suite of hard disk drive (HDD) interface blocks for the company's CSSP platforms.
News from QuickLogic (28 March 2008)
Platform to enable wireless medical sensors
Novel software solution on a single chip will allow medical devices such as blood pressure monitors to transmit data wirelessly.
News from Cambridge Consultants (28 March 2008)
Technology licensing offers new direction
Acquisition signals Spansion's immediate entry into the technology licensing business, significantly expanding its market opportunity.
News from Spansion (24 March 2008)
Processor and analogue IP combine in baseband
User application article First mobile WiMAX baseband processor optimised for handheld devices combines ultra-low power consumption, low cost and the smallest footprint.
News from MIPS Technologies (18 March 2008)
Decoder implementations provide surround sound
aacPlus V1 is a superset of AAC that adds spectral band replication (SBR), a bandwidth extension technique that enables audio codecs to deliver the same quality at half the bit rate.
News from Tensilica (14 March 2008)
Configurable processor powers HD radio
User application article Baseband processor is based on a design by iBiquity Digital Corporation, the developer and licensor of HD Radio technology and a Tensilica processor reseller.
News from Tensilica (14 March 2008)
Infineon acquisition to boost disk-drive IC range
Assets and intellectual property from the Infineon HDD business include product designs, related software, inventory and test equipment.
News from LSI Europe (14 March 2008)
JPEG2000 hardware provides compression boost
JPEG2000 is a wavelet-based digital imaging compression standard, replacing the original discrete cosine transform-based JPEG compression method.
News from 4DSP (13 March 2008)
Audio IP achieves submicron approval
MIPS Technologies' 96dB Audio IP Codec is the world's first true above-96dB Hi-Fi quality, ultra low-power and compact-area audio IP to be silicon-proven in deep submicron processes.
News from MIPS Technologies (13 March 2008)
Cadence acquires Chip Estimate
Chip Estimate customers will benefit significantly from the synergies and opportunities created by the combination of the companies.
News from Cadence Design Systems (13 March 2008)
Codec support cuts system costs
H.264 SVC creates a single encoded video stream that can be "scaled" to support varying levels of resolutions, frame rates and quality.
News from Stretch (11 March 2008)
Display system block improves mobile multimedia
Proprietary technology provides high-quality contrast optimisation for a wide range of mobile consumer and prosumer devices.
News from QuickLogic (11 March 2008)
Programmable devices add ADC calibration
Fusion PSC calibration intellectual property eliminates the additional discrete ADCs and prescalers often required to achieve higher levels of accuracy.
News from Actel Europe (11 March 2008)
Network processors accelerated to market
User application article IPs accelerate designers' ability to design in DDR2/3 and PCIe, lower their integration risk and speed their time to market for delivering their network processors in silicon.
News from Denali Software (10 March 2008)
IP agreement provides memory density boost
High-density SRAM-1T memory IP enables integration of up to three times more memory than a standard 6T-SRAM, enabling chips to incorporate more system memory on-chip.
News from Synopsys ( 7 March 2008)
Single transcoder handles multiple video formats
The Aspex Compression Engine supports all of the most popular video compression algorithms, including MPEG-2, AVC/H.264, VC-1 and MJPEG.
News from Aspex Semiconductor ( 5 March 2008)
Configurable core drives ultrawideband CMOS SoCs
User application article Easily configurable processor technology plays a key role in delivering the feature rich WiMedia protocol at low power and cost.
News from Tensilica ( 5 March 2008)
Graphics IP puts location SoC in the picture
User application article The SiRFprima PND platform delivers advanced hardware-accelerated 3D graphics and video encoding and decoding engines using Imagination's PowerVR MBX 3D graphics accelerator core.
News from Imagination Technologies ( 4 March 2008)
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