D&R Headline News (September 2004)
Headlines for Thursday Sep. 30, 2004
Latest News- Qualcomm to Acquire Chip Design Company Spike Technologies
- ROHM Standardizes on CoWare ConvergenSC System-on-Chip Design Environment for Electronic System Level Design
- ARM and Trusted Logic Announce Evaluation Version of Security Software For Microsoft Windows CE 5.0
- ARM Holdings plc and Artisan Components, Inc. Announce That U.S. Government Has Granted Early Termination of Antitrust Waiting Period
Headlines for Wednesday Sep. 29, 2004
Latest News- Court Schedules Trial Date for MOSAID Patent Lawsuit Against Samsung
- TSMC Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer Dr. Quincy Lin to Retire
- System level design is here, Synopsys CTO says
- VIP: It's Time to Grow Up (Synopsys)
- Sarnoff To Demo MPEG-4 CIF Video Codec For Cell Phones On ARM Platform At FSA Suppliers Expo
- Industry-Standard MIPS Architecture Adopted by NEC Electronics for Enhanced Single-Chip Solution
- Cypress MicroSystems Powerful New PSoC Enhances Integrated Systems Control
- Agere Systems Announces Plans to Reduce Expenses, Reaffirms Fourth Fiscal Quarter Revenue Outlook
- Accelerated Technology Announces Enhanced Microtec Compiler Support for PowerPC Processor Family
Headlines for Tuesday Sep. 28, 2004
Latest News- DAFCA Receives $1.8 Million ATP Grant to Develop Reconfigurable Infrastructure Platform for System-on-Chip Electronics
- RF Engines's HyperSpeed and HyperLength FFT Cores dramatically increase performance ranges of FFT
- Mentor Graphics Enables Hardware/Software Co-Verification with StarCore Processor Models
- Xilinx And Mercury Computer Systems Demonstrate Interoperable Serial RapidIO Solutions On An ATCA Platform
- Xilinx RapidIO Solution Successfully Interoperates With Freescale PowerQUICC III Processor & Tundra RapidIO Switch
- Xilinx Delivers Breakthrough Design Tool For High Performance Signal Processing With New System Generator For DSP v6.3I
- ARC Announces MQX Software Availability for Freescale Semiconductor's ColdFire Processors
- Freescale Discloses High-Performance Dual Core Processor Architecture
- Renesas Technology to Take Over SuperH, Inc. CPU Core Business
Headlines for Monday Sep. 27, 2004
Latest News- Palm OS licensed to three device vendors
- Adiabatic Logic, a company focused on creating and licensing intellectual property (IP) in the low power technology arena, gains US$900k DTI funding boost
- NEC Electronics Unveils Industry's First Mobile Phone Application Processor with Parallel Processing Capabilities
- Innovative Silicon hires Mark-Eric Jones as CEO
- STMicro to reorganize as senior executives depart
- SMIC opens 300-mm wafer fab in Beijing
- Nuvation Opens Engineering Design Center in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
- FS2 Introduces Logic Navigator Trace and Debug Solutions
- Actel FPGAs Selected by Indesign for Innovative Wireless High-Fidelity Streaming Audio Platform
- ARC International Introduces ARCsound: Licensable Digital Audio Subsystem
- SensorDynamics chooses Accent to get access to TSMC's semiconductor technologies
- Bitboys Licenses Graphics Processor Technology from Ericsson
- AMI Semiconductor Launches XPressArray-II for Conversion of High-Density FPGAs and Design of Mid-Density ASICs
- CoWare Announces New Generation of SPW for Digital Signal Processing (DSP) Application Design
- eInfochips Announces DSP-Karma, a fast-track to realizing DSP innovations
- StarCore Delivers a New Architecture with Improved Multimedia Performance and System Features
Headlines for Saturday Sep. 25, 2004
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Latest News- MIPS Technologies and Agilent Technologies Announce Agreement on 32- and 64-Bit MIPS-Based Embedded Processor Cores
- ChipIdea's 210MHz Analog Interface for Flat Panel Displays Validated in Silicon at 0.18um TSMC
Headlines for Wednesday Sep. 22, 2004
Latest News- Estimated 40% of IC makers will disappear, says Gartner
- Elixent appoints VP of Worldwide Sales to expand customer base
- Tensilica to Showcase Industry Leading DSP Core Performance at GSPx 2004 Conference
- LSI Logic Adds High Speed USB 2.0 Host Controller Core to IP Library
- Paxonet announces industry's largest IP core portfolio for data and telecomunications
Headlines for Tuesday Sep. 21, 2004
Latest News- Axon Technologies Corp. Announces Infineon as New Licensee of Programmable Metallization Cell Nonvolatile Memory Technology
- Fujitsu and Synplicity Join Forces to Deliver Customized Amplify Product for Fujitsu AccelArray Structured/Platform ASICs
- Magma Adds ChipIdea to Growing List of ''Magma-Ready'' IP Providers
- MorethanIP releases the industry's first Ethernet L2 Switch Engine for Programmable Logic Devices and structured ASIC
- VoiceSignal joins ARM Connected Community
- Xilinx Ships One Million Spartan-3 FPGAs - Delivers PLD Industry's First 90nm Family In High Volume
- Faraday Announces Its Proprietary WirelessLAN SoC Application Platform
- Accent Joins TSMC's Design Center Alliance
- NemeriX Licenses CEVA GPS 4000 IP And Announces Assisted GPS Chipset Targeting Mobile Phone Market
Headlines for Monday Sep. 20, 2004
Latest News- New Board to Direct VSI Alliance
- Jennic to demonstrate Serial RapidIO IP in silicon
- Indian design house rolls IP verification suite
- Chartered pushing 65 nm ahead
- Broadcom Acquires Alphamosaic Limited, a Leading Developer of Mobile Multimedia Processors for Cellular Phones
- UMC Expands Embedded Memory Portfolio to Target Fast Growing Smart Card Market
- The Fabless Semiconductor Association (FSA) announces 44 Percent YoY Worldwide Fabless Revenue Growth in Q2 2004
- Zeevo choose LTRIM Power Management IP
- Faraday Introduces PCI Express IP Solutions
- Daewoo Selects LSI Logic Dimension Processor for DVD/VCR Recorder Product Line
- Xilinx Simplifies Embedded Processing Design With New 6.3i Platform Studio
- Philips And Xilinx Collaborate In Design Of Low Cost PCI Express Solutions
- MindTree sees increased demand for Bluetooth integration into semiconductor chips
Headlines for Friday Sep. 17, 2004
Latest News- Temento Systems starts activities in Germany and announces the creation of its own office
- Flash memory market to continue growth, researcher finds
- Outsourcing to India shifts to R&D
- NEC Electronics Launches Industry's First High-Quality, One Chip Video Decoder
- Faraday Introduces MPEG4/JPEG Multimedia Platform
- Xilinx Business Update for September Quarter Fiscal 2005
Headlines for Thursday Sep. 16, 2004
Latest News- Semico Research Cites Consumer Caution for Slowing 2005 Semiconductor Market
- Tharas Systems Awarded Key Patents on Hardware-Assisted Verification Technology
- SK Teletech licenses TTPCom's GPRS software and Ajar Platform
- Monolithic System Technology, Inc. Strengthens Executive Team; Appoints Karen Lamar as Vice President of Sales and Marketing
- Verification IP complexity approaches design IP
- TSMC Ships One Million 0.13-Micron Eight Inch Equivalent Wafers
- Faraday Uncovers New TEMPLATE Family That Achieves 0.13um Performance at 0.25um Production Cost
- Startup IPextreme repartitions Bluetooth radio
Headlines for Wednesday Sep. 15, 2004
Latest News- Japan Radio Co. Licenses CEVA-Teak DSP Core For Baseband Radio Communications
- Ricoh Extends Partnership with UMC to 90nm
- New Linux Support for the ARC 700 Configurable Core
- Faraday's USB 2.0 OTG High Speed IP Core Silicon Proven on UMC's 0.13 um Technology
Headlines for Tuesday Sep. 14, 2004
Latest News- 4i2i, an Aberdeen technology company, takes leap into space after securing deal with NASA
- Magma and ChipX Team to Deliver Unified RTL-to-GDSII Design Flow for Structured ASIC Platforms
- Nazomi and CoreTek Announce High Performance Java and Multimedia Platform Solution for China's Mobile Phones
- Brand new 32-bit RISC core: XAP3 ASIC processor liberates embedded systems industry with very high code density, low power and software flexibility
Headlines for Monday Sep. 13, 2004
Latest News- Samsung Semiconductor offers SERDES Intellectual Property for high-speed ASIC designs
- CISSOID releases its High-temperature LDO Voltage Regulator Family (CHT-LDO)
- Jungo Joins the ARM Connected Community
- Agilent receives patent on USB test spec
- Consumer Electronics Market Requires IP-Rich Custom SoCs for Hardware Differentiation
- Silicon Storage Technology strengthens its embedded flash business with acquisition of Emosyn
- Xignal Technologies introduces 10Gb/s-CMOS XFI transceiver design with smallest footprint in industry
- New Fabless Semiconductor Company, Ambric, Inc., Receives $10.4 Million In Series A Funding
- Densitron Commences Shipping of Single Board Computer Which Is First Embedded Application To Include Atmel's Trusted Platform Module (TPM)
- Cypress Semiconductor Licenses Astro Semiconductor's PCI Express PHY Technology
- ESL tools: Are EDA giants in the game?
- Xilinx Ramps Virtex-4 Shipments, Delivers Breakthrough Performance At The Lowest Cost
- Xilinx Ships ISE 6.3i Design Suite, Widens Performance Lead Up To 40% With Virtex-4 FPGAs
- Cavium Networks Standardizes Upon the MIPS Architecture and Announces cnMIPS Core for Secure Network Services
- MIPS Technologies and Magma Announce Reference Methodology for High-Performance 24K Core Family
- CEVA Launches CEVA-X System On Chip Platforms For Wireless, Consumer And Multimedia Markets
- CEVA Speeds Customer's Time To Silicon With The Launch Of CEVA Services
- TriCN Interfaces Provide High-Performance and Flexibility for Leopard Logic's Gladiator CLD6400
- Faraday Continues International Expansion, Names Chung Ho as Vice President of Field Market Development
- Faraday Unveils Highest Performance NPU with ASIC Programmability at Very Low Cost
- IPextreme Bluetooth Core Lowers Power Consumption up to 50% for High Volume Mobile Applications
- Design & Reuse provides comprehensive portal to LSI Logic CoreWare IP for RapidChip Platform ASIC and Cell-Based ASIC Designs
Headlines for Friday Sep. 10, 2004
Latest News- Open-source cores to aid in system design
- SIDSA announces DVB-H chip and intellectual property for digital television for mobile telephones
- Lattice Semiconductor to Make Advance Payment to Support Fujitsu's New 300mm Fab
Headlines for Thursday Sep. 09, 2004
Latest News- Marvell Announces New System On Chip Optimized For Small Form Factor Hard Disk Storage In Consumer Electronics
- Imagination Technologies, a leader in system-on-chip intellectual property (IP), announces new IP for DVB-Handheld (DVB-H)
- Wipro's 1394 AV Link IP to help MediaTek Reinforce Market Leadership in the Consumer Electronic Space
- AMIS Holdings Signs Agreement to Acquire Dspfactory Ltd to Strengthen DSP Design Capabilities for Medical and Industrial Markets
- NEC Electronics Announces New High Performance MPEG Decoder for Integrated Digital Televisions, Supporting Digital and Digitised Analogue Signals
- Denali Joins Newly Formed Serial ATA Group
- Actel Corporation Announces Third Quarter Business Update
- PMC-Sierra Broadens MIPS-Based CPU Offering with Newest 32-Bit Synthesizeable Core Families from MIPS Technologies
- SiWorks Standardizes on Blast Create, Delivers "Magma-Ready" Semiconductor IP Solutions for Leading-Edge Wireless Applications
- TSMC August Sales Set Record High
- nSys Announces the Release of AS nVS, a Verification Solution for Advanced Switching in Verilog
Headlines for Wednesday Sep. 08, 2004
Latest News- Read Channel License Agreement with Hitachi Enables Infineon to Offer Advanced Silicon Chip Solutions for Hard Disk Drives
- Altera to Demonstrate Industry's First Complete FPGA-Based DVB-ASI Solution at IBC 2004
- Xilinx And Sandia National Labs Team To Drive Reconfigurable Logic Technology Into Space
- New Release of Altera's DSP Builder Accelerates Stratix II and Cyclone II FPGA-Based DSP Designs
Headlines for Tuesday Sep. 07, 2004
Latest News- Ridgetop Selected by C & D Technologies for Electronic Prognostics in DC to DC Converters
- Chartered Launches 0.13-Micron, 0.11-Micron and 90-Nanometer Processes at 300-mm Fab
- Rambus to Showcase World's First Demonstration of XDR Memory Module Technology
- Ricoh Will Use Sarnoff TakeCharge Design Approach In Analog CMOS Process Families
- SafeNet Announces First Intrusion Prevention IP for Network Semiconductor Market
- MoSys' 1T-SRAM Memory Silicon-Verified on DongbuAnam's 0.18-Micron Standard Logic Process; 0.13-Micron Verifications Initiated
- NewLogic sees growth in market for integration of Bluetooth in System on Chip (SoC) devices
- CoreTek And Hopen Collaborate With ARM To Develop Support For JTEK And Swerve Technology
- ARM Opens Beijing Office To Support Strong Regional Growth
- Sun Microsystems and ARM To Deliver High-Performance, Pre-Integrated Java Solutions For Mobile Devices
- SMIC Extends ARM Foundry Program Relationship To ARM926EJ Processor In 0.13-Micron Process
- ZRRT Collaborates With ARM To Integrate JTEK Technology in China Unicom's Next-Generation Java Environment
- LSI Logic Advances High Speed Serial Interconnect with New RapidChip Platform ASIC Family
- Altera and Industry-Leading Memory Vendors Deliver 533-Mbps DDR2 SDRAM Solution for Stratix II FPGAs
- Altera and Modelware to Launch Advanced Switching Solution at Intel Developer Forum
- Cascade IP licenses its PCI Express Design IP to Sun Microsystems
- TransEDA Announces PCI All-in-One Verification IP and VN-Control 3.0 for PCI Express, PCI-X and PCI Based Designs
- TriCN partners with PLDApplications for full PCI Express solution
- Genesys Logic Introduces PCI Express and GigaSata Serial ATA Products at Intel Develop Forum
Headlines for Monday Sep. 06, 2004
Latest News- Toshiba, NEC Electronics, and Fujitsu Agree On "COSMORAM Rev.3" Common Specifications For PSRAM
- RF Engines launches SpectraChip, a digital replacement for analogue intermediate frequency (IF) filtering used in current spectrum analysers
- Faraday Technology Introduces Industry's Smallest PCI-Express Solution at UMC 0.13um
- Tensilica Announces Major IC Design Automation Breakthrough, The Automatic Generation of Optimized Programmable RTL Engines from Standard C Code
- EVE Unveils ZeBu-XL, the Electronics Industry's First High-End Prototyping Solution
- SIDSA announces the new "CARMeN-II" ARM emulation board for SoC Development &Validation
- Xilinx announces new DSP division, industry veteran Omid Tahernia named Vice President and General Manager
- Xilinx executes on FPGA processor leadership strategy, forms new embedded processing division
- Memec Insight Becomes New Distributor of Nordic Semiconductor ASA in Europe
- Accelerated Technology's Nucleus EDGE Next Generation Development Environment Ushers In New Era of Eclipse Platform Use
Headlines for Sunday Sep. 05, 2004
Latest NewsHeadlines for Friday Sep. 03, 2004
Latest News- Coreworks and Prototyping-Japan agreement to promote and distribute digital audio and video IP cores and evaluation boards in the Japanese market
- Interview - Rajeev Madhavan, chairman and CEO of Magma Design: Intellectual Propriety (by Ed Sperling, Electronic News)
- Pioneering DSP core breaks more ground with new processing modules
Headlines for Thursday Sep. 02, 2004
Latest News- Court Awards MOSAID Monetary Sanctions in Lawsuit Against Samsung
- Altera pre-announces shortfall for Q3
- Monolithic System Technology, Inc. Announces Grant of Stock Options
- Intellectutal Property Support For New FPGA Familes Announced By Lattice Semiconductor And CAST Incorporated
- Pirelli Chooses Altera Stratix GX Devices for Radio-Over-Fiber 3G Network Solution
- LSI Logic Debuts Innovative SAS and SATA II Storage Adapters and Platform ASIC Methodology at Intel Developer Forum
Headlines for Wednesday Sep. 01, 2004
Latest News- Panasonic Develops Industry's First Integrated Platform For Next-Generation Consumer Electronics
- SMIC looks to China's fabless firms, touts 90-nm
- Intel will demo its first multi-core CPU at IDF
- Samsung Semiconductor Teams with Denali to Accelerate OneNAND Flash Adoption
- Dolphin's Read-Only Memory generator embeds the highest density on standard CMOS
- Atmel Introduces a Complete Biometric System for Easy Integration Into Customer Applications
- AMI Semiconductor Chooses ARM To Drive Automotive Electronics For Information, Performance And Safety In Cars
- Altera Introduces Stratix II Development Kits for High-Speed, DSP, and Embedded System Designs
- Altera's New MAX II Development Kit Simplifies Low-Cost CPLD Design