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D&R Headline News (February 2006)
Headlines for Tuesday Feb. 28, 2006
Latest News- Design productivity can grow by 8X, says Synopsys VP
- Imagination Technologies opens office in Taiwan
- IBM announces enhancements to PowerPC portfolio, new Power licensee
- Xilinx First To 65nm With Next Generation Virtex FPGAs
- PLDA PCI Express IP Chosen by EVE for Zebu Prototyping Platform
- Actel Delivers Development Kit for ARM7-Enabled FPGAs
- Innovative Semiconductor Teams with Denali to Deliver High-Quality USB OTG Solutions
- Green Hills Software Announces New Development Tools and Operating System for Texas Instruments' DaVinci Technology
- Celoxica and Philips TASS Team to Accelerate ESL Adoption in Europe
Headlines for Monday Feb. 27, 2006
Latest News- IPextreme to Accelerate Power Architecture Adoption by Making Valuable Member IP Widely Available
- Poseidon Design Systems Appoints Brian Bailey as Chief Technologist
- French startup, Cortus SA, offers compact 32-bit RISC
- Arteris Ships Arteris NoC Solution 1.4 to Accelerate Adoption of Network on Chip
- Impinj Aligns With UMC to Deliver Logic NVM Cores on 0.18um and 0.13um Process Technologies
- ARM Offers Advantage Physical IP Support For IBM, Chartered And Samsung Common Platform On 65-Nanometer Generic Process
- Silicon Design Chain Validates Enhanced Power Management Methodology with ARM 1136JF-S
- Akustica Launches the World's First Single-Chip Microphone
- Vativ Announces Industry's First and Most Advanced Three Input, Dual Output HDMI Receiver Chip for Next Generation Digital TVs
- Mercury Computer Systems and Texas Instruments Announce a WiMAX AMC for Next-Generation Mobile Broadband Market
- SystemC finds new horizons
- Summit Design's Vista IDE Simplifies Intellectual Property Development and Design Sharing For SystemC-Based Designs Without A Run-Time License
Headlines for Friday Feb. 24, 2006
Latest News- Analysis: Chip design outsourcers must embrace IP
- Transmeta Licenses its LongRun2 Technologies for Low Power and Leakage Management to Toshiba
- Elliptic Semiconductor Ports Security IP Cores to Lattice FPGAs
- MOSAID Announces Third Quarter Results for Fiscal Year 2006
- Transmeta's Full Year 2005 Revenue Increases 147% To $72.7 Million
- Dualcore DCIC9907 Industrial Microcontroller with Two ARM Cores Targeted at Time-critical Industrial Control Applications
Headlines for Thursday Feb. 23, 2006
Latest News- Silicon Image Announces HDMI IP Core Design Wins With Pixelworks and Sunplus
- Micron Technology, Inc., Brings Lawsuit Against Rambus in Italy
- Samsung Offers ARM Physical IP To Support 65 Nanometer Low-Power Common Platform Enablement
- Renesas Technology Selects ARM11 MPCore Technology
- Tensilica and CSIP of Ministry of Information Industry (MII) of PRC Establish First Joint IP Core Lab
- MIPS Technologies Appoints Shanghai-based SinoSys Technologies as the first MIPS Authorized Training Center in China
Headlines for Wednesday Feb. 22, 2006
Latest News- Texas Instruments Releases Advanced ASIC Kits, Extends ASIC Library and Support for Design Tools
- Patriot Scientific Announces Important Patent Licensing Agreement with Casio
- eInfochips Expands Expertise to System Validation and Reference Designs
- Sharp Microelectronics and Actimagine Collaborate to Boost SoC Video Capabilities
- Technology Authority Jim Turley Joins Board of Patriot Scientific
- Semico Maintains Optimistic 17.3% Growth Projection
- JMicron Technology Corp Develops Serial ATA II (3.0 Gpbs) PHY Core on UMC's 90nm G and 90nm SP Processes
- Xilinx And ISR Technologies Announce Software Defined Radio Kit Supporting Partial Reconfiguration And SCA-Enabled SoC
- TSMC Says Immersion Lithography Nearly Production Ready
- MIPS Technologies Names Kate Rundle Vice President, General Counsel
Headlines for Tuesday Feb. 21, 2006
Latest News- Next Generation Content Protection Specification - Advanced Access Content System (AACS) - Made Available for Licensing
- Micron Technology, Inc., Files RICO Lawsuit Against Rambus
- Casio Joins HP in Purchasing ''System'' License to Use Moore Microprocessor Patent(TM) Portfolio; Casio Reinforces Need for Digital Hardware Manufacturers to License Ubiquitous MMP Portfolio Technologies
- National Semiconductor and ARM Release Next-Generation PowerWise Interface Open-Standard Specification
- Actel ProASIC3 Commercial Qualification Completed
- X-FAB Offers IP Blocks for RF Designs
- UMC Fabricates World's Highest Frequency Silicon Circuit Using CMOS - 192-GHz Voltage-Controlled Oscillator; Push-push Voltage-Controlled Oscillator (VCO) designed by the University of Florida reaches 192-GHz Operating Frequency
- NEC Electronics America to Distribute Tensilica's
- Tensilica, Virage Logic and SMIC Partner to Provide Hard Macro Versions of Diamond Standard Processor Cores
- Global Unichip and Tensilica Announced Partnership to Present Diamond Standard Series Hard Cores for SoC Design Technologies at 0.13um and Below
- Actel Offers One Million Gates for Free
- Impinj Extends GrandPrix Gen 2 RFID Solution to Item-Level Tagging
Headlines for Monday Feb. 20, 2006
Latest News- Chinese Audio/Video codec rises; Domestic rival to WMV-9 and MPEG-4 nears standardization
- Reconfigurable cores boost processor power
- ARM Licenses 1176JZF-S Processor To NEC Electronics
- Tensilica Introduces Diamond Standard Processor Core Family, Leading the Industry in Low Power and High Performance
- Tensilica Introduces Diamond Standard 570T with 50% Lower Power Consumption, Twice the Performance and Half the Area of ARM11 Processor Core
- Tensilica Introduces Fastest, Lowest Power Linux Processor Core
- Tensilica Announces Diamond Standard 330HiFi, a Low-Power 24-bit Audio DSP
- New ARC Video Subsystem Delivers Complete Solution for Portable Multimedia Devices
- STMicroelectronics Inaugurates its New Design Campus in India
- Temento Systems announces the support of System Verilog Assertions among the new features of DiaLite Platform Edition and of TemStorage
- Celoxica Strengthens DSP-FPGA Solutions Joins Texas Instruments Third Party DSP Program
Headlines for Friday Feb. 17, 2006
Latest News- GE Fanuc Embedded Systems Signs Agreement To Purchase Assets Of Condor Engineering
- Aware, Inc. Reports 2005 Fourth Quarter Financial Results
- Silicon Image Reports Fourth Quarter and 2005 Financial Results
Headlines for Thursday Feb. 16, 2006
Latest News- NaturalNano Licenses Key Patent for Selective Wireless Access in RF Shielded Environments
- Gartner Says Worldwide Semiconductor Market Will Continue to Show Gradual Improvement in 2006
- Innovative Silicon Inc. Ramps for Growth of Z-RAM Memory IP with New Silicon Valley Headquarters
- Altera and TES Offer Cost-Effective FPGA-Based Reconfigurable Graphics Controller
- Abacus Polar partners with Proven Software Solutions to create the Abacus Systems Solutions Framework
Headlines for Wednesday Feb. 15, 2006
Latest News- Monolithic System Technology, Inc. Announces Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2005 Financial Results
- Wi-LAN Announces Director Resignation
- Toshiba, NEC Electronics and Fujitsu Announce Agreement on ''COSMORAM Rev. 4'' Common Pseudo SRAM Specifications for Mobile Devices
- Saifun Semiconductors Reports Fourth Quarter and Year-End 2005 Results
- Haier IC Standardizes on ARM Artisan Physical IP for Consumer Electronics Applications
- Leading Acceleration Technology Company Selects Denali for Memory System Design
- MoSys' 1T-SRAM(R) CLASSIC Running in Volume Production on Chartered's 0.13-micron Process
- 4i2i and LSI Logic demonstrate video solutions at Embedded World
- Essensium NV, a Belgian fabless provider of SoC ASICs, secures 6 million euro in Malaysian funding
- Genesys Logic Low Power USB 2.0 Digital TV Controller IC being awarded the Bus Power certification by USB-IF
Headlines for Tuesday Feb. 14, 2006
Latest News- Sharp Microelectronics and Actimagine Collaborate to Boost SoC Video Capabilities; Video Decompression Rates Increase Fourfold with Same Power Use
- EVE Raises $6 Million in New Funding
- Texas Instruments New OMAP3 Architecture Will Spark Development of a New Class of Mobile Phones
- Patriot Scientific Corporation Announces Unprecedented Microcap Dividend
- ARM Announces Availability of Mobile Consumer DRM Software Solutions Based on ARM TrustZoneTechnology
- Altera's Cyclone II FPGA Family Now Available in Extended Temperature Range
- Accelerated Technology's Nucleus RTOS Continues Support for CDMA Chipset from VIA Telecom
- S3 collaborates with Hantro to demonstrate DVB-H software evaluation platform
- LSI Logic Announces Cached DSP Cores for Innovative Wireless, Voice and Multimedia Systems
- Sequans Communications Licenses LSI Logic ZSP(R) DSP Core for Broadband Wireless Market
- S3's onHandTV DVB-H stack integrated with multiple phone platforms from Philips
- Xilinx Streamlines Embedded System Design With New Platform Studio Version 8.1i
- Expway and Hantro to integrate their solutions for DVB-H and Smartphones Devices
- Xilinx Collaborates With Xylon To Develop World's First Programmable Development Board For Automotive Infotainment
Headlines for Monday Feb. 13, 2006
Latest News- ARM vows to fight for automotive market
- SST And Freescale Semiconductor Sign Embedded Flash Licensing Agreement
- Tallika's PCI Express Endpoint Controller and SMSC's PCI Express PHY Successfully Pass PCI-SIG Compliance
- Falanx Microsystems Demonstrates First H.264 Hardware Implementation for Mobile Devices at 3GSM
- Imagination Technologies debuts accelerated OpenVG technology on the PowerVR MBX Family at 3GSM 2006
- NTT DoCoMo, Renesas, Fujitsu, Mitsubishi Electric and Sharp to Jointly Develop Platform for W-CDMA Handsets
- StarCore and Hantro announce immediate availability of high performance H.264 video decoder
- Spreadtrum Utilizes CEVA-X DSP to Develop TD-SCDMA Baseband Processors for 3G Wireless Handsets
- CEVA Low Power DSP Core Enables EoNex Modem Chip, Korea's First for CDMA2000 1x Wireless Phones
- VMTS and CEVA Partner for Development of Next-Generation Mobile Solutions
- SRS WOW XT and SRS XSPACE 3D Now Available on Tensilica's Xtensa HiFi 2 Audio Engine for Mobile Phones
- Epson Renews Contract for Tensilica's Xtensa Configurable Processors
- LTRIM's System Supervisor IP Blocks Accurately Sense Temperature at Low Power
- Silembia unveils it DVB-H Silicon IP at 3GSM World Congress 2006 in Barcelona, 13th to 16th February
- Iwedia & Silembia to unveil a DVB-H client-side solution, hardware & software, at 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona, 13th to 16th of February
- Spreadtrum License Hantro Video Solution for their Baseband IC Product Family
- Saifun Extends its Licensing Agreement with Japanese Licensee
- Silistix Joins OCP-IP
- Xilinx & Sensory Networks Announce Industry's Most Scalable, FPGA-Enabled Network Security Acceleration Solution For Emerging UTM Security Appliances
- Xilinx Authorizes Stock Repurchase Program
Headlines for Saturday Feb. 11, 2006
Latest NewsHeadlines for Friday Feb. 10, 2006
Latest News- Zoran Settles Litigation With Mediatek and UMC
- ESL needs more work, panelists say
- TSMC January 2006 Sales Report
- Patriot Scientific Corporation Announces Debenture Conversion, Warrant Buyback Agreements
Headlines for Thursday Feb. 09, 2006
Latest News- Transmeta and Culturecom Mutually Terminate Contingent Processor Technology License and Sale Agreement for the Chinese Market
- Nokia Growth Partners invests four million euros in Bitboys to support the company's growth and product development
- CEVA to Showcase Continued Leadership in IP for Wireless Handset Applications at 3GSM World Congress 2006
- Tensilica Establishes India Subsidiary for Innovative Research and Development
Headlines for Wednesday Feb. 08, 2006
Latest News- Faraday Introduced a New MP3 Player SoC - FIE7010 HD-based Audio Platform Solution
- ARM and Handshake Solutions Announce Availability of Industry's First Clockless Processor for Real-Time Chip Designs
- Centrality Communications licenses Imagination Technologies' PowerVR MBX
- LSI Logic First to Integrate Dual XFI SerDes Into 10G Ethernet SoC Design
- HiTech Announces the Worldwide Availability of PLDA's Altera Stratix-II based PCI-X evaluation boards
- Lattice Semiconductor Launches LatticeSC System Chip FPGA Family
- Saifun to offer more shares in May, says report
- Ultra Electronics Chooses Altera's Stratix II Devices to Cut IP Security Costs and Seek New SDR Markets
- IP protection based on trust, technology
Headlines for Tuesday Feb. 07, 2006
Latest News- Rambus Announces Resignation of Chief Financial Officer
- Enhanced RapidWorx(TM) Design Kit From LSI Logic Accelerates Time to Revenue for SoC Designs
- ESS Technology Licenses Kilopass XPM Memory Technology
- Impinj and Convergence Systems Limited Announce OEM Licensing Agreement for RFID Readers
- Enigma Semiconductor Licenses Rambus' Advanced Backplane Technology
- Renesas Technology to License 1Gbit AG-AND Technology to PSC
- Denali Appoints Raju Pudota as Managing Director of India Subsidiary
- Xilinx Ships FPGA Industry's Only Compliant Programmable x8 PCI Express IP Core
- ARM faces automotive shut out from Freescale, ST
- STMicroelectronics and Freescale Launch Broad Technology Agreement for Automotive Applications
- How to take advantage of partial reconfiguration in FPGA designs
- Xelic Announces Family of SONET/SDH Transport Processor Cores for Integration into FPGA or ASIC Networking Applications
- Altera and TelASIC Announce Breakthrough Power Efficiency for 3G/3.5G Wireless Base Station Radios
- iRoC Launches Its Professional Service for Soft Error Risk-Free Designs
- Falanx Microsystems Demonstrates Desktop Graphics Programmability on Mobile Platforms at 3GSM
- Hot Embedded DSP Market Almost Twice the General-Purpose DSP Market, According to New Forward Concepts Study
- Sonics Expands Asia Operations to Support Regional Business Growth
Headlines for Monday Feb. 06, 2006
Latest News- Synopsys' New Designware USB 2.0 nanoPHY IP to Cut Power and Size in Half
- Rambus Introduces New Innovative Decision Feedback Equalization Technology
- New Multi-threading Solution From MIPS Technologies Delivers Significant Gains in System Performance for the Embedded Market
- CoWare Adds MIPS32 34K (TM) Processor Support Package to SystemC-based Model Library
- Lightspeed Launches Reconfigurable IP Technology Offering
- TTPCom announces blueprint for $20 ULC cellular handset
- Mobileye Licenses MIPS Technologies' Multi-threading MIPS32 34Kf Core for Next-Generation Driver Assistance SoC
- u-Nav Microelectronics Picks Tensilica's Xtensa Processors for Portable GPS Systems
- Xilinx Announces PlanAhead 8.1, Delivering a Two Speed-Grade Advantage Over Competing Solutions
- Jeffrey Bouchard Joins Open-Silicon Executive Team
- China patents a must-have -- Foreigners, locals cope with country's spotty IP rights record
- Oki Semiconductor and IAR Systems Announce Availability of New IAR Embedded Workbench Tools for Oki’s ARM9-based Advantage Microcontrollers
- Altera's Stratix II FPGAs Enable 667-Mbps DDR2 SDRAM Data Rate
- SMIC reports 2005 fourth quarter results
- Hantro to demonstrate the latest in mobile video technologies at 3GSM World Congress
Headlines for Friday Feb. 03, 2006
Latest News- ZiLOG(R) Unveils 32-Bit ARM-9(R) Application-Specific Strategy to Focus on Security and Point-of-Sale Markets
- CAST Rolls Ten Years of 8051 Experience into Configurable Processor Core
Headlines for Thursday Feb. 02, 2006
Latest News- SafeNet Reports Fourth Quarter and 2005 Financial Results
- ATEME announces a 4 million Euro investment by XAnge Private Equity and Ventech
- SIDSA launches a state-of-the-art DVB-H demodulator chip
- Imagination Technologies unveils first official certified benchmark numbers for Futuremark 3DMark Mobile06 running on Texas Instruments OMAP2420 processor incorporating PowerVR MBX
- Growth of Integrated Circuits in 2005 Was 7.8%, 2006 Expected to Be in Double-Digits
- Startup prepares UWB competitor for market
Headlines for Wednesday Feb. 01, 2006
Latest News- Semico Research Predicts ''Age of Configurability''; Configurable Cores to Outpace Growth of Fixed Architecture CPUs by 5 to 1
- MoSys Inc. Announces Licensing Agreement with YAMAHA Corporation
- NEC Electronics, Sony, and Toshiba Announce Joint Development of 45-nanometer System LSI Process Technologies
- Wi-LAN Announces Exit of Equipment Business to Concentrate on Core Broadband Wireless Intellectual Property Business
- Tower Semiconductor Reports Positive EBITDA and 51% Quarter Over Quarter Revenue Growth for Q4 2005
- Bluespec Momentum Grows as Leading Mobile Semiconductor Firms Adopt Its ESL Synthesis
- Startups say ESL adoption accelerating
- OCP-IP Hosts 2nd Annual OCP-IP Pavilion at DATE; Conference Within a Conference Discusses Trends and Insight Surrounding IP Reuse