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D&R Headline News (May 2006)
Headlines for Wednesday May. 31, 2006
Latest News- X-FAB Partners With Akustica to Deliver World's First CMOS MEMS Single-Chip Microphones
- Panelists explore system-to-silicon link
- Aware, Inc. Appoints Keith Farris As Chief Financial Officer
- Neterion Renews Tensilica Xtensa LX Configurable Processor License
- Chipidea Offers Controller Core To Complete Full Line Of USB Offerings
- Oki Semiconductor and Integration Associates Announce Industry's First Commercially Available ARM7-Based ZigBee Solution
- Renesas Technology Licenses Capacitor-less Twin-Transistor RAM to EMT
- SMIC Tianjin Secures Financing for Expansion
- Celoxica Unveils Next-Generation Video and Imaging Platform; RC340 programmable platform fully integrated into ESL-design flows for real-time video, image and data streaming applications
Headlines for Tuesday May. 30, 2006
Latest News- Rambus Announces Audit Committee Investigation of Historical Option Granting Practices
- Altera Updates Second Quarter Guidance
- IP reuse on the rise, says Synopsys CEO
- Altera, IFI, SMSC Partnership Provides FPGA-Based, MOST Interface
- Elliptic Semiconductor Licenses Crytographic Processor Engine to Wavesat
- Aware, Inc. Announces PMC-Sierra as New Licensee
- Wi-LAN Completes Sale of Technology Development Division to Fujitsu Microelectronics America; Final Agreement Reflects Wi-LAN's Transition into a Licensing Company
- Denali Opens Register Description Language, Announces SystemRDL
- Bluespec Plugs ESL Synthesis Hole in SystemC
- SMIC Adopts ARM Physical IP for Both Low-Power and High- Performance Designs at 90 Nanometer Technology Node
- CSR to provide BlueCore Silicon for Motorola iRadio wireless audio car adapter
- IntelliProp Releases Additional Verification IP for Storage Interfaces
- Fifth Consecutive Quarter of Profitability Propels Sonics' Growth; Company Adds European Sales Director
- Tri-Vision awards V-chip license to Shinco
- Pre-Fab Chip Design Takes Root
- SigmaTel Powers Konica Minolta Magicolor 2480 MF Color Laser All-In-One System
Headlines for Monday May. 29, 2006
Latest News- Tundra Expands Industry-Leading Portfolio of Serial RapidIO(R) Switches
- Micro Magic Back in Business With Revised Suite of Tools
Headlines for Thursday May. 25, 2006
Latest News- STMicroelectronics Certifies Mentor Graphics Catapult C Synthesis Libraries and Joins Silicon Vendor Partners Program
- UMC Announces Readiness for 65-nanometer X Architecture Designs
- TSMC Production-Ready for 65-nm X Architecture Designs
Headlines for Wednesday May. 24, 2006
Latest News- Arithmatica Announces Floating Point Library Customer in Advanced 3D Graphics Group
- FPGA Market Will Reach $2.75 Billion by Decade's End
- Tri-Vision awards V-chip license to second Chinese OEM/ODM manufacturer
- ST increases outsourcing, denies fab-lite strategy
- Imagination Technologies Group plc: Preliminary results for the twelve months to 31 March 2006
- ARM Holdings PLC - Board Changes
- X-FAB Reduces Die Size with New Trench-Isolated SOI CMOS Technology
- Tower Semiconductor Begins Production of Metro Wi-Fi Baseband Controller for Wavion
Headlines for Tuesday May. 23, 2006
Latest News- Nero Announces Design Win With VIA Technologies, Inc.; Nero Digital IP Core to Provide Future VIA Products with AVC/H.264 High Profile Solution for SD and HD Video Decoding
- SafeNet Security Technology Selected by PMC-Sierra for Highly Integrated System-on-Chip (SoC) Solution
- Luminary Micro Launches Four New Stellaris(TM) 32-bit Microcontrollers Based on ARM(R) Cortex(TM)-M3
- LogicVision Announces the Industry's First True At-Speed Deterministic Test Compression Solution
- Key ASIC and Silterra Partner to Deliver Design-to-Manufacture Services Targeted for Mobile and Consumer Electronics Markets
- Virtutech Announces Simics Model For Leon2 Processor
- Aldec Granted New Patent on Automatic ASIC Prototyping
Headlines for Monday May. 22, 2006
Latest News- Tensilica Granted 8 New Configurable Processor Technology Patents
- eInfochips Launches Comprehensive Suite of ARM technology-based IP and Services and Joins ARM Connected Community Program
- Altera Delivers PCI-SIG-Compliant x8 PCI Express Solution Supporting Stratix II GX FPGA
- Freescale Semiconductor License with Imagination Technologies
- Denali Announces Verification Solution for Consumer Electronics Storage Systems
- RF Engines sign further contract with Thales UK for the supply of an Advanced FPGA channeliser design
- New WiMAX Reference Library for CoWare Platform-driven ESL Design
- POSDATA Spurs Mobile WiMAX Terminal Chip Set Using Silicon Hive Processor
- ProDesign CHIPit Prototyping Systems Supports Transaction Based Verification
- Transmeta Delivers Specialized Processor to Support Microsoft's Pay-as-you-go Computing With FlexGo for Emerging Markets
- AsicAhead Enters WiMAX Market with Breakthrough Single-Chip Programmable Radio
- STMicroelectronics Unveils 90nm System-on-Chip Capability for Hard Disk Drives
- Freescale Paves the Way for Autonomous Vehicles with Industry's First 32-Bit Flash-Based Microcontroller with FlexRay(TM); Integration of Networking Protocol with PowerPC(R) Core Targets High-End Powertrain and Chassis Applications
- Impinj Appoints Renowned Executives to Board of Directors
- BroadLight Leads GPON Silicon Market With 25 Design Wins for Its Industry-Leading GPON Solution; BroadLight Extends Its Leading ITU-T PON Position in North America Into Countries Around the Globe
- Stargen Momentum Builds with Advanced PCI Express Wins
- Chipidea Data Converter Recognized For Leading-Edge Performance at Top Semiconductor Design Showcase
Headlines for Friday May. 19, 2006
Latest News- VaST Systems Technology and Wipro Limited Join Forces; Demand for VaST products drives collaboration
- Poseidon Announces Sales Channel Partnership with PROTOtyping to Service Growing Japanese Electronics Market
Headlines for Thursday May. 18, 2006
Latest News- MPEG Surround: High Quality Multi-Channel Audio Combines Highest Efficiency and Backwards Compatibility
- AnaFocus, a spanish mixed-signal startup offers vision chips
- Jasper Design Automation Joins Open Core Protocol International Partnership (OCP-IP)
- Tower Announces Plan to Ramp Up Capacity of Fab 2 by Approximately 50%
- QuickLogic Announces Production Shipments of World's Lowest Power FPGA - PolarPro
Headlines for Wednesday May. 17, 2006
Latest News- Rambus woos European consumer electronics industry
- Open source is business, not charity, Sun exec says
- LSI Logic 8 Gb/s SerDes Core to Enable Next Generation SANs
- Wi-LAN Technologies Sues D-Link for Patent Infringement
- Zoran Ships ICs with Kilopass' Embedded 0.18um Non-Volatile Memory
- TSMC Names Synopsys to Distribute Its Production-Ready 65-nm Nexsys Libraries
- Wi-LAN announces James Skippen as CEO; Company hires MOSAID Technologies head of Patent Licensing
- TSMC 65-Nanometer Process Moves to Volume Production
- Actel Expands IP Portfolio for Military, Aerospace and Communications Applications
- Synopsys buy a step toward embedded software development
- Proven Software Solutions launches IrDA compliant protocol stack
- Faraday and Intelop Enter Partnership for Custom Networking ASIC and Structured ASIC Engagements
- Synopsys Acquires Virtio Corporation
- Nero Introduces Reference Quality Nero Digital Audio MPEG-4 and 3G Encoding Software; Free download is available for personal use via Nero website
Headlines for Tuesday May. 16, 2006
Latest News- MOSAID Announces Resignation of its General Counsel
- Silicon Hive announces new image signal processor
- Sonics Offers Low-Cost SMART Interconnects(TM) Solution; New Version of S3220(TM) Adds OCP 2.0 Support
- CEVA Expands CEVA-X DSP Family with New Core and System Platform
- Sunplus Licenses ARM1176z-S Processor for Advanced Consumer Electronics Applications
- Reducing Power in Next-Gen Processors and IP
- Grace Semiconductor Joins ARM Foundry Program; Grace Licenses ARM7TDMI and ARM926EJ Processors
- D2 Technologies Launches ARM VoIP Solution on TI OMAP Platforms
- Renesas Technology and Nanya Technology Reach Settlement in Patent Infringement Lawsuits
- Chipnuts and SMIC to Jointly Offer C626 Multimedia Chip For Mobile Phones
- Toshiba and ARC Collaborate to Grow Industry Adoption of Configurable Processor Technology Worldwide
- Freescale Introduces Industry's Highest-Performance Fully Programmable Digital Signal Processor
- Cost of engineering is only one consideration, says Infineon CEO
Headlines for Monday May. 15, 2006
Latest News- Tri-Vision U.S. V-chip patent licensed to Humax
- Silicon Laboratories Acquires Silembia
- Silicon & Software Systems (S3) Introduces 90nm IP Portfolio for Consumer and Enterprise Networking Applications
- Denali Announces Embedded Software Product
- CAST Energizes Small, Fast Systems with New Low-Power, 32-Bit Processor Cores
- UMC Names Raymond Leung Vice President of Memory IP Development
- ARM Launches Next-Generation Processor
- Xilinx Unveils 65nm Virtex-5 Family - Industry's Highest Performance Platform FPGAs
- Cadence Releases Proven Reference Methodology for New ARM Cortex-R4 Processor
- Design Compiler Topographical Technology-Based ARM-Synopsys Reference Methodology Delivers Higher Productivity
- Xilinx Delivers Virtex-5 LX Devices - World's First 65nm FPGAs In Customer Hands
- TSMC Unveils First 65-Nanometer Data-Driven DFM Design Ecosystem
- Virtutech Simics Used For Development Of Switchcore Xpeedium3 Switch Chip Before Silicon Availability
- Altera and Sequans Provide First Mobile WiMAX Base Station Modem Chipset
- IntellaSys Unveils Revolutionary ''Scalable Embedded Array(TM) (SEA) Platform'' to Launch Multicore Processor Chip Solutions
- LSI Logic Completes $105 Million Sale of Gresham Fab to ON Semiconductor
Headlines for Friday May. 12, 2006
Latest News- EDA vendors need to step up system-level design efforts, says EDAC panel
- Panel: EDA and IP vendors subservient to consumer
- Infineon Technologies: Advanced 65nm mobile phone chip works first time - 30 million transistors integrated on one cell phone key
Headlines for Thursday May. 11, 2006
Latest News- Bluespec Updates ESL Synthesis Toolset; Offers Improved Verilog RTL Output for Practical IP Delivery Vehicle
- Silicon Interfaces announces the release of its new Verification Intellectual Property Gigabit Ethernet MAC OVA Checker VIP
- Tower Semiconductor plans capacity investment
- New Group Simplifies NAND Flash Integration; Standard Interface to Accelerate Time to Market for NAND-based Products
- Comsys Presents ComMAX Solution at the IEEE 802.16 Conference in Israel
Headlines for Wednesday May. 10, 2006
Latest News- Tri-Vision V-chip licensed to Chinese OEM/ODM manufacturing company
- Faraday Monthly Sales Report - April 2006
- Digital Core Design today announces the release of a Double Precision Floating Point Coprocessor
- CSR to combine high-performance, low-power Bluetooth reference designs with Freescale platforms
- Industry Leaders License Latest StarCore Technology
- TSMC April 2006 Sales Report
Headlines for Tuesday May. 09, 2006
Latest News- Infineon to expand foundry services
- Mosis offers IBM 90-nm process on MPW
- Transmeta Corporation Announces CFO Transition Plan
- Transmeta Reports First Quarter 2006 Results
- MathStar, Inc. Announces Machine Vision Library for the Field Programmable Object Array (FPOA)
- Altera Now Shipping Version 6.0 of Nios II Processor and Development Tools
- Samsung Ventures leads 15.4M Sandbridge Technologies Series 'B' Extension
- Icera reveals ChipIdea as design partner
- OCP-IP Announces Six New Members
- Silicon Image Unveils New Branding System
- Altera To Review Historical Option Practices
Headlines for Monday May. 08, 2006
Latest News- Multigig Announces RotaryWave Clock Technology
- Sonics Achieves Breakthrough in SystemC-based SoC Modeling
- Arasan Chip Systems Launches the AC2200i SDIO Card Controller ASIC
- Knowlent Corporation Closes Second Round Financing, Names New Board Members
- NEC Chooses Xilinx Virtex-4 FPGAs For GBPS WDM Optical Communications Systems
- SMIC and Aurora Systems in Volume Production of Digital LCOS Panel Chips
- nSys Design Systems Joins ARM Connected Community
- OneSpin Solutions Enters EDA Market with Breakthrough Formal Verification Solution; OneSpin 360 Module Verifier First to Enable True Functional Sign-off and Risk-Free IP Reuse
- IPTC Joins OCP-IP
- Altera Delivers Major Advancements for High-Density Designs With Quartus II Software Version 6.0
- Mentor Graphics Delivers the Next Generation of Functional Verification
Headlines for Friday May. 05, 2006
Latest News- Hardware-independent Bluetooth software offers easy-to-integrate platform for Purple Labs
- IDM model gets bad rap, says 'fab club' exec
Headlines for Thursday May. 04, 2006
Latest News- Aware, Inc. Reports 2006 First Quarter Financial Results
- Tri-Vision U.S. V-chip patent licensed to ViewSonic
- Innovative Silicon Inc. Creates Technology Advisory Board
- AMD: At 45 nm and beyond ICs require high level HW/SW tools
- Virage Logic Reports Second-Quarter Fiscal 2006 Results; Revenues up 11% and Royalties up 46% Sequentially; GAAP EPS of $0.01, Including $0.05 Per Share of After-Tax Stock-Based Compensation Expense
- Virage Logic Announces Resignation of CFO -- Chairman Dan McCranie to Serve as Interim CFO
- DWA Wireless Announces Availability of 1 Mbps 868/915 MHz Solution
- Altera and Genesys Logic Deliver PCI-SIG-Compliant x4 PCI Express Solution
- STMicroelectronics Introduces Versatile High-Definition Set-Top-Box Platforms at MEDC 2006
Headlines for Wednesday May. 03, 2006
Latest News- Inapac gains funding, tips IP roadmap
- Elliptic Semiconductor Licenses Cryptographic Co-Processor Engine to picoChip Designs Limited
- PLDA's AHB / PCI Bridge IP Chosen by Focus Enhancements for Ultra Wideband Product Applications
- Yamaha Licenses Virage Logic Semiconductor IP for Next-Generation Mobile Phone Platform
- OKI Electric Licenses SMSC's MediaLB Technology
- TTPCom and Analog Devices, Inc. Agreement Speeds Customer Development of ADI SoftFone-based Wireless Devices
- Rambus reasserts pressure in Taiwan
- Monolithic System Technology, Inc. Reports First Quarter 2006 Financial Results
- PortalPlayer, Inc. Reports Strong Q1 Revenue and Net Income
- CoWare Expands European Sales Team With Addition of Hubert Wolters
- Atmel Chooses LinuxLink by TimeSys as Linux Solution for Developers Targeting Latest ARM-based Processors
Headlines for Tuesday May. 02, 2006
Latest News- Mentor Graphics Platform Express is the First Platform-Based Design Solution to Support The SPIRIT Consortium's New Specification
- BiTMICRO Networks Standardizes on Synopsys' DesignWare PHY IP for PCI Express and SATA
- MOSAID and PortalPlayer Establish Intellectual Property Partnership; PortalPlayer Licenses MOSAID Patent Portfolio
- Legend's MSIM circuit simulator optimized for 'Subcircuit-type Spice model' for nanometer technology
- Software gains importance for silicon designers
- Freescale Opens QUICC Engine(TM) Technology to Embedded Developers
- Rambus Appoints First Fellow
- Fabless Companies Need Fab Links, Say Conference Speakers
Headlines for Monday May. 01, 2006
Latest News- Cavendish Kinetics Raises $15.5 Million in Second-Round Funding; Additional Investors from US and Germany will Accelerate Progress in Ultra-Low Power Memory Technology
- STMicroelectronics Brings Ethernet, Large Memory, and the ARM9E Core to Low-Cost Embedded Flash Microcontrollers
- Altera Ships Second Member of Stratix II GX FPGA Family
- LSI Names Robert Payne Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer
- Synplicity and Actel Strengthen OEM Relationship for Best-In-Class EDA Solutions
- RF Engines Extends Its Relationship With The French CEA With Studies Into Advanced Measurement Techniques
- Tarek Verification Systems Introduces a Highly Automated PCI Express Verification IP
- First Quarter Semiconductor Sales up 7.3 Percent Over 2005
- Impinj Reveals Worldwide Distribution Strategy for High Performance Speedway Gen 2 Reader
- Alliance Semiconductor Announces Sale of Mixed Signal Business to Shah Capital