D&R Headline News (October 2007)

Headlines for Wednesday Oct. 31, 2007

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S3 Acquires Acacia Semiconductor S.A.

With the acquisition of Acacia, S3 will add higher speed, higher resolution and lower power data converters to its extensive IP portfolio, optimized for integration into SoCs (System-on-Chips) targeting consumer, wireless connectivity and digital broadcast applications. End markets served by existing S3 clients include WiFi, WiMAX, mobile digital broadcasting, High-Definition (HD) video applications and power-line communications.

• Bluespec Closes Series C Funding
• Gaisler Research announces new LEON3 licensing agreements
• Imagination Technologies META HTP Multi-Threaded Processor IP Core
• INDILINX Partners with ARM for Solid State Solution
• Evatronix announces NANDFlash-CTRL3 Controller for SoC Designs
• Valens Semiconductor Picks Tensilica's Diamond Standard 108Mini for chip that Ensures High-Quality Home Audio-Video Networking

Headlines for Tuesday Oct. 30, 2007

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MIPS Technologies Enters 32-bit Microcontroller Market

With a broad array of processor cores and a comprehensive, diverse library of proven analog IP blocks gained through its recent acquisition of analog IP leader Chipidea, MIPS Technologies has the largest offering of both processor and peripheral IP from a single supplier-providing customers with a total system solution for 32-bit MCU applications.

• MoSys, Inc. Reports Third Quarter 2007 Financial Results
• Gennum Acquires Snowbush Microelectronics
• GiDEL Utilizes Altera's Stratix FPGA Families in Latest Development Systems

Headlines for Monday Oct. 29, 2007

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Evatronix unveils an Embedded Internet Subplatform

Evatronix has announced the immediate availability of its Embedded Internet Subplatform that combines two company IP cores: R8051XC microcontroller and MAC-L Ethernet media access controller with the CMX-MicroNetTM TCP/IP software stack from CMX Systems, Inc.

• NXP to shift more chip development to India
• Tower Semiconductor Launches New Power Management Platform
• CoWare and Carbon Design Systems Team to Accelerate Availability of Virtual Hardware Platforms for Architecture Design and Software Development
• Altera Ships Arria GX Development Kit for Low-Cost FPGA Transceiver-Based Designs
• MIPS Technologies Builds on Leadership Position in Products for the Digital Living Room
• TI Delivers Industry's First Sub-1 GHz RF System-on-Chip with Integrated USB Controller for Wireless Sensor Networks
• ARC Wins Cadence Design Systems' "Collaboration Award" For the Second Consecutive Year
• Patriot Scientific Welcomes Philips to List of Microprocessor Patent Licensees
• Lattice Semiconductor and Dune Networks Announce Collaboration To Develop SPAUI-Based Network Solutions
• Commentary: Get ready for 450-mm fabs

Headlines for Friday Oct. 26, 2007

• Kaben Wireless Silicon partners with Jazz Semiconductor; Qualifies as Silicon-proven RF IP provider
• John Danforth Resigns as Rambus Senior Legal Advisor
• Faraday Reported 2007 Third Quarter Results

Headlines for Thursday Oct. 25, 2007

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ARM Holdings plc Reports Results for the Third Quarter and Nine Months Ended 30 September 2007

YTD dollar revenues at $384.0m, up 9% on 2006; Strong licensing traction across ARM® processor technology portfolio; Continued focus on leading-edge physical IP technology development for long-term value creation

• Denali Recognized by Cadence Design Systems for Excellence in Collaboration
• TSMC Reports Third Quarter EPS of NT$1.15
• LogicVision Reports Third Quarter 2007 Financial Results

Headlines for Wednesday Oct. 24, 2007

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Transmeta Announces Settlement of Patent Litigation, Technology Transfer and License Agreement with Intel

The agreement will grant Intel a perpetual non-exclusive license to all Transmeta patents and patent applications, including any patent rights later acquired by Transmeta, now existing or as may be filed during the next ten years.

• Evatronix adds an ATAIF Software Driver to its configurable ATAIF Host Controller IP
• Hantro Licenses High Definition Multi-Format Encoder RTL Design to Genesys Logic
• Xilinx Announces Record Sales of 90nm & 65nm Product Lines
• TrellisWare Employs Altera's Stratix II FPGAs in New RapidFire Development Platform
• Altera and BittWare Jointly Develop Software Programmable Reconfiguration Platform
• Spansion Signs Foundry Agreement with SMIC To Produce 300mm, 65nm MirrorBit Products

Headlines for Tuesday Oct. 23, 2007

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Mentor Graphics Releases Serial ATA PHY Intellectual Property for SMIC 130 Nanometer Generic Process

The Mentor MSATA PHY S130A IP core comes fully integrated with Mentor’s SATA controllers, targeting both Host and Device applications running at either 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps speeds.

• TTP Controller IP in Altera's Low-Cost Cyclone FPGA Families for Aerospace Applications
• FSA Reports First Half 2007 Semiconductor Industry Revenue Totaled $129.3B
• Renesas Technology Wins Patent Infringement Suit Brought by Translogic Technology
• Is fab lite on analog's diet?
• Chipidea and PLM Unveil New Chip Design Allowing Billions of People to Enjoy HD Content on CRT TVs

Headlines for Monday Oct. 22, 2007

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Virage Logic Expands Silicon Aware Intellectual Property (IP) Offering with New 65-Nanometer Memory and Logic Products

This new offering, based on more than two years of early 65nm silicon successes, broadens the company's Silicon Aware IP portfolio and enables semiconductor companies to design faster, lower power and more area efficient System-on-Chips (SoCs) while achieving higher yields.

• Tensilica plans IPO, CEO says
• Rockfish Technology Launches Interlaken Verification IP
• Altera Rolls Out MSAN Partner Ecosystem for Broadband Access Applications
• AMIMON Chooses the MIPS32 M4K Core for Wireless High Definition Multimedia Applications
• Virage Logic Broadens Its Silicon Aware Intellectual Property (IP) Offering with New Release of the STAR(TM) Memory System
• Key ASIC Completes Optimized ARM926EJ-S Processor for Consumer Applications
• Uncovering hidden chip costs
• Rambus Regains Compliance with Nasdaq
• ELPIDA And UMC Announce Joint Development Program: Copper LOW-K DRAM and PRAM Technologies
• DeFacTo Unveils New Design for Test Product that Eliminates Need for Gate-level Scan; Creates Industry's First High-level DFT Sign-off Methodology

Headlines for Friday Oct. 19, 2007

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Silicon Interfaces announces the release of its IEEE 1394 uVC Verification IP using Cadence IPCM Universal Reuse Methodology (URM)

The IEEE 1394 Function Controller uVC verifies designs that include IEEE 1394 Function Controller. This uVC consists of a complete set of elements for stimulating, checking, and collecting coverage information for the IEEE 1394 protocol, as well as thoroughly exercises the link controller.

• Spansion Licenses ARM SecurCore Processor for MirrorBit HD-SIM Applicability at 45nm and Below
• Dolphin Integration -- Announcement of the yearly Sales Turnover 06/07
• Evatronix joins OCP-IP to provide designers with better design reusability and faster time-to-market

Headlines for Thursday Oct. 18, 2007

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Open-Silicon Books 100th Design Win

These worldwide wins include designs for customers in a wide spectrum of industry segments including wireless and mobile, consumer, digital entertainment, computing, storage and networking, security, and telecommunications.

• Octasic Announces High Performance Asynchronous DSP Core
• Think Silicon introduces IPGenius: The first on-line parametrizable IP generation platform
• STMicroelectronics Introduces Next-Generation Single-Chip Automotive Navigation Processor with Embedded GPS
• Rambus Files First and Second Quarter 2007 Financial Statements
• EEMBC Launches OABench(TM) 2.0 Second-Generation Office Automation Benchmark Suite for Embedded Processors
• SMIC and Magma Announce Availability of Enhanced Reference Flow for SMIC's 90-Nanometer Low-Power Process
• Sigma Media Processor is Adopted by Samsung’s New Third Generation Blu-ray Player

Headlines for Wednesday Oct. 17, 2007

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Rambus Introduces Memory Controller Interface Solution for Industry-standard DDR3 DRAM

The fully integrated hard macro cell provides the physical layer (PHY) interface between the controller logic and DDR3 or DDR2 DRAM devices for data rates of up to 1600 MHz.

• Genesys Testware Adds Automated Batch-Mode Diagnosis and Characterization of Embedded Memories
• Tower Semiconductor Begins Volume Production of ViTi's CMOS Image Sensors for Home Security and Surveillance Systems

Headlines for Tuesday Oct. 16, 2007

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Broadcom Leaps Ahead of the Competition with the World's First '3G Phone on a Chip' Solution

Over a Year Ahead of Competitors, Broadcom Introduces Single-Chip HSUPA Processor BCM21551 Features Full CMOS RF, Rich Multimedia, Bluetooth®, FM Radio, FM Transmitter and More, Packed on a Single 65nm Die to Slash Price, Size and Power

• GDA Technologies Announces Collaboration With California Micro Devices to Develop CM5100 for Mobile Handset Designs
• LogicVision Announces Industry's Most Comprehensive On-Chip eDRAM Test and Repair Solution
• Imagination Technologies Licenses Another POWERVR SGX graphics core to Texas Instruments
• Tensilica Ports MPEG-4 BSAC Decoder for Digital Multimedia Broadcasting (DMB) to HiFi 2 Audio Engine
• Sidense OTP Memory Used in Silicon Library Inc. HDMI Products
• CEVA's bright future
• Silterra Invests $100M in Expanding Capacity
• Synopsys Joins OCP-IP Governing Steering Committee

Headlines for Monday Oct. 15, 2007

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ARM Works With Intel to Deliver Increased System Protection for Flash Memory Devices

The combination of the ARM TrustZone technology from the ARM1176-JZ(TM), Cortex(TM)-A8 and Cortex(TM)-A9 applications processors with Intel Authenticated Flash memory offers a comprehensive, reliable approach to delivering a trusted environment, specifically targeted at securing consumer products such as mobile phones, PDAs and set-top boxes, as well as other products running open operating systems such as Symbian, Linux and Windows CE.

• 3Plus1 Technology Announces Availability of CoolEngine Multicore IP Family for Mobile SoC Products
• Dolphin Integration announces the expansion of its offering in power management
• MediaPhy Licenses Tensilica's Diamond Standard 108Mini Processor Core
• TSMC buys memory IP firm, says report
• Atmel and AST Announce Collaboration for Systems-on-Chip Based on Atmel's AT91CAP Customizable Microcontroller
• Magma Unveils Talus ATPG and Talus ATPG-X – Expands Design-for-Test Capabilities with Physically Aware ATPG and On-Chip Compression
• Multicore gives more bang for the buck
• QuickLogic Expands Into Mobile Accessory Market With SDIO Client System Block

Headlines for Thursday Oct. 11, 2007

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UMC Announces 65nm RFCMOS Process Readiness

Complete deliverables are available for UMC's 65nm RF solution, including fundamental libraries, IP, and the foundry industry's first transformer library to help customers jump-start their design-in process. Full characterization reports, models with mismatch Monte Carlo simulation, advance HF noise model and foundry design kits (FDK) complement the 65nm RF process, with RF SPICE models and ESD manuals and support ready.

• Patriot Scientific Reports Q1 FY 08 Results
• SI Electronics Licences Video Processing Core From Imagination Technologies
• Altera and TRS-STAR Announce Automotive Industry's First Scalable Infotainment Platform
• Dolphin Integration announces its ultra low power, low leakage and High density 65 nm ROMs and RAMs
• XMOS Appoints Richard Terrill as VP of Marketing
• Mentor Graphics and Altera announce Catapult C Synthesis Accelerated Libraries for High-Performance DSP Hardware in FPGA
• Jazz Semiconductor's 0.18-Micron Silicon Radio Platform Allows Complete Radio Integration
• Faraday Joins Power Forward Initiative to Make Low-Power Design Easier

Headlines for Wednesday Oct. 10, 2007

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ARM SecurCore Foundry Program Provides Access To 32-bit Smart Card IP

ARM today announced the launch of the new ARM® SecurCore™ Foundry Program, with fabless design houses TMC and HED, and pure-play foundry HHNEC, as the first Partners to enlist in the Program.

• March to programmability inexorable, says Tensilica CEO
• Wi-LAN Strengthens Management Team

Headlines for Tuesday Oct. 09, 2007

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CEVA Selected for NXP's Ultra Low-Cost Cellular Solutions

CEVA today announced that NXP Semiconductors, the independent company founded by Philips, has chosen the CEVA-Teak™ DSP core for its highly integrated ultra low-cost single-chip solutions targeting low-cost and entry-level handset designs for emerging markets.

• Altera bases 45-nm success on TSMC relationship
• Xilinx Appoints New Vice President & General Manager, Processing Solutions Group
• TSMC September 2007 Sales Report
• MEMSIC chooses DOLPHIN Integration's unique Low Voltage Standard Cell Library to extend the performance of its Network technology
• LogicVision's Embedded SerDes Test Selected by PLX Technology for Gen 2 PCI Express Device Family
• Broad Range of Low-Cost, Third-Party Starter Kits for STM32 Microcontroller Available from STMicroelectronics
• CEVA's DSP Cores are the Preferred Choice of the World's Leading Wireless Handset IC Suppliers and OEMs
• LogicVision Announces Expanded and Worldwide Use of Embedded Test Solutions by NEC Electronics for SOC Designs

Headlines for Monday Oct. 08, 2007

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ARM gets serious in physical IP at 32 nm

Looking to get a jump on rivals like TSMC and Virage Logic, ARM Holdings plc last week pulled back the curtain on its 32-nanometer initiative for physical-intellectual property (IP).

• Nineteen Electronics Industry Leaders Join Forces to Accelerate SOI (Silicon-On-Insulator) Innovation Into Broad Markets
• Key ASIC and RedDot Wireless to Co-Operate in the Development of Advanced Wireless Solutions
• Saifun to Operate as Wholly Owned Subsidiary and Drive Spansion's Technology Licensing Business
• MIPS Technologies Announces Preliminary Fiscal First Quarter Revenue Results
• SoC design's new normalPlatform push roils business models
• TSMC Appoints Yeon-Gun Jung Head of TSMC Korea
• Staccato Communications Achieves WiMedia Platform Certification and Secures Additional Funding

Headlines for Friday Oct. 05, 2007

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Elpida Introduces The World's Fastest DRAM Based On The Rambus XDR Memory Architecture

Elpida Memory today introduced the industry’s fastest DRAM, the 512 Megabit (Mb), 4.8GHz XDR™ DRAM, based on Rambus' XDR memory architecture.

• Faraday Monthly Sales Report -- September 2007

Headlines for Thursday Oct. 04, 2007

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ANYKA Licenses ARM Technology Solution For Mobile Multimedia Applications

Anyka and ARM, today announced that Anyka has extended its relationship with ARM with a full license for the ARM926EJ-S™ processor, plus the ARM® Sage-HS™ high-speed physical IP library.

• American Power Conversion (APC) to be Covered by Patent License
• TRANGO Virtual Processors announces secure virtualization on ARM multicore platforms
• NEC Electronics Introduces NaviEngine1 Multicore Platform for Car Navigation Systems
• Analyst: Linux set to dominate in embedded systems

Headlines for Wednesday Oct. 03, 2007

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ARM Unveils Cortex-A9 Processors For Scalable Performance and Low-Power Designs

The ARM Cortex-A9 MPCore™ multicore processor and ARM Cortex-A9 single core processor deliver unprecedented performance within tight power constraints for innovative devices that deliver superior overall functionality, such as smartphones, connected mobile computers, consumer electronics, automotive infotainment, networking and other embedded and enterprise devices.

• Industry Leaders to Collaborate on Linux Mobile Computing Platform
• Atmel Licenses Hardware Video Decoder from Hantro
• Helion Vision Selects the LatticeXP2 FPGA for its Next Generation Camera Modules
• Renesas Technology Starts Sample Shipments of SH-Mobile G3 System LSI Jointly Developed With NTT DoCoMo, Fujitsu, Mitsubishi Electric, Sharp, and Sony Ericsson for 3G Mobile Phone Handsets
• Jasper Design Automation Announces JasperGold(R) Verification System v4.5 Featuring Liveness Property Support, Improved Modeling and Faster Engine Performance
• APT Strengthens Licensing Business Development Division
• LogicVision Announces That Q3 2007 Cash Exceeds Guidance

Headlines for Tuesday Oct. 02, 2007

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AMD Licenses 3D Graphics Core Technology to QUALCOMM, Delivering The Ultimate Visual Experience to Tomorrow's Phones

AMD today announced an agreement to license cutting-edge graphics core technology to QUALCOMM. This intellectual property (IP) licensing agreement is part of each company’s ongoing commitment to drive a strong mobile gaming ecosystem and unleash state-of-the-art graphics across a range of handheld devices to delight mobile consumers everywhere.

• ARM Announces RealView Profiler for Embedded Software Analysis
• Viewpoint: Wanted -- an IP manager
• ARM and EVE Sign Co-Emulation Partnership Agreement
• Synopsys Acquires Sandwork Design
• Amulet Licenses Graphic User Interface Technology for Atmel ARM-Based SoCs
• APT Announce Licensing Agreement with Sierra Automated Systems
• Altera Extends Productivity Advantage With Quartus II Software Version 7.2

Headlines for Monday Oct. 01, 2007

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Ovonyx and Hynix Sign Technology and Licensing Agreement for Phase Change Memory

Ovonyx and Hynix today announced that they have entered into a long-term license agreement for memory products under Ovonyx’ patents and intellectual property relating to Phase Change Memory (PCM) technology. The agreement also provides that Ovonyx will actively support Hynix’ program to develop phase change memory products.

• Imagination Technologies Launches Multi-Standard Mobile TV Receiver Core with 1seg ISDB-T Support
• Wavecom launches StarService, a Breakthrough Offer Combining Intelligent Device Services with a New Wireless Microprocessor
• MoSys Announces Executive Organizational Changes: Creates Chief Operating Officer Role
• Wireless USB 1.1 Enriches End-User Experience
• Tallika announces customer success with Intellasys
• videantis appoints Young-Hun Kluge VP Sales and Marketing
• ARC New VTOC 4.0 Modeling Toolset Speeds Creation of Fast Cycle-Accurate C++ and SystemC models.
• Imagination Technologies Launches Latest SDK for Advanced Embedded & Mobile Graphics Technologies
• Enea Extends License Agreement with ZTE for 3G Handsets
• Carbon Design Systems Unveils Carbon Model Studio
• Horizon Semiconductors Unveils Industry's First True 1080/60p Universal System-On-A-Chip Solution for Next Generation HD-DVD and Blu-Ray(TM) Media Players/Recorders
• NemeriX appoints Managing Directors & Board Advisor
• NXP's Wireless USB Chip receives USB-IF Certification
• Lattice ispLever 7.0 Service Pack 1 FPGA Design Tool Suite Now Available