D&R Headline News (January 2008)

Headlines for Thursday Jan. 31, 2008

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Faraday Offers the First Memory Compiler in UMC 65nm LL Process

The 65nm LL memory solution features row redundancy, BIST test interface (BTI) and programmable sensing margin for manufacturing yield, and full-chip routability enhancement. Faraday's 65nm LL memory compiler is silicon-proven.

• CEVA, Inc. Announces Fourth Quarter and Year End 2007 Financial Results
• MIPS Technologies Reports Second Quarter Fiscal 2008 Financial Results
• Virage Logic Reports First Quarter Fiscal Year 2008 Results
• TSMC Reports Fourth Quarter EPS of NT$1.31
• LogicVision Reports Fourth Quarter and Fiscal 2007 Financial Results

Headlines for Wednesday Jan. 30, 2008

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Synopsys' DesignWare DDR Protocol Controller IP Integrated Into Arteris' Network-On-Chip Interconnect Solution

Arteris and Synopsys today announced the integration of Synopsys' DesignWare® DDR Protocol Controller IP and the Arteris NoC solution for complex system-on-chips (SoCs)

• Analysis: VeriSilicon's HD audio IP solution

Headlines for Tuesday Jan. 29, 2008

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Wind River and Cavium Networks Partner to Develop Advanced Multicore Device Debugging Solution

The solution couples Wind River’s Workbench On-Chip Debugging and Wind River Compiler with Cavium Networks OCTEON multicore processors, providing customers with a simplified development environment encompassing a complete development ecosystem, on-chip debugging tools, compilers, support and knowledge.

• Chartered Secures Additional Financing for Fab 7
• Dolphin Integration launches a 32-bit processor, the densest core for SoC embedded Control Applications including Power Management
• MediaTek adopts Ocean Blue MHEG-5 software
• Lattice and Praesum Communications Deliver Low-Cost Serial RapidIO Solutions

Headlines for Monday Jan. 28, 2008

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Denali Announces NAND Flash Platform for PCI Express

The FlashPoint platform is a complete system design that provides a PCI Express (PCIe) interface to high-performance NAND Flash memory.

• TPACK Introduces SOFTSILICON a Standard Chip with Built-in flexibility Ideal for Packet Transport Applications
• Xilinx Launches New XtremeDSP Development Tools Package and XtremeDSP Development Kit
• Imagination Technologies First to Announce Conformant OpenVG 1.0.1 Implementation
• Actel Announces Availability of MIL-STD 883 Class B Qualified Four-Million Gate RTAX4000S
• Ambarella Introduces New Chip for Simultaneous Capturing High Resolution Stills and HD Video for Hybrid Cameras
• Lattice Announces ispLEVER 7.0 Service Pack 2 FPGA Design Tool Suite

Headlines for Friday Jan. 25, 2008

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Mentor Graphics Releases Updated Serial ATA Host and Device Controllers for Storage Applications

Mentor Graphics Corporation (Nasdaq: MENT) today announced immediate availability of updated Serial ATA (SATA) Host/Device Intellectual Property (IP) controllers with added support for the most commonly used features in the latest SATA specification, Revision 2.6.

• CEVA, Inc. Reports Termination of Long-Term Dublin Lease Agreements
• AMCC Enhances Relationship with IBM Microelectronics, Expands the Reach of its Leading PowerPC 4xx Product Portfolio
• Lattice Semiconductor Reports Fourth Quarter and Year End Financial Results

Headlines for Thursday Jan. 24, 2008

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STMicroelectronics Unveils its Next-Generation Integrated Bluetooth and FM-Radio Transceiver System on Chip in 65nm Process Technology

ST's STLC2690 single-chip Bluetooth v2.1+EDR with fully integrated FM RDS radio receiver and short-range FM RDS transmitter enables new generation of media-rich mobile phones, smart phones and other battery-driven portable devices

• Product Announcement: ARM RealView Platform Baseboard for ARM1176JZF-S Processor
• ProDesign Completes ASIC Prototyping Product Portfolio With the New CHIPit QuickSilver
• CEVA Leads the Way at Mobile World Congress 2008 With Industry Leading Portfolio of Mobile Intellectual Property
• Synplicity's Synplify Premier Platform Delivers Additional Time-to-Market Benefits and Expanded Device Support For FPGA Designers
• VIA Unveils Next-Generation Isaiah x86 Processor Architecture
• Nanochip Raises $14 Million to Complete Development of Ultra-High-Capacity Removable Data Storage Chips

Headlines for Wednesday Jan. 23, 2008

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Altera Provides 50-Gbps SFI-5 Interface on Stratix II GX FPGAs

Hardware tested to verify compliance to the SFI-5 standard, Stratix II GX FPGAs feature up to 20 high-speed serial transceiver channels that can operate at data rates between 600 Mbps and 6.375 Gbps, easily satisfying SFI-5 interface requirements.

• Silicon Line's World-Record: 2.5 Gb/s Optical Link Consuming Less Than 10 mW
• KABEN appoints Xerxes Wania to the Board of Advisors
• Mindspeed Introduces Next-Generation Family of System-on-Chip Carrier Access VoIP Processors
• MoSys Releases Preliminary Fourth Quarter 2007 Revenue Results

Headlines for Tuesday Jan. 22, 2008

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ARM Achieves 10 Billion Processor Milestone

ARM today announced that the total number of processors shipped by its Partners has exceeded ten billion. The company developed its first embeddable RISC core, the ARM6™ processor, in 1991, and its semiconductor Partners currently ship almost three billion ARM Powered® processors each year.

• ASIC Architect Announces the Availability of PCI Express Gen 2 Controller Cores
• Tensilica Adds Support for High-Speed, Hardware-Based Processor Simulations Using Avnet’s Xilinx Virtex-4 LX200 Development Kit
• ARM Announces New RealView Trace Capture Unit
• MoSys Appoints James W. Sullivan as Chief Financial Officer
• Altera Ships Industry's Highest Density FPGA Featuring 340K Logic Elements
• Trango Virtual Processors Provides Embedded Virtualization Technology For Cavium OCTEON Processors

Headlines for Monday Jan. 21, 2008

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IPextreme Breaks New Ground with Core Store

IPextreme today announced that select intellectual property cores are now available for purchase through their new online marketplace, the Core Store.™

• Arithmatica Licenses Read Channel Intellectual Property
• Xilinx Adds Three New Devices to Award-Winning 65nm Virtex-5 Family to Give Customers in New Markets More Cost and Density Options
• Freescale unleashes entry-level ColdFire core for mass market
• EVE and CoWare Forge Strategic Alliance
• Fujitsu to Realign and Strengthen LSI Business
• Quest Innovations Selects the LatticeECP2/M FPGA Family for its Next Generation "Raptor" Camera System
• CoWare and STARC Integrate SystemC TLM Methodology
• Magma, Mentor Graphics and Synopsys Deliver Unified Power Format-Based Products
• STMicroelectronics Makes 45nm CMOS Process Available Through CMP

Headlines for Friday Jan. 18, 2008

• Esterel Studio, adopted at STMicroelectronics, enhances productive design for STBus and STNoC based control-intensive IP

Headlines for Thursday Jan. 17, 2008

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Chip makers must shift from fabs to systems

Semiconductor companies need to shift their focus from building fabs to building systems, and they must engage with customers at deep technical levels if they are to survive the current wave of consolidation. That's the view of Wolfgang Ziebart, chief executive of Infineon Technologies.

• GDT joins Xilinx Alliance with H.264 EBH
• Psion Purchases Moore Microprocessor Patent Portfolio License
• Consumer Electronics Leaders Showcase MIPS-Based Products at CES 2008
• IPextreme Appoints Kazuhiro Ogawa as President, IPextreme Japan
• Certess Closes 2007 with 3X Growth, More Than 25 Active Customer Sites in Four Continents
• Triad Semiconductor Establishes Canadian Subsidiary
• CoSy Compiler for 96-Core Multi-Threaded Array Processor

Headlines for Wednesday Jan. 16, 2008

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Intel CTO outlines 2008 strategy

Intel Corp. researchers have identified five focus areas for 2008, including "platform-on-a-chip" development.

• Synfora Integrates PICO Express with CoWare ESL 2.0 Solutions
• Foundry model under stress

Headlines for Tuesday Jan. 15, 2008

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Xilinx EDK Delivers Processing Peripheral IP Cores at No Additional Cost

The 10/100 Ethernet MAC Lite, single precision floating-point unit, industry standard UART (Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter) 16450/16550 controller and IIC (Inter-Integrated Circuit) interface IP cores can now be licensed at no additional charge.

• IMEC Speeds Up Scalable Video Decoder (SVC) by a Factor of 20
• ChipX Achieves PCI Express Compliance Certification
• MultiChoice Licenses onHandTV from S3
• RF Engines Ltd (RFEL) progress with advanced DSP strategy

Headlines for Monday Jan. 14, 2008

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eSilicon Acquires SwitchCore's Product Lines

Through this acquisition, eSilicon has extended its production services business model to not only include managing the production of devices for companies who don’t want or are unable to deal with the complexities of the semiconductor value chain, but also to the customers of companies that have made a decision to exit all or part of their existing businesses.

• Toshiba licenses ARM Cortex-M3 32-bit RISC processor for ASIC and ASSP applications
• Xilinx Announces Production Availability of All Virtex-5 SXT Devices
• Virage Logic Announces Retirement of Adam Kablanian from Its Board of Directors
• Wireless semiconductor IP companies Coresonic and SySDSoft announce joint marketing agreement for WiMAX solutions
• CES 2008: ARC-Based Consumer Devices Fueling the "YouTube Generation" on Display
• Lattice Announces Low-Cost FPGA Based ADC Interface Reference Design Solution
• Mentor Graphics and Calypto Design Systems Announce Customer-Proven Electronic System Level Synthesis and Verification Flow Featuring Catapult C Synthesis and SLEC Sequential Equivalence Checker
• Freescale establishes advanced 200-mm MEMS production line
• GSA Reports Semiconductor Industry CYQ3 2007 Revenue Totaled $71.9B

Headlines for Thursday Jan. 10, 2008

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ARC Video Subsystem Family Now Supports Popular RealVideo Format, Extending ARC's Multi-Standard Advantage

The new decoder supports RealVideo content encoded in versions 7, 8, 9 or 10 formats. In comparison, the next best competitive solution required 75 percent more cycles than a member of the ARC Video Subsystem family to decode similar RealVideo bit streams.

• Dolphin Integration launches an embedded Li-Ion Battery Charger
• TSMC December 2007 Sales Report
• Wi-LAN Reports Fourth Quarter Fiscal Year 2007 Financial Results

Headlines for Wednesday Jan. 09, 2008

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Cadence and Mentor Announce Immediate Availability of the Open Verification Methodology

The OVM, based on IEEE Std. 1800(TM)-2005 SystemVerilog standard, is the first open, language interoperable, SystemVerilog verification methodology in the industry. The OVM provides a methodology and accompanying library that allow users to create modular, reusable verification environments in which components communicate with each other via standard transaction-level modeling interfaces.

• Ampex Data Systems Selects DapTechnology's FireLink 1394b IP Core
• MindTree Consulting and Analog Devices Deliver Next Generation DVR product platform for Video Surveillance based on the Blackfin Processor
• Upzide Expands Business Relationship with Tensilica, Developing Multi-Core VDSL2 Modem Chipset
• HD-AAC by Fraunhofer IIS - New MPEG Audio Codec Makes CD Collections Obsolete
• On2 Technologies Licenses Configurable Codec RTL to Taiwanese Baseband Manufacturer
• ARC International plc Year Ended December 31, 2007 Trading Update
• Judge Sets April 2008 Trial Date for Silicon Image Trade Secret and Copyright Infringement Case Against Analogix

Headlines for Tuesday Jan. 08, 2008

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OCP-IP Announces New Debug Specification

The specification details an approach to a standardized OCP-bus compliant debug interface. The debug solution, an optional OCP port, implements a debug interface socket that can be added to all cores and IP blocks.

• Court Denies Silicon Image's Request to Preliminarily Enjoin Sales of Analogix Semiconductor's HDMI Chips
• Staccato Communications Selects Denali's Verification IP for Next-Generation WiMedia Products
• Kilopass Collaborates with MagnaChip to Deliver Embedded Non-Volatile Memory Technology
• Imagination Technologies Announces Addition of AVS Chinese Video Standard to World-Leading Multi-Standard Video Core Family

Headlines for Monday Jan. 07, 2008

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ARM vs. Intel? It's ARM for now

Intel may be the king of PC multiprocessors, but ARM Holdings has become ubiquitous in mobile phones by not imposing itself too much

• Ambarella Introduces Third-Generation SoC for HD Camcorders With Progressive Video
• MIPS Technologies Announces Preliminary Second Quarter Revenue Results and Q2 Fiscal 2008 Conference Call Date
• Xilinx Teams With Helion to Deliver Enhanced Device Security for Low-Cost FPGAs
• Xilinx Expands Automotive Infotainment Offering With New logiCRAFT3 Compact Multimedia Display Platform
• Licensing Momentum Establishes ARM Mali Graphics Technology In The Mainstream
• Xilinx Delivers 50% Lower System Cost With New Small Form Factor FPGAs
• Magnum Semiconductor Launches New Multimedia-Rich Application Processor
• Xilinx Delivers Complete FPGA-based Development System for Designing Intelligent Automotive Subsystems
• Actel's ProASIC3L Family Balances Low Power, Speed and Low Cost
• Xilinx Introduces Low-cost, Automotive-qualified XA Spartan-3A and Spartan-3A DSP FPGAs
• OCP-IP Announces Six New Members
• BridgeCo Unveils Third-Generation Networked Audio Platform
• DivX Certifies Blu-Ray Capable ''UniPhier'' Chip Platform from Panasonic

Headlines for Friday Jan. 04, 2008

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XpandR - a Wireless Multimedia System-on-Chip Platform to Be Launched by DSP Group

XpandR is a wireless multimedia-enabled system-on-chip platform, which supports DECT and Wi-Fi, and enables HD voice, streaming and sharing of video and music, email, web browsing and more.

• Zoran Corp. Announces VaddisHD High-Definition Multimedia Processor platform for Blu-Ray Disc and HD-DVD Players
• STMicroelectronics Introduces Full High-Definition Integrated Digital TV Platform Supporting Worldwide Standards
• Catalytic Inc. Acquires ESL Business from Celoxica
• Humax Licenses Microprocessor Patent Portfolio

Headlines for Thursday Jan. 03, 2008

• Fiberhome of China selects Avalon Microelectronics for 40G IP

Headlines for Wednesday Jan. 02, 2008

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VeriSilicon Introduces VZ.AudioHD: A Complete, Licensable Audio Solution for Exploding High Definition Market

VZ.AudioHD platform includes a wide assortment of optimized high end audio software modules, high performance ZSP800 DSP processor, and system software solutions platform. For applications such as Blu-Ray/HD-DVD players and broadcast HD TV, the result is a single processor and complete software solution that significantly lowers development time and risk while saving cost compared to other processor IP solutions in the market.

• MIPS Technologies Appoints John Derrick President and General Manager of Processor Business Group
• AMD Licenses NAND Flash System Solution From Denali for Next-Generation Handset Processor Products
• Wi-LAN Enters License Agreement with Tranzeo
• Greensocs Wins OCP-IP Outstanding Contributor of the Year Award