D&R Headline News (April 2010)

Headlines for Friday Apr. 30, 2010

• DOLPHIN Integration promotes equivalence checking for multi-level modeling
• IP Cores Provider CAST Presenting at ChipEx2010 Israel

Headlines for Thursday Apr. 29, 2010

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The servers are coming, says ARM's CEO

Servers based on ARM multicore processors should arrive in the next 12 months, according to Warren East, chief executive officer of processor intellectual property licensor ARM Holdings plc (Cambridge, England).

• Actel Announces First Quarter 2010 Financial Results
• NetLogic Microsystems and TSMC Collaborate on 28nm Process Technology
• CEVA, Inc. Announces Record First Quarter 2010 Financial Results
• MoSys, Inc. Reports First Quarter 2010 Financial Results
• NEWS ANALYSIS - Xilinx puts ARM core into its FPGAs
• Xilinx Announces Fiscal 2010 Results; Record Q4 Sales of $529 Million
• Wolfson Licenses Tensilica HiFi Audio to Provide a High Quality, Power Efficient Sound Platform
• Cadence Reports Q1 2010 Financial Results
• Recore Systems receives the Van den Kroonenberg Prize 2010

Headlines for Wednesday Apr. 28, 2010

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Xilinx Unveils ARM-Based Processing Architecture for Delivering Unrivaled Levels of Performance in Embedded Systems

Xilinx today introduced the architecture for a new Extensible Processing Platform. The ARM(R) Cortex(TM)-A9 MPCore(TM) processor-based platform enables system architects and embedded software developers to apply a combination of serial and parallel processing to address the challenging system requirements presented by the global demand for embedded systems to perform increasingly complex functions.

• Silicon Laboratories Acquires Silicon Clocks and CMEMS Technology
• New Synopsys Universal DDR Controllers Improve Performance and Reduce Cost of Embedded DRAM Interfaces
• Expected Top Ten IC Industry Capex Spenders In 2010
• CriticalBlue and Freescale collaborate to streamline and simplify multicore software development
• Silicon Image Reports First Quarter 2010 Financial Results
• MIPS Technologies Reports Third Quarter Fiscal 2010 Financial Results
• Cadence Issues Blueprint to Battle "Profitability Gap"; Counters Semiconductor Industry's Greatest Threat
• Actel's SmartFusion Intelligent Mixed Signal FPGAs Target High Complexity Motor Control Solutions

Headlines for Tuesday Apr. 27, 2010

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ARM Holdings plc Reports Results for the First Quarter Ended 31 March 2010

ARM Holdings plc announces its unaudited financial results for the first quarter ended 31 March 2010, demonstrating continuing progress against its strategy with highest ever unit shipments leading to record royalty revenues, profits and net cash generation.

• TSMC Reports First Quarter EPS of NT$1.30
• Imagination's POWERVR VXD391 adds On2 VP6 and Real Video capabilities
• Imagination debuts full range of TV audio codecs
• Pixelworks Standardizes on Denali’s High-Performance DDR SDRAM Technologies
• Cosmic Circuits reaches new milestone in Wireless Analog IP collaboration with GLOBALFOUNDRIES
• Plurality Ltd. Announces the World's First Scalable 256 Multicore Processor for Wireless Infrastructure
• ARM CoreSight Technology Extends Real-time System Visibility to All Software Developers
• SMIC: Announcement of 2009 Annual Results
• Toshiba Launches 32-Bit Microcontroller For Analog Circuit Control In Industrial and Appliance Applications

Headlines for Monday Apr. 26, 2010

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MIPS Technologies Announces Strategic Alliance with Imagination Technologies

MIPS Technologies announced that MIPS and Imagination Technologies have formed a strategic alliance to ensure the optimum system solution and support for customers combining IP from both companies. Together the companies are working to help SoC developers get to market quickly with optimized solutions combining processor IP from MIPS and graphics, video and other IP from Imagination.

• Elliptic Technologies Shatters Industry Latency Benchmark With New Ethernet Security Engine
• DOCOMO, Renesas Electronics, Fujitsu, NEC, Panasonic Mobile Communications and Sharp to Develop Mobile Application Platform
• Cadence Debuts Verification Computing Platform, Accelerating Time and Improving Quality of System Development
• CebaTech Launches New CebaFlex FPGA-Based Board-Level Protocol Acceleration Subsystems
• Cryptography Research and Actel Announce License Agreement Enhancing Security of Actel FPGAs by Protecting Against Side-Channel Attacks
• RivieraWaves to address IP and wireless market
• Realtek licenses Imagination Technologies' high-performance graphics processor core
• NXP Announces LPC1100 ARM Cortex-M0 CAN Microcontrollers
• FPGA Sales Pioneer Steve Haynes Joins Tabula as VP Worldwide Sales
• Dust Networks Announces ARM Cortex-M3 Processor Based IEEE 802.15.4 SOC
• Lauterbach To Provide Best-In-Class Debugging Tools and Support for Timesys Embedded Linux
• Intilop (formerly intelop) delivers a highly integrated TOE_FPGA-SOC-Platform to a major financial institution
• Evatronix to present on IP Verification during the ChipEx 2010 Conference in Israel on May 4th

Headlines for Friday Apr. 23, 2010

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Dolphin Integration will enable you to save development time for your application program

The latest real-time debugging solution from Dolphin Integration now applies the technique of Property Checkers to locate program bugs. It drastically speeds-up the iterative debug-correction process.

• Faraday Reported 2010 First Quarter Results
• Plurality Ltd. Opens US Subsidiary in Silicon Valley
• Rambus Reports Record First Quarter Revenue and Earnings
• NEC Display Solutions Adopts Xilinx FPGAs for 3D-Capable Cinema Projectors
• Lattice Semiconductor Reports First Quarter 2010 Results; Exceeds Upwardly Revised Guidance

Headlines for Thursday Apr. 22, 2010

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ARM stock rises on Apple takeover talk

London's financial district was full of rumors on Wednesday (April 21) that Apple is considering a takeover of processor intellectual property licensor ARM Holdings plc (Cambridge, England), according to the London Evening Standard newspaper.

• Mentor Graphics Announces Multicore Solutions for Symmetric and Asymmetric Multiprocessing
• TAKUMI Launches GV330 The New Dedicated Vector Graphics IP Core with Significantly Enhanced Rendering Performance and Functionalities
• A fork in the road to 28-nm FPGAs
• Tensilica Introduces Third Generation ConnX 545CK 8-MAC VLIW DSP Core
• Sonics Showcases On-Chip Connectivity Solutions at Multicore Expo

Headlines for Wednesday Apr. 21, 2010

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Virage Logic Extends Technology Leadership by Qualifying the Industry's First Million-Cycle CMOS-Based MTP NVM IP

Virage Logic Corporation (NASDAQ:VIRL), the semiconductor industry's trusted IP partner, today announced that its AEON® MTP (Multiple Time Programmable) NVM (non-volatile memory) EEPROM IP has been qualified for a million cycles at an elevated temperature of 105°C in a standard 250-nanometer (nm), 5V CMOS process.

• Reports: Google buys chip design firm Agnilux
• Synopsys Announces Support for Actel's New SmartFusion Intelligent Mixed Signal FPGAs
• TSMC Ships 600,000 0.25-Micron Automotive-Qualified Embedded Flash Wafers
• Faraday Announces the Commercial Availability of PCIe Gen2 Endpoint Controller
• RTXC RTOS Supports High-Performance ARM Cortex-A8 Core
• Altera Announces First Quarter Results
• NXP Shows World's Smallest 32-bit ARM Microcontroller

Headlines for Tuesday Apr. 20, 2010

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Blue Wonder Communications' BWC200 Passed First IOT Tests against ZTE Environment

Blue Wonder Communications has entered into the interoperability testing phase with its recently announced LTE IP product BWC200. During this test session against ZTE’s test environment the BWC200 has successfully passed uplink, downlink and synchronization tests via antenna over the air at up to 20 MHz bandwidth.

• Qualcomm Adopts GateRocket Solution to Address FPGA Complexity Challenges
• STMicroelectronics Unveils STM32L Ultra-Low-Power ARM Cortex-M3 based Microcontrollers for 'Energy-Lite' Applications
• Microsoft job ad hints at ARM-based servers
• Nangate Announces the Footprint Compatible IPO Module for Power Reduction and Faster Timing Closure in Physical Design
• Two Quarters of Recovery of Sales of Dolphin Integration by Continuing to Bet on Innovation

Headlines for Monday Apr. 19, 2010

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Altera Unveils 28-nm Stratix V FPGA Family

Altera today announced its next-generation 28-nm Stratix(R) V FPGA family, the industry's highest bandwidth FPGA. Offering up to 1.6 Tbps of serial switching capability, Stratix V FPGAs leverage a myriad of new technologies and a leading-edge 28-nm process to reduce the cost and power of high-bandwidth applications.

• Samsung Producing Industry's First Higher-performing 20nm-class NAND Flash Memory
• Synopsys Introduces the HAPS-60 Series of Rapid Prototyping Systems
• Samsung's ARM roadmap leads to quad-core 'Aquila'
• Actel Announces Keil's Support of New SmartFusion Intelligent Mixed Signal FPGA Family
• Broad Range of Chips&Media-powered Solutions Displayed at 2010 Embedded Systems Conference (ESC) in Silicon Valley
• Aldec Adds RMM Library and FPGA Primitive Support to ALINT
• Arasan Chip Systems showcases its embedded Software and System Tools complementing its IP Portfolio at ESC

Headlines for Friday Apr. 16, 2010

• Customization for market needs comes to a turning point with Dolphin integration Codec Configurator
• GN ReSound Develops Wireless Protocol Stack for Next-Generation Hearing Instruments, using Target's Optimizing C Compiler Technology

Headlines for Thursday Apr. 15, 2010

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Intel Plans New Intel Atom Processor-based System-on-Chip

Two Intel executives today outlined the latest Intel SoC products for embedded applications and described new research to allow homes and small businesses to better use and manage energy. The forthcoming SoC product features an Intel® Atom™ processor core that, for the first time, will let other companies create PCI Express*-compliant devices that directly connect to the chip, which offers new flexibility for embedded applications.

• TSMC's Chang: Industry needs to collaborate
• Mentor Graphics Veloce Emulation Platform Adopted by STMicroelectronics to Accelerate Time-to-Market for its New Generation Set-Top-Box Chip Sets
• IP Cores, Inc. Announces a New Version of the RSA Public Key Accelerator
• Standards Organizations Accellera and The SPIRIT Consortium Complete Merger
• Leading Companies Form MHL Consortium to Advance Standard for Wired Mobile Connectivity
• Human Monitoring Leverages Texas Instruments Processors to Deliver Enhanced Video Quality, Performance to Broadcast and Video Infrastructure Manufacturers

Headlines for Wednesday Apr. 14, 2010

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CoreEL Launches Advanced Video Decoding Solutions

CoreEL Technologies today announced the availability of three new video decoding IP solutions that include, an integrated Broadcast grade H.264 and MPEG-2 HD decoder solution on a single Xilinx® Virtex®-6FPGA., a MPEG-2 4:2:2@HL 1080p60 decoding IP Core working on the high performance Virtex-6 FPGA and a H264/MPEG2 decoding solution working on a low-cost Spartan®-6 FPGA.

• Augusta Technology Selects Denali Databahn IP for its Mobile Multimedia Processor
• Synopsys Expands IP OEM Partner Program with Two New Members
• Virage Logics's new IP venture: It's the subsystems, stupid!
• Accent Expands its Wireless Communication Capabilities with the Opening of a new IP Development Center in Sophia Antipolis, France
• Express Logic ThreadX Available for Tensilica's New Third-Generation Diamond Standard Dataplane Processor Cores

Headlines for Tuesday Apr. 13, 2010

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Virage Logic Announces Availability of a Full Suite of 28nm SiWare Memory Compilers and Rollout of SiWare Logic Libraries for Leading Edge Customers

Virage Logic extends its leadership position by announcing a full suite of 28-nanometer (nm) memory compilers and logic libraries on TSMC’s High-K Metal Gate (28nm HP) process. Following on the early success of their 40nm-node design, two of the company’s longstanding customers have already adopted the 28nm SiWare Memory technology.

• TSMC Announces Move to 20nm Process
• RT-RK Delivers IP Solution for Android Devices -- Porting Android on DTVs and STBs
• CAST Offers the First 12-bit JPEG Extended Sequential, DICOM-Compatible IP Core
• Virage Logic Extends Non Volatile Memory Leadership; Announces AEON(R) Multi-Time Programmable Parallel NVM Qualified in TSMC 130nm G Process
• Mentor Graphics Extends DO-254 Platform Offering with Enhanced HDL Coding Standards

Headlines for Monday Apr. 12, 2010

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NXP to Demonstrate New Class of DSC Based on ARM Cortex-M4

NXP Semiconductors today announced that it will demonstrate working silicon of its newest microcontrollers based on the ARM® Cortex™-M4 processor at ESC Silicon Valley 2010. NXP is one of the first ARM partners to license the Cortex-M4 processor, a highly efficient solution for digital signal control applications, and is the first to demonstrate working silicon.

• Beceem & M-Skylink Launch "Retail-Ready" 4G-WiMAX Platform
• Texas Instruments Selects Fraunhofer IIS to Deliver Software Defined Radio Platform to Automotive Industry
• NTT Electronics Completes a Graphic SoC Design Using Arteris NoC Technology
• Global Unichip Licenses Comprehensive ARM IP Portfolio
• Lattice Accelerates PCI Express System Design With New Low Cost LatticeECP3 Development Kit
• Arasan Chip Systems to present a keynote at Design & Reuse's IP-SoC Day World Tour in Tel-Aviv
• S3 Group Accelerates Latest Pace Mediaroom IPTV Set-Top Box Platform to Market
• Winbond Ships One Billionth Serial Flash Memory, Ramps 90nm Production, Increases Market Share

Headlines for Friday Apr. 09, 2010

• Is EDA innovating enough?
• TSMC March 2010 Sales Report
• Genesys and Dolphin Integration announce their renewed cooperation in the field of microcontroller thanks to the quality of support
• Secure Sidense OTP Helps Parade Provide Protected Video Content
• Brite Semiconductor, Open-Silicon and HiSilicon Announce Silicon Success of 65nm Wireless Network Chip
• MoSys Exhibits at TSMC Tech Symposium

Headlines for Thursday Apr. 08, 2010

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eSilicon to acquire Silicon Design Solutions

eSilicon today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire substantially all the assets of Silicon Design Solutions (SDS), a privately held supplier of niche semiconductor memory intellectual property (IP) cores.

• Cycleo Hires VP of Sales and Extends its Reach into North America
• IP Cores, Inc. Announces Shipment of a New Version of its SHA Family of Hash Cores
• WiLAN Initiates Litigation

Headlines for Wednesday Apr. 07, 2010

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Synopsys DesignWare DDR multiPHY IP Supports Six DDR Standards in a Single PHY

Synopsys today announced availability of the DesignWare™ DDR multiPHY which is designed to support a broad range of DDR SDRAM standards in a single PHY without sacrificing power consumption or silicon area.

• OptNgn Releases 264 FFT FPGA Library Elements that are High Performance, Vendor Independent, and Instantly Downloadable
• CEVA Releases SATA3.0 IP for 6Gbps SSD Applications
• Novocell Semiconductor Announces the Release of 2nTP; the Industry's First Multi-Time Programmable Antifuse Bit Cell
• Tuxera NTFS empowers systems with Freescale PowerQUICC integrated communications processors
• Cyclic Design Licenses G14 BCH ECC IP to Trident Microsystems
• When will Virage become profitable?

Headlines for Tuesday Apr. 06, 2010

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Sonics Network for AMBA Protocol Now Available for Windows

Sonics today announced a Windows version of SNAP™ (Sonics Network for AMBA® Protocol) - making the product accessible to a greater number of SoC designers and developers.

• Genesys Logic Receives USB-IF Certification for SuperSpeed USB Product
• Virage Logic Updates Second-Quarter Fiscal 2010 Outlook
• Nangate's Library Creator Platform for Digital Cell Library IP Development Adopted by ON Semiconductor
• TSMC Delivers Interoperable EDA Formats for Advanced Process Technologies

Headlines for Monday Apr. 05, 2010

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Viewpoint: Is semiconductor industry consolidation inevitable?

The inevitability of semiconductor industry consolidation seems to be widely accepted, but data shows that the semiconductor industry has been slowly "deconsolidating" since the 1960s.

• MOSAID Enters Into Wireless Patent License Agreement With Sharp
• ARM boosted startup with Belgian DSP
• MtekVision realizes success with Cosmic's MIPI IP in TSMC 65nm process
• Lattice Announces Updates and Enhancements to Its FPGA Design Tool Suite
• Rumor mill: Apple to buy Intrinsity?
• Inside the iPad: Samsung, Broadcom snag multiple wins

Headlines for Thursday Apr. 01, 2010

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Synopsys' DesignWare SuperSpeed USB 3.0 IP Receives USB-IF Certification

Synopsys today announced that its DesignWare® SuperSpeed USB (USB 3.0) Solution including Controller and PHY IP successfully passed the USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF) SuperSpeed USB certification.

• Still Rambus, but less rambunctious
• IC shortages seen, but inventories grow
• EDA Consortium Reports Decrease for 2009 but Sequential Fourth Quarter Gains
• Intilop (formerly intelop) releases new fully integrated FPGA-SOC-Platform with TOE, PCI Express and system peripherals that raise the bar in TOE system integration
• SiTune unveils Innovative mobile DVB-T CMOS SOC exceeding MBRAI specification
• AMD Renews Patent License Agreement with Rambus
• Imperas and Open Virtual Platforms (OVP) Initiative Release Full Support for MIPS Technologies' MIPS32 M14K Processors