D&R Headline News (September 2010)

Headlines for Thursday Sep. 30, 2010

• iSuppli Trims 2010 Semiconductor Forecast Amid Softening Demand, Rising Stockpiles
• Renesas Electronics Strengthens its SoC Business That Supports the Cloud-Computing Era
• Movidius brings HD 3D to mobile devices
• Evatronix Enhances the JPEG2000 Video Encoder IP Core with HD Video Support and Increases Its Online Demo Bandwidth

Headlines for Wednesday Sep. 29, 2010

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Analyst: TSMC faces slowdown

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (TSMC) is seeing a slowdown amid a lull in the IC market.

• PLX Technology Partners with Tuxera to Deliver High-Performance File System Suite
• European bank loans ST $470 million
• Arasan Chip Systems a key sponsor of Design & Reuse's IP-SoC Days seminar in Bangalore

Headlines for Tuesday Sep. 28, 2010

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New DSP + ARM software tools from Texas Instruments dramatically reduce DSP development starting time from hours to minutes

Today, Texas Instruments is launching two free software development tools to enable ARM®, Linux™ and system developers to easily leverage the real-time, intensive signal processing power of the TMS320C6000™ digital signal processor (DSP) in TI's integrated floating- and fixed-point DSP + ARM processors.

• IBM 'fab club' denies problems with high-k
• MIPS Technologies Announces PMC-Sierra Licensing Agreement for a Broad Range of Processor Cores
• Tektronix Introduces Industry's First Test Tools for MIPI M-PHY Debug and Validation
• Cadence Announces Chief Financial Officer Transition Plan
• Tech group opposes offshoring bill

Headlines for Monday Sep. 27, 2010

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MIPS Technologies' New Processor Provides Fastest Fully-Synthesizable Multicore IP

MIPS Technologies today introduced a new processor that offers industry-leading speed for fully-synthesizable multicore IP. With the MIPS32® 1074K Coherent Processing System (CPS), companies can now get the high performance of a custom implementation with an off-the-shelf CPU core.

• Synopsys Enhances Synplify FPGA Synthesis Software With up to 4X Faster Runtime and New Team-Design Capabilities
• Cadence Offers Optimized Implementation Methodology for Silicon Realization of New ARM Cortex-A15 MPCore Processor
• Intilop corporation announces a record breaking lowest latency & highest bandwidth 10G bit TCP offload engine
• Lattice Semiconductor Announces Video Display Interfaces Suite for HDMI, DVI, and 7:1 LVDS
• ROHM First to market with Mixel's Unified MIPI/MDDI PHY IP solution in its Mobile Display Driver Chip
• Cortus and RivieraWaves Partner to Provide Complete Bluetooth Low Energy and Classic Bluetooth BR/EDR Low Power Platforms
• Oracle to acquire chip companies, analysts say AMD, ARM, Nvidia could be targets
• Imperas and Open Virtual Platforms (OVP) Initiative Announce Full Support for MIPS Technologies' MIPS32 1074K Coherent Processing System
• Richtek Adopts SpringSoft Laker Software for Custom Design and Layout of Power-Management ICs
• Ambarella A7 system-on-chip sets new benchmarks for high-resolution video and image quality in consumer HD cameras

Headlines for Friday Sep. 24, 2010

• Dolphin Integration: The first 16-bit MCU core 8051 upward compatible, achieving 0.4 DMIPS/MHz
• PLX Technology to Acquire Teranetics, the Leading Supplier of 10 Gigabit Ethernet Silicon
• Toshiba Chooses Ultra Low Power ARM Cortex-M0 Processor
• Nvidia: ARM smartphones will bury x86 PCs
• Aware Announces Plans to Spin-Off Patent Licensing Operations

Headlines for Thursday Sep. 23, 2010

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Core Silicon Semiconductor Market Set for Record Growth in 2010

Annual revenue for core silicon, the largest segment in the semiconductor industry, is set for unprecedented growth in 2010, wiping out the decline of the last year, according to market research firm iSuppli Corp.

• Fujitsu 2nd Generation 8-bit MCU with Embedded FRAM Delivers Key Features
• Arteris Appoints Kurt Shuler As Director of Marketing
• Light Peak panned by OEM, report
• Qualcomm defines format for 3-D chip stress

Headlines for Wednesday Sep. 22, 2010

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Analyst: Chip market correction "imminent"

The business climate for the semiconductor industry is deteriorating, and leading indicators point to an imminent correction in the semiconductor market according to an analyst.

• Cryptography Research and Tiempo Announce Agreement for Differential Power Analysis Countermeasures Patents
• Tuxera Extends exFAT and NTFS Support to QNX Neutrino RTOS
• Imagination enables developers to use 3D navigation data in new SDK
• Is IC market going up or down?
• Analyst: iPhone to sole source Qualcomm chip

Headlines for Tuesday Sep. 21, 2010

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New Mentor Embedded ReadyStart Provides Highly Integrated, Ready-to-Use Software Platform for Embedded Systems Development

Mentor Graphics Corporation today announced the Mentor(R) Embedded ReadyStart(TM) Platform, a "ready-to-use" solution comprising integrated software IP, tools, and services targeting popular hardware boards and system-on-chips (SoCs).

• Project maps ARM core variability at 32-nm
• WiLAN Announces Release of Markman Order
• Arasan Chip Systems participates in SD Association’s latest Interoperability Session
• Actel Announces SmartFusion FPGA Motor Control Reference Designs
• Open-Silicon, MIPS Technologies, and Dolphin Technology Achieve ASIC CPU Performance of Over 2.4GHz in TSMC 40nm
• Will GlobalFoundries succeed or fail?
• Tensilica Inc. Announces Strategic Investment by Fujitsu

Headlines for Monday Sep. 20, 2010

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Aeroflex Gaisler announces SpaceWire Router IP-Core

Aeroflex Gaisler AB, a leader in System on Chip (SoC) design, today announces the availability of a SpaceWire router IP-core. The SpaceWire router IP-core implements a SpaceWire router as defined in the ECSS-E-ST-50-12C standard. It supports from 2 to 31 ports with an additional configuration port, which can be individually configured to be external SpaceWire links, FIFO ports or AMBA ports.

• Altera Achieves Major Milestone in Addressing Industry's Bandwidth Demands by Demonstrating 25-Gbps Transceivers in Programmable Logic
• DxO Labs Programmable Core and Image Processing Technology Designed to Drive State-of-the-Art Image Quality for Connected Devices
• Mentor Graphics, GateRocket Collaborate on Integrated Solution to Streamline FPGA Verification-Through-Synthesis Flow
• Lattice Announces Low Cost Programmable SPI-4.2 Solution
• NXP's 150 MHz LPC1800 MCU Delivers Industry's Highest ARM Cortex-M3 Performance
• RF Engines Ltd Extends Digital RF Capabilities to Include Demodulator Cores for FPGAs
• First IBM Technology for Power-Management Chips Holds Promise for Breakthroughs in Alternative Energy
• Cypress to Showcase PSoC(R) 5 Architecture and PSoC Creator(TM) IDE for ARM(R)-Based Design
• Klocwork Introduces New Capabilities for Multicore and Multiprocessor Software Development
• TSMC's design guru resigns
• MathWorks Delivers GPU Support for MATLAB
• Arrow Electronics, Inc. to Acquire Nu Horizons Electronics Corp. in an All-Cash Transaction
• CLK Design Automation announces breakthrough acceleration for AOCV table generation

Headlines for Friday Sep. 17, 2010

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Intilop awarded a patent in ultra high speed search

Intilop’s team awarded a Patent in developing an advanced hardware search technology which speeds up searching of non stationary large data sets by 10 to 20 times as compared to conventional hardware search engines.

• DOLPHIN Integration and TexEDA Design announce their cooperation, delivering a complete and attractive EDA flow embedding SMASH as LaySim into LayTools

Headlines for Thursday Sep. 16, 2010

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Freescale and IPextreme expand licensing of ColdFire cores

Freescale Semiconductor is expanding its ColdFire licensing program by offering its 32-bit V4 ColdFire core to the embedded community through IPextreme, a semiconductor technology licensing specialist. Working in collaboration with Freescale, IPextreme will now market, sell and support Freescale’s V1, V2 and V4 ColdFire cores to system-on-chip (SoC) designers seeking to integrate the cores and other functions onto single-chip ICs.

• Ittiam announces Android-based video phone with HD playback
• Elliptic Technologies Announces New Suite of Content Protection Solutions
• SmartFusion A2F500 Development Kit Now Available from Actel
• Actel Announces Largest SmartFusion Device in Production
• Altium acquires Morfik to help electronics designers add cloud connectivity to anything
• Intel: Light Peak switches on in 2012
• KaiSemi offers FPGA-to-ASIC replacement with a *Zero NRE* model
• Xilinx Demonstrates Intel(R) QuickPath Technology for FPGAs at Intel Developer Forum
• Sonics Teams with ChipStart to Extend SoC Design Strategies
• SMIC Adopts Cadence Silicon Realization End-to-End Product Line for 65-40nm Design

Headlines for Wednesday Sep. 15, 2010

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Renesas Electronics Strengthens its Microcontroller Business through Integration of the Development/Manufacturing Structure

Since Renesas Electronics Corporation was formed on April 1, 2010 through a merger between NEC Electronics Corporation and Renesas Technology Corp., the company has studied ways to draw out maximum synergies for its MCU business, both in the business direction and in its product portfolio.

• MIPI Alliance Forms Battery Interface Working Group for Mobile Devices
• Inside Intel's Sandy Bridge architecture
• HDL Design House announces HVT MX25L VITAL behavioral model
• Cryptography Research and IP Cores Announce Agreement for Differential Power Analysis Countermeasures Patents
• mimoOn claims market leadership in LTE PHY software on SDR silicon for mobile terminals
• Altair Semiconductor Announces Commercial Availability of Digital Dividend (Band 20) Reference Design
• Freescale introduces the industry's first embedded high definition scalable video coding software solution
• ARM Retains Services Of FastCompanyBrazil And The Expertise of Jose Scodiero To Facilitate Stronger South America Presence
• GigOptix to Launch 40G and 100G Bundled Solutions

Headlines for Tuesday Sep. 14, 2010

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Sonics Unveils Industry's First IP Solution to Solve Memory Bottlenecks and Increase Memory Bandwidth Utilization

Sonics introduced MemMax AMP™, the first standalone memory scheduler that optimizes memory bandwidth/DRAM scheduling on-chip in a single IP block. MemMax AMP is the only on-chip memory IP solution that allows SoC designers and system architects to significantly boost memory bandwidth utilization from the average ~45-50 percent level up to 85 percent in some designs, without re-architecting the system design or changing the memory subsystem.

• Synopsys Reduces IP Integration Risk With Extensive SATA-IO Interoperability Testing
• AppliedMicro Picks Tensilica's Dataplane Processors for High-Throughput Communications Chip Design
• Alvand Technologies Announces Ultra Low Power, Small Die-Area Analog-to-Digital Converter (ADC) Intellectual Property (IP) Solution in Advanced 40nm Process Node
• ARM Technologies Power Nufront's First Computer System Chip to Reshape Laptop Market
• Intel sketches out 32, 22nm processors
• New ASSET ScanWorks toolkit allows memory suppliers to validate DDR3 memory for Intel platforms
• eMemory Standardizes on Synopsys FastSPICE for Circuit Simulation

Headlines for Monday Sep. 13, 2010

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Renesas Electronics Receives USB-IF Certification for its Second Generation USB 3.0 Host Controller and USB 3.0 IP Core

Renesas Electronics Corporation today announced that its latest Universal Serial Bus 3.0 (USB 3.0) xHCI (eXtensible Host Controller Interface) host controller (part number µPD720200A) and USB 3.0 intellectual property (IP) core (IP: NBU3DEVG1) have passed USB 3.0 compliance and certification testing by the USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF)

• Dolphin integration unveils a new Virtual Component for power metering
• Fujitsu Launches Second Generation Ultra-fast 65GSa/s 8-Bit ADC Technology for 100G Optical Transport
• Actel Launches Actel Direct Sales Channel in North America
• Actel FPGAs Now Available with Cryptographic Cores Offering DPA Resistance
• Novelics Expands Its Memory IP Offering to 40nm With a Great Set of Differentiation
• Aldec, HighRely and Leading FPGA Vendors Establish DO-254 Ecosystem
• Open Kernel Labs Delivers OKL4 Mobile Virtualization for ARM Cortex-A15 Processor
• VirtualLogix VLX Virtualization Software Now Integrates with Cortex A15, Enabling Mobile Device Manufacturers to Begin Next-Gen Designs Today
• Lancero update now supports x8 PCI Express
• ARM, Dolby and Ittiam Collaborate To Bring Optimized Home Audio Solutions To Market
• Symwave and Fresco Logic Achieve Unsurpassed Levels for Real-Life USB 3.0 Performance

Headlines for Friday Sep. 10, 2010

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Trident and ARM Join Forces to Deliver a Web-Enabled Set-top Box Platform for Next Generation Internet TV Services

Trident Microsystems and ARM announced today that they have brought together all the key Web 2.0 and broadcast elements on a powerful set-top box (STB) platform that can enable consumers to seamlessly view TV programming, run rich internet applications, browse websites and share content anytime and anywhere in the home.

• LeCroy Announces Industry's Most Comprehensive MIPI Test Solutions
• CoreEL Launches Low Cost Audio-Video Decoder Module Product
• TSMC August 2010 Sales Report
• Opinion: Power imperative favors ARM's client-to-server play
• Imagination Technologies Group plc - Interim Management Statement
• Xilinx FPGA Development Platform Enables Broadcast Equipment Makers to Meet Real-Time 3D TV Bandwidth and Processing Demands
• BitSim Expands its Operation to Finland
• Xilinx and Coreworks Deliver Wide Range of Professional Audio Codecs, Including Dolby, for Easy Implementation With FPGAs
• Xilinx and VSofts Demonstrate Low Latency Real-Time H.264/AVC-I IP Core Compression Solution for Xilinx FPGAs
• CAST JPEG IP Core Helps Kapsch TrafficCom Handle Real-Time Image Compression

Headlines for Thursday Sep. 09, 2010

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ARM Unveils Cortex-A15 MPCore Processor to Dramatically Accelerate Capabilities of Mobile, Consumer and Infrastructure Applications

ARM today introduced the Cortex(TM)-A15 MPCore processor that delivers a 5x performance improvement over today's advanced smartphone processors, within a comparable energy footprint. In advanced infrastructure applications the Cortex-A15 processor running at up to 2.5GHz will enable highly scalable solutions within constantly shrinking energy, thermal and cost budgets. The Cortex-A15 processor is available for licensing today and is targeted at manufacture in 32nm, 28nm and future geometries.

• Metrological Selects Tuxera NTFS for Mediaconnect TV
• Samsung's Orion is an ARM graphics win, says analyst
• Imagination selects INTERRA’s VEGA H264/MVC Analyzer for 3D Video IP Development
• Allegro DVT now shipping 3rd generation H.264/MPEG-4 AVC/MVC high-definition video encoding IP core
• Toppan Completes 22nm and 20nm Production Photomask Process through Toppan-IBM Joint Development
• Renesas Electronics Announces Growth Strategies for its SoC Business Targeting Mobile and Multimedia Applications

Headlines for Wednesday Sep. 08, 2010

• Ambarella A6 Chip Platform Deployed by Harmonic
• Maxim Acquires Phyworks, a Leading Supplier of Optical Transceiver Chips for the Broadband Communications Market
• Zoran Corporation to Acquire Microtune, Inc.
• Synopsys DFTMAX Compression Cuts Pin-Limited Test Cost by 95 Percent at Silicon Image
• Altera Updates Third Quarter Revenue Guidance

Headlines for Tuesday Sep. 07, 2010

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CEVA's New 1 GHz Programmable DSP Core Offers Exceptional Performance and Power Efficiency for Next Generation Communications and Multimedia SoCs

CEVA today introduced the CEVA-X1643, a highly-energy efficient,1 GHz DSP core designed to boost overall chip performance for a broad range of applications including wireline and wireless communications, surveillance, portable multimedia and more.

• UMC: 2010 August Monthly Sales Revenue
• Philips sells entire NXP equity stake to UK pension fund
• Tokyo Electron Device Announces Spartan-6 PCI Express Grabber Board supporting CameraLink PoCL
• AuthenTec and UPEK Announce Merger
• Samsung Introduces High Performance, Low Power Dual CORTEX-A9 Application Processor for Mobile Devices
• Xilinx and NSA Announce Approval of Virtex-5Q FPGA Solution for High-Grade Cryptographic Processing
• SMSC Samples Industry's First USB 3.0 Graphics Technology
• Barco presents innovative solution for sub-frame latency processing of single-tile JPEG 2000 images
• Altera Demonstrates Industry's First Single-Chip 4K Format Conversion Reference Design at IBC2010
• Microsoft Xbox Development Team Uses SpringSoft's Verdi Debug Software to Slash Design Time

Headlines for Monday Sep. 06, 2010

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RivieraWaves announced the first Bluetooth low energy qualified baseband IP

RivieraWaves announced today that it has successfully passed the Bluetooth Qualification with its Bluetooth low energy baseband Intellectual Property (IP).

• Dolphin Integration Announces a complete Panoply of Memories and Standard Cells, which uniquely offer Dual Voltage capability for the 180 nm process
• Elonics Raises $9 million Series B Investment
• Report: Micron to take over SMIC fab
• Rumor mill: Apple to buy Cirrus
• DarbeeVision Enters Into Channel Partnerships in Taiwan, Japan and Korea

Headlines for Friday Sep. 03, 2010

• Direct Insight introduces SwiftModule-DM with 1GHz ARM Cortex-A8
• Imagination and Samsung announce latest POWERVR SDK supports new Samsung Galaxy Tab
• Synopsys Completes Acquisition of Virage Logic Corporation

Headlines for Thursday Sep. 02, 2010

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GLOBALFOUNDRIES Lays Out Path for Sustained Technology Leadership at 28nm and Beyond

At today’s inaugural Global Technology Conference, GLOBALFOUNDRIES revealed the latest details of its progress in technology development for the 28nm technology generation and beyond. The company announced the addition of a new technology offering based on its 28nm High-K Metal Gate (HKMG) technology and revealed for the first time its manufacturing timeline for the 22/20nm node.

• Sydaap Technologies joins the IPGenius Cores Programme
• Intilop signs with Cisco to provide value added services to Cisco's Networking Equipment Customers
• GLOBALFOUNDRIES Launches Industry's First 28nm ARM Cortex-A9 Processor Platform with Gate First High-K Metal Gate
• GLOBALFOUNDRIES and Freescale Partner to Develop 90nm Flash Memory Technology
• CEA-Leti Demonstrates New Contactless Communication Technology for RFID Smartcards
• Imec's European collaborative research to develop lab-on-chip system for cheap and fast cancer diagnosis
• Novocell Semiconductor to exhibit at 2010 GSA Emerging Opportunities Expo & Conference
• Commsonic Celebrates 10th Anniversary with New Launch

Headlines for Wednesday Sep. 01, 2010

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True Circuits Announces New Line of General Purpose PLLs Optimized for Low Power, Area Sensitive and Low Cost Applications

True Circuits announced today the immediate availability of a new line of silicon-proven General Purpose Phase-Locked Loop (PLL) hard macros that are well suited for system clock, DDR and general purpose timing applications. The General Purpose PLL is available in a variety of TSMC and GlobalFoundries processes.

• Gartner Says Worldwide Semiconductor Revenue to Grow 31.5 Percent in 2010
• Toshiba launches 24nm process NAND flash memory
• Russian SoC Leader MRI Progress Licenses Virage Logic's ARC(R) Video 401V Subsystem for Digital TV Applications
• Aizyc is now Lattice design partner
• Avalon Granted Patent for Innovative Skew-correcting Apparatus
• Intel will run wireless as separate business
• Magma Delivers Hierarchical Reference Flow for the Common Platform Alliance's 32/28-nm Low-Power Process Technology
• MoSys Exhibits at GLOBALFOUNDRIES Global Technology Conference 2010