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• MIPS Technologies Unveils Industry's First Multi-threaded, Multiprocessor IP Core for the Embedded Market (Tuesday Apr. 01, 2008)
  MIPS Technologies today introduced the MIPS32® 1004K coherent processing system-the industry's first embedded multi-threaded, multi- processor licensable IP core.
  
  
• More configurations for the audio CODEC from Dolphin Integration proven with 100 dB (Monday Mar. 31, 2008)
  Dolphin Integration confirms the success of its celebrated audio CODEC, which enjoys its first birthday with the announcement of its silicon results and its enriched portfolio.
  
  
• Arasan Chip Systems Completes UNH Gigabit Ethernet Interoperability Testing (Tuesday Mar. 25, 2008)
  Arasan announced today that its silicon proven Gigabit Ethernet IP solution has completed interoperability testing at the University of New Hampshire's Interoperability Lab (UNH IOL).
  
  
• TaraCom Integrated Products and GDA Technologies Enter into Partnership to Combine Their GPON SerDes Phy IP and MAC Developed for System Designs (Thursday Mar. 20, 2008)
  TaraCom Integrated Products and GDA Technologies have entered into a partnership to combine their extensive experience in the mixed signal and digital technologies to offer an integrated solution for GPON applications for the ONU SerDes Phy and the GPON MAC
  
  
• Silvus Technologies and Ittiam Systems Announce Partnership to Provide 802.11n PHY/MAC IP Solution for Highest Wi-Fi Throughput and Extended Range (Monday Mar. 17, 2008)
  The new offering will include Silvus' 802.11n PHY and Ittiam's 802.11n MAC. Highlights for this new joint offering include 20 MHZ and 40 MHz advanced MIMO modes and a 600 Mbps full throughput Media Access Controller (MAC) which is IEEE 802.11n draft 2.0 compliant.
  
  
• MIPS Technologies Offers Silicon-Proven Hi-Fi Quality Audio IP in Deep Submicron Processes (Wednesday Mar. 12, 2008)
  MIPS Technologies today announced that its 96dB Audio IP Codec -- already silicon-proven in multiple deep submicron processes and foundries -- has been silicon-proven in TSMC 90nm and Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing 130nm processes.
  
  
• Arasan Chip Systems Releases Gigabit Ethernet Driver Source and Verification IP Package (Tuesday Mar. 11, 2008)
  Arasan announced today the addition of a Gigabit Ethernet Verification IP (VIP) as well as availability of device drivers for 10/100 Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet applications.
  
  
• Coresonic announces the first of its wireless modem hardware solutions with WiMax 'personality pack' enabling quick addition of IEEE802.16 (Tuesday Mar. 11, 2008)
  The new WiMax 'personality pack', based on the company's LeoCore programmable baseband processor technology, provides complete IEEE802.16 functionality, from the RF interface through to the central processor interface.
  
  
• ARC Introduces the World's First "Sonic Focus-Ready" Audio Subsystem, Setting New Standards for Sound Fidelity And Energy Efficiency (Tuesday Mar. 11, 2008)
  This fully programmable, licensable solution enables system-on-chip (SoC) designers to build devices that achieve high-quality audio using a very low power budget.
  
  
• New ARC Energy PRO Core Family Slashes Power Consumption By Up to 75% (Tuesday Mar. 11, 2008)
  The ARC® Energy PRO™ core family leverages the company's recently announced, ultra low power Energy PRO technology to set new standards for low power consumption by reducing power usage by up to 75 percent
  
  
• CAST Expands System IP Offerings with Embedded Internet and USB Subsystems (Friday Mar. 07, 2008)
  The two new system IP products combine IP cores for an 8051 processor with an Ethernet MAC controller core and with a hi-speed USB 2.0 device controller core. Verified TCP/IP and USB software stacks are also included, and a development board is available for each subsystem.
  
  
• Synopsys Enters Embedded Memory Market With Highly Differentiated IP (Wednesday Mar. 05, 2008)
  Synopsys and Novelics today announced the expansion of Synopsys' DesignWare® IP portfolio with the addition of an innovative SRAM-1T embedded memory IP that is implemented in bulk logic CMOS technology, requiring no additional manufacturing costs.
  
  
• intoPIX announces a real-time JPEG 2000 4K Encoder (Wednesday Mar. 05, 2008)
  Now extending its activities into Post Production intoPIX created a new 4K JPEG 2000 Encoder, the IPX-JP4K-E, with its established IPX-JP4K-D Decoder as a complete JPEG 2000 2K and 4K compression and decompression solution.
  
  
• Silvus Technologies Announces Commercial Availability of 802.11n PHY IP Solution (Monday Mar. 03, 2008)
  The Silvus 802.11n PHY IP solution is a licensable and synthesizable HDL implementation of the IEEE Standard 802.11n Draft 2.0 Edition.
  
  
• Tundra's SLE Division Announces Market's First 150 Gb/s Interlaken IP Core (Thursday Feb. 28, 2008)
  SLE’s new Interlaken IP Core is now available with more than twice the performance of the standard 60Gb/s version. This new high-speed core delivers the performance and bandwidth that new designs require, now with higher data transfer rates.
  
  
• SMSC's MediaLBIP Core Selected for Altera's Automotive Infotainment Development Platform (Monday Feb. 25, 2008)
  Developed by SMSC, MediaLB is an inter-chip communication technology used to efficiently transport multimedia data through SMSC's intelligent network interface controllers (INICs) onto a Media Oriented Systems Transport (MOST®) network.
  
  
• Arasan Chip Systems First to Announce Availability of eMMC IP Cores (Friday Feb. 22, 2008)
  The Arasan eMMC IP core is a fully compliant MMC v4.3 memory controller recently announced by MMCA and JEDEC. Based upon MMC v.4.1/4.2, eMMC is an architecture comprised of an embedded storage solution with MMC interface, flash memory and controller.
  
  
• Eureka Technology's SD Host Controller IP Core Available in Altera's Automotive Infotainment Development Platform (Thursday Feb. 21, 2008)
  Eureka Technology announced today that its Secure Digital (SD) host controller intellectual property (IP) core has been selected by Altera Corporation for use in the PARIS automotive infotainment development platform.
  
  
• PLDA Announces Immediate Availability of PCIe Gen 2 FPGA IP Design for Altera's Stratix II GX (Wednesday Feb. 20, 2008)
  PLDA today announced the immediate availability of their PCIe Gen 2 FPGA IP, designed for Altera Stratix® II GX FPGAs. The PLDA PCIe IP Core is 100 percent compliant with Revision 2.0 of the PCIe specification.
  
  
• MIPS Technologies Extends Digital Consumer Leadership with Industry's First HDMI 65nm IP Solution (Wednesday Feb. 20, 2008)
  The HDMI transmit IP is optimized for today's low power requirements crucial for portable and cell phone applications-supporting data rates of 1.65 Gbps per TDMS channel (approximately 5 Gbps in total) and video resolutions up to 1080p at 60Hz.
  
  
• Cosmic Circuits introduces Silicon-Proven Temperature-Sensor in TSMC 65nm technology (Monday Feb. 18, 2008)
  Cosmic Circuits today introduced a silicon-proven temperature sensor in the 65nm TSMC process. The temperature-sensor comes with an integrated 12b sigma-delta Analog-to-Digital converter to provide an accurate digital readout.
  
  
• Commsonic Launches Advanced Broadcast Modulator IP (Monday Feb. 18, 2008)
  The new core is compatible with the ATSC 8-VSB terrestrial Standard A/53 and has been designed for use in single and multi-channel applications employing asynchronous (e.g. ASI) or synchronous (e.g. SMPTE) transport stream interfaces.
  
  
• Digital Core Design Announces USB 2.0 IP Device Controller (Thursday Feb. 14, 2008)
  DUSB2 device controller has been designed with special care to assure its effortless usage inside target applications such as Human Interface Devices (HID), Mass Storage (MS), and Audio
  
  
• First >100 Mbps mobile SDR baseband platform in processing (Wednesday Feb. 13, 2008)
  IMEC has completed design and tape-out of a flexible-air-interface (FLAI) baseband platform for software-defined radios (SDR). The system-on-chip (SoC) platform and its patented components with their programming environment will be licensed to industry for commercial product development as white-box intellectual property (IP).
  
  
• Salamander announces performance-optimized SystemC models (Tuesday Feb. 12, 2008)
  Salamander Error Correction today announced the availability of high-quality bit and cycle-accurate SystemC models for all of their Verilog source code error correction IP products
  
  
• Arasan Chip Systems Completes Memory Offering With Software Package (Tuesday Feb. 12, 2008)
  Arasan announced today its first embedded software package offering for NAND Flash controllers, the Arasan NAND Flash File System (NFS).
  
  
• On2 Technologies Announces New 1080P High Definition Multi-Format Hardware Video Decoder For Handsets And Devices (Monday Feb. 11, 2008)
  The Hantro 8190 supports H.263, H.264, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, VC-1, Sorenson Spark and VP6™ video formats, along with up to 16MP JPEG still images.
  
  
• Imagination Technologies and Sharp Demonstrate the World's Most Advanced Multi-Standard Mobile TV Module at MWC 2008 (Monday Feb. 11, 2008)
  Sharp has developed the VA3B5EZ915, the world's first dual-mode tuner module supporting both DVB-H and T-DMB terrestrial mobile digital broadcast reception.
  
  
• SonicsWM Simplifies SoC Designs for WiMax (Thursday Feb. 07, 2008)
  Sonics today announced SonicsWM, a family of integrated SMART Interconnect solutions ideally suited for SoC designs that incorporate WiMax.
  
  
• SeaSolve Software Inc. and Silicon Hive B.V. partner for Vertical WiMAX Solution (Thursday Feb. 07, 2008)
  SeaSolve Software and Silicon Hive announced a strategic partnership. The two companies are jointly developing a MIMO WiMAX solution using Silicon Hive’s programmable HiveFlex CSP processor core.