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• Xilinx And 4i2i Demonstrate H.264/AVC High Profile Decoder In An FPGA (Monday Apr. 24, 2006)
  Implemented on a single Xilinx Virtex™-4 FPGA, and a licensable intellectual property (IP) core developed by 4i2i, the high profile decoder provides a highly-integrated, cost-effective solution ideally suited for a wide variety of video-based broadcast, c
  
  
• Digital Blocks Announces its ''Try Before You Buy'' IP Core Evaluation Program (Monday Apr. 24, 2006)
  Digital Blocks Announces its ''Try Before You Buy'' IP Core Evaluation Program
  
  
• VinChip Systems Announces Immediate Availability of AHB to PCI Wrapper Module (Friday Apr. 21, 2006)
  VinChip Systems Inc. one of the leading providers of USB (Universal Serial Bus) Intellectual Property announced immediate availability of AHB to PCI Wrapper Module for ease of testing AHB based systems on an PCI Environment and for certifying AHB(AMBA) pe
  
  
• Algotronix announces NIST certification of its AES IP Core and design-in at Quixant (Friday Apr. 21, 2006)
  Algotronix Ltd., a supplier of cryptographic intellectual property announced that its AES Core G2 product has received NIST certificate #347 and is now on the AES verification list
  
  
• Digital Core Design Announces Availability of a New Improved DFPMU Floating Point Coprocessor (Thursday Apr. 20, 2006)
  The DFPMU is a Floating Point Coprocessor, designed to assist CPU in performing the floating point mathematical computations. The DFPMU directly replaces C software functions, by equivalent , very fast hardware operations, which significantly accelerate s
  
  
• Silvus Communication Systems rolls soft PHY core for Wi-Fi (Monday Apr. 17, 2006)
  A startup spun out of UCLA is developing soft cores for next-generation wireless systems ranging from Wi-Fi to software-defined and cognitive radios.
  
  
• SOCLE's New ARM926EJ-Based SoC Platform Validated on UMC's 90nm Process (Thursday Apr. 13, 2006)
  SOCLE Technology Corp., a provider of SoC design services and platform solutions, and UMC, a leading global semiconductor company, today announced that SOCLE has validated in silicon its ARM926EJ-based SoC platform. The platform, which leverages UMC's L90
  
  
• Global Unichip Presents the 90nm LP ARM926EJ Test Chip, UTP0010A, to Accelerate System Prototyping (Wednesday Apr. 12, 2006)
  Global Unichip Corp. (GUC), a leading SoC design foundry today released the 90 nanometer (nm) ARM926EJ hard-macro and test chip. This solution shortens development time for system prototyping by simplifying ARM hard-macro integration into TSMC’s 90nm Low
  
  
• Silicon Image to Port HDMI(TM) Receiver IP Core to UMC's 90nm Process Technology; IP Targets SoC Designs for High-Definition Media Applications (Tuesday Apr. 11, 2006)
  Silicon Image, Inc. (Nasdaq:SIMG), a leader in the secure distribution, presentation and storage of high-definition content, and UMC (NYSE:UMC)(TSE:2303), a leading global semiconductor foundry, today announced an agreement to port to UMC's 90nm process t
  
  
• Ateme Unveils its MPEG-4 AVC High Profile High Definition Real Time Encoder (Tuesday Apr. 11, 2006)
  ATEME (www.ateme.com), world leader in video compression technology, introduces its MPEG-4 AVC / H.264 real-time High Definition Main Profile and High Profile hardware encoder. ATEME's encoder achieves unprecedented video quality in an extremely compact f
  
  
• Impinj's 'Try It Now' Program Removes Barriers to Semiconductor IP Adoption (Monday Apr. 10, 2006)
  Impinj, Inc., the leading supplier of embedded nonvolatile memories (NVM) and RFID semiconductors, today announced its 'Try It Now' program to ease adoption of the company's AEON® family of nonvolatile memory (NVM) IP.
  
  
• Wipro-NewLogic announces availability of its Serial ATA series of Intellectual Property Cores (Monday Apr. 10, 2006)
  Wipro-NewLogic, the Semiconductor Intellectual Property arm of Wipro Technologies, today announced the availability of its Serial ATA (SATA) series of Intellectual Property cores. Wipro Technologies, the global IT Services division of Wipro Limited (NYSE:
  
  
• Morpho Technologies Introduces Integrated WiMAX System Solution; Licensable Hardware and Software IP Solution Delivers up to a 21-Month Advantage in Time-to-Market (Wednesday Apr. 05, 2006)
  orpho Technologies, the leader in design and development of ultra high-performance Digital Signal Processors (DSP) for multi-mode broadband wireless solutions, today announced the introduction of a new, integrated WiMAX system solution.
  
  
• Nantero Proves NRAM Scalability Successfully Fabricates 22nm Memory Switch (Wednesday Apr. 05, 2006)
  Nantero, Inc announced today that it has fabricated and successfully tested a 22-nanometer (nm) NRAMTM memory switch. This switch demonstrates that NRAMTM is scalable to numerous process technology nodes over several decades. NRAMTM is a rewritable memory
  
  
• ANADIGICS Expands Intellectual Property Portfolio; ANADIGICS Granted Five New Patents for Innovations in RFIC Design (Wednesday Apr. 05, 2006)
  ANADIGICS, Inc., a leading supplier of wireless and broadband solutions, today announced five new patents covering innovations in the design and development of radio frequency integrated circuits (RFICs). The patents strengthen the Company's impressive in
  
  
• SafeNet Announces New Multi-Gigabit Security IP Cores for System on Chip Designs (Monday Apr. 03, 2006)
  With the new SafeXcel IP cores, System on Chip (SoC) vendors can now build processors that support the cryptographic algorithms LRW-AES, AES-GCM, SHA-384 and SHA-512, allowing semiconductor vendors to build robust high-performance security into next-gener
  
  
• MIPS Technologies and msystems Team Up on Security; New Safe-SOC Security Platform Developed for STB, DTV, Consumer Electronics, Networking and Mobile Markets (Monday Apr. 03, 2006)
  MIPS Technologies, Inc. and msystems today announced the joint development of the Safe-SOC™ security platform based on msystems’ mSafe™ security intellectual property (IP) and MIPS Technologies’ industry leading processor architecture.
  
  
• Xilinx Announces Industry's Lowest Cost Programmable PCI Express Starter Kit (Monday Apr. 03, 2006)
  Fully compliant with PCI Express specification v1.1, the new kit is based on the company's low-cost family of Spartan(TM)-3 FPGAs and uses the PX1011A PHY (physical layer) from Philips and an optimized PCI Express IP core from the Xilinx LogiCORE(TM) port
  
  
• Kaben Developing Second Generation Synthesizer IP (Monday Apr. 03, 2006)
  Kaben Research Inc., a leading developer of mixed-signal, Intellectual Property (IP) blocks for Wireless, System-on-a-Chip (SoC) manufacturers, announced today that it is developing a Second Generation Delta-Sigma Synthesizer architecture. The new design
  
  
• Acacia Semiconductor Introduces a Silicon Proven 14-bit 10MS/s ADC IP Dissipating only 14mW (Thursday Mar. 30, 2006)
  Acacia Semiconductor today announced it has proved in silicon a 14-bit ADC IP, code-named AS1410aT, targeting communications and consumer applications
  
  
• MIPS Technologies' Announces Availability of 850MHz MIPS32(R) 24KE(TM) Processor Core Family (Wednesday Mar. 29, 2006)
  MIPS Technologies, Inc. today announced that the embedded industry's highest-performance, lowest power, 32-bit synthesizable processor cores with integrated DSP functionality have been released for general availability and licensing
  
  
• Chipidea introduces Advanced Power Management IP (Tuesday Mar. 28, 2006)
  Chipidea, the world leader in analog and mixed-signal semiconductor intellectual property, today introduces three of its most advanced DC/DC converter cores for high-volume integrated circuit designs targeted for the consumer electronics market.
  
  
• ATEME Releases Revolutionary Single-Chip Main Profile MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 Encoder (Friday Mar. 24, 2006)
  
  
  
• LTRIM Technologies New LTR2500-T13M Li-Ion Battery Compatible DC-DC Converter IP Ideal for SoC Designs (Friday Mar. 24, 2006)
  LTRIM Technologies, a leading provider of high performance CMOS analog intellectual property (IP), today announced the new LTR2500-T13M Li-Ion battery compatible DC-DC converter IP block, which is now available in TSMC CMOS mixed-signal/RF 0.13-micron tec
  
  
• LTRIM Technologies New Family of Adaptable DC-DC Converter IP Blocks Meet SoC System Requirements (Thursday Mar. 23, 2006)
  LTRIM Technologies, a leading provider of high performance CMOS analog intellectual property (IP), today announced a new family of high efficiency, fixed frequency step-down and/or step-up (buck/boost) DC-DC converter IP blocks, available now in TSMC CMOS
  
  
• Sun Microsystems Expands Community for SPARC With Release of UltraSPARC T1 Processor Design Under Free, GNU GPL Open Source License (Wednesday Mar. 22, 2006)
  Sun Microsystems Inc. today announced a significant milestone in its OpenSPARC Initiative aimed at the creation of the world's first multi-core, multi-threaded eco-system: publication of the hardware design point and the Solaris 10 Operating System (OS) p
  
  
• Chipidea extends its IP Portfolio for Video applications with a new very compact 210MHz Analog Front-End (AFE) in 0.13um CMOS technology (Tuesday Mar. 21, 2006)
  Chipidea extends its IP Portfolio for Video applications with a new very compact 210MHz Analog Front-End (AFE) in 0.13ìm CMOS technology. This AFE with only 2.75mm2 is the most recent IP for high-end PC-Graphics applications. A similar AFE in 0.18ìm CMOS
  
  
• StarGen announces availability of ASI EndPoint Core for Xilinx FPGA (Tuesday Mar. 21, 2006)
  StarGen, the market leader in Advanced Switching Interconnect (ASI) solutions, announced general availability of FPGA core IP that provides ASI endpoint functionality to application specific silicon. This highly efficient core is currently targeted to Xil
  
  
• New ARC Sound Advanced Subsystem Brings New Capabilities to Low-Power Audio Products (Tuesday Mar. 21, 2006)
  ARC International (LSE: ARK), the world leader in configurable CPU/DSP cores and application subsystems, today announced the ARC™ Sound Advanced Subsystem, a configurable solution that is pre-verified to reduce component cost and power while accelerating
  
  
• Actel Fusion and New Pulse Width Modulation Core Offer New Levels of Flexibility for Embedded Mixed-Signal Applications (Monday Mar. 20, 2006)
  Actel's CorePWM Enables Single-chip, Closed-loop Control Systems