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• Texas Instruments and Altera Partner to Deliver Low-Cost PCI Express (Wednesday Mar. 15, 2006)
  Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) (NYSE: TXN) and Altera Corporation (NASDAQ: ALTR) today announced the availability of a low-cost, PCI-SIG-compliant solution that reduces the cost and accelerates the development of PCI Express-based systems.
  
  
• Faraday and ICL Successfully Developed a Dual Application SOC Platform to Breathe a New Life in the Network Surveillance and Network TV Industries (Monday Mar. 13, 2006)
  The platform is capable of processing audio/video streaming, video compression, and network data storage. In addition, it also integrated ICL's application software that caters to network surveillance camera and IP TV station, which includes high performa
  
  
• Tallika and Intoto Collaborate on Integrated Security for Next-Generation Security Semiconductor Solutions (Wednesday Mar. 08, 2006)
  As part of this collaboration, customers integrating Tallika’s IPsec security IP will be able to leverage Intoto’s market-leading iGateway security software in bringing nextgeneration networking and communication products to market.
  
  
• GDA Announces PCI Express Gen II (Version 0.7) Technology Compliance (Wednesday Mar. 08, 2006)
  GDA Technologies, a fast-growing supplier of Intellectual Property (IP) and Electronic Design Services (EDS), today announced the availability of Gen II (Version 0.7) Compliant PCI Express Interface Controller (GPEX), featuring a highly flexible and confi
  
  
• MENTA unveils new eFPGA technology (Tuesday Mar. 07, 2006)
  MENTA, a fabless semiconductor company, is presenting a solution for IC designers who need an embedded FPGA (eFPGA) macro in their ASIC or SoC design. Our solution provides a complete set of software and hardware IP solutions for Digital Signal Processing
  
  
• SoC Solutions Delivers Ready-to-Use IP Subsystems for Cortus Processors (Tuesday Mar. 07, 2006)
  SoC Solutions today announced the availability of ready-to-use IP subsystems for the Cortus ultra-low power, very small, high-performance 32-bit processor core targeting the 8/16-bit upgrade market.
  
  
• H.264 Codec Leader Launches Hardware IP for High Definition Encoder for Resolutions up to 1080p (Tuesday Mar. 07, 2006)
  WWComs Delivers Commercially Successful H.264 Algorithms in Silicon IP
  
  
• ARM Announces Static Memory Controllers To Provide Flexible, Comprehensive Memory Interface (Monday Mar. 06, 2006)
  New configurable PrimeCell products empower designers with the performance and flexibility to fully optimize their designs
  
  
• ARM Releases AMBA 3 AXI Assertions (Monday Mar. 06, 2006)
  SystemVerilog and Open Verification Library (OVL) assertions provide ''Golden'' reference to accelerate broad industry adoption
  
  
• CAST and Cortus to Partner on New Processor Cores (Monday Mar. 06, 2006)
  The new partnership joins the former-Siemens/Infineon processor design experts of Cortus with the successful engineering, support, and marketing team of 13-year-old CAST. The resulting new cores will likely include competitive 32-bit processors that compl
  
  
• ASIC Architect's PCI Express Switch Controller Core Passes PCI-SIG Compliance and Interoperability Testing (Monday Mar. 06, 2006)
  ASIC Architect demonstrates its expanded capability in PCI Express™ solution space -- Endpoint, Root Port, Switch Port, Dual Mode -- Root/Endpoint. ASIC Architect's quality products come with quality support from product integration through silicon bring-
  
  
• SOISIC Teams With Leading Foundry to Produce Industry's First SOI-Based ASIC Devices (Friday Mar. 03, 2006)
  Soisic SA, a provider of silicon-on-insulator intellectual property, has said that the era of foundry SOI manufacture has begun with a customer producing its first working silicon using an ASIC-based SOI design process in 90-nanometer SOI CMOS process tec
  
  
• AMCC and Intrinsity, Inc. Reveal PowerPC Core Development Pact (Thursday Mar. 02, 2006)
  Utilizing its Fast14 technology, Intrinsity and AMCC will develop a new PowerPC® embedded processor core that will offer leading edge performance and low power operation as well as full compatibility with the industry standard PowerPC® instruction set arc
  
  
• IBM announces enhancements to PowerPC portfolio, new Power licensee (Tuesday Feb. 28, 2006)
  U.S. Government Trusted Access Program licenses IBM's PowerPC 405 and 440 processor cores
  
  
• Innovative Semiconductor Teams with Denali to Deliver High-Quality USB OTG Solutions (Tuesday Feb. 28, 2006)
  Denali's PureSpec™ Used to Confirm Compliance, Interoperability of Innovative Semiconductor's USB OTG Chips
  
  
• French startup, Cortus SA, offers compact 32-bit RISC (Monday Feb. 27, 2006)
  A French startup company, Cortus SA, has developed a highly compact 32-bit RISC processor for embedded applications which it has begun offering for license.
  
  
• Arteris Ships Arteris NoC Solution 1.4 to Accelerate Adoption of Network on Chip (Monday Feb. 27, 2006)
  New Version of Arteris NoC IP Library and Design Tools Enhance Productivity for Constructing On-Chip Communications Subsystems; Adds AMBA(R) 3 AXI Support
  
  
• Impinj Aligns With UMC to Deliver Logic NVM Cores on 0.18um and 0.13um Process Technologies (Monday Feb. 27, 2006)
  Proven Technology Enables Standard Logic CMOS Integration With No Additional Processing
  
  
• Akustica Launches the World's First Single-Chip Microphone (Monday Feb. 27, 2006)
  Based on CMOS MEMS Technology, Akustica Microphones Solve Acoustic Performance Issues in Laptops, Mobile Phones, Digital-Video and Still Cameras
  
  
• Elliptic Semiconductor Ports Security IP Cores to Lattice FPGAs (Friday Feb. 24, 2006)
  Encryption and Decryption Cores Protect Digital Information
  
  
• JMicron Technology Corp Develops Serial ATA II (3.0 Gpbs) PHY Core on UMC's 90nm G and 90nm SP Processes (Wednesday Feb. 22, 2006)
  These two IPs’ formal release depicts another evidence of tight and successful technology cooperation between UMC and JMicron Technology Corp after 130 nm SATA II PHY IP announcement by both companies in February of year 2005
  
  
• Xilinx And ISR Technologies Announce Software Defined Radio Kit Supporting Partial Reconfiguration And SCA-Enabled SoC (Wednesday Feb. 22, 2006)
  Virtex-4 Platform FPGA-based solution can lower the power and cost of SCA-compliant modems
  
  
• Tensilica Introduces Diamond Standard Processor Core Family, Leading the Industry in Low Power and High Performance (Monday Feb. 20, 2006)
  Tensilica, Inc., today introduced the Diamond Standard family of processor cores, a set of six off-the-shelf synthesizable cores that range from area-efficient, low-power controllers to high-performance DSPs (Digital Signal Processors), all of which lead
  
  
• Tensilica Introduces Diamond Standard 570T with 50% Lower Power Consumption, Twice the Performance and Half the Area of ARM11 Processor Core (Monday Feb. 20, 2006)
  This high-performance 3-issue static superscalar, synthesizable controller core provides more than twice the performance than the ARM1156T2-S in half the area and with less than half of the power
  
  
• Tensilica Introduces Fastest, Lowest Power Linux Processor Core (Monday Feb. 20, 2006)
  New Diamond Standard 232L Offers More Features, Better Performance and One-Third Less Power Dissipation of ARM926
  
  
• Tensilica Announces Diamond Standard 330HiFi, a Low-Power 24-bit Audio DSP (Monday Feb. 20, 2006)
  Twenty Audio Application Software Solutions Available for New Diamond 330HiFi Core
  
  
• New ARC Video Subsystem Delivers Complete Solution for Portable Multimedia Devices (Monday Feb. 20, 2006)
  The First Multi-Standard Subsystem with Pre-Verified Video Decoders
  
  
• MoSys' 1T-SRAM(R) CLASSIC Running in Volume Production on Chartered's 0.13-micron Process (Wednesday Feb. 15, 2006)
  Shipping High-Performance Networking and Low-Power Portable Storage Applications
  
  
• LSI Logic Announces Cached DSP Cores for Innovative Wireless, Voice and Multimedia Systems (Tuesday Feb. 14, 2006)
  New Cores Featuring Cached Memory Offer Increased Design Flexibility
  
  
• Tallika's PCI Express Endpoint Controller and SMSC's PCI Express PHY Successfully Pass PCI-SIG Compliance (Monday Feb. 13, 2006)
  Tallika Corporation, a Semiconductor Intellectual Property and Design Services Company, announced today that its PCI Express Endpoint Controller Core together with SMSC’s PCI-Express PHY has passed all PCI-SIG Compliance tests including the PCI-SIG define