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• Imagination Technologies debuts accelerated OpenVG technology on the PowerVR MBX Family at 3GSM 2006 (Monday Feb. 13, 2006)
  PowerVR MBX, the leading mobile graphics acceleration solution, offers full acceleration for OpenVG, achieving many times the performance of software implementations with significantly reduced power consumption.
  
  
• StarCore and Hantro announce immediate availability of high performance H.264 video decoder (Monday Feb. 13, 2006)
  StarCore LLC, a leading provider of processor intellectual property (IP) and Hantro Products Oy, a leading supplier of video software and hardware solutions today announced the immediate availability of an optimized H.264 software video decoder for the St
  
  
• LTRIM's System Supervisor IP Blocks Accurately Sense Temperature at Low Power (Monday Feb. 13, 2006)
  LTRIM Technologies, a leading provider of high performance CMOS analog Intellectual Property (IP), today announced the availability of a family of system supervisor functions, covering Power On Reset (POR), Thermal Monitor, and Temperature Sensor IP block
  
  
• Silembia unveils it DVB-H Silicon IP at 3GSM World Congress 2006 in Barcelona, 13th to 16th February (Monday Feb. 13, 2006)
  Unveiling DVB-H Silicon IP demonstrated on PDA running real life transmission
  
  
• Faraday Introduced a New MP3 Player SoC - FIE7010 HD-based Audio Platform Solution (Wednesday Feb. 08, 2006)
  A SoC Platform Solution with Audio/Video Processing Algorithms that Combine MP3 and iPod Photo–like Functions
  
  
• ARM and Handshake Solutions Announce Availability of Industry's First Clockless Processor for Real-Time Chip Designs (Wednesday Feb. 08, 2006)
  New ARM Processor Developed With Philips Handshake Solutions Offers Low-Power, Clockless Technology
  
  
• LSI Logic First to Integrate Dual XFI SerDes Into 10G Ethernet SoC Design (Wednesday Feb. 08, 2006)
  Ample Communications Redhawk 2-port 10GE MAC Demonstrated in LSI Booth at DesignCon 2006
  
  
• Xilinx Ships FPGA Industry's Only Compliant Programmable x8 PCI Express IP Core (Tuesday Feb. 07, 2006)
  The Xilinx PCIe IP Core is compliant to the PCI Express base specification v1.1 and is the only programmable x8 lane PCIe IP Core to have successfully completed all PCI Express compliance and interoperability tests administered at PCI-SIG PCI Express Comp
  
  
• Xelic Announces Family of SONET/SDH Transport Processor Cores for Integration into FPGA or ASIC Networking Applications (Tuesday Feb. 07, 2006)
  Xelic Transport Processor cores are available for OC-3 (XCS3F), OC-12 (XCS12F), OC-48 (XCS48F), OC-192 (XCS192F), and OC-768 (XCS768F) data rates
  
  
• Synopsys' New Designware USB 2.0 nanoPHY IP to Cut Power and Size in Half (Monday Feb. 06, 2006)
  Enables Longer Battery Life and Lower Cost for Mobile and High-Volume Consumer Products
  
  
• Rambus Introduces New Innovative Decision Feedback Equalization Technology (Monday Feb. 06, 2006)
  SmartDFE™ achieves substantial cost savings and performance increase
  
  
• New Multi-threading Solution From MIPS Technologies Delivers Significant Gains in System Performance for the Embedded Market (Monday Feb. 06, 2006)
  Initial Licensees of the MIPS32(R) 34K(TM) Core Family Include iVivity, Mobileye and PMC-Sierra
  
  
• Lightspeed Launches Reconfigurable IP Technology Offering (Monday Feb. 06, 2006)
  Mask Reconfigurable Logic Array Supports Any Process, Any Standard-Cell Library
  
  
• CAST Rolls Ten Years of 8051 Experience into Configurable Processor Core (Friday Feb. 03, 2006)
  8051-compatible IP core runs eight times faster than original, gives designers new flexibility and value based on 100+ customer experiences
  
  
• Startup prepares UWB competitor for market (Thursday Feb. 02, 2006)
  Startup company xG Technology LLC is preparing to bring to market a proprietary technology which it claims offers competition to ultra-wideband (UWB) techniques and can more efficiently use wireless spectrum and support more efficient communication over w
  
  
• Digital Blocks Announces the Re-launch of its DB6845 CRT Controller IP Core (Monday Jan. 30, 2006)
  Originally Marketed through a Business Partner, Digital Blocks offers the DB6845 Direct with the Launch of its New Web Site.
  
  
• LTRIM's DC-DC Converter IP Now Available at SMIC (Friday Jan. 27, 2006)
  High Efficiency, Low Power DC-DC Converters Designed to Extend Battery Life Available in 0.18-Micron Technology
  
  
• Global Unichip Announced the World No.1 UTM0034A, an ARM926EJ Testchip with 2 AHB Interfaces to Shorten Time-to-Design & Time-to-Market (Thursday Jan. 26, 2006)
  Global Unichip Corp. (GUC), a leading SoC design foundry and TSMC partner, today announced the world first and only one ARM926EJ testchip UTM0034A(TM) featuring 2 sets of AHB interface. Unlike other circulated testchip solutions with single AHB interface,
  
  
• Recore Systems launches with reconfigurable core (Thursday Jan. 26, 2006)
  Recore Systems BV is a startup company formed by researchers into reconfigurable technology at the University of Twente at Enschede. Recore (Enschede, The Netherlands) was founded by Paul Heysters, Gerard Rauwerda and Lodewijk Smit, late in 2005 but it ha
  
  
• MindTree Announces Portfolio of Ultrawideband Intellectual Property for License to Global Silicon Vendors (Wednesday Jan. 25, 2006)
  MindTree’s UWB IPs branded as UltraWiz, is based on the WiMedia UWB common radio platform, and will power UWB based consumer electronics and wireless products deliver a maximum throughput of 480 mbps of audio, video and data over the air
  
  
• SafeNet Announces Inline IPSec Security Engine for System on Chip Designs; Silicon-Proven IP Enables OEMs to Build Gigabit VPN Security into High Performance Processors (Wednesday Jan. 25, 2006)
  The SafeXcel IP Inline Security Engine takes a significant step beyond traditional SoC security architectures with micro-programmed hardware for intensive packet classification, filtering, and flow processing for every packet. The result is superior data
  
  
• ARM Processor and Physical IP deliver groundbreaking 750 MHz ARM11 Implementation (Wednesday Jan. 25, 2006)
  The optimized implementation delivers an industry-leading performance of more than 920 Dhrystone MIPS for existing applications and operating systems without the need for expensive software re-design or re-compilation.
  
  
• Evatronix SA successfully completes High-Speed USB On-The-Go compliance testing procedure for its USB OTG controller core (Wednesday Jan. 25, 2006)
  The reference design submitted for compliance testing of the USBHS-OTG-SD-S core was a mass storage class design, implementing host and device operation modes and consisting with a handful of Evatronix IP cores (including R80515 8-bit microcontroller core
  
  
• Synopsys DesignWare IP Enables Next-Generation PCI Express 2.0 Products (Tuesday Jan. 24, 2006)
  Synopsys is First to Deliver PCI Express Gen II Digital IP for Increased Bandwidth in Networking, Embedded and Computer Applications
  
  
• CEVA Announces First Available Silicon of Mobile-Media2000 Solution for High-End Mobile Multimedia Applications (Tuesday Jan. 24, 2006)
  Silicon-Proven DSP-Based Mobile-Media Platform Offers Complete Set of Multimedia Codecs, Including H.264 Encoding and Decoding up to D1 Resolution
  
  
• Toshiba Adds Multi-Protocol High-Speed SERDES I/O Core Family That Meets High Speed Requirements of Storage, Networking, Consumer and Gaming Markets (Tuesday Jan. 24, 2006)
  Designed in the Toshiba 90nm Process for Small Silicon Footprint and Reduced Cost; Scalable for More than 64 Ports of Fibre Channel
  
  
• SNOWBUSH microelectronics Announces 10-Bit, 140 MSPS, ADC IP Core in Foundry Standard 0.18 um CMOS Process (Monday Jan. 23, 2006)
  High Speed ADC Responds to the Needs of Power Line Networking, Wireless Networking, Data Acquisition and Video Graphics Markets
  
  
• Innovative Silicon Inc. Announces Silicon Validation of Z-RAM Technology (Monday Jan. 23, 2006)
  Z-RAM Proven Far More Resistant to Soft Errors Than SRAM Technologies
  
  
• Sun Microsystems Launches OpenSPARC Project - Ignites New Open Source Community for Breakthrough UltraSPARC T1 Processor (Wednesday Jan. 18, 2006)
  Sun Open Sources Microprocessor Design, Lowering Barriers to Innovation and Application Development for First Purpose-Built Processor for the Next Internet Build-Out
  
  
• Arasan Demonstrates World's First SD / SDIO Host Ver 2.00 IP Core with Advanced DMA (Monday Jan. 16, 2006)
  The Ver 2.00 compliant Standard SD Host supports the Advanced DMA function which reduces the protocol overhead and improves throput. The IP has already been delivered as the standard release to recent customers and as an upgrade to existing customers