London, United Kingdom February 11, 2010 –  NXP Semiconductors has announced that its CGV™ series of JESD204A-compliant data converters are now interoperable with Xilinx® high performance Virtex®-6 FPGAs and low-cost Spartan®-6 FPGA families. Assured interoperability and interworking between programmable logic devices and high-speed converters is a critical acceptance criterion for equipment designers, because it eliminates risk and cost associated with project schedules.

The new JESD204A-compliant CGV converters from NXP are suitable for cellular base stations and other wireless communication infrastructure equipment, as well as medical, instrumentation and military/aerospace applications. NXP has developed dedicated CGV ADC and DAC interoperability demo and high performance data acquisition reference design / evaluation boards based on Virtex FPGAs which are available to customers immediately. NXP also offers CGV ADC and DAC demo boards with the FMC interconnect interface for use with Virtex-6 FPGA and Spartan-6 FPGA-based evaluation boards.  NXP first publically demonstrated JESD204A CGV data converters interworking with Virtex FPGAs in June 2009 at the IEEE MTT 2009 International Microwave Symposium in Boston.  NXP has more than 12 months of JESD204A interworking experience with Xilinx FPGAs, an important consideration for prospective customers.

“NXP Semiconductors is pleased to extend this assured interoperability to our CGV customers, many of whom are interested in using the latest Xilinx FPGAs in their system designs”, said Maury Wood, senior director and product line manager, high speed Converters, NXP Semiconductors. “NXP offers several demo boards based on Xilinx Virtex FPGAs which offer clear evidence of this device interoperability.  We’ve also demonstrated interworking during the worldwide Avnet X-fest events beginning in October 2009”, said Wood.

“Through strong collaboration with NXP, we are able to deliver seamless interoperability between our latest FPGA families and NXP’s data converters”, said Manuel Uhm, director of wireless communications at Xilinx. “Available Xilinx FPGA-based JESD204A reference designs ease the transition from IO limited parallel LVDS based data converters to Serdes-based multi-module high performance data converters while reducing board complexity and system cost,” said Uhm.

Virtex®-6 and Spartan®-6 FPGAs provide the programmable silicon foundation for Xilinx® Base-level, Domain-specific, and Market-specific Targeted Design Platforms that enable designers to accelerate innovation and improve differentiation across a wide range of markets and applications. Built for high-performance, compute-intensive applications, Virtex-6 FPGAs deliver over 1Tbps of digital signal processing bandwidth and more than 11Gbps of serial connectivity that is fully scalable and optimized to reduce overall system power consumption. Spartan-6 FPGAs offer an optimal balance of cost, power, and performance that for the first time brings low power and ubiquitous high-speed connectivity to price-sensitive, high-volume markets.

Availability

NXP CGV evaluation boards are available to qualified OEMs worldwide. For more information about NXP’s data converters, please visit:http://www.nxp.com/products/data_converters/index.html#preview

About NXP Semiconductors

NXP Semiconductors provides High Performance Mixed Signal and Standard Product solutions that leverage its leading RF, Analog, Power, Digital Processing and manufacturing expertise. These innovations are used in a wide range of automotive, industrial, consumer, lighting, medical, computing and identification applications. Headquartered in Europe, the company has about 29,000 employees working in more than 30 countries and posted sales of USD 5.4 billion in 2008. News from NXP is located at www.nxp.com.

aicas GmbH will introduce their brand new analysis tool for formal reviews of Java programs at the Embedded World trade fair in March. VeriFlux is an automatic static code analysis tool for use in complete applications, as well as custom program parts. Nothing needs to be changed in the application to carry out the analysis. Error sources such as run-time errors or thread-related errors are highlighted in the source code. “VeriFlux was originally developed for safety critical applications, however ordinary Java applications can profit from it as well”, explains Dr. James J. Hunt, CEO of aicas GmbH. “Early detection of bugs at the source code level reduces the need for dynamic testing, and helps prevent bugs from making it into the field, resulting in a substantial reduction in development costs and time.” To try VeriFlux first hand, please apply for a free evaluation version at http://www.aicas.com/downloads.html.

About aicas (www.aicas.com)

aicas is a leading vendor of hard realtime capable Java Virtual Machines for embedded applications. In addition, the company provides analysis and optimization tools that help developers improve application quality. aicas provides customization services for JamaicaVM in order to meet the needs of its customers, especially in connection with various target environments. JamaicaVM is unique in its market segment: it is the only Java implementation with a full deterministic Garbage Collector for hard realtime applications. aicas serves the aerospace, industrial control, instrumentation, and automotive markets. Its customer list includes Boeing, EADS Astrium, EADS Military Air Systems, Honeywell, and Siemens. The company’s headquarters are in Karlsruhe, Germany, with subsidiary offices in the USA, France and Japan. In addition, aicas has reseller relationships with a group of highly qualified companies in Europe and Asia.

MOBILE WORLD CONGRESS, Barcelona -February 10, 2010 – MIPS Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: MIPS), a leading provider of industry-standard processor architectures and cores, and SySDSoft Inc., a leading supplier of Mobile WiMAX and LTE embedded software solutions for 4G, today announced they are teaming to enable LTE on the MIPS® architecture. As a new member of the MIPS Alliance Program, SySDSoft is working closely with MIPS Technologies to provide an optimized MIPS32® LTE protocol stack that MIPS licensees can leverage across the entire range of MIPS processor cores. SySDSoft will initially port its proven stack to a MIPS32 24K® processor core, and will share initial results of the collaboration at the upcoming Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

MIPS Technologies already has multiple licensees in the LTE and WiMAX area, with a number of WiMAX chipsets and upcoming LTE handset and basestation designs in the market. The work between MIPS Technologies and SySDSoft complements the work that many MIPS licensees are already doing in these areas by providing fully tested, proven MAC and PHY software designs to help speed time to market. There will be several MIPS-Based^TM WiMAX and LTE demonstrations during Mobile World Congress.

“SySDSoft is widely recognized for the quality of its software solutions, so it makes sense for us to partner with them as we make deeper inroads into the mobile market,” said Art Swift, vice president of marketing, MIPS Technologies. “With the global transition to 4G, the high bandwidth standards are very similar to wireless technologies where MIPS Technologies has a strong presence. We are excited to leverage this trend and enable our customers to get to market quickly with proven mobile solutions.”

“We are pleased to work with MIPS Technologies to make 4G telephony a reality for MIPS licensees,” said Khaled Ismail, CEO, SySDSoft. “With our mobile WiMAX and LTE stacks, SySDSoft is uniquely positioned among 4G stack offerings. Our stacks provide processing efficiency, support of very high data rates, and offer many differentiating features for baseband chipset makers. Leveraging our technology, we are confident that benchmarks will show the benefits of the MIPS architecture in terms of data compression, performance and channel utilization for 4G.”

About SySDSoft (www.sysdsoft.com):

SySDSoft Inc. designs high performance, embedded software solutions for the wireless broadband market. The company’s portfolio spans a variety of wireless standards including: WiFi 802.11, WiMAX 802.16-2004, WiMAX 802.16-2005, CDMA-DO, ZigBee 802.15.4, and 3GPP LTE. SySDSoft’s solutions, offered to silicon and portable device manufacturers, are designed to meet the substantial projected growth in wireless device markets geared towards 4G.

About MIPS Technologies, Inc. (www.mips.com):

MIPS Technologies, Inc. (NasdaqGS: MIPS) is a leading provider of industry-standard processor architectures and cores that power some of the world’s most popular products for the home entertainment, communications, networking and portable multimedia markets. These include broadband devices from Linksys, DTVs and digital consumer devices from Sony, DVD recordable devices from Pioneer, digital set-top boxes from Motorola, network routers from Cisco, 32-bit microcontrollers from Microchip Technology and laser printers from Hewlett-Packard. Founded in 1998, MIPS Technologies is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, with offices worldwide.