Nextreme NEW ASICs Enhance Video System Performance by 50%

SANTA CLARA, CA, – October 28, 2009 – eASIC Corporation, a provider of NEW ASIC devices, today announced that Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (Kyoto Works), a leading global manufacturer of display wall systems, has selected eASIC’s Nextreme NEW ASICs for its Seventy Series Display Wall Cube Systems. Mitsubishi Electric used eASIC’s Nextreme devices to replace existing gate-arrays and improve the video processing system performance by 50%.

Mitsubishi Electric is one of a number of manufacturers that are aggressively looking to increase performance and functionality by replacing … Read More → "Mitsuishi Electric Selects eASIC For Display Wall Cubes"

MILPITAS, CA – October 29, 2009 – Linear Technology announces the LTC3606B, a 2.25MHz, synchronous buck regulator with programmable average input current limit. It can deliver up to 800mA of continuous output current with efficiencies as high as 96%. Using a constant frequency and current mode architecture, the LTC3606B operates from an input voltage range of 2.5V to 5.5V, making it ideal for single-cell Li-Ion and USB applications. It can generate output voltages as low as 0.6V, enabling it to power the latest generation of low voltage DSPs and microcontrollers. The LTC3606B uses a switching frequency of 2.25MHz, allowing the … Read More → "2.25MHz Synchronous Step-Down DC/DC Converter with Programmable Input Current Limit Delivers up to 800mA"

National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan Uses Virtex-5 and Spartan-3A FPGAs in its Newest Cryptographic Evaluation and Partial Reconfiguration Systems

TOKYO, Oct. 29 — Xilinx K.K., the Japanese subsidiary of Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ:XLNX) , today announced that the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan (AIST) selected Virtex®-5 and Spartan®-3A FPGA families for its SASEBO-GII boards for side channel attack standard evaluation and partial reconfiguration. The SASEBO-GII boards will enable the development and evaluation of performance and security of cryptographic circuits to contribute to the international … Read More → "Xilinx FPGAs Contribute to Global Standardization of Cryptographic Module Security Evaluation"

Connectivity IP leader continues to innovate with the DesignWare USB 2.0 picoPHY – the first PHY IP to support USB 2.0 Battery Charging v1.1 and OTG 2.0 specifications

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – October 29, 2009 — Synopsys, Inc. (NASDAQ: SNPS), a world leader in software and IP for semiconductor design, verification and manufacturing, today announced the addition of the new DesignWare(R) USB 2.0 picoPHY IP to its USB 2.0 PHY IP product line that has been successfully deployed in more than 300 customer designs, and in more than 50 different process technologies ranging from 180nm to 32nm. Targeted at mobile and high-volume consumer applications … Read More → "Synopsys unveils 30 percent smaller area, low power USB 2.0 PHY IP for 28nm processes"

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Oct.27, 2009 — Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced it is collaborating with Hermon Labs TI to provide acoustic testing for GSM/CDMA/W-CDMA/3GPP wireless handsets. Hermon Labs TI uses Agilent’s 8960 wireless communications test set as a base station emulator while their TCA 4100 software controls and measures the tests according to TS 51.010-1, TS 26.131/2 acoustic standards. The combined test solution has been validated to comply with the TS standards, ensuring a high level of reliability and quality for acoustic conformance testing.

Since the conformance test processes have been validated on the Agilent 8960, … Read More → "Agilent Technologies, Hermon Labs TI to Offer Acoustic Wireless Handset Conformance Test Solution"

New Market Specific Distributions Target Industrial Automation, Automotive, Android, Portable Multimedia Devices, and Multicore Networking Applications

SANTA CLARA, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–MontaVista® Software, Inc., the leader in embedded Linux® commercialization, today announced more new Market Specific Distributions (MSDs) for MontaVista Linux 6. The new MSDs continue to expand the market specific focus of MVL6, delivering support for industrial automation, automotive, Android, portable multimedia devices, and multicore networking applications. All the new MSDs will be available this quarter and support processors from Cavium, Freescale, Intel, and Texas Instruments.

Market Specific Distributions are built on … Read More → "MontaVista Announces Additional Platform Support with MontaVista Linux 6"

ST adopts ARM Cortex-A9 multicore processor to deliver high-performance SoCs for an enhanced HDTV experience for consumers, while raising the bar for power efficiency in home entertainment equipment

GENEVA and CAMBRIDGE, England, Oct. 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — STMicroelectronics (NYSE:STM) , one of the world’s leading set-top-box chip makers, and ARM [; (NASDAQ:ARMH) ], announced today that ST has adopted the ARM® Cortex(TM)-A9 MPCore(TM) processor, in addition to the Mali®-400 graphics processor, for its upcoming set-top-box and digital TV system-on-chip (SoC) ICs.
The Cortex-A9 MPCore processor provides ST with the scalable high performance … Read More → "STMicroelectronics and ARM Team Up To Power Next-Generation Home Entertainment"

Symmetricom’s Q-Advisor Delivers Advanced Reporting of Digital Video Quality for Cable Providers; Featured at SCTE Cable-Tec Expo – October 28-30, 2009 – Denver, Colo.

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Oct. 28, 2009 — Symmetricom®, Inc. (NASDAQ: SYMM), a worldwide leader of precise time, synchronization and video quality management technologies that optimize next generation networks, today announced key enhancements to Q-Advisor, its Network Operations Center (NOC) management software for its V-Factor® Quality of Experience (QoE) monitoring platform. New advanced reporting capabilities enable video monitoring operators to prioritize specific troubleshooting actions and manage high impact outages, saving time, … Read More → "Symmetricom Announces Key Enhancements to Q-Advisor Digital Video Monitoring and Management Software"

New Research Discovery Paves Way for Scalable, Higher Density Phase Change Memory Products

2009 International Electron Devices Meeting
SANTA CLARA, Calif. & GENEVA–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Intel Corporation and Numonyx B.V. today announced a key breakthrough in the research of phase change memory (PCM), a new non-volatile memory technology that combines many of the benefits of today’s various memory types. For the first time, researchers have demonstrated a 64Mb test chip that enables the ability to stack, or place, multiple layers of PCM arrays within a single die. These findings pave the way for … Read More → "Intel and Numonyx Achieve Research Milestone With Stacked, Cross Point Phase Change Memory Technology"

Broad DesignWare audio IP portfolio shipped in more than 100 million units

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—October 28, 2009— Synopsys, Inc. (NASDAQ: SNPS), a world leader in software and IP for semiconductor design, verification and manufacturing, today announced the availability of its 40th audio codec IP with the release of the DesignWare(r) 96 dB Hi-Fi Audio IP in the SMIC 65-nanometer (nm) process. Synopsys has been a leading provider of audio IP for more than twelve years and provides designers with high-quality audio IP solutions supporting 20 different process nodes, from 180-nanomenter (nm) to 65-nm processes and with performance … Read More → "Synopsys announces 40th DesignWare audio codec IP"