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SOI Industry Consortium announces FD-SOI technology offers substantial power advantages for next-generation mobile and consumer applications

February 10, 2011

Boston, MA, February 10, 2011 – The SOI Industry Consortium today announced results of an assessment and characterization of Fully-Depleted Silicon-on-Insulator (FD-SOI) technology, demonstrating that this advanced CMOS silicon technology is well suited to address the increasing low-power, high-performance requirements for mobile and consumer applications. A joint collaboration between Consortium members—ARM, GLOBALFOUNDRIES, IBM, STMicroelectronics, Soitec, and CEA-Leti—has demonstrated key benefits of planar FD-SOI technology for these applications based on an ARM processor. Planar FD-SOI technology enables substantial improvements in performance and power consumption for next-generation mobile devices, delivering high-performance applications with rich multimedia and communications functionality, … Read More → "SOI Industry Consortium announces FD-SOI technology offers substantial power advantages for next-generation mobile and consumer applications"

MIPS Technologies and 4M Wireless Demonstrate 3G/4G Multimode Protocol Stacks on MIPS® Architecture

February 10, 2011

SUNNYVALE, Calif. – February 10, 2011 – MIPS Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: MIPS), a leading provider of industry-standard processor architectures and cores for digital consumer, home networking, wireless, communications and business applications, announced today that 4M Wireless, the leading provider of LTE protocol stack software, will demonstrate 3G/4G multimode User Equipment (UE) operation on the MIPS® architecture during the 2011 Mobile World Congress, being held February 14-17, in Barcelona, Spain. 4M Wireless has ported its PS100 LTE Protocol Stack for UE terminals onto a platform based on the MIPS32® 24K® core running the Android™ operating system. The … Read More → "MIPS Technologies and 4M Wireless Demonstrate 3G/4G Multimode Protocol Stacks on MIPS® Architecture"

Digi-Key Corporation and Interlink Electronics Announce Signing of Global Distribution Agreement

February 10, 2011

Thursday, February 10, 2011 – THIEF RIVER FALLS, Minnesota, and Camarillo, California USA – Electronic components distributor Digi-Key Corporation, recognized by design engineers as having the industry’s Read More → "Digi-Key Corporation and Interlink Electronics Announce Signing of Global Distribution Agreement"

New XMC Module with Configurable Spartan-6 FPGA Targets Cost-Sensitive Embedded Computing Tasks

February 10, 2011

WIXOM, Mich., Feb. 10, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — To address the need for low-cost configurable FPGA computing solutions, Acromag released new XMC-SLX mezzanine modules featuring an economical Read More → "New XMC Module with Configurable Spartan-6 FPGA Targets Cost-Sensitive Embedded Computing Tasks"

Saelig Weighs in With Smart Load Sensor

February 10, 2011

Pittsford, NY: Saelig Company, Inc. (Saelig) (www.saelig.com) announces LoadSense – an intelligent load sensor that can be integrated with a crane hook, fork lift or other handling device for intelligent feedback of loading events. It has an on-board single-chip computer for recording, analyzing and archiving readings, and wireless communications to transfer data in real … Read More → "Saelig Weighs in With Smart Load Sensor"

Agilent Technologies to Demonstrate Industry-First Design and Test Solutions for 3G/4G and LTE-Advanced at Mobile World Congress

February 9, 2011

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Feb. 7, 2011 – Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) will demonstrate its leading-edge communications test and measurement solutions for 3GPP LTE-Advanced, LTE,W-CDMA, HSPA+, E-EDGE (EDGE Evolution), UMA/GAN, WiMAX™, and Read More → "Agilent Technologies to Demonstrate Industry-First Design and Test Solutions for 3G/4G and LTE-Advanced at Mobile World Congress"

New Blue Pearl Software Suite Transforms IC Design Analysis, CDC Checking, SDC Creation and Validation

February 9, 2011

Blue Pearl Software has announced its new Blue Pearl Suite, the next generation electronic design automation (EDA) solution for automating design analysis, CDC (clock domaincrossing) checking, SDC (Synopsys Design Constraints) creation, visualization, andvalidation.

Blue Pearl’s new suite transforms existing EDA tool flows with a new native Windows and Linux user experience. The Blue Pearl Suite gives users immediate feedback on design analysis and CDC checking, incorporating new visualization techniques for validating automatically generated … Read More → "New Blue Pearl Software Suite Transforms IC Design Analysis, CDC Checking, SDC Creation and Validation"

SynthWorks announces Methodology and Open-Source Packages for creating Constrained Random Tests in VHDL.

February 9, 2011

PORTLAND, OREGON – February 7, 2011 – SynthWorks, a leader in VHDL training, announces its proven VHDL based constrained random and coverage driven random testbench methodology. At the heart of this methodology are packages for randomization and functional coverage that SynthWorks’ has released as an open source download.

Constrained Random Testing

Constrained random testbenches create tests by successively randomizing sequences (transactions or groups of … Read More → "SynthWorks announces Methodology and Open-Source Packages for creating Constrained Random Tests in VHDL."

Pelican Imaging Unveils Revolutionary Approach to Smartphone Cameras, Announces Three Technical Advisory Board Members

February 9, 2011

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Feb. 9, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — Pelican Imaging Corporation, a venture-backed pioneer in computational imaging, today announced that it has developed the first prototype array camera for mobile devices. In addition, the company has announced its Technical Advisory Board comprised of three leading experts in computational imaging. The members are Professor Marc Levoy, Professor Shree K. Nayar and Dr. Bedabrata Pain.

The Technical Advisory Board leverages several decades of experience in helping guide Pelican Imaging’s pioneering work building the industry’s thinnest high-resolution camera, targeting smartphones and tablets.

“We are excited about attracting some of … Read More → "Pelican Imaging Unveils Revolutionary Approach to Smartphone Cameras, Announces Three Technical Advisory Board Members"

Synopsys’ DesignWare Universal DDR Memory Controller Delivers up to 30 Percent Lower Latency and Increases System Performance

February 9, 2011

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Feb. 9, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS), a world leader in software and IP for semiconductor design, verification and manufacturing, today announced the release of its enhanced DesignWare® Universal DDR Memory Controller, which delivers up to 30 percent lower latency and offers up to 15 percent higher throughput than the previous generation controller. The DDR Memory Controller offers new features such as high-priority bypass and configurable ‘look-ahead.’ The high-priority bypass option allows designers to improve latency by bypassing the scheduling … Read More → "Synopsys’ DesignWare Universal DDR Memory Controller Delivers up to 30 Percent Lower Latency and Increases System Performance"