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This month BDTI and silicon intellectual property licensor ARC International announced completion of BDTI Solution Certification™ of the H.264 decode performance of the ARC Video Subsystem. The ARC Video Subsystem, the first product to be certified under BDTI's Solution Certification Service, is a programmable subsystem capable of supporting multiple video standards.
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Ellipsys will speed development cycles and enable security solutions that are a mix of hardware acceleration and software best suited to the end application. Ellipsys is designed to be portable across multiple operating systems such Linux, VxWorks and Windows Embedded CE and implements the most popular symmetric and asymmetric cryptographic algorithms.
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As with previous nodes, 32nm development activities will be conducted at IBM's state-of-the-art 300 millimeter (mm) semiconductor fabrication facility in East Fishkill, N.Y. Each company will have the ability to implement the jointly developed processes in its own manufacturing facilities.
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Teradyne is purchasing the assets and intellectual property associated with a MOSAID high performance tester platform. Teradyne will also receive an exclusive license to certain patented and non-patented intellectual property associated with MOSAID's current ATE product lines, and a non-exclusive patent license for Teradyne's ATE products.
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Arasan has licensed its CompactFlash (CF) IP Core to Samsung Electronics, Korea. Arasan's IP will be used in a wide range of Samsung Products. Samsung had also licensed Arasan's SDIO Device Controller IP which has now been used in multiple designs.
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As a result of the collaboration between the two companies, Oki Semiconductor has become a turnkey foundry for ChipX and has licensed its embedded array and Gate array technology and internally developed IP to ChipX. Oki Semiconductor has assigned all of its U.S. ASIC product backlog to ChipX and has contracted the completion of the ongoing customer designs to ChipX.
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The latest release of the IP library and accompanying tool set incorporates a range of customer-requested features to improve the efficiency and ease-of-use of implementing NoCs for multi-media, telecom infrastructure and wireless SoC designed in leading-edge manufacturing processes down to 45-nanometer (nm). Key to the release is a low-power version of the Arteris NoC IP library, aimed specifically at demanding wireless and consumer applications.
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With an embedded ARM core and on-chip peripheral functions in the FC device, ASIC customers can use FC in system level SoC design verification together with customer logic implemented on FPGA devices. Faraday's FC has been sampled at several customer sites, with general availability starting immediately
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Nordic Semiconductor and Chipidea today announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement for Chipidea to acquire the assets of Nordic Semiconductor's Data Converter IP Business Unit for $6 million in cash.
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The DesignWare digital controller IP for PCI Express 2.0 is fully compliant with the recently released PCI Express 2.0 specification and has successfully passed the latest PCI Express compliance testing at the PCI-SIG interoperability workshop held in the United States in December 2006.
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ST's Nomadik application processor to offer cutting-edge 3D games capability resulting from a strategic license with AMD for market-leading graphics acceleration technology
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The ARM Mali200™ processor delivers visually stunning 3D graphics for next-generation mobile games on smartphones and other high-end portable devices. With an extraordinarily small footprint, the ARM Mali55™ processor brings rich 3D graphics capabilities to low-cost feature phones for the first time.
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Industry's first multi-gigabit GCM/CCM/XTS triple-mode security IP core that empowers SoC vendors to design high-performance robust security products.
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The new platform will be based on the SH-Mobile G3, a single-chip system LSI which implements a baseband processor supporting HSDPA cat. 8/W-CDMA and GSM/GPRS/EDGE communications and an application processor with high-end multimedia functions, together with a reference design integrating audio, power supply, and RF front-end modules.
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Denali Software and NXP today announced that the Databahn™ PCI Express (PCIe) IP core and NXP PCIe PHY PX1011A provide customers a silicon-proven PCIe solution which is version 1.1 specification compliant.
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Total dollar license revenues in Q4 2006 grew by 26% to $55.5 million, representing 43% of group revenues, compared to $44.1 million in Q4 2005. License revenues comprised $37.4 million from PD and $18.1 million from PIPD, representing the highest ever quarterly licensing revenue for that division.
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On Friday, February 2, 2007, Transmeta began the initial phase of its re-alignment by decreasing its worldwide workforce by approximately 39 percent, or 75 employees, most of whom worked in the Company's engineering services business. The Company also took the initial steps to close its sales and support offices in Taiwan and Japan.
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The Eureka PCI Express Controller Core includes the Transaction Layer, Data Link Layer and Physical Layer of the PCI Express Specification. It conforms to the latest PCI Express revision and supports industrial standard PIPE interface for on-chip PHY core and external PHY chips. With technology independent design methodologies, Eureka’s PCI Express Controller Core can be implemented virtually in all ASIC and FPGA technologies available today.