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Revenue for the Structured ASIC category grew 20% in 2006 and is projected to increase 13% in 2007 according to Semico. Unit growth of the worldwide Structured ASIC market is forecasted at a CAGR of 28.2% in the years 2007 through 2011.
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Designed for applications like PC chipsets, set top boxes, personal video recorders, DVD Players and digital TVs, the DesignWare Wireless USB Host is based on the Wireless Host Controller Interface (WHCI) specification. Designing to the WHCI specification enables system makers to build applications on standard WHCI drivers to save months of software driver development.
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The new release includes a new I2S protocol IP for the APB bus, an AXI-to-APB3 compliant bridge with built-in fabric, and a highly configurable AXI-to-AXI bridge supporting a multi-layered AXI bus-based design. The release also includes extensive enhancements to the existing IP for the AMBA 2 and AMBA 3 AXI protocols
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Renesas Technology today announced the development of the SOUNDabout Suite as a software development kit (SDK) for microprocessors incorporating a 32-bit SuperH Family SH-4A, SH-2A, or SH3-DSP CPU core, for the development of high-sound-quality audio products using Bluetooth wireless communication technology.
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TSMC is quietly but aggressively laboring to broaden its portfolios of internally developed semiconductor intellectual property and ''proven'' third-party IP. That has some observers asking whether the company is migrating to a more ASIC-like business model--and whether third-party IP vendors should be concerned about the foundry giant's competitive ambitions.
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This successful tape-out marks the first of four 65 nm tape-outs planned by GUC in the first half of 2007. The company is also planningtwo testchip tape-outs in 45nm before the end of 2007. Additionally, projects using GUC's 90nm process will begin mass production later this year.
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Cavendish Kinetics, a fabless semiconductor IP company, announced today that National Semiconductor Corporation is working with the company to qualify its Nanomech(tm) embedded non-volatile memory technology for National's key analog and mixed signal processes.
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The Intel® CE 2110 Media Processor is a complete system-on-a-chip (SoC) architecture that combines a 1GHz processing core with powerful A/V processing and graphics, and I/O components, onto a single chip.
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Broadcom Corporation Extends Existing ARC Relationship with New 10 Year Licensing Agreement
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Vector Capital today announced that it has completed the acquisition of SafeNet in a transaction valued at approximately $634 million. The two-step acquisition consisted of a tender offer by Stealth Acquisition Corp., an affiliate of Vector, for all outstanding shares of SafeNet, Inc. into which more than 83% of the outstanding common shares of the Company were tendered and not withdrawn, followed by a merger of Stealth Acquisition Corp. with and into SafeNet.
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The PCI Express-AMBA Bridge (PAB) is a highly flexible and configurable design with a PCI Express interface on one side and an AMBA interface on the other. The Bridge architecture is such to facilitate interface with a PCI Express controller used as end-point, or root-complex.
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MOSAID's fractional-N PLL is a fully integrated, programmable, low-power, high-performance Delta-Sigma, Fractional-N product. It is optimized for line-operated and battery powered applications at system clock rates as high as 3.2GHz. The large fractional multiplication range of MOSAID's PLL enables it to address many markets and applications with a single, low-cost crystal frequency, thus reducing inventory, delivery time and bill of materials (BOM) cost.
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QIP Version 3.0 includes enhanced support for hard IP quality metrics, including support for different types of hard IP, hierarchical evaluation and graphical results representations, and many automated features that are new to this version. Included in this release is the verification IP extension which includes Quality metrics for drivers and responders, monitors, bus functional models and stimuli generators.
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S3 (Silicon and Software Systems) today announced the tape-out at 65nm of its high-performance mixed signal IP portfolio for wireless and consumer applications. S3 has already achieved multiple volume engagements with its first-time right silicon at 90nm, enabling rapid time to production revenue for its global client base.
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Ittiam Systems today announced that it has achieved the most well known ''Wi-Fi Certification'' from the Wi-Fi Alliance(R) for IEEE 802.11b, IEEE 802.11g, WPA(TM), WPA2(TM) and EAP for its WLAN IP.
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MindTree's ''UltraWiz'' UWB MAC silicon IP is based on the WiMedia MAC 1.0 specification and MAC-PHY interface specification V1.2 and has been validated on FPGA platform. The ''UltraWiz'' IP meets all mandatory and optional features and is ready for integration in a SOC platform. In addition, MindTree offers complementary test tool ''UTest'' for validation and testing of all mandatory and advanced features.
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Extending the reach of Power Architecture(TM) technology in the embedded market, Freescale Semiconductor is licensing its e200 core family to designers of system-on-chip (SoC) devices and application-specific semiconductor products (ASSPs). Freescale will license its e200 cores through an agreement with semiconductor intellectual property (IP) licensing specialist IPextreme Inc.
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