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The CI2512tl Step-Down DC-DC Converter IP core is the latest offering from the company with the most comprehensive catalog of general purpose, programmable power management IP cores. This IP core allows SoC designers to integrate DC-DC converter functionality into their designs and avoid the additional expense of higher voltage process options.
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The integration of MOSAID's double data rate (DDR) memory controller and PHY semiconductor IP products into Synopsys' DesignWare® IP portfolio will further expand the breadth of Synopsys' standards-based connectivity IP solutions. The final purchase price for the acquisition was $15.3 million.
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Silicon Interfaces SI85SCC30-A Serial Communication Controller (SCC) is a versatile full-duplex, dual-channel multi-protocol data communication peripheral, with triple-buffered Receiver and double buffered Transmitter. SI85SCC30-A is a refined and upgraded version of its predecessor, SI85SCC30. This SCC is a VHDL-based soft IP, which can be targeted to either Gate Arrays or Cell-based ASICs.
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The new SLIMbus IP is optimized for customer applications providing a number of hardware/software partitioning choices depending on the SLIMbus operation needed. Arasan offers a complete SLIMbus Software Stack for supporting the SLIMbus protocol and software customization services to support legacy buses like I2C, I2S, SPI and UARTs.
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Faraday Technology Corporation, a leading ASIC and silicon IP provider, today announced the availability of the Ultra-Wideband (UWB) Medium Access Controller (MAC) solution. By integrating UWB MAC into the SoC designs, designers can easily achieve 200Mbps+ throughput and significantly reduce the chip's pin counts.
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The Athena Group today announced the introduction of its T5200 TeraFire® security accelerator, the first programmable public key microprocessor. Coupling Athena's ultra-efficient arithmetic technology and a comprehensive instruction set, the T5200 delivers both performance and flexibility for applications ranging from low speed data terminals to high performance network security appliances.
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ARM and Intrinsity, Inc., today announced their agreement to produce high-performance implementations of the ARM® Cortex™ family of processors. The first of these will be implementations of the Cortex-R4 processor operating at around twice the frequency achievable using standard synthesis techniques on the same silicon process. The Cortex-R4X processor implementations are available for licensing from ARM immediately.
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GPEX-2 IP is a flexible and configurable design targeted for end-point, root complex, switch and bridge implementation. The controller’s architecture is carefully crafted for optimal link utilization, latency, reliability, power consumption, and foot print.
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The ANAGRAM Digtial PureLogic family of products is based on patented digital filtering and delta-sigma technology and is ideal for applications requiring low power, high levels of integration and precise reconstruction of analog signals. The target technologies include TSMC 0.13um process and below; however all IP blocks are fully digital and therefore are easily portable to other processes.
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Lightspeed Logic today announced that STMicroelectronics has selected Lightspeed Logic’s Reconfigurable Logic IP for use at 65nm and below. In addition to providing increased flexibility in chip architecture, significant reduction in design cost and rapid time-to-market, the regular structure of the tile-based architecture helps reduce lithography and stress-related variability challenges at nanometer scale process nodes.
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Denali Software today announced that Beceem Communications has incorporated its Databahn™ DDR memory controller into the first commercially available terminal chipset for the latest Mobile WiMAX standard.
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Synopsys plans to integrate such assets, consisting primarily of MOSAID's double data rate (DDR) memory controller and PHY semiconductor IP products, into its DesignWare® IP portfolio. The purchase will further increase the breadth of Synopsys' offerings in standards-based connectivity IP. The purchase price for the acquisition is approximately $15 million, payable in cash.
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Jetway Security Micro and Elliptic have signed a license agreement for Elliptic's asymmetric security engines. The license will permit Jetway to better serve the emerging Asian and world markets for security systems requiring high performance public key algorithms.
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WiMAX is emerging as the standard that will have one of the greatest impacts on VoIP in the near future. HelloSoft VoIP products include a complete set of media algorithms required for voice processing such as high compression Voice Coders, Acoustic Echo Canceller, Telephony components, Jitter Buffering, SIP Signaling Protocol, RTP/RTCP, Call Manager, OS Abstraction and Media and System Frameworks.
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Low power consumption is one of the most important considerations for system-on-chip (SoC) designers creating products for next-generation electronic applications. This is a key reason why eleven companies in North America have adopted ARC International's configurable media subsystem and processor solutions to create power-sensitive chips for medical, government/security, multimedia, and networking/peripheral devices.
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MoSys announces the acquisition of a number of mixed signal chip designs from Atmel Corporation. As part of the transaction, MoSys will also hire the Atmel design team that has developed these products.
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The VSI Alliance (VSIA), the leading IP standards body for the electronics industry, today announced that the Board has voted to close operations and transfer the work of the VSIA to other organizations who develop IP and electronics standards. The VSIA Board will act as a stewardship committee shepherding the donation of VSIA IP standards to other industry organizations, supporting the industry’s goal of consolidating this work.
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Transmeta Corporation and AMD today announced that AMD has invested $7.5 million in Transmeta in exchange for Transmeta preferred stock.
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In May 2007 MIPS introduced the MIPS 74K, a new, high-performance synthesizable general-purpose microprocessor core. The 74K targets demanding multimedia and networking applications such as H.264 and WiMaX, and according to MIPS, the core has already been shipped to initial licensees.
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PLDA today announced that Stream Processors has licensed PLDA's XpressRich ASIC PCI Express IP core for use in its next generation of Storm stream processors.
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he subsystem is designed in single- and multi-AHB (AMBA® High-performance Bus) configurations, making it easy to accommodate specialty IP including PCI, USB, Ethernet, 802.11 and Bluetooth. This provides chip developers with the ability to modify the subsystem in-house, or work directly with eSilicon to optimize the subsystem for their application.
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SMIC and Saifun Semiconductors today announced that the two companies have signed an agreement whereby Saifun will acquire the IP and know-how of 90nm process technology. This IP purchase is the first part of a development cooperation which will continue to next generation advanced technologies.
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