D&R Headline News (February 2008)

Headlines for Feb. 29, 2008

• Patriot Scientific Names Chip Industry Veteran as Chief Executive Officer
• TSMC Announces Reorganization to Improve Structural Profitability and Strengthen Customer Partnership

Headlines for Feb. 28, 2008

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Tundra's SLE Division Announces Market's First 150 Gb/s Interlaken IP Core

SLE’s new Interlaken IP Core is now available with more than twice the performance of the standard 60Gb/s version. This new high-speed core delivers the performance and bandwidth that new designs require, now with higher data transfer rates.

• Mentor Graphics Reports Fiscal Fourth Quarter 2008 Results
• InterDigital Licenses 3G Modem Technology to Leading Asian Semiconductor Company
• Think Silicon announces IP Partnership programme
• Tensilica Configurable Processors Used in Stanford Smart Memories Project
• Magma Introduces Titan -- First Platform to Combine Full-Chip, Mixed-Signal, Analysis and Verification for IC Design
• BSQUARE Launches Hardware Development Platform with Windows CE Support for Texas Instruments' OMAP35x and OMAP25x Applications Processors

Headlines for Feb. 27, 2008

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eSilicon Licenses Avago Technologies' High Performance Embedded SerDes Cores

eSilicon today announced that it has reached an agreement to license Avago Technologies' 90nm and 65nm embedded SerDes cores. The agreement allows eSilicon to offer these high performance cores as part of its custom chip development solution.

• CoWare Announces System-Level Design Solutions for Android-based Products
• Wisair Secures $24 Million in Funding
• Mobileye's System-on-Chip Delivers 2nd Generation Solution for Visual Recognition and Interpretation
• Aurelia Microelettronica provides a Development Suite for SpaceWire Remote Terminal Controller
• Nuvation Introduces Four Video Reference Designs Based on Texas Instruments' DaVinci Technology
• Sun and Ministry of Education for the People's Republic of China Announce Landmark Agreement Based on Sun's OpenSPARC Technology

Headlines for Feb. 26, 2008

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Arteris NoC On-Chip Communication Solution Selected by Pixelworks for High Performance Digital Video Applications

Arteris, Inc., the leading provider of Network-on-Chip (NoC) solutions, today announced that Pixelworks, Inc. has selected Arteris’ on-chip interconnect IP solution for use in its next-generation digital video image processor products.

• Toshiba Launches New 32-Bit Microcontroller With ARM926EJ-S Processor
• ARM Enhances Development Support for Texas Instruments' DaVinci Technology and OMAP35x Platform
• Microchip Technology Unites MIPS Technologies' Analog and Processor IP in Latest 32-bit PIC32 MCU Release
• Xilinx Delivers Complete XtremeDSP Development Platform for Low Cost Video Development
• SandForce Licenses Tensilica's Diamond Standard 108Mini for Storage Controller Chipsets
• STMicroelectronics and Freescale Joint-Design Efforts Deliver on Promise of 'First Silicon'
• Fujitsu launches full HD multi-standard decoder device supporting both MPEG-2 and H.264
• Xilinx Introduces XtremeDSP Starter Kit for Low-Cost DSP Systems Development with Spartan-3A DSP FPGAs
• Arrow Electronics Announces the Worldwide Availability of ARM Development Kit for Altera Cyclone III
• MoSys Appoints Didier Lacroix Vice President of Worldwide Sales

Headlines for Feb. 25, 2008

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Lightspeed Logic Ceases Operations -- Licenses Technologies and Patent Rights

Lightspeed Logic today announced that it ceased development operations on February 22, 2008. Lightspeed Logic provided mask reconfigurable logic IP and I/Os as well its patented AutoTest® architecture and its timing-driven DesignBuilder EDA tool which enabled the industry's densest and highest performance reconfigurable logic solution.

• Synopsys Introduces the Eclypse Low Power Solution
• SMSC's MediaLBIP Core Selected for Altera's Automotive Infotainment Development Platform
• Xilinx Delivers New Embedded Development Kit for Building Low-Cost Spartan FPGA-Based MicroBlaze Processor Systems With Linux OS
• TES Announces New Direction and Leadership in India
• Tundra Semiconductor Announces First End-to-End RapidIO Baseband Development Platform
• S2C Launches Rapid Prototyping Dual Virtex-5 TAI Logic Module with USB-Enabled Software Runtime Control
• Mattel Becomes 40th Licensee, Setting a Major Milestone in Moore Microprocessor Patent Licensing Program
• Aldec Releases Riviera-PRO(TM) 2008.02 with VHDL 2007, SystemC 2.2 and SystemVerilog (DPI)

Headlines for Feb. 22, 2008

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Arasan Chip Systems First to Announce Availability of eMMC IP Cores

The Arasan eMMC IP core is a fully compliant MMC v4.3 memory controller recently announced by MMCA and JEDEC. Based upon MMC v.4.1/4.2, eMMC is an architecture comprised of an embedded storage solution with MMC interface, flash memory and controller.

• Court Affirms Non-Infringement Of ARM Jazelle Products In Nazomi '215 Patent Case

Headlines for Feb. 21, 2008

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Eureka Technology's SD Host Controller IP Core Available in Altera's Automotive Infotainment Development Platform

Eureka Technology announced today that its Secure Digital (SD) host controller intellectual property (IP) core has been selected by Altera Corporation for use in the PARIS automotive infotainment development platform.

• Faraday Reported 2007 Fourth Quarter Results
• Trango Hypervisor Virtualizes Atmel's CAP Customizable Microcontroller
• Actel Announces Fourth Quarter 2007 Financial Results
• Synopsys Posts Financial Results for First Quarter Fiscal Year 2008

Headlines for Feb. 20, 2008

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MIPS Technologies Extends Digital Consumer Leadership with Industry's First HDMI 65nm IP Solution

The HDMI transmit IP is optimized for today's low power requirements crucial for portable and cell phone applications-supporting data rates of 1.65 Gbps per TDMS channel (approximately 5 Gbps in total) and video resolutions up to 1080p at 60Hz.

• PLDA Announces Immediate Availability of PCIe Gen 2 FPGA IP Design for Altera's Stratix II GX
• ARM Leads The Mobile Market Into Console-Quality 3D Gaming
• Jim Lipman Joins Logic NVM Pioneer Sidense as Marketing Director
• LogicVision Increases Q1 2008 Cash Balance Guidance to Be Between $8.0M and $9.0M
• ARC International Announces Unaudited Preliminary Results For The Year Ended December 31, 2007
• ARC Powers Audio for Fujitsu's Next-Generation Multi-Standard HD Set-Top Box Solution
• MIPS Technologies Announces Strategic Alliance with NXP Semiconductors for HDMI Technology
• Carbon Becomes Fujitsu Cedar-ESL Services Partner
• LatticeXP2 Non-Volatile FPGA Devices Move to Volume Production

Headlines for Feb. 19, 2008

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nSys Offers World's Largest Portfolio of Verification IPs for OVM-Based SystemVerilog Environments

nSys announced today the availability of Verification IP products integrated with the Open Verification Methodology (OVM) environment. The nSys Verification IPs for OVM-based environments are available for standard interfaces such as AMBA AXI, Ethernet, PCIe, SATA, and USB etc

• Former Sonics VP Joins Silistix as VP of Worldwide Field Operations
• SoCVerify Kit by HDL Design House - HDL Design House announces its Verification IP (VIP) library
• Sun Selects TSMC to Fab 45-Nanometer and Future Generation Processors
• Lattice Announces uClinux Support for Open Source Embedded Systems Design
• Altera Fuels Its Automotive Electronics Portfolio
• Actel Offers New Low-Power IGLOO and ProASIC3 FPGAs for 99 Cents

Headlines for Feb. 18, 2008

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Commsonic Launches Advanced Broadcast Modulator IP

The new core is compatible with the ATSC 8-VSB terrestrial Standard A/53 and has been designed for use in single and multi-channel applications employing asynchronous (e.g. ASI) or synchronous (e.g. SMPTE) transport stream interfaces.

• Cosmic Circuits introduces Silicon-Proven Temperature-Sensor in TSMC 65nm technology
• eMemory Collaborates with MagnaChip to Offer One Time Programmable Macro for 0.18 um CMOS Process
• POWERVR Graphics Technology Dominates Industry Benchmark
• OneSpin Solutions Dramatically Boosts Formal Verification Productivity With New GapFreeVerification Process
• Mentor Graphics Delivers Breakthrough in Verification Intelligence

Headlines for Feb. 15, 2008

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Gaisler Research and Synplicity partner to bring complex IP cores to advanced ASIC prototyping system

The partnership will ensure that users of the Synplicity's High-performance ASIC Prototyping System (HAPS) can readily download and synthesize a large set of very advanced and mature IP cores from the GRLIB library.

• R-Interface joins the Xilinx Alliance Program bringing high speed LDPC decoder solutions

Headlines for Feb. 14, 2008

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Wipro Selected by NEC Electronics for Semiconductor Design Services

The development centre will provide front-end and back-end design services and IP to NEC Electronics for Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs) and microcontrollers in the Digital Consumer and Automotive areas. Wipro will also work on various designs ranging from 150nm, 130nm up to 55nm.

• Paragon Wireless Chooses SoftRISC's Codec Solution for its GSM/VoWLAN Dual-Mode Smart Phone
• Jazz seeks 'strategic alternatives'
• Renesas Technology Releases 50 New MCU Products Comprising 11 Groups, Each Built Around the R32C/100 CPU Core and Integrating High-Speed On-Chip Flash Memory
• Digital Core Design Announces USB 2.0 IP Device Controller
• Faraday Monthly Sales Report - January 2008
• TSMC January 2008 Sales Report
• Samsung Signs Multi-Year License for Tensilica Diamond Standard 330HiFi Audio DSP
• Cadence and Mentor Enhance Open Verification Methodology and Expand Community Activities to Support Rapidly Growing User Base
• Patriot Scientific Chairman Retires
• Synfora Moves Algorithmic Synthesis to the Next Level with PICO Extreme

Headlines for Feb. 13, 2008

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First >100 Mbps mobile SDR baseband platform in processing

IMEC has completed design and tape-out of a flexible-air-interface (FLAI) baseband platform for software-defined radios (SDR). The system-on-chip (SoC) platform and its patented components with their programming environment will be licensed to industry for commercial product development as white-box intellectual property (IP).

• NextWave Wireless's ARC-Based Mobile Digital TV Solutions Provide Consumers Ubiquitous Video Access
• Abilis Systems' ARC-Based Mobile TV Solution Is World's Smallest DVB-H/T Receiver
• Leader in the Mobile Digital Television Chip Market Signs Multiuse License Agreement for Configurable ARC Solutions
• MoSys, Inc. Reports Fourth Quarter and Fiscal 2007 Financial Results
• Xilinx Virtex-5 LXT Platform FPGAs Used in NEC's SX-9; World's Fastest Vector Supercomputer
• STMicroelectronics Announces Complete Fully Integrated NFC (Near Field Communication) System-on-Chip

Headlines for Feb. 12, 2008

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ARC Acquires Sonic Focus

Together with technologies from previous acquisitions, Sonic Focus’s audio enhancement software builds on ARC’s ability to bring higher quality audio and video solutions to companies throughout the consumer electronics value chain.

• On2 Licenses Video Technologies To MediaTek Inc.
• Salamander announces performance-optimized SystemC models
• Arasan Chip Systems Completes Memory Offering With Software Package
• ARM Agrees Subscription License With Renesas Technology
• Sonic Focus Makes its Revolutionary Audio Enhancement Technology Available on ARC Sound and ARC Sound Advanced Subsystems
• Intertrust Announces Patent License Agreement With Motorola

Headlines for Feb. 11, 2008

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On2 Technologies Announces New 1080P High Definition Multi-Format Hardware Video Decoder For Handsets And Devices

The Hantro 8190 supports H.263, H.264, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, VC-1, Sorenson Spark and VP6™ video formats, along with up to 16MP JPEG still images.

• Imagination Technologies and Sharp Demonstrate the World's Most Advanced Multi-Standard Mobile TV Module at MWC 2008
• Xilinx Announces Digital Pre-Distortion Reference Design for Freescale's LDMOS Power Amplifier Devices
• Motorola Invests in DesignArt Networks
• ARM and On2 Technologies Demonstrate The First High-Performance Video Codecs Optimized With ARM Neon Technology
• ARM Celebrates Ten Years At The Heart Of Mobile Phones
• ARM Announces RealView Development Suite Professional Tools For Mobile Applications
• ARM Announces New Vector Graphics Products To Set The Standard For Next Generation Mobile User Interfaces
• Spreadtrum Ships Thirty Millionth CEVA-powered Baseband Chipset
• CEVA Extends its CDMA Market Reach With VIA Telecom's Latest Design Wins
• Infineon Technologies Chooses On2 For Video Codecs
• Qualcomm Makes Next-generation Mobile Internet Accessible with New Single-chip Solution
• Samsung's Single-Chip Mobile TV Channel Decoder RF SoC Supports Global TV Standards for Cell Phones
• RMI Corporation Launches Industry's First Quad-Core Multi-Threaded Processor With Integrated Serial RapidIO Interface and IEEE1588 Controller for Wireless Base-Station Markets
• Toshiba Licenses SPIRIT's Audio Software to Evaluate New Semiconductor Designs

Headlines for Feb. 08, 2008

• Momentum Grows With Introduction of DFI Specification Version 2.0
• DIRECTV Joins Ranks of MMP Patent Portfolio Licensees

Headlines for Feb. 07, 2008

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SonicsWM Simplifies SoC Designs for WiMax

Sonics today announced SonicsWM, a family of integrated SMART Interconnect solutions ideally suited for SoC designs that incorporate WiMax.

• Silicon Image Reports Fourth Quarter 2007 Results; Announces Accelerated Stock Repurchase Program
• Imagination Technologies Licenses another POWERVR SGX Graphics Core to NEC Electronics
• SeaSolve Software Inc. and Silicon Hive B.V. partner for Vertical WiMAX Solution
• Transmeta Corporation Announces Engagement of Financial Advisor

Headlines for Feb. 06, 2008

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ARM exec touts IP reuse at ISSCC

The chief technology officer of intellectual property behemoth ARM Ltd. tried to convince hardware circuit designers gathered here that they should take software IP more seriously as the chip industry matures.

• WARF Charges Intel Corporation with Patent Infringement of UW-Madison Invention That Speeds Computer Processing
• MIPS in 'a bit of financial distress' says analyst
• MorethanIP and SOFTING AG announce cooperation for low cost complete system level solution for Industrial Ethernet with integrated switch
• Leading Smartcard Provider Again Adopts ARC For High Volume, Ultra High Security Applications
• CEVA Expands its Multimedia Platform Offering with Addition of RealVideo and VC-1 Video Standards
• Silicon Hive and Apical Imaging Partner to Develop World Class Embedded Imaging Solutions For Mobile Devices
• Transmeta Corporation Confirms First LongRun2 Licensee Has Achieved Volume Production
• CNBC Interview: Warren East, Chief Executive Officer, ARM
• Texas Instruments new process techniques solve low-power challenges in delivering company's first 45 nanometer wireless device

Headlines for Feb. 05, 2008

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ARM Holdings plc Reports Results For The Fourth Quarter and Full Year 31 December 2007

ARM Holdings plc announces its unaudited financial results for the fourth quarter and full year ended 31 December 2007

• CAST Releases Improved IP Core for Controlling Large NAND-Flash SSD Memories
• ARM and Samsung Electronics Extend Strategic Long-Term Licensing Agreement
• NXP and ARM Expand Strategic Relationship With Major Licensing Agreement
• Tiempo, Specialist in Asynchronous Design, Raises $1.6M
• Rambus Reports Fourth Quarter and Year End Results

Headlines for Feb. 04, 2008

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Synopsys Expands Leading USB IP Portfolio With New IP for Link Power Management and High Speed Inter-Chip Standards

The new DesignWare USB LPM and HSIC digital controller and PHY IP reduce power consumption and area for USB-enabled chips.

• MOSAID Settles Litigation with ProMOS and Mosel Vitelic
• Freescale Enters Into Definitive Agreement to Acquire SigmaTel
• Wipro-NewLogic is the first company to provide Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR IP ready for qualification
• Dolphin Integration clears the conundrum of Class D versus Class AB
• TI delivers first single-chip DSP coupling math and logic functions for beyond 3G cellular infrastructure applications
• Coresonic founders present fully programmable baseband processor for mobile WiMAX and DVB-T/H at ISSCC
• Fujitsu Laboratories Develops World's First CMOS-based Power Amplifier Operating at 77GHz

Headlines for Feb. 01, 2008

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Transmeta Corporation Receives Unsolicited Indication of Interest from Riley Investment Management

Transmeta today confirmed that it has become aware of a letter from Riley Investment Management LLC (RIM) expressing interest in seeking to acquire all of the outstanding shares of Transmeta not already owned by RIM or its affiliates for $15.50 per share in cash, subject to numerous conditions.

• SIDSA launches the World's first demodulator plus application processor Silicon for Portable and Mobile TV
• Gaisler Research announces new LEON3 licensing agreements
• Evatronix celebrates the 10th anniversary of its 1st IP core delivery