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MindTree today announced that its Bluetooth Health Device Profile (HDP) along with its EtherMind 2.1+EDR stack have been successfully listed as a qualified design component by the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG).
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The IP licensing market is complicated and in this response to a previous EE Times article on the history of Chipidea and MIPS, a reader lists six factors he believes are critical for success in the market segment.
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Rambus today unveiled a set of innovations that can advance computing main memory beyond current DDR3 data rate limits to 3200Mbps. These innovations, available for licensing, build on Rambus’ award-winning designs and include patented and patent pending technologies.
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ELMOS and Dolphin Integration announce they have completed together a major joint project for innovating in schematic edition, commercialized by Dolphin Integration under the name of SLED.
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Xilinx and BEEcube will jointly unveil a high-performance development environment for multi-core UltraSPARC CMT (chip multi-threaded) processors that reduces the time and effort required to design systems using the SPARC architecture.
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GDA announced today to demonstrate "Pravega"--its USB 3.0 family of cores consisting of a highly configurable Superspeed device, hub and host controllers that are interoperable with third party PIPE compatible USB 3.0 PHY's running at 5 Gbits/s maximum speeds.
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MIPS executives have blamed its short marriage with Chipidea on a weak economy. But ex-Chipidea employees insist integration of the two companies was botched by MIPS.
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Hynix Semiconductor, LG Electronics, Samsung Electronics and Silicon Image today announced the formation of an industry consortium that promotes Serial Port Memory Technology (SPMT) for broad market adoption as an industry standard. As the first-of-its-kind memory specification for dynamic random access memory (DRAM), SPMT will initially target the mobile handset market, enabling a new generation of devices capable of running highly data intensive, media-rich applications while at the same time extending battery life.
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TI announced today that it will expand its microcontroller (MCU) portfolio with the acquisition of Luminary Micro, the market-leading supplier of ARM Cortex-M3-based 32-bit MCUs. The addition of Luminary Micro’s Stellaris® family of Cortex-M3 processors will accelerate TI’s ability to provide the industry’s most complete MCU portfolio
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Faraday today announced the availability of the commercial USB3.0 physical layer (PHY) at UMC 0.13um high-speed (HS) process. This new component is based upon USB 3.0 version 1.0 specification, functionally and electrically, with the maximum speed of 5.0Gbps.
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Intel Corp. plans to offer 3G cellular silicon as part of its move into Atom-based systems-on-chip for networked devices, said chief executive of Paul Otellini.
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Mentor Graphics today announced its high-performance platform to accelerate the verification of HDTV products. The platform consists of the Veloce® family of hardware-assisted verification products and the iSolveTM Multimedia product for HTDV applications, which provides a cost-effective and efficient solution, delivering a dynamic and accurate verification environment.
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MIPS Technologies Inc., which in August 2007 bought Chipidea, a Portuguese analog and mixed-signal IP company, announced Friday (May 8) that it has now divested its analog business group to Synopsys Inc. in an all-cash transaction for $22 million, effective immediately.
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Synopsys, Inc. , a world leader in software and IP for semiconductor design and manufacturing, today announced it has acquired the Analog Business Group of MIPS Technologies, Inc. for $22 million in cash. The acquisition expands Synopsys' DesignWare® intellectual property (IP) portfolio with a new family of analog IP such as Analog-to-Digital Converters, Digital-to-Analog Converters, Audio Codecs and Power Management. It will also add HDMI TX and RX protocols to Synopsys' existing interface IP solution.
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Mentor Graphics Corporation and LogicVision, Inc. today announced the two companies have signed a definitive merger agreement pursuant to which Mentor Graphics will acquire LogicVision. Under the terms of the agreement, which was approved by the boards of directors of both companies, LogicVision stockholders will receive 0.2006 of a share of Mentor Graphics common stock for each share of LogicVision, for aggregate consideration of approximately $13 million dollars (as of May 7, 2009).
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Open Core Protocol International Partnership (OCP-IP) today announced the release of the OCP 3.0 specification for member review. This latest version contains extensions to support cache coherence and more aggressive power management, as well as an additional high-speed consensus profile and other new elements.
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Sonics has announced the Sonics Network for AMBA® Protocol or SNAP™. The product is a cost-effective, turn-key solution designed to simplify the on-chip bus design for complex embedded SoCs by turning multilayer bus designs into an IP block.
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There have been rumors for a while now that Microsoft engineers in Redmond, Washington, have been demonstrating the Windows XP operating system running on chips with ARM processing cores inside.
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