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Dolphin Integration announces the availability of a complete FREE evaluation kit for its Memory CACHE controller. Its name I-Stratus-LP stands for its position at level L1 as Instruction Cache for any processor in search for Low-Power.
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The fabless chip vendors and pursuers of fab-lite manufacturing strategies are about to get a shock, according to Malcolm Penn, principal analyst with Future Horizons (Sevenoaks, England). Some companies could under-perform, others could be driven out of business in a market that should be booming for them; and all because they have lost control of manufacturing.
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Aeroflex Gaisler today announced the next generation LEON processor - the LEON4, providing the industry a high performing, licensable 32-bit processor core based on the SPARC V8 architecture. The LEON4 complements the widely used LEON3 processor for high-performance embedded applications across a broad spectrum of demanding consumer and industrial applications.
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Synopsys today announced the addition of silicon-proven DesignWare® MIPI IP consisting of 3G DigRF Controllers and PHY, Camera Serial Interface 2 (CSI-2) Host Controller and D-PHY to its IP portfolio.
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While an estimated 90% of Ultra-mobile Devices (UMDs) shipped in 2009 were based on an x86 processor architecture, the introduction of ARM-based systems introduces greater choice and differentiation for system vendors.
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Cellular phone chip supplier Qualcomm remained the number one fabless IC supplier, registering $6.6 billion in sales in 2009, a 2% increase. The most impressive gain by a large (i.e., greater than $1.0B in sales) fabless IC suppler in 2009 was MediaTek, which registered a strong 22% increase in sales to $3.5 billion.
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Flash Tools Can Be Used to Create Browser-less Embedded Flash Applications that are Translated To OpenGL ES 2.0 and Rendered by the Vivante GPU
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Chips&Media today announced that its Semiconductor partners including Freescale, Mtekvision and Korea based top-tier semiconductor company, have shipped over 20 million system-on-chips(SoCs) integrated into smart phones, mobile internet devices(MIDs), smart books, portable media players(PMPs), digital televisions(DTVs) and set-top boxes(STBs).
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Intelop announces Xilinx FPGA development platform for their TCP-Offload Engine SoC IP for customers to easily develop networking solutions with TCP/IP acceleration. This second generation Customizable Full TCP offload integrates GEMAC, ARP module, PLB/AMBA 2.0 bus interfaces with Optional PCIe interfaces running at 2-Gbps also is capable of managing hundreds of simultaneous TCP sessions at delivering 10-20 times performance improvement over TCP/IP software implementations.
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IDT today announced it has acquired Mobius Microsystems, the leader in precision all-silicon oscillator technology . The transaction, which closed today, January 14, 2010, is an all-cash agreement for the outstanding Mobius shares. The agreement has already received appropriate board approvals.
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Mentor Graphics today announced a hardware-assisted solution to accelerate the verification of Universal Serial Bus (USB) 2.0 products, including hard disk drives and other mass storage devices.
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Intel Corp. may look to acquire an FPGA supplier such as Xilinx Inc. or Altera Corp. in 2010 in an effort to expand its presence in the embedded market as well as SoCs, according to a Wall Street analyst.
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Open-Silicon announced today the acquisition of Silicon Logic Engineering (SLE) to enhance the company’s derivative IC design capabilities. The SLE team, based in Eau Claire, Wis., joined Open-Silicon effective December 7, 2009.
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Atmel today announced the SAM9M10, a high-performance ARM926EJ™-based embedded microprocessor (MPU) that integrates a video decoder and 2D acceleration (scaling, rotating, color space conversion, picture in picture) to provide high-quality video performance in industrial embedded applications.
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Imagination Technologies, a leading multimedia chip technologies company announces META AXD, a full audio IP platform delivering a complete multi-standard and multi-stream audio solution for System-on-Chip (SoC) designs.
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Imagination Technologies is demonstrating a test chip incorporating Imagination’s latest ENSIGMA UCCP310 IP platform . This is the only multi-standard communications IP core available in the market today that can be demonstrated to deliver both 802.11 a/b/g Wi-Fi connectivity and a broad suite of demodulators required for digital TV broadcasts worldwide, including ATSC and all of the major European and Japanese terrestrial standards, in a single programmable IP core.
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Cavium Networks today announced a new family of full HD (1080p60) system-on-a-chip (SoC) H.264 video processors for consumer and enterprise applications.
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MIPS today announced a compelling lineup of demonstrations, partnerships and technologies aimed at making Android a viable platform for digital home devices such as set-top boxes, Blu-ray Disc players, DTVs and VoIP solutions.
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TranSwitch will formally introduce its latest High Definition Multimedia Interface™ (HDMI) for next generation digital television (DTV) and home theatre applications at the 2010 International CES trade show. The HD-PXL™-1.4 includes 3D Video and support for new 4K super resolution displays.
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