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CSR and Zoran today completed their merger to create a global leader in wireless connectivity, location-aware, imaging, video, and audio products.
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Kilopass today announced that its XPM™ embedded one-time programmable (OTP) NVM technology has completed 1000 hours of JEDEC standard reliability testing for high temperature operating life (HTOL) and high temperature storage life (HTSL) on 3 lots for GLOBALFOUNDRIES’ 0.13um generic process technology.
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S3 Group today announced that Idea! Electronic Systems has licensed its mixed-signal IP for their Digital TV ASIC.
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The merger of two market-leading electronic system level (ESL) products, Catapult C Synthesis and Calypto SLEC System-HLS verification tool, will create a better integrated ESL hardware realization flow, and enhance the company’s partnership with Mentor Graphics, a leader in ESL technology.
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CyberWorkBench is a C-based LSI design platform developed by NEC over the course of twenty years. CyberWorkBench is developed around the "All-in-C" paradigm that allows high level synthesis and verification of any ANSI-C or SystemC program generating high quality RTL.
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Altera today announced it has started shipping the world's first FPGA featuring 28-Gbps transceivers. Stratix ®V GT devices are the industry's highest bandwidth and highest performance FPGAs available today.
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Palmchip and Greenvity Communications today announced that Greenvity has licensed Palmchip's AcurX Smart Grid platform for use in Greenvity's smart energy and Home Area Network (HAN) based solutions.
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Silicon Image today announced its new family of high-quality cineramIC™ video processing IP cores, ranging from scalers and deinterlacers to video enhancement solutions such as noise reduction and edge enhancement.
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Today, everywhere we turn, we hear speakers give presentations at conferences and industry events despairing how the rise in silicon design costs hampers the semiconductor industry's growth path. As part of this problem, we now recognize that software design costs have eclipsed silicon design efforts and have become the largest portion of the SoC creation effort.
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Monumental changes are taking place in the wireless handset and tablet PC market. Companies are crossing operating lines as it becomes more obvious that the dividing lines between software and hardware businesses were artificially created and are no longer justifiable or viable.
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Google and Motorola Mobility Holdings, Inc. today announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Google will acquire Motorola Mobility for $40.00 per share in cash, or a total of about $12.5 billion, a premium of 63% to the closing price of Motorola Mobility shares on Friday, August 12, 2011.
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TranSwitch today announced that the Company’s HDMI® 1.4 Intellectual Property (IP) with patented Phaswitch™ technology has been selected by Samsung Electronics for its next generation of televisions.
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Alvand’s Wireless MIMO AFE at the 40nm process node represents the fourth generation of this proven IP technology, which has already been implemented in 130nm, 90nm and 65nm processes across multiple foundries.
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ARM, in its complaint, is seeking a declaration of non-infringement and invalidity with respect to the same seven U.S. patents at issue in MOSAID's suit against NVIDIA, Freescale and Interphase.
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Northwest Logic Inc., a leader in high-performance digital IP Cores, and Avery Design Systems, a leader in Verification IP (VIP) solutions, today announced Northwest Logic’s Expresso 3.0 solutions for PCI Express® (PCIe®) for Endpoint, Root Complex, and Switch have been fully verified and deployed to customers based on Avery’s PCI-Xactor verification models and compliance testsuites.
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Orca Systems announced today the launch of DRBT, a dual mode Bluetooth® RF plus modem IP core, providing customers with revolutionary reductions in silicon area, low power and exceptional radio performance.
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John Bruggeman, the face and voice of Cadence Design Systems Inc. for most of his two-year tenure as the EDA vendor's chief marketing officer, is suddenly out the door (almost), and at least one analyst thinks the move portends a change in leadership at the firm.
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The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) today announced that worldwide sales of semiconductors were $24.7 billion for the month of June 2011, a 1.5 percent decrease from the prior month when sales were $25 billion and 0.5 percent decrease from a year ago.