D&R Headline News (November 2011)

Headlines for Nov. 30, 2011

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Kilopass and UMC Sign Long Term Technology Roadmap Agreement

Kilopass and UMC today jointly announced that they have expanded their existing manufacturing license agreement. In addition to the 40nm low-power process in the current agreement, the extension will cover UMC technology processes spanning from 55nm to 130nm. Future plans include UMC’s 28nm High-K metal gate (HKMG) and Poly/SiOn processes.

• Elliptic Technologies First to Market with HDCP 2.1 Compliant Content Protection Solutions
• NXP Delivers Industry's First ARM Cortex-M0 Microcontrollers with Integrated USB Drivers
• Movidius Secures $9M Series C Funding
• Intrinsic-ID launches operation in Japan and hires industry veteran
• Aptina Announces Native 1080p System on Chip Solution for High Definition Video Imaging Applications
• GLOBALFOUNDRIES Strengthens Leadership Team, While Affirming Ongoing Ramp in New York, Germany and Singapore
• Springsoft Targets Chip Finishing Applications with New Laker Blitz

Headlines for Nov. 29, 2011

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PCI-SIG Announces PCI Express 4.0 Evolution to 16GT/s, Twice the Throughput of PCI Express 3.0 Technology

PCI-SIG today announced the approval of 16 gigatransfers per second (GT/s) as the bit rate for the next generation of PCIe architecture, PCIe 4.0.

• Analog Bits Announces 28nm IP Availability
• Altera Continues Rollout of 28-nm Product Portfolio with Shipment of Arria V FPGAs
• Global Unichip's USB 3.0 Device Controller IP Passes USB-IF Test Procedure for SuperSpeed Products
• Amper Selects Quantenna's 4x4 MIMO Technology For Its Next-Generation Wi-Fi Router and FTTH Products
• Magma's Titan Delivers Higher Quality and Faster Design Convergence for Analog IP
• Magma's Titan Delivers Higher Quality and Faster Design Convergence for Analog IP
• Webinar Alert: Avoid Design Bottlenecks in High-Speed NAND Flash Applications

Headlines for Nov. 28, 2011

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VeriSilicon Licenses a Wide Range of ARM Technology for Advanced Consumer and Embedded Applications

ARM and VeriSilicon Holdings Co. Ltd., a world class IC design foundry and custom silicon solution provider, today announced that VeriSilicon has licensed a wide range of ARM Intellectual Property (IP).

• Proven on silicon: A Panoply of Memories and Standard Cells of Dolphin Integration to divide dynamic power by 5 at 180 nm!
• DMAP Announces Development of DO-254 DAL A Complex Semiconductor IP, Fully Verified with Mentor Graphics Questa® Functional Verification Platform
• ST-Ericsson board of directors appoints Didier Lamouche as president and CEO
• ARM Launches Free Toolkit For Android Application Developer Community
• New LatticeECP4 Family Redefines Low Cost, Low Power FPGAs, Features High Performance Innovations
• New Technology for Device-Level Ethernet Guarantees Reliable, Real-Time Performance Under All Network Traffic Conditions
• Tensilica Signs RacyICs as New Authorized Design Center Partner for IC Design
• Intilop Corporation's Live Demo of its 3rd Generation Enhanced Ultralow latency 10G bit TCP Offload Engine and Total system solution for the Financial Markets received tremendous interest at the 'Low Latency Summit' in NYC.

Headlines for Nov. 25, 2011

• HyperSilicon releases its number 10 type of board, StarFire-E820

Headlines for Nov. 24, 2011

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Opinion: AMD roadmap change benefits TSMC?

Advanced Micro Devices Inc.'s (AMD) roadmap is about to see some significant changes according to sources at the company.

• Renesas Electronics Corporation Expands Lineup of Ethernet PHY Chips with Two Single-Channel Industrial Ethernet PHY Chips
• MOSAID Reports Results for Second Quarter Fiscal 2012
• Digital Core Design Announces the World's fastest 8051 CPU
• CEM Solutions Pvt Ltd. selects Noesis Technologies L.P. Audio Codec for its new generation VoIP product

Headlines for Nov. 23, 2011

• Reports: AMD cancels Globalfoundries 28nm APUs
• Power Management Semiconductors Market Growth Slows in 2011
• NetLogic Microsystems' Stockholders Approve Merger Agreement with Broadcom Corporation

Headlines for Nov. 22, 2011

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CEVA, Inc. Makes Strategic Equity Investment in eyeSight Mobile Technologies, a Gesture Technology Company

Investment expands market reach of CEVA-MM3000 ISP & video platform to include gesture recognition applications for mobile, digital home and automotive markets

• Lattice Releases Sercos III Real-Time Industrial Ethernet Solution
• Xilinx Accelerates Design Cycles and Lowers Costs for Industrial Networking and Motor Control Systems

Headlines for Nov. 21, 2011

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Nationz Technologies Inc. Selects Mixed-Signal IP from S3 Group for Advanced Digital TV SoC

S3 Group today announced that Nationz Technologies Inc. has licensed its mixed-signal IP for their Mobile TV SoC. S3 Group delivered a high performance ADC and PLL combination from its portfolio as part of the deal.

• Axis Communications Taps MIPS Technologies' Processor IP for New Network Surveillance Cameras
• ABS GmbH Selects the LatticeECP3 FPGA family for CCD Interface and Processing
• SMSC Launches Industry's First, Hi-Speed Inter-Chip USB 2.0 to 10/100 Ethernet Controller for Low Power Applications
• Magma's Titan Adopted by Fujitsu Semiconductor Limited to Improve Analog Design Productivity
• DCD introduces IP Core for the Controller Area Network

Headlines for Nov. 18, 2011

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IHS Reduces 2011 Semiconductor Forecast

IHS has reduced its global semiconductor market forecast for 2011—but still predicts a slight rise in revenue compared to 2010 because of continued growth in the third quarter. Global semiconductor revenue in 2011 now is expected to rise by 1.2 percent compared to 2010, according to a preliminary forecast.

• Xilinx Enables Industrial Networking, Motor Control and Machine Vision Through Latest Generation Targeted Design Platforms
• Gartner Says Semiconductor Inventory Correction Dampening Sales in Second Half of 2011
• UltraSoC appoints Matthew Trowbridge as Non-Executive Chairman
• intoPIX licenses its 4K JPEG2000 IP-cores to NTT Advanced Technology Corporation

Headlines for Nov. 17, 2011

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PLDA USB 3.0 IP Reaches Key Milestone with 100th Design Win

PLDA today announced that they have achieved their 100th design win for their SuperSpeed USB IP solution. The PLDA USB 3.0 solution provides ASIC and FPGA designers an easy path to first time silicon success thanks to its ease of integration and industry-leading technical support.

• TowerJazz Signs MOU for Process Transfers and Projects in India and Brazil, Targeting India's Emerging Semiconductor Market
• MIPS Technologies Names Gideon Intrater Vice President of Marketing
• Where the Smart Money Goes in Semiconductors
• MIPI Alliance Targets Mobile Analog Control Interfaces with New Working Group
• MindTree demonstrates Bluetooth low energy solution at Medica
• Mentor offshoot nurtures European startups
• ARM Expands R&D Presence in Taiwan with Hsinchu Design Center
• Decision Reached in Rambus Price Fixing Case against Hynix and Micron
• Acquisition of RAD3 Communications, Inc. by PMC-Sierra Completed
• Micron Prevails in California Antitrust Trial Against Rambus

Headlines for Nov. 16, 2011

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CAST NAND Flash Controller Supports Latest High-Speed Memories and is Ready for ONFI 3

CAST is now shipping an improved, sixth-generation version of its successful NAND Flash Memory Controller IP core. The CAST NANDFLASH-CTRL Core gains support for the latest high-speed memory devices.

• NSCore's One-Time Programmable Memory Completes Qualification at TSMC 65nm and 0.18um Technologies
• SMSC Announces Industry's First High Speed Inter-Chip USB 2.0 Hub for Portable Consumer Electronics Applications
• Latest Synopsys FPGA-Based Prototyping Tool Releases Improve Speed and Turnaround Time
• Aspex Semiconductor wins National Microelectronics (NMI) Lower Power Green award for HD video compression technology
• Xilinx Announces Key Connectivity IP Cores for Next Generation LTE and LTE-A Wireless Infrastructure Equipment
• Astrodesign new 4K Codec system powered by intoPIX JPEG 2000 technology
• Imagination launches HelloSoft 4G VoLTE platform and SDK in Japan

Headlines for Nov. 15, 2011

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CEVA-TeakLite-III DSP Offers First IP Core Approved for Dolby MS11 Multistream Decoder

CEVA today announced that the CEVA-TeakLite-III DSP has become the industry's first IP core approved by Dolby for the MS11 Multistream Decoder - the latest Dolby® audio technology for enabling multi-format world-wide broadcast in home entertainment products.

• Sonics Continues Lawsuit Against Arteris for Patent Infringement
• Khronos Releases OpenCL 1.2 Specification
• Altera Announces Industry's First OpenCL Program for FPGAs
• Quantenna Launches World's First 802.11ac Gigabit-Wireless Solution for Retail Wi-Fi Routers and Consumer Electronics
• Xilinx Enables Cable Operators to Future-Proof Headends to Deliver More Compelling Triple-Play Services to the Home
• DCD launches new website
• Microsemi, MIPS Technologies, Oberthur, Renesas and Technikon join the HIS Initiative
• Skyviia Chooses Tensilica's HiFi Audio DSP
• Multimedia and connectivity technologies transforming much wider markets than just smartphones, says Imagination
• AuthenTec to Exhibit and Speak at Embedded Technology 2011
• Cryptography Research and Mikron JSC Sign Patent License Agreement for DPA Countermeasures
• CM Engineering standardizes on Springsoft's Verdi Debug in Advanced Chip Verification Environment
• Intilop Corporation to showcase their 3rd Generation Enhanced Ultralow latency 10G bit TCP Offload Engine and Total system solutions for the Financial Markets at the Team-A Low Latency Summit

Headlines for Nov. 14, 2011

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Barcelona Supercomputing Center to Deploy World's First ARM-Based CPU/GPU Hybrid Supercomputer

NVIDIA today announced that the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) is developing a new hybrid supercomputer that, for the first time, uses energy-efficient, low-power NVIDIA(R) Tegra(TM) ARM CPUs, together with high-performance NVIDIA(R) CUDA(R) GPUs.

• Toshiba Designs Altera's Programmable Platform into Its Next-Generation Flash Memory Video Server
• Validity of WiLAN's 759 Patent Confirmed by US Patent Office
• Wireless Connectivity ICs to Surpass $8 Billion in 2011 with Broadcom, Qualcomm, CSR, Texas Instruments, and Many Others Set to Reap the Rewards
• Netezza, an IBM Company, Selects Lattice Power Manager Products
• Xilinx Alliance Program Introduces Highly Qualified Premier Design Services Providers to Accelerate Customer Design Productivity
• Renesas Electronics and Renesas Mobile License Imagination Technologies' PowerVR Series6 Graphics Technologies
• intoPIX JPEG 2000 technology adopted by NHK Engineering Services for developing a compact 4K high-resolution outdoor acquisition system
• eMemory Receives TSMC IP Partner Award for Second Year in a Row
• Elliptic Technologies To Showcase Security Solutions At The Embedded Technology 2011 Conference In Yokohama, Japan
• NXP Develops Automotive Ethernet Transceivers for In-Vehicle Networks

Headlines for Nov. 11, 2011

• Altera's Stratix IV FPGAs Deliver Unprecedented Acceleration for World’s Most Powerful Reconfigurable Supercomputer
• Best-in class switching regulators, from Dolphin Integration, reaching 90% efficiency
• Has the layoff wave begun?
• ARM co-founder Tudor Brown to retire
• Adapteva Uses Magma's RTL-to-GDSII Flow to Tape Out a 28-nm 64-Core Microprocessor Chip

Headlines for Nov. 10, 2011

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Mali-T658 GPU Extends Graphics And GPU Compute Leadership For High Performance Devices

ARM today announced the ARM® Mali™-T658 Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) - the latest member of the Midgard architecture-based GPU family targeting high performance devices, such as superphones, tablets and smart-TVs.

• Intel listed as ARM graphics partner
• Huawei Extends License with SPIRIT DSP for HD Mobile VoIP and Video Calling
• Mentor Graphics Delivers First ARM Cortex and AMBA Family Verification Solution that Spans Simulation and Emulation
• TSMC October 2011 Sales Report
• Crocus and Morpho Sign Agreement to Develop Smart Cards Based on Magnetic-Logic-Unit (MLU) Technology
• Imagination Technologies Licenses high-performance multiprocessor graphics core to Samsung Electronics
• IEEE Approves Revised IEEE 1666 "SystemC Language" Standard for Electronic System-Level Design, Adding Support for Transaction-Level Modeling
• CSR aptX Codec Gives Samsung GALAXY Tab 7.0 Plus Superior Wireless Audio

Headlines for Nov. 09, 2011

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Extreme Results Expected in a 2011 Semi Market Forecast to Grow 2%

Although low single-digit growth is forecast for the total semiconductor market this year, there are several companies expected to register results that are quite different.

• Sibridge Technologies Strengthens Embedded Product Design Solutions Offerings
• EquipIC supply chain, LLC Teams with Perceptia Devices for Advanced Mixed Signal ASIC Designs
• CriticalBlue releases support for Texas Instruments' TMS320C66x multicore DSPs within Prism
• MIPS and SYSGO Collaborate to Bring SYSGO's PikeOS Virtualization Technology to MIPS32 Cores
• Freescale Announces Industry's Fastest Microcontrollers Built on the ARM Cortex-M Family
• Appotech licenses Innovative Logic's USB3.0 SuperSpeed Controller IP
• Report: ST sees chip market likely at bottom
• Altera's Military Solutions Secure Networked Battlefield with NSA-Approved Cyclone III LS FPGA

Headlines for Nov. 08, 2011

• EIZO NANAO Designs Xilinx Spartan-6 FPGAs into Newest High-Definition LCD Home Entertainment Monitors
• ANSYS Subsidiary Apache Design Launches RTL Power Model, Enabling Early Planning and Accelerating Ultra-Low Power Design Delivery
• ZTE Designs Virtex-6 FPGAs Into IP Transport Network Platform, Enabling 100G Ethernet Service Deployment
• IEEE Explores 100 Gb/s Optical Ethernet with Launch of Study Group
• Epiq Solutions Announces First Handheld Software Defined Radio
• MagnaChip to Offer Cost Competitive Compact Standard Cell Library for Low Power Applications
• DapTechnology Demonstrates 3.2 Gigabit IEEE1394b Firewire SOC Solution

Headlines for Nov. 07, 2011

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EVE Unveils ZeBu-Blade2 Hardware-Assisted Verification Platform

EVE today unveiled its ZeBu-Blade2 hardware-assisted verification platform, the first member of the ZeBu emulation family based on Xilinx Virtex6-LX760 field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs).

• Silicon-IP, Inc. Adds Intel as Client
• TSMC sees signs of market turning up
• Synopsys Awarded TSMC's Interface IP Partner of the Year
• SMIC Reports Results for the Three Months Ended September 30, 2011
• Altera's Quartus II Software Version 11.1 Delivers Arria V and Cyclone V FPGA Support and Productivity Improvements
• TSMC: 28-nm tech, demand 'on plan'
• CEVA-TeakLite-III DSP Licensed to Toshiba
• Lattice Ships 15 Million Power Manager Devices
• SiliconBlue Awarded ISO 9001 Quality Management System Standard Certification

Headlines for Nov. 04, 2011

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Dolphin Integration Receives 2011 TSMC IP Partner Award for Analog/Mixed-Signal IP

Dolphin Integration has received the 2011 TSMC IP Partner Award for Analog/Mixed-Signal IP. The award is based on customer feedback, TSMC 9000 compliance, support and success of the IP.

• Spreadtrum Selects Arteris High-Speed Interchip Communications IP for Mobile Phone Baseband Memory Sharing
• Mentor Graphics Announces Completion of 20 nm Test Chip Tapeout with STMicroelectronics Using Olympus-SoC Place and Route System
• Kilopass Announces the US District Court Has Denied Sidense's Latest Attempted Defense in the Patent Infringement Case
• videantis named among Germany's Fast 50 Growth Technology Companies
• MoSys, Inc. Reports Third Quarter 2011 Financial Results
• Analyst calls 'bottom' of IC downturn
• TI talks future-proofing for Omap

Headlines for Nov. 03, 2011

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Arteris Rejects Sonics Inc. Patent Claims

A day after it was sued for patent infringement by network-on-chip specialist Sonics Inc., Arteris Inc. released a statement defending its technology as unique. The company provided a few details of its market traction to support its claim.

• Arasan Chip Systems Announces SD 4.0 Host Controller IP
• Vector Fabrics Closes Series B Round of Financing
• DesignArt Networks Selects Elliptic Technologies Embedded Security Engine for its 2nd Generation DAN3000 LTE Advanced Infrastructure SoCs
• EVE's ZeBu Hardware-Assisted Verification Platform Used by Konica Minolta to Implement SystemVerilog Assertions
• TowerJazz Reference Design Flow 2.0 Fully Qualifies Cadence Mixed-Signal Solution and Process Design Kit
• Posedge Inc. unveils its High Performance, Low Gate Count SD3.01/SDIO3.0/eMMC4.5 Host Controller IP
• Foundries have 28-nm yield issues, say execs

Headlines for Nov. 02, 2011

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Sonics Files Lawsuit Against Arteris for Patent Infringement

Sonics today announced that the company filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Arteris, Inc. on November 1, 2011 in the United States District Court, Northern District of California. The suit alleges that Arteris is willfully infringing on seven of Sonics’ technology patents.

• OCP-IP Delivers Enhanced Transaction Generator Package
• MOSAID Unveils Industry's Fastest Flash Memory Device
• Calxeda could spur 32-bit microserver market
• Calxeda Launches the EnergyCore Processor; Delivers 10 Times the Performance for the Same Power

Headlines for Nov. 01, 2011

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ARM Acquires Prolific, Inc

ARM today announced that it has acquired Prolific, Inc., which develops leading-edge IC design optimization software tools that significantly reduce development time and improve the performance of cell-based designs.

• Arteris FlexNoC Interconnect IP Licensed by Freescale for i.MX Applications Processors
• Xilinx ISE Design Suite 13.3 Full Custom Precision Floating-Point Support Extends Productivity for DSP Designers
• Space Codesign Introduces the First Virtual Platform Technology Supporting Hardware/Software Codesign for FPGA Based on ARM Cortex-A9
• GLOBALFOUNDRIES Board of Directors Appoints Ajit Manocha Chief Executive Officer
• WiLAN Provides Update on Offer to Acquire MOSAID
• Test and Verification Solutions opens its India subsidiary
• X-FAB Extends 0.18 Micrometer Technology Platform to Address Energy Efficiency Applications