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• Arteris Announces Support For New ARM AMBA 4 Interconnect Specification (Mar. 18, 2010)
  Arteris today announced support for the new ARM(R) AMBA(R) 4 specification. Arteris and ARM are working together to ensure interoperability between the AMBA 4 AXI(TM) 4 interface protocol and the Arteris Network on Chip (NoC), and are partnering to deliver optimal system performance for SoC designers using AXI4 protocol-compliant IP together with Arteris NoC interconnect technology.
  
  
• ViaSat Announces New 100G Optical Transport Forward Error Correction (FEC) Products and Digital Signal Processing Services (Mar. 17, 2010)
  ViaSat is introducing a family of forward error correction (FEC) products for 100G optical transport. These FEC and digital signal processing (DSP) products, available in either FPGA or ASIC cores, can provide major cost savings over optical compensation techniques, increase optical channel capacity, and extend the range of transmission for optical cables.
  
  
• Innovative Silicon's Z-RAM Technology Meets Low Voltage and Bulk Silicon Requirements of DRAM Memory Manufacturers (Mar. 17, 2010)
  Innovative Silicon today announced two major breakthroughs to its Z-RAM technology. First, bit cell operating voltage has been reduced to below one volt (1V), making it the industry’s lowest-voltage FB memory bit cell and the first to be on-par with traditional DRAM voltages. Second, Z-RAM technology is now constructed on bulk silicon – without the requirement for expensive silicon on insulator (SOI) substrates – by using the 3D transistor structures preferred by the major DRAM manufacturers.
  
  
• ARM to Reshape the Smartcard Market with Industry's Smallest and Most Energy-Efficient Securcore SC000 Processor (Mar. 16, 2010)
  ARM today announced the launch of the highly compact and energy-efficient ARM® SecurCore™ SC000™ processor, designed specifically for the highest volume smartcard and embedded security applications.
  
  
• Ensphere Solutions Announced the Availability of a High Accuracy Temperature Sensor Intellectual Property (Mar. 15, 2010)
  Ensphere Solutions’ new ESI-P3010 is a power and area optimized IP implemented in mainstream processes such as TSMC 65nm-G and TowerJazz 180 nm. This core consists of a temperature sensor connected to one of the eight inputs of an analog multiplexer.
  
  
• Evatronix Optimizes its I2S Audio Interface Controller by Adding TDM Support and Single Channel Operation (Mar. 15, 2010)
  Evatronix SA, announced today the introduction of the I2S-SC controller IP. It is compatible with the Philips I2S specification and all its modes; however, it reduces the number of supported channels from eight to one and introduces the Time Division Multiplexing (TDM) mechanism for more efficient multi-channel handling.
  
  
• Tensilica Introduces Third Generation Diamond Standard Controllers Optimized for Low Power, High Performance Applications (Mar. 15, 2010)
  Tensilica today introduced its third generation of Diamond Standard controllers. Improvements in this third generation of Diamond Standard controllers deliver up to 15 percent faster clock speed, up to 20 percent smaller die area and up to 15 percent less power consumption.
  
  
• Noesis Technologies releases fully configurable N-point FFT/IFFT core (Mar. 12, 2010)
  Noesis Technologies announced today the immediate availability of its N-point fully configurable FFT/IFFT core (ntBFFT). ntBFFT core is a fully configurable solution that performs the FFT and IFFT transform. It is on-the-fly programmable in terms of transform size and type. It supports complex input/output and the results are output in normal order.
  
  
• Sonics Announces Support for AMBA 4 Specification (Mar. 11, 2010)
  Sonics, Inc.®, announced that its on-chip communications solutions will support phase one of the new AMBA® 4 protocol unveiled this week by ARM. This ensures that chip designers who currently use the AMBA 3 specification will have an easy migration path to AMBA 4 products as design upgrades are rolled out. ARM indicates further enhancements to the specification will be available later this year.
  
  
• Silicon Hive Introduces HiveLogic Configurable Parallel Processing Platform (Mar. 10, 2010)
  Silicon Hive today announced HiveLogic, a configurable parallel processing platform enabling embedded programmable solutions for system-on-chips at unprecedented silicon area utilization and power consumption efficiency. The underlying parallel processing technology has already been deployed by Silicon Hive in mass-consumer solutions for connected multimedia applications in smart phones and digital televisions.
  
  
• POSEDGE announces Ultra Speed, High Performance, and Low Gate Count SD/SDIO/eMMC Host Controller IP (Mar. 09, 2010)
  Posedge has announced the availability of soft IP Core that performs SD/SDIO/eMMC Host controller functionality. The Posedge SD/SDIO/eMMC Host Controller Core is highly configurable and is compliant with SD Host 3.0, SDIO 3.0, and eMMC4.4 specification.
  
  
• Altera's Stratix IV FPGAs Pass Interlaken Interoperability Test (Mar. 08, 2010)
  Altera today announced its Stratix® IV FPGAs passed the Interlaken Alliance's device interoperability testing. Altera passed interoperability testing using a Stratix IV GT FPGA development board along with Altera's internally developed Interlaken intellectual property (IP) core.
  
  
• CSEM introduces a new generation of ultra low power DSP RISC cores for portable applications (Mar. 02, 2010)
  The icyflex family of ultra low power 16/32-bit RISC processor cores developed by CSEM, the Swiss Center for Electronics and Microtechnology, offers a flexible ar-chitecture that allows for different combinations of control and DSP functionality. Three silicon-proven cores are so far available, consuming as little as 6 μW/MHz.
  
  
• Crack Semiconductor Releases Performance Data For The CS256-ECC and CS1024-PKA Processors (Mar. 02, 2010)
  Crack Semiconductor's CS256-ECC and CS1024-PKA processors offer amazing performance for GF(p) Elliptic Curve operations up to 512-bits based. . The CS256-ECC is a smaller, ECC-only variant of the CS1024-PKA processor with the same ECC performance.
  
  
• iSine Inc. Releases Extreme ECC(tm) for NAND Flash SOC's optimized for ASIC and Xilinx FPGA implementation (Mar. 02, 2010)
  iSine Inc. has announced the full release of its Extreme ECC technology that meets the needs of the most demanding error correction environments. The Extreme ECC technology supports traditional SLC and MLC NAND Flash requirements, in addition to Standard ONFI 2.1 and Toggle Mode NAND Flash interface demands.
  
  
• Noesis Technologies releases NIST FIPS-197 compliant Low Power AES IP core (Mar. 01, 2010)
  Noesis Technologies announced today the immediate availability of its NIST FIPS-197 compliant Advanced Encryption Standard IP core (ntAES8). ntAES8 core can be programmed to encrypt or decrypt 128-bit blocks of data using a 128-bit, 192-bit or 256-bit key.
  
  
• Dolphin Integration widens their catalog with libraries targeting both Low Power and High Speed (Feb. 22, 2010)
  In 2010, Dolphin Integration focuses their product offering on both their long-established know-how on Low Power designs for embedded memories and standard cell libraries. New architectures are released from the 130 nm technological process down to 40 nm LP with versions optimized for high speed.
  
  
• ARM Launches Class-Leading Cortex-M4 Processor For High Performance Digital Signal Control (Feb. 22, 2010)
  ARM today announced the launch of the innovative Cortex™-M4 processor to provide a highly efficient solution for digital signal control (DSC) applications, while maintaining the industry leading capabilities of the ARM® Cortex-M family of processors for advanced microcontroller (MCU) applications.
  
  
• SiliconGate Introduces the First Ultra Fast DC/DC IP for Process Technologies Ranging from 0.25um to 40nm (Feb. 19, 2010)
  SILICONGATE today announced the availability of silicon-proven SGC67120, the first in a family of synchronous step-down DC/DC converters designed to operate from a 1.8V to 5.5V input and deliver up to 3A to 0.6V to 3.6V outputs. With an extremely fast 1.5µs response time, this new converter promises to reduce the external capacitor size and overall solution cost for portable applications.
  
  
• SoftJin announces High Performance JPEG Encoder and Decoder IP (Feb. 18, 2010)
  SoftJin announces JPEG Encoder and Decoder IP. SoftJin’s JPEG encoder IP is a high performance RTL solution and capable of encoding Still Images as well as Video stream with SD, VGA and HD resolution.
  
  
• Elliptic Technologies Offers Solution to Longstanding Security challenge - implementing asymmetric or public key cryptography (Feb. 16, 2010)
  Elliptic today announced that it has released a comprehensive solution to perhaps the most difficult challenge today facing designers in security – implementing asymmetric or public key cryptography.
  
  
• Intelop corporation's TCP Offload engine IP delivers amazing TCP/IP throughput (Feb. 16, 2010)
  Intelop corporation’s TCP Offload engine IP delivers amazing TCP/IP throughput as reported by customers in system level performance testing. This second generation Customizable Full TCP offload Engine also integrates GEMAC, ARP module, RDMA engines, PLB/405 bus interfaces running at 2-Gbps. It is capable of implementing/ accelerating hundreds of simultaneous TCP sessions, delivering 800 % -1500% performance improvement over TCP/IP software implementations.
  
  
• Imagination extends standards supported on ENSIGMA UCCP310 with Wi-Fi and ATSC, demonstrates SoC test chip (Feb. 15, 2010)
  Imagination Technologies is demonstrating two of Imagination's latest ENSIGMA UCCP310 IP platforms running real time Wi-Fi and ATSC integrated on an advanced SoC test chip at MWC 2010 in Barcelona (15-18 February 2010).
  
  
• CEVA Unveils Industry's First Multipurpose Programmable HD Video and Image Processing Platform for Connected Multimedia Devices (Feb. 15, 2010)
  CEVA today unveiled CEVA-MM3000™, a fully programmable, HD video and imaging platform specifically designed for the connected generation of portable multimedia and home entertainment devices.
  
  
• ArrayComm and CEVA Partner to Develop LTE Wireless Infrastructure Solution (Feb. 12, 2010)
  ArrayComm and CEVA today announced an agreement to work toward the implementation of ArrayComm’s full LTE eNodeB PHY on the CEVA-XC™ DSP core. This will provide SoC product developers with a pre-optimized PHY software/processor package to incorporate in their overall system design.
  
  
• Blue Wonder Communications Uses 4M Wireless LTE Protocol Stack to Complete LTE Reference Platform (Feb. 12, 2010)
  Blue Wonder has integrated its LTE baseband solution with the 4M Wireless LTE protocol as part of a complete LTE terminal reference platform.
  
  
• Silicon Hive announces World's First Programmable Digital Radio Frequency Processor for Smart Phones (Feb. 11, 2010)
  Silicon Hive announces HiveFlex CSP2500 Digital RF Processor. The silicon-proven CSP2500 processor enables fully C-programmable, multi-standard smart phone transceiver platforms targeting EDGE, UMTS, LTE, cdma2000, WiFi and WiMAX technologies.
  
  
• Eureka Technology Supports PLB Bus Interface for Most of Its Popular IP Cores (Feb. 11, 2010)
  Eureka Technology today announces the availability of the CoreConnect™ PLB™ Bus interface option for most of its IP core products. PLB Bus is the native interface standard for PowerPC and Power Architecture-based embedded processors and the Xilinx MicroBlaze™ CPU. By supporting the PLB™ bus interface standard, Eureka’s IP cores can be integrated seamlessly with any SoC design based on these standard CPU cores.
  
  
• Athena Delivers Powerful 3GPP LTE Multi Radix FFT Processor Core (Feb. 10, 2010)
  The Athena Group today announced the general availability of its multi-radix FFT core for LTE and other OFDM-based wireless communications. The PFFT-M for LTE delivers the throughput needed for basestation LTE downlink OFDMA as well as the flexibility to handle the complexity of LTE uplink SC-FDMA in a single core.
  
  
• IPextreme and Globetech Solutions Announce Availability of Industry's First Complete IEEE 1149.7 cJTAG IP Solution (Feb. 10, 2010)
  IPextreme and Globetech Solutions today announced the availability of the electronics industry's first complete IEEE 1149.7 cJTAG IP solution. The solution, comprising IPextreme's cJTAG silicon IP (SIP) and Globetech's cJTAG verification IP (VIP) products, will help system designers quickly and easily take advantage of the many performance and cost saving features of the 1149.7 standard.