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• Chipidea introduces Advanced Power Management IP (Tuesday Mar. 28, 2006)
  Chipidea, the world leader in analog and mixed-signal semiconductor intellectual property, today introduces three of its most advanced DC/DC converter cores for high-volume integrated circuit designs targeted for the consumer electronics market.
  
  
• ATEME Releases Revolutionary Single-Chip Main Profile MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 Encoder (Friday Mar. 24, 2006)
  
  
  
• LTRIM Technologies New LTR2500-T13M Li-Ion Battery Compatible DC-DC Converter IP Ideal for SoC Designs (Friday Mar. 24, 2006)
  LTRIM Technologies, a leading provider of high performance CMOS analog intellectual property (IP), today announced the new LTR2500-T13M Li-Ion battery compatible DC-DC converter IP block, which is now available in TSMC CMOS mixed-signal/RF 0.13-micron tec
  
  
• LTRIM Technologies New Family of Adaptable DC-DC Converter IP Blocks Meet SoC System Requirements (Thursday Mar. 23, 2006)
  LTRIM Technologies, a leading provider of high performance CMOS analog intellectual property (IP), today announced a new family of high efficiency, fixed frequency step-down and/or step-up (buck/boost) DC-DC converter IP blocks, available now in TSMC CMOS
  
  
• Sun Microsystems Expands Community for SPARC With Release of UltraSPARC T1 Processor Design Under Free, GNU GPL Open Source License (Wednesday Mar. 22, 2006)
  Sun Microsystems Inc. today announced a significant milestone in its OpenSPARC Initiative aimed at the creation of the world's first multi-core, multi-threaded eco-system: publication of the hardware design point and the Solaris 10 Operating System (OS) p
  
  
• Chipidea extends its IP Portfolio for Video applications with a new very compact 210MHz Analog Front-End (AFE) in 0.13um CMOS technology (Tuesday Mar. 21, 2006)
  Chipidea extends its IP Portfolio for Video applications with a new very compact 210MHz Analog Front-End (AFE) in 0.13ìm CMOS technology. This AFE with only 2.75mm2 is the most recent IP for high-end PC-Graphics applications. A similar AFE in 0.18ìm CMOS
  
  
• StarGen announces availability of ASI EndPoint Core for Xilinx FPGA (Tuesday Mar. 21, 2006)
  StarGen, the market leader in Advanced Switching Interconnect (ASI) solutions, announced general availability of FPGA core IP that provides ASI endpoint functionality to application specific silicon. This highly efficient core is currently targeted to Xil
  
  
• New ARC Sound Advanced Subsystem Brings New Capabilities to Low-Power Audio Products (Tuesday Mar. 21, 2006)
  ARC International (LSE: ARK), the world leader in configurable CPU/DSP cores and application subsystems, today announced the ARC™ Sound Advanced Subsystem, a configurable solution that is pre-verified to reduce component cost and power while accelerating
  
  
• Actel Fusion and New Pulse Width Modulation Core Offer New Levels of Flexibility for Embedded Mixed-Signal Applications (Monday Mar. 20, 2006)
  Actel's CorePWM Enables Single-chip, Closed-loop Control Systems
  
  
• Texas Instruments and Altera Partner to Deliver Low-Cost PCI Express (Wednesday Mar. 15, 2006)
  Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) (NYSE: TXN) and Altera Corporation (NASDAQ: ALTR) today announced the availability of a low-cost, PCI-SIG-compliant solution that reduces the cost and accelerates the development of PCI Express-based systems.
  
  
• Faraday and ICL Successfully Developed a Dual Application SOC Platform to Breathe a New Life in the Network Surveillance and Network TV Industries (Monday Mar. 13, 2006)
  The platform is capable of processing audio/video streaming, video compression, and network data storage. In addition, it also integrated ICL's application software that caters to network surveillance camera and IP TV station, which includes high performa
  
  
• Tallika and Intoto Collaborate on Integrated Security for Next-Generation Security Semiconductor Solutions (Wednesday Mar. 08, 2006)
  As part of this collaboration, customers integrating Tallika’s IPsec security IP will be able to leverage Intoto’s market-leading iGateway security software in bringing nextgeneration networking and communication products to market.
  
  
• GDA Announces PCI Express Gen II (Version 0.7) Technology Compliance (Wednesday Mar. 08, 2006)
  GDA Technologies, a fast-growing supplier of Intellectual Property (IP) and Electronic Design Services (EDS), today announced the availability of Gen II (Version 0.7) Compliant PCI Express Interface Controller (GPEX), featuring a highly flexible and confi
  
  
• MENTA unveils new eFPGA technology (Tuesday Mar. 07, 2006)
  MENTA, a fabless semiconductor company, is presenting a solution for IC designers who need an embedded FPGA (eFPGA) macro in their ASIC or SoC design. Our solution provides a complete set of software and hardware IP solutions for Digital Signal Processing
  
  
• SoC Solutions Delivers Ready-to-Use IP Subsystems for Cortus Processors (Tuesday Mar. 07, 2006)
  SoC Solutions today announced the availability of ready-to-use IP subsystems for the Cortus ultra-low power, very small, high-performance 32-bit processor core targeting the 8/16-bit upgrade market.
  
  
• H.264 Codec Leader Launches Hardware IP for High Definition Encoder for Resolutions up to 1080p (Tuesday Mar. 07, 2006)
  WWComs Delivers Commercially Successful H.264 Algorithms in Silicon IP
  
  
• ARM Announces Static Memory Controllers To Provide Flexible, Comprehensive Memory Interface (Monday Mar. 06, 2006)
  New configurable PrimeCell products empower designers with the performance and flexibility to fully optimize their designs
  
  
• ARM Releases AMBA 3 AXI Assertions (Monday Mar. 06, 2006)
  SystemVerilog and Open Verification Library (OVL) assertions provide ''Golden'' reference to accelerate broad industry adoption
  
  
• CAST and Cortus to Partner on New Processor Cores (Monday Mar. 06, 2006)
  The new partnership joins the former-Siemens/Infineon processor design experts of Cortus with the successful engineering, support, and marketing team of 13-year-old CAST. The resulting new cores will likely include competitive 32-bit processors that compl
  
  
• ASIC Architect's PCI Express Switch Controller Core Passes PCI-SIG Compliance and Interoperability Testing (Monday Mar. 06, 2006)
  ASIC Architect demonstrates its expanded capability in PCI Express™ solution space -- Endpoint, Root Port, Switch Port, Dual Mode -- Root/Endpoint. ASIC Architect's quality products come with quality support from product integration through silicon bring-
  
  
• SOISIC Teams With Leading Foundry to Produce Industry's First SOI-Based ASIC Devices (Friday Mar. 03, 2006)
  Soisic SA, a provider of silicon-on-insulator intellectual property, has said that the era of foundry SOI manufacture has begun with a customer producing its first working silicon using an ASIC-based SOI design process in 90-nanometer SOI CMOS process tec
  
  
• AMCC and Intrinsity, Inc. Reveal PowerPC Core Development Pact (Thursday Mar. 02, 2006)
  Utilizing its Fast14 technology, Intrinsity and AMCC will develop a new PowerPC® embedded processor core that will offer leading edge performance and low power operation as well as full compatibility with the industry standard PowerPC® instruction set arc
  
  
• IBM announces enhancements to PowerPC portfolio, new Power licensee (Tuesday Feb. 28, 2006)
  U.S. Government Trusted Access Program licenses IBM's PowerPC 405 and 440 processor cores
  
  
• Innovative Semiconductor Teams with Denali to Deliver High-Quality USB OTG Solutions (Tuesday Feb. 28, 2006)
  Denali's PureSpec™ Used to Confirm Compliance, Interoperability of Innovative Semiconductor's USB OTG Chips
  
  
• French startup, Cortus SA, offers compact 32-bit RISC (Monday Feb. 27, 2006)
  A French startup company, Cortus SA, has developed a highly compact 32-bit RISC processor for embedded applications which it has begun offering for license.
  
  
• Arteris Ships Arteris NoC Solution 1.4 to Accelerate Adoption of Network on Chip (Monday Feb. 27, 2006)
  New Version of Arteris NoC IP Library and Design Tools Enhance Productivity for Constructing On-Chip Communications Subsystems; Adds AMBA(R) 3 AXI Support
  
  
• Impinj Aligns With UMC to Deliver Logic NVM Cores on 0.18um and 0.13um Process Technologies (Monday Feb. 27, 2006)
  Proven Technology Enables Standard Logic CMOS Integration With No Additional Processing
  
  
• Akustica Launches the World's First Single-Chip Microphone (Monday Feb. 27, 2006)
  Based on CMOS MEMS Technology, Akustica Microphones Solve Acoustic Performance Issues in Laptops, Mobile Phones, Digital-Video and Still Cameras
  
  
• Elliptic Semiconductor Ports Security IP Cores to Lattice FPGAs (Friday Feb. 24, 2006)
  Encryption and Decryption Cores Protect Digital Information
  
  
• Xilinx And ISR Technologies Announce Software Defined Radio Kit Supporting Partial Reconfiguration And SCA-Enabled SoC (Wednesday Feb. 22, 2006)
  Virtex-4 Platform FPGA-based solution can lower the power and cost of SCA-compliant modems