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• JMicron Technology Corp Develops Serial ATA II (3.0 Gpbs) PHY Core on UMC's 90nm G and 90nm SP Processes (Wednesday Feb. 22, 2006)
  These two IPs’ formal release depicts another evidence of tight and successful technology cooperation between UMC and JMicron Technology Corp after 130 nm SATA II PHY IP announcement by both companies in February of year 2005
  
  
• Tensilica Introduces Diamond Standard Processor Core Family, Leading the Industry in Low Power and High Performance (Monday Feb. 20, 2006)
  Tensilica, Inc., today introduced the Diamond Standard family of processor cores, a set of six off-the-shelf synthesizable cores that range from area-efficient, low-power controllers to high-performance DSPs (Digital Signal Processors), all of which lead
  
  
• Tensilica Introduces Diamond Standard 570T with 50% Lower Power Consumption, Twice the Performance and Half the Area of ARM11 Processor Core (Monday Feb. 20, 2006)
  This high-performance 3-issue static superscalar, synthesizable controller core provides more than twice the performance than the ARM1156T2-S in half the area and with less than half of the power
  
  
• Tensilica Introduces Fastest, Lowest Power Linux Processor Core (Monday Feb. 20, 2006)
  New Diamond Standard 232L Offers More Features, Better Performance and One-Third Less Power Dissipation of ARM926
  
  
• Tensilica Announces Diamond Standard 330HiFi, a Low-Power 24-bit Audio DSP (Monday Feb. 20, 2006)
  Twenty Audio Application Software Solutions Available for New Diamond 330HiFi Core
  
  
• New ARC Video Subsystem Delivers Complete Solution for Portable Multimedia Devices (Monday Feb. 20, 2006)
  The First Multi-Standard Subsystem with Pre-Verified Video Decoders
  
  
• MoSys' 1T-SRAM(R) CLASSIC Running in Volume Production on Chartered's 0.13-micron Process (Wednesday Feb. 15, 2006)
  Shipping High-Performance Networking and Low-Power Portable Storage Applications
  
  
• LSI Logic Announces Cached DSP Cores for Innovative Wireless, Voice and Multimedia Systems (Tuesday Feb. 14, 2006)
  New Cores Featuring Cached Memory Offer Increased Design Flexibility
  
  
• Tallika's PCI Express Endpoint Controller and SMSC's PCI Express PHY Successfully Pass PCI-SIG Compliance (Monday Feb. 13, 2006)
  Tallika Corporation, a Semiconductor Intellectual Property and Design Services Company, announced today that its PCI Express Endpoint Controller Core together with SMSC’s PCI-Express PHY has passed all PCI-SIG Compliance tests including the PCI-SIG define
  
  
• Imagination Technologies debuts accelerated OpenVG technology on the PowerVR MBX Family at 3GSM 2006 (Monday Feb. 13, 2006)
  PowerVR MBX, the leading mobile graphics acceleration solution, offers full acceleration for OpenVG, achieving many times the performance of software implementations with significantly reduced power consumption.
  
  
• StarCore and Hantro announce immediate availability of high performance H.264 video decoder (Monday Feb. 13, 2006)
  StarCore LLC, a leading provider of processor intellectual property (IP) and Hantro Products Oy, a leading supplier of video software and hardware solutions today announced the immediate availability of an optimized H.264 software video decoder for the St
  
  
• LTRIM's System Supervisor IP Blocks Accurately Sense Temperature at Low Power (Monday Feb. 13, 2006)
  LTRIM Technologies, a leading provider of high performance CMOS analog Intellectual Property (IP), today announced the availability of a family of system supervisor functions, covering Power On Reset (POR), Thermal Monitor, and Temperature Sensor IP block
  
  
• Silembia unveils it DVB-H Silicon IP at 3GSM World Congress 2006 in Barcelona, 13th to 16th February (Monday Feb. 13, 2006)
  Unveiling DVB-H Silicon IP demonstrated on PDA running real life transmission
  
  
• Faraday Introduced a New MP3 Player SoC - FIE7010 HD-based Audio Platform Solution (Wednesday Feb. 08, 2006)
  A SoC Platform Solution with Audio/Video Processing Algorithms that Combine MP3 and iPod Photo–like Functions
  
  
• ARM and Handshake Solutions Announce Availability of Industry's First Clockless Processor for Real-Time Chip Designs (Wednesday Feb. 08, 2006)
  New ARM Processor Developed With Philips Handshake Solutions Offers Low-Power, Clockless Technology
  
  
• LSI Logic First to Integrate Dual XFI SerDes Into 10G Ethernet SoC Design (Wednesday Feb. 08, 2006)
  Ample Communications Redhawk 2-port 10GE MAC Demonstrated in LSI Booth at DesignCon 2006
  
  
• Xilinx Ships FPGA Industry's Only Compliant Programmable x8 PCI Express IP Core (Tuesday Feb. 07, 2006)
  The Xilinx PCIe IP Core is compliant to the PCI Express base specification v1.1 and is the only programmable x8 lane PCIe IP Core to have successfully completed all PCI Express compliance and interoperability tests administered at PCI-SIG PCI Express Comp
  
  
• Xelic Announces Family of SONET/SDH Transport Processor Cores for Integration into FPGA or ASIC Networking Applications (Tuesday Feb. 07, 2006)
  Xelic Transport Processor cores are available for OC-3 (XCS3F), OC-12 (XCS12F), OC-48 (XCS48F), OC-192 (XCS192F), and OC-768 (XCS768F) data rates
  
  
• Synopsys' New Designware USB 2.0 nanoPHY IP to Cut Power and Size in Half (Monday Feb. 06, 2006)
  Enables Longer Battery Life and Lower Cost for Mobile and High-Volume Consumer Products
  
  
• Rambus Introduces New Innovative Decision Feedback Equalization Technology (Monday Feb. 06, 2006)
  SmartDFE™ achieves substantial cost savings and performance increase
  
  
• New Multi-threading Solution From MIPS Technologies Delivers Significant Gains in System Performance for the Embedded Market (Monday Feb. 06, 2006)
  Initial Licensees of the MIPS32(R) 34K(TM) Core Family Include iVivity, Mobileye and PMC-Sierra
  
  
• Lightspeed Launches Reconfigurable IP Technology Offering (Monday Feb. 06, 2006)
  Mask Reconfigurable Logic Array Supports Any Process, Any Standard-Cell Library
  
  
• CAST Rolls Ten Years of 8051 Experience into Configurable Processor Core (Friday Feb. 03, 2006)
  8051-compatible IP core runs eight times faster than original, gives designers new flexibility and value based on 100+ customer experiences
  
  
• Startup prepares UWB competitor for market (Thursday Feb. 02, 2006)
  Startup company xG Technology LLC is preparing to bring to market a proprietary technology which it claims offers competition to ultra-wideband (UWB) techniques and can more efficiently use wireless spectrum and support more efficient communication over w
  
  
• Digital Blocks Announces the Re-launch of its DB6845 CRT Controller IP Core (Monday Jan. 30, 2006)
  Originally Marketed through a Business Partner, Digital Blocks offers the DB6845 Direct with the Launch of its New Web Site.
  
  
• LTRIM's DC-DC Converter IP Now Available at SMIC (Friday Jan. 27, 2006)
  High Efficiency, Low Power DC-DC Converters Designed to Extend Battery Life Available in 0.18-Micron Technology
  
  
• Global Unichip Announced the World No.1 UTM0034A, an ARM926EJ Testchip with 2 AHB Interfaces to Shorten Time-to-Design & Time-to-Market (Thursday Jan. 26, 2006)
  Global Unichip Corp. (GUC), a leading SoC design foundry and TSMC partner, today announced the world first and only one ARM926EJ testchip UTM0034A(TM) featuring 2 sets of AHB interface. Unlike other circulated testchip solutions with single AHB interface,
  
  
• Recore Systems launches with reconfigurable core (Thursday Jan. 26, 2006)
  Recore Systems BV is a startup company formed by researchers into reconfigurable technology at the University of Twente at Enschede. Recore (Enschede, The Netherlands) was founded by Paul Heysters, Gerard Rauwerda and Lodewijk Smit, late in 2005 but it ha
  
  
• MindTree Announces Portfolio of Ultrawideband Intellectual Property for License to Global Silicon Vendors (Wednesday Jan. 25, 2006)
  MindTree’s UWB IPs branded as UltraWiz, is based on the WiMedia UWB common radio platform, and will power UWB based consumer electronics and wireless products deliver a maximum throughput of 480 mbps of audio, video and data over the air
  
  
• SafeNet Announces Inline IPSec Security Engine for System on Chip Designs; Silicon-Proven IP Enables OEMs to Build Gigabit VPN Security into High Performance Processors (Wednesday Jan. 25, 2006)
  The SafeXcel IP Inline Security Engine takes a significant step beyond traditional SoC security architectures with micro-programmed hardware for intensive packet classification, filtering, and flow processing for every packet. The result is superior data