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The Chinese Are Coming, the Chinese Are Coming!

“Made in China” usually conjures up images of cheap Wal-Mart merchandise on the bargain rack. On the other hand, Chinese engineers have constructed some pretty amazing things over the ages. Chinese art, architecture, and engineering are on par with anyone else’s.

A case in point is the oddly named Godson microprocessor chip. The newest version is a 64-bit beast running at 1 GHz or so, fabricated in a leading-edge 28nm process technology (not Chinese). Like all previous … Read More → "The Chinese Are Coming, the Chinese Are Coming!"

Savi Challenges You to Imagine the Best Wireless Applications

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 1, 2010 /PRNewswire/ — Savi Technology, a Lockheed Martin company (NYSE: LMT) and leading provider of wireless solutions to manage smart assets, today announced Project Volcano, an industry wide challenge for developers to explode onto the scene and create new ways that everyone can benefit from wireless technology.  The best … Read More → "Savi Challenges You to Imagine the Best Wireless Applications"

Pentek Takes Leadership Role In Delivering Advanced COTS Solutions Targeting Military Applications

SAN JOSE, CA, MILCOM–November 1, 2010 – Again taking a leadership role, Pentek, Inc. today unveiled the first in a family of ruggedized boards for high-performance military and avionics applications utilizing the industry’s most advanced FPGA technology. Pentek’s 53xxx Cobalt™ board family incorporates Xilinx’s Virtex-6 FPGAs for on-board signal processing, delivering digital sampling rates to 1 … Read More → "Pentek Takes Leadership Role In Delivering Advanced COTS Solutions Targeting Military Applications"

LynuxWorks and Themis Team up to Demonstrate Rugged and Secure Server Solutions at MILCOM 2010

SAN JOSE, CA, MILCOM – November 1, 2010–LynuxWorks™, Inc., a world leader in the embedded software market, and Themis Computer a leading supplier of high performance board and system level products for military applications, today announced that they have teamed up to demonstrate a new rugged, high performance multilevel secure platform solution at MILCOM 2010. The companies will showcase LynuxWorks& … Read More → "LynuxWorks and Themis Team up to Demonstrate Rugged and Secure Server Solutions at MILCOM 2010"

Low Input Voltage Synchronous Step-Down DC/DC Controller Drives 5V Logic Level MOSFETs for High Efficiency

MILPITAS, CA – November 1, 2010 – Linear Technology Corporation announces the LTC3852, a low/wide input voltage (2.7V to 5.5V or 4V-38V) synchronous step-down DC/DC controller. The device’s onboard charge pump provides 5V bias to drive low RDS(ON) and standard logic-level power MOSFETs from a 3.3V nominal supply. Since the LTC3852’s internal charge … Read More → "Low Input Voltage Synchronous Step-Down DC/DC Controller Drives 5V Logic Level MOSFETs for High Efficiency"

Synopsys Expands Synthesis-Based Test Technology to Increase Designer Productivity

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.Nov. 1, 2010 /PRNewswire/ — Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS), a world leader in software and IP for semiconductor design, verification and manufacturing, today announced plans to expand test technology embedded in Synopsys’ RTL synthesis to address the need for higher defect coverage, lower test cost and faster yield analysis while simultaneously minimizing the impact on design goals and project schedules. Design teams currently using Synopsys’ RTL synthesis and test solution are able to quickly implement compression to lower digital logic test costs, handle pin-limited test methodologies and execute on-chip … Read More → "Synopsys Expands Synthesis-Based Test Technology to Increase Designer Productivity"

Cavium Networks Extends MIPS® Architecture License

SUNNYVALE, Calif. – October 28, 2010 – MIPS Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: MIPS), a leading provider of industry-standard processor architectures and cores for digital consumer, home networking, wireless, communications and business applications, announced today that long-time MIPS licensee Cavium Networks has reaffirmed its commitment to the MIPS® architecture by renewing its license of the high-performance MIPS64® architecture.

“We are pleased to reaffirm our commitment to the ultra-high performance MIPS64 architecture for future generations of our groundbreaking OCTEON® products. As Cavium’s solutions gain increasing traction for a wide range of networking and communications applications, … Read More → "Cavium Networks Extends MIPS® Architecture License"

Xilinx Expands Secure Mobility and Ruggedized Performance Offering with Next Generation of Defense-Grade Families

SAN JOSE, Calif.Oct. 28 /PRNewswire/ — Xilinx, Inc., (Nasdaq: XLNX) today announced the Spartan®-6Q family and Virtex®-6Q family, its newest generation of field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) qualified for meeting the rigorous requirements of the aerospace and defense market. The new families include the industry’s first defense-grade FPGA based on the successful low-cost, low-power Spartan series, providing designers with a highly-flexible device that delivers industry-leading secure SWaP-C (size, weight, power and cost) benefits to applications requiring high levels of security and reliability.

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Carl Zeiss and Synopsys Collaborate on In-Die Registration Metrology for Photomask Manufacturing

JENA, Germany and MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Oct. 28 /PRNewswire/ — Carl Zeiss SMS GmbH, a leading supplier for photomask metrology and repair tools and Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS), a world leader in software and IP for semiconductor design, verification and manufacturing, today announced a collaboration to support the ZEISS tool family for in-die metrology solutions for the 32-nanometer (nm) technology node and below.  Synopsys will offer support for ZEISS’ PROVE™, the next-generation registration metrology tool, through Synopsys’ CATS™, the technology-leading mask data preparation solution. Using CATS as the data preparation engine, mask engineers using PROVE … Read More → "Carl Zeiss and Synopsys Collaborate on In-Die Registration Metrology for Photomask Manufacturing"

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