HILLSBORO, OR – OCTOBER 18, 2010 – Lattice Semiconductor Corporation (NASDAQ: LSCC) today announced that it has shipped more than 50 million MachXO™ PLDs since their introduction just five years ago.  Broadly adopted in a wide range of high volume, cost sensitive applications, customers worldwide are taking advantage of the MachXO PLD family due to its exceptional combination of ease-of-use, flexibility, system integration and price.

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MILPITAS, CA – October 18, 2010 – Linear Technology announces the LTC3105, a high performance, synchronous boost converter that incorporates maximum power point control (MPPC) and starts up with inputs as low as 250mV. The LTC3105 operates over an extremely wide input range of 0.2V to 5V, making it ideal for harvesting energy from high impedance alternative power sources, including photovoltaic cells, thermoelectric generators (TEGs) and fuel cells. The LTC3105’s internal 400mA synchronous switches maximize efficiency while its Burst Mode® operation offers quiescent current of only 22uA, further optimizing converter efficiency over all operating … Read More → "400mA Synchronous Step-Up DC/DC Converter with Maximum Power Point Control & 250mV Start Up for Energy Harvesting Applications"

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Oct. 18 /PRNewswire/ — Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS), a world leader in software and IP for semiconductor design, verification and manufacturing, today announced that its 23rd Electronic Design Automation (EDA) Interoperability Forum will expand its focus to include system-level design interoperability topics, in addition to verification and analog design updates. A special live Conversation Central session will focus on the importance of system-level design tools interoperability in the wireless supply chain, with Synopsys host Karen Bartleson interviewing Will Strauss, principal analyst at … Read More → "Synopsys’ 23rd EDA Interoperability Forum to Feature System-Level Design Tool Interoperability Focus"

CHATSWORTH, CA – October 15, 2010 –Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing (CWCEC), a business group of Curtiss-Wright Controls and a leading designer and manufacturer of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) VME, VPX, OpenVPX™ and CompactPCI products for the rugged deployed aerospace and defense market, has announced the CHAMP-FX3, the first rugged, high-performance FPGA OpenVPX™ 6U VPX board that features dual Xilinx® Virtex®-6 FPGAs.  Since the introduction of its first 6U FPGA card in 2005, CWCEC has been a leader in the development of rugged FPGA-based computing products. The CHAMP-FX3 board is … Read More → "New CHAMP-FX3 VITA 46/VITA 48 Board Features Dual Xilinx® Virtex®-6 FPGAs"

Stutensee, Germany – The MSC Vertriebs GmbH’s new COM Express™ module family MSC CXC-PV525 integrating a power-saving Intel^®  Atom™ D525 processor with dual core offers a significant performance enhancement compared to single core solutions. Two fast DDR3 SDRAMs (SO-DIMM sockets) with a total capacity of up to 4 GB provide high computing performance and low power consumption. The MSC CXC-PV525 is the first COM Express™ Compact module combining these innovative processor and memory technologies on a form factor of just 95mm x 95mm. </ … Read More → "Compact COM Express Module with Intel Atom Dual Core CPU"

SUNNYVALE, Calif. – October 14, 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 IUNIKA S.A. has selected both of its Coherent Processing Systems (CPS) for development of its next-generation mobile computing devices, including eco-friendly e-books, laptops and netbooks. The license includes the multi-threaded, multiprocessing MIPS32® 1004Kf™ CPS and the new superscalar MIPS32 1074Kf™ CPS.

IUNIKA’s products are developed with unique and patented technologies that  … Read More → "IUNIKA Licenses MIPS Technologies’ Coherent Multiprocessing Systems for Computing and Mobile Computing Devices"

Sunnyvale, CA – October 13, 2010 – QuickLogic Corporation (NASDAQ: QUIK), the leader in low power Customer Specific Standard Products (CSSPs), today announced the ArcticLink® II CX family of solution platforms. The highly integrated, yet flexible platform family is designed to deliver extremely fast USB sideloading (transfer of files between a PC and a mobile device), support for the latest flash memory technology and built-in encryption blocks that ensure a superior user experience for even the most demanding mobile electronics consumer.

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Sunnyvale, CA – October 13, 2010 – QuickLogic Corporation (NASDAQ: QUIK), the leader in low power Customer Specific Standard Products (CSSPs), today announced the ArcticLink® II CX family of solution platforms. The highly integrated, yet flexible platform family is designed to deliver extremely fast USB sideloading (transfer of files between a PC and a mobile device), support for the latest flash memory technology and built-in encryption blocks that ensure a superior user experience for even the most demanding mobile electronics consumer.

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WILSONVILLE, Ore., October 13, 2010—Mentor Graphics Corporation (NASDAQ: MENT) today announced the Inflexion Platform™ User Interface (UI) for Android, a comprehensive development toolkit comprising a graphics engine and UI creation tool that enables Android application developers to rapidly customize product UIs with visually compelling 2D and 3D animated elements for increased product differentiation.

The Inflexion Platform UI for Android is ideal for smart phones and consumer devices where product differentiation is critical, and for non-smart phone Android and Linux-based devices, such as televisions, set-top boxes, printers, infotainment systems, and other products which would otherwise require significant … Read More → "Mentor Graphics Announces Inflexion Platform User Interface (UI) for Android-Based Device Development"