Grenoble, France, 22 June 2010, CMP/CMC/MOSIS are partnering to offer a 3D-IC MPW service based on Tezzaron’s SuperContact technology and GLOBALFOUNDRIES 130nm CMOS.

The first MPW run is targeting January 2011:

• 2-tier face-to-face bonded wafers
• 130nm CMOS process for both tiers
• Top tier exposing TSV and backside metal pads for wire bonding.

A design-kit supporting 3D-IC design with standard-cells and IO libraries is available. Further MPW runs will be scheduled supporting process flavors (multiple tiers beyond 2, different CMOS flavors for different … Read More → "CMP/CMC/MOSIS partner to introduce a 3D-IC process"

(Sacramento, CA, USA: June 24, 2010) The Linux Professional Institute (LPI), the world’s premier Linux certification organization (http://www.lpi.org), announced that they delivered over 258,000 exams and 85,000 certifications worldwide.

“This is an important milestone for the Linux Professional Institute. It signifies the long-standing commitment to the LPI program from both individual Linux professionals and the industry at large. We have seen impressive growth in the last year due to the enthusiastic response from IT professionals to our revised LPIC-1 and LPIC-2 … Read More → "LPI Certification Exams Exceed 250,000 Worldwide"

Newark, June 24, 2010- nSys Design Systems, offering the world’s largest portfolio of Verification IPs, announced the availability of Functional Coverage Test Suites for its nSys Verification Suite (nVS) for the PCI Express® (PCIe®)3.0 specification, currently under development within the PCI-SIG®.

The nSys Functional Coverage Test Suites use Coverage Driven Methodology that help engineers make sure that all possible significant combinations of variables, assertions & transitions have … Read More → "nSys Announces Functional Coverage Test Suites for Upcoming PCI Express® 3.0 Specification"

SANTA CLARA, Calif., June 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Synopsys, Inc. (NASDAQ:SNPS) , a world leader in software and IP for semiconductor design, verification and manufacturing, today announced they will be demonstrating multiple DesignWare® IP solutions for PCI Express® 3.0 at the 2010 PCI-SIG® Developers Conference in Santa Clara, California. The PCI-SIG DevCon is designed to help member companies develop and bring exciting new products utilizing the PCI Express interface to the market. Visit Synopsys at Booth #1 to see live demonstrations of the DesignWare IP … Read More → "Synopsys Demonstrates Interoperability of DesignWare IP for PCI Express 3.0 at PCI-SIG Developers Conference"

Dallas, TX (June 22, 2010) – Furthering its commitment to merge 16-bit MCU performance, ultra-low power and ultra-low cost to overcome shortcomings of 8-bit MCUs, Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) (NYSE: TXN) today announced its new MSP430™ MCU Value Line LaunchPad development kit. For $4.30, the open source kit includes all of the hardware and software needed to easily launch designs based on TI’s MSP430 Value Line MCUs, which start at 25 cents and offer up to 10X performance and 10X battery life over 8-bit MCUs. LaunchPad supports rapid prototyping and development by allowing developers to quickly drop-in … Read More → "TI’s new $4.30 LaunchPad is a complete development kit for harnessing the ultra-low power and 16-bit performance of MSP430™ Value Line MCUs"

AMBLER, Pa. June 2010 – MEN Micro Inc., a world-renowned provider of embedded computing and I/O solutions for mission-critical industrial, mobile and harsh environment applications, has expanded its Read More → "Low Power, High Processing Combine in MEN Micro’s New Compact ESMini COM Module"

SANTA CLARA and MENLO PARK, Calif., June 22, 2010 — Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) and Granite River Labs (GRL) today announced that the Serial ATA International Organization (SATA-IO) has approved GRL to provide SATA Interoperability Program Revision 1.4 product testing and certification using the < … Read More → "Agilent Technologies and Granite River Labs Test Solution Certified by SATA-IO"

YOKOHAMA, Japan – June 23, 2010 –  The Open SystemC Initiative (OSCI), an independent non-profit organization dedicated to supporting and advancing SystemC™ as an industry-standard language for electronic system-level (ESL) design, announces the first SystemC Japan will be held Friday, July 2 in Yokohama, Japan.  For more information visit http://www.systemcjapan.com/SystemCJapan2010/ (Japanese).

WHAT/WHEN:  SystemC Japan 2010, Friday, July 2.  This one-day industry event will feature technical presentations on the use of SystemC for system-level design from … Read More → "SystemC Japan 2010 Slated for July 2 in Yokohama"

ORLANDO, FL — June 23, 2010 — Freescale Technology Forum – Green Hills Software, Inc., the largest independent vendor of embedded software solutions, today announced software development tools, operating systems, middleware, and hardware debug probes for the Freescale Semiconductor Kinetis microcontrollers based on the ARM Cortex™-M4 core. As the world’s leading embedded solutions vendor for ARM, Green Hills Software provides the most comprehensive embedded solutions portfolio for Freescale microcontrollers, enabling developers to achieve maximum performance, minimum production cost and power consumption and fastest time-to-market.

“Green Hills Software’s highly optimized embedded software solutions … Read More → "Green Hills Software Announces Support for Freescale’s Kinetis Microcontrollers"

San Jose, California – June 22, 2010 – Super Talent Technology, a leading manufacturer of Flash storage solutions and DRAM memory modules, today announced a new line of SAS Solid State Disks, the ShuttleCraft Series SAS SSD.

Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) is a new interface standard designed to meet the storage needs of the Enterprise market. SAS features key benefits required by enterprise servers including: high performance, strong reliability and advanced management features.

Already known for extreme reliability, Solid State Disk (SSD) technology can be improved to meet the needs of the enterprise by implementing advanced: Wear Leveling, Bad … Read More → "Super Talent Introduces 2.5″ ShuttleCraftTM SAS SSD"