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Green Hills Software to Present and Exhibit at Freescale Technology Forum Americas 2010

SANTA BARBARA, CA — June 14, 2010 — Green Hills Software, Inc., the largest independent vendor of embedded software solutions, will exhibit, present and demonstrate broad and deep software solutions for Freescale Semiconductor processors next week, June 21-24, 2010, at the Freescale Technology Forum (FTF), JW Marriott and Ritz-Carlton Convention Centers, Grande Lakes, Orlando, Florida.

Green Hills Software’s embedded software technology thought-leaders will present technical sessions, demonstrate optimized solutions, and exchange ideas in stimulating panel discussions to help embedded designers build and deploy software with maximum performance, absolute security, in the fastest time-to-market. Green Hills will also announce … Read More → "Green Hills Software to Present and Exhibit at Freescale Technology Forum Americas 2010"

Lattice Semiconductor Extends Distribution Agreement With MSC To Include Benelux And Italy

HILLSBORO, OR — JUNE 14, 2010 — Lattice Semiconductor (NASDAQ: LSCC) today announced that it has extended its distribution agreement with MSC Vertriebs GmbH to include Benelux and Italy.  The new Benelux franchise will be supported by the sales and technical personnel of MSC Belgium and MSC Netherlands.  MSC has supported Lattice products and solutions in Europe since 1995, and has become one of its most successful central European distribution partners.  With strong commercial and technical expertise, MSC can offer its customers superior support for Lattice Semiconductor’s programmable logic device solutions, including award-winning FPGAs, CPLDs and programmable mixed signal … Read More → "Lattice Semiconductor Extends Distribution Agreement With MSC To Include Benelux And Italy"

Altera Starts Production Shipments of Highest Density Member of Its Stratix IV FPGA Family

SAN JOSE, Calif., June 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Altera Corporation (NASDAQ:ALTR) today announced it is shipping in production the highest density member of its 40-nm Stratix® IV FPGA family. Featuring 820K logic elements (LEs), the Stratix IV E EP4SE820 device is ideally suited for a variety of high-end applications that require high-density, high-performance and low-power FPGAs, including ASIC prototyping and emulation, wireless, wireline, military, computer and storage. With this announcement, the rollout of Altera’s high-end 40-nm Stratix IV FPGA family … Read More → "Altera Starts Production Shipments of Highest Density Member of Its Stratix IV FPGA Family"

Altera Starts Production Shipments of Highest Density Member of Its Stratix IV FPGA Family

SAN JOSE, Calif., June 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Altera Corporation (NASDAQ:ALTR) today announced it is shipping in production the highest density member of its 40-nm Stratix® IV FPGA family. Featuring 820K logic elements (LEs), the Stratix IV E EP4SE820 device is ideally suited for a variety of high-end applications that require high-density, high-performance and low-power FPGAs, including ASIC prototyping and emulation, wireless, wireline, military, computer and storage. With this announcement, the rollout of Altera’s high-end 40-nm Stratix IV FPGA family is … Read More → "Altera Starts Production Shipments of Highest Density Member of Its Stratix IV FPGA Family"

Auto-Polarity, Millivolt Voltage Step-Up Converter & Power Manager for Thermal Energy Harvesting Applications

MILPITAS, CA – June 14, 2010 – Linear Technology announces the LTC3109, a highly integrated step-up DC/DC converter and power management IC designed to start up and run from millivolt input voltage sources such as thermoelectric generators (TEGs) and thermopiles. The device’s groundbreaking and proprietary auto-polarity topology allows it to generate usable power from input voltages as low as ±30mV, enabling temperature differences as low as ±1°C to be harvested in lieu of traditional battery power. This makes it ideal for energy harvesting applications in which the input voltage polarity … Read More → "Auto-Polarity, Millivolt Voltage Step-Up Converter & Power Manager for Thermal Energy Harvesting Applications"

Auto-Polarity, Millivolt Voltage Step-Up Converter & Power Manager for Thermal Energy Harvesting Applications

MILPITAS, CA – June 14, 2010 – Linear Technology announces the LTC3109, a highly integrated step-up DC/DC converter and power management IC designed to start up and run from millivolt input voltage sources such as thermoelectric generators (TEGs) and thermopiles. The device’s groundbreaking and proprietary auto-polarity topology allows it to generate usable power from input voltages as low as ±30mV, enabling temperature differences as low as ±1°C to be harvested in lieu of traditional battery power. This makes it ideal for energy harvesting applications in which the input voltage polarity … Read More → "Auto-Polarity, Millivolt Voltage Step-Up Converter & Power Manager for Thermal Energy Harvesting Applications"

Pyxis Router Selected For TSMC 28nm Analog / Mixed-Signal Reference Flow

AUSTIN, Texas – June 11, 2010 — Pyxis Technology, Inc., the company innovating software solutions for the physical design and routing of custom integrated circuits (ICs), announced today that its NexusRoute-HPC (high performance custom) router has been selected for use in the TSMC 28nm Analog and Mixed-Signal (AMS) Reference Flow 1.0.

 NexusRoute-HPC was used within the TSMC AMS Reference Flow to route both power and signal nets for a reference phase-locked loop (PLL) design containing roughly 10,000 devices using TSMC’s … Read More → "Pyxis Router Selected For TSMC 28nm Analog / Mixed-Signal Reference Flow"

Mentor Graphics Collaborates with GLOBALFOUNDRIES on Advanced Design and Manufacturing Flow Based on Calibre

WILSONVILLE, Ore., June 11, 2010—Mentor Graphics Corporation (NASDAQ: MENT) today announced that it is working with GLOBALFOUNDRIES to provide mutual customers with a reference flow that addresses the complex verification challenges of IC development at 28nm and below. GLOBALFOUNDRIES’ proprietary Library of Yield Detractors Patterns and their innovative DRC+ physical verification flow are now implemented on Mentor’s Calibre® platform, which in addition to equation-based verification and comprehensive DFM, now includes pattern matching-based design rule checking capabilities for mutual customers, with support for GUI-based pattern creation and library management enabling custom rule development.

“ … Read More → "Mentor Graphics Collaborates with GLOBALFOUNDRIES on Advanced Design and Manufacturing Flow Based on Calibre"

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