MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., March 29, 2010– Pigeon Point Systems (PPS), an Actel company, today announced new AdvancedTCA® (ATCA) IPM Controller (IPMC) and ATCA/AdvancedMC™ (AMC) Carrier IPMC Board Management Reference (BMR) Starter Kits using Actel’s new SmartFusion™ intelligent mixed signal FPGA. SmartFusion is the only device that integrates an FPGA, hard ARM® Cortex™-M3-based microcontroller subsystem (MSS) and programmable analogue, offering full customisation, IP protection and ease-of-use.

These comprehensive IPMC and Carrier IPMC solutions based on Pigeon Point’s field-proven IPMC offerings and the SmartFusion intelligent mixed signal FPGA accelerate customer … Read More → "Pigeon Point Systems Announces IPMC And Carrier IPMC BMR Starter Kits Using SmartFusion Intelligent Mixed Signal FPGAs"

Wokingham and Cambridge, UK – March 29, 2010.  EnSilica, a leading independent provider of front-end IC design services, has launched a major new version of its eSi-RISC Development Suite.  The eSi-RISC Development Suite v2.1 provides a comprehensive platform for easily evaluating EnSilica’s family of eSi-RISC highly configurable and low-power soft processor cores, along with a complete development environment for the creation, implementation and test of eSi-RISC processor embedded application designs.

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Wokingham and Cambridge, UK – March 29, 2010.  EnSilica, a leading independent provider of front-end IC design services, has launched a major new version of its eSi-RISC Development Suite.  The eSi-RISC Development Suite v2.1 provides a comprehensive platform for easily evaluating EnSilica’s family of eSi-RISC highly configurable and low-power soft processor cores, along with a complete development environment for the creation, implementation and test of eSi-RISC processor embedded application designs.

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Unterpremstaetten, Austria (March 29, 2010) – austriamicrosystems (SIX: AMS), a leading designer and manufacturer of high-performance analog ICs, today announced the AS8510, a high precision data acquisition front-end IC for automotive battery current, voltage, and temperature sense applications, and general sensor interface applications where precise measurement of small signals close … Read More → "austriamicrosystems’ new battery management data acquisition front-end IC features highest accuracy available"

Sunnyvale and Fremont, Calif. – March 29, 2010 – MIPS Technologies (Nasdaq: MIPS), a leading provider of industry-standard processor architectures and cores for digital consumer, home networking, wireless, communications and business applications, and Virage Logic Corporation (Nasdaq: VIRL), the semiconductor industry’s trusted IP partner, today announced they are teaming to offer optimized embedded memory IP for joint customers. With SRAM memory instances from the Virage Logic ASAP™ 90nm and SiWare™ 65GP High Density SRAM compiler families … Read More → "MIPS Technologies and Virage Logic Partner to Offer Optimized Embedded Memory IP"

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., March 29, 2010– Pigeon Point Systems (PPS), an Actel company, today announced a new Module Management Controller (MMC) Board Management Reference (BMR) Starter Kit based on Actel’s SmartFusion™ intelligent mixed signal FPGAs. SmartFusion is the only device that integrates an FPGA, hard ARM® Cortex™-M3-based microcontroller subsystem (MSS) and programmable analogue. The new kit addresses the MMCs on AdvancedMC™ (AMC) modules, which are used in both AdvancedTCA® (ATCA) carriers and MicroTCA® (µTCA) shelves, collectively referenced as xTCA™.

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San Jose, Calif., March 29, 2010—Altera Corporation< … Read More → "Altera Rolls Out Production Shipments of Low-Cost, Low-Power Cyclone IV FPGAs"

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., 29th March – Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq:SNPS), a world leader in software and IP for semiconductor design, verification and manufacturing, today introduced Design Compiler® 2010, the latest RTL synthesis innovation within the Galaxy™ Implementation platform, which delivers a twofold speedup in the synthesis and physical implementation flow. To meet aggressive schedules for increasingly complex designs, engineers need an RTL synthesis solution that enables them to minimise iterations to speed up physical implementation. To address these challenges, topographical technology in Design Compiler 2010 is being extended to produce “physical guidance” to Synopsys’ flagship … Read More → "Design Compiler 2010 doubles productivity of synthesis and place and route"

MILPITAS, CA – March 29, 2010 – Linear Technology Corporation introduces the LTC3859, a triple output (buck, buck, boost), low quiescent current synchronous DC/DC controller that maintains all output voltages in regulation during automotive cold crank conditions. A 12V car battery can droop to less than 4 volts during engine restart or cold crank, causing reset of infotainment systems and other electronics that operate from 5 volts and higher. The high efficiency synchronous boost converter feeds the two step-down converters, avoiding output voltage dropout when the car battery droops, a useful feature in automotive start/stop systems that shut off the engine at idle … Read More → "Triple Output, Buck/Buck/Boost Synchronous DC/DC Controller Targets Automotive Start/Stop Systems"

MILPITAS, CA – March 29, 2010 – Linear Technology Corporation introduces the LTC3859, a triple output (buck, buck, boost), low quiescent current synchronous DC/DC controller that maintains all output voltages in regulation during automotive cold crank conditions. A 12V car battery can droop to less than 4 volts during engine restart or cold crank, causing reset of infotainment systems and other electronics that operate from 5 volts and higher. The high efficiency synchronous boost converter feeds the two step-down converters, avoiding output voltage dropout when the car battery droops, a useful feature in automotive start/stop systems that shut off the engine at idle … Read More → "Triple Output, Buck/Buck/Boost Synchronous DC/DC Controller Targets Automotive Start/Stop Systems"