Leuven, February 10, 2010 – At today’s International Solid State Circuit Conference, imec and its research partners Renesas Technology Corp. and M4S present a complete transceiver with RF, baseband and data converter circuits in 40nm low-power CMOS. The fully reconfigurable transceiver is compatible with various wireless standards and applications, including the upcoming mobile broadband 3GPP-LTE standard.

The trend in wireless communication where terminals give their users ubiquitous access to a multitude of services drives the development of reconfigurable radios in deep-submicron CMOS. This is enhanced with the advent of 3GPP-LTE, a standard that is inherently so … Read More → "Imec, Renesas and M4S report a single-chip reconfigurable multi-standard wireless transceiver in 40nm CMOS"

MOBILE WORLD CONGRESS, Barcelona -February 10, 2010 – MIPS Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: MIPS), a leading provider of industry-standard processor architectures and cores, and SySDSoft Inc., a leading supplier of Mobile WiMAX and LTE embedded software solutions for 4G, today announced they are teaming to enable LTE on the MIPS® architecture. As a new member of the MIPS Alliance Program, SySDSoft is working closely with MIPS Technologies to provide an optimized MIPS32® LTE protocol stack that MIPS licensees can leverage across the entire range of MIPS processor cores. SySDSoft will initially port its proven stack to a MIPS32 24K® processor … Read More → "MIPS Technologies and SySDSoft Partner to Enable LTE on MIPS® Architecture"

CAMPBELL, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–IPextreme® Inc., the company bringing famous IP (intellectual property) to system-on-chip (SoC) designers worldwide, and Lauterbach, the leading manufacturer of hardware assisted microprocessor development tools, today announced complete interoperability between Lauterbach’s Trace32 debug systems and IPextreme’s IEEE 1149.7 cJTAG semiconductor IP core.

“In the IEEE working group, Texas Instruments worked closely with Lauterbach to ensure that the IEEE 1149.7 standard is suitable for all applications,” said Gary Swoboda, CTO of emulation technology at Texas Instruments (TI). “We have worked … Read More → "IPextreme and Lauterbach Announce Interoperability of Lauterbach’s Trace32 Debug System and IPextreme’s IEEE 1149.7 cJTAG Semiconductor IP"

Edinburgh, UK, February 10th 2010 – Wolfson Microelectronics is launching the world’s first digital audio hub solution for mobile phones. The segment-defining WM8995 blends together many of Wolfson’s successful audio components to deliver world-class audio performance, significantly enhanced battery life, longer music playback time and more end user features at a lower total cost.

Crucially, the WM8995 enables system designers to optimally manage the complex world of multiple concurrent use cases where, for example, the consumer can take a hands-free call over a Bluetooth headset, while listening to music and receiving navigation commands, all at … Read More → "Wolfson breaks new ground for mobile phones with world’s first digital audio hub solution"

MOBILE WORLD CONGRESS, Barcelona – February 10, 2010 – MIPS Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: MIPS), a leading provider of industry-standard processor architectures and cores, and Intrinsyc Software International, Inc. (TSX: ICS), a leading … Read More → "MIPS Technologies Partners with Intrinsyc Software to Bring 3.5G Telephony to the MIPS® Architecture"

DREIEICH, GERMANY – February 9, 2010
The new miniature SMD-Converters RSx/R2x from RECOM offer 1 resp. 2 Watts power rating, are RoHS6/6 compliant and therefore absolutely lead-free. They can operate at ambient temperatures up to +100°C with convection cooling and without derating, are EN60601 and UL60950 certified and pin compatible with industry standard converters. Their unusual “Enclosed Open Frame” Design has been laid out for fully automatic manufacturing processes. Temperatures of +245°C, as are usual during vapor soldering, and are handled without problems.

Click Photo for High-Res Image
The new RxS/RxD converters are optionally insulated … Read More → "RoHS Compliant Miniature SMD-Converters for +100°C!"

MOBILE WORLD CONGRESS, Barcelona – February 10, 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, today announced that Beceem, a leading provider of 4G Mobile WiMAX chips, licensed its MIPS32® 4KEc® synthesizable processor core for next-generation wireless networking products. Beceem is already leveraging MIPS® cores in its industry-leading Mobile WiMAX chips, and is the 4G market leader, reportedly accounting for approximately 65% of the total … Read More → "Leading Provider of 4G Mobile WiMAX Semiconductors Taps MIPS Technologies’ Processor Cores"

February 10th, 2010 – Uppsala, Sweden. IAR Systems today announced the latest release of its IAR Embedded Workbench for ARM. Highly optimised for code size and increased execution speed, it performs up to 13% better on CoreMark benchmarks for Cortex-M0 compared to the previous version of IAR Embedded Workbench.

“It is impressive to see IAR Systems continuing to lead in optimizing code generation for the LPC1100 Cortex-M0 MCU family.” comments Geoff Lees, General Manager, Microcontroller Product Line, NXP … Read More → "IAR Systems achieves 13% improvement on CoreMark benchmark for ARM Cortex-M0"

MILPITAS, CA – February 10, 2010 – The LTC3633 is a high efficiency, 4MHz synchronous dual output buck regulator that incorporates a unique constant frequency/controlled on-time, current mode architecture. It can deliver up to 3A of continuous output current from each channel at output voltages as low as 0.6V from a 4mm x 5mm QFN package. The LTC3633 operates from an input voltage of 3.6V to 15V, making it ideal for dual-cell Li-Ion applications as well as 5V and 12V intermediate bus systems. Its switching frequency is user programmable from 800kHz to 4MHz, enabling the use of tiny, low cost capacitors and … Read More → "15V, 4MHz, Synchronous Dual 3A Step-Down Regulator in a 4mm x 5mm QFN"

MILPITAS, CA – February 10, 2010 – The LTC3633 is a high efficiency, 4MHz synchronous dual output buck regulator that incorporates a unique constant frequency/controlled on-time, current mode architecture. It can deliver up to 3A of continuous output current from each channel at output voltages as low as 0.6V from a 4mm x 5mm QFN package. The LTC3633 operates from an input voltage of 3.6V to 15V, making it ideal for dual-cell Li-Ion applications as well as 5V and 12V intermediate bus systems. Its switching frequency is user programmable from 800kHz to 4MHz, enabling the use of tiny, low cost capacitors and … Read More → "15V, 4MHz, Synchronous Dual 3A Step-Down Regulator in a 4mm x 5mm QFN"