Fukuoka, Japan – January 28, 2010 – NSCore, Inc., a leading provider of non-volatile, one-time programmable memory announced today that its PermSRAMÒ non-volatile memory intellectual property (IP) has been validated as “Ready for IBM Technology” for IBM’s 0.18 micron CMOS foundry technology.

The “Ready for IBM Technology” program is designed to help customers speed time to market, reduce development risk and lower development costs. The “Ready for IBM Technology” designation, as used by NSCore, signifies that PermSRAM has been tested and validated in silicon and has met compatibility and integration specifications established by IBM for 0.18 micron CMOS foundry process technologies.</ … Read More → "NSCore NVM IP “Ready for IBM Technology” Visit NSCore at DesignCon Booth #321"

Boulder, CO – January 28, 2010 – The 18th annual Design and Verification Conference (DVCon), sponsored by Accellera, announced today the executive speakers participating on the conference’s newest panel, “What keeps you up at night?”  Moderated by JL Gray, head of the “Cool Verification” EDA blog and verification consultant for Verilab, Inc., the panel will be held Wednesday, February 24 at 3:30pm at the DoubleTree Hotel in San Jose, California.  DVCon will run Monday, February 22 through Thursday, February 25.  

The executive lineup for the new panel includes: Ron Collett, president and CEO, Numetrics; John Goodenough, worldwide director … Read More → "DVCon 2010 Announces Final Program, Panelists for “What keeps you up at night?”"

KAWASAKI, Japan, DUESSELDORF, Germany, SANTA CLARA (U.S.A.), January 28, 2010–NEC Electronics (TSE:6723) today announced its new super-resolution application-specific standard product (ASSP), the uPD9281GC. The ASSP addresses the dramatic divergence between yesterday’s image resolution and the high resolution of today’s audio-visual (AV) display systems, and supports the low-voltage differential signaling (LVDS) interface, a technology extensively adopted in broad ranges of flat panel displays, projectors for digital TVs (DTVs) and PC monitors.

For recent models of flat panel displays and projectors, higher screen resolution is essential to the specification of products with premium display quality. … Read More → "NEC Electronics Introduces Super-Resolution ASSP with LVDS Interface for Digital TVs and PC Monitors"

Yokohama, Japan, January 28th 2010… Teklatech today announced it is a new member in the ARM® Connected Community, the industry’s largest ecosystem of ARM technology-based products and services. As part of the ARM Connected Community, Teklatech will gain access to a full range of resources to help it market and deploy innovative solutions that will enable developers to get their ARM Powered® products to market faster.

“Joining the ARM Connected Community is an important step in our determined strategy to maintain smooth interoperability between our FloorDirector® tool and leading semiconductor industry standard libraries and … Read More → "Teklatech Joins ARM Connected Community"

Sunnyvale, CA – January 28, 2010 – QuickLogic Corporation (NASDAQ: QUIK), the lowest power programmable solutions leader, is proud to announce that its Customer Specific Standard Products (CSSPsRead More → "QuickLogic CSSPs Shipping in Option Wireless’ 14.4Mbps 3G USB Modems with MicroSD Support"

Sunnyvale, CA – January 28, 2010 – QuickLogic Corporation (NASDAQ: QUIK), the lowest power programmable solutions leader, is proud to announce that its Customer Specific Standard Products (CSSPsRead More → "QuickLogic CSSPs Shipping in Option Wireless’ 14.4Mbps 3G USB Modems with MicroSD Support"

Cambridge, UK. 27 January 2010. The ever-increasing complexity of wireless devices and the unpredictability of exactly how and where they will be used is making it increasingly challenging to ensure they will work as intended in the real world. The Digital Communications Knowledge Transfer Network (DCKTN) and Cambridge Wireless have joined together to bring this full day event to their members. (Anyone interested in attending who is not already a member of either organisation can join DCKTN at no charge). 

The event will take place on 25th February 2010, from 11:00 to 17:00 at the National Physical Laboratory … Read More → "Joint Digital Communication KTN and Cambridge Wireless Testing SIG Event"

Munich, January 2010 – For sophisticated graphic and computing applications, DSM Computer is presenting the extremely flat NanoServer® E8-GM45 at the “embedded world” trade show. The high-end computer based on the Intel® GM45/ICH9M chipset integrates the high-performance Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator GMA 4500MHD with DirectX 10 support. Thanks to its video decoding capability, the graphic controller can decode high-resolution HD videos in AVC/VC2/MPEG2 format and so remove a significant load from the processor. The main memory with a maximum capacity of 2 x 4 GB provides … Read More → "Flat NanoServer® with Full HD"

Tokyo, Japan – JANUARY 28, 2010 – CoFluent Design™, a leading Electronic System Level (ESL) company that provides system-level modeling and simulation to accelerate innovation in embedded devices, today announced that CoFluent Studio™ allows the creation and automatic generation of SystemC models and test cases for the Mentor Graphics Questa® functional verification platform.

CoFluent Studio helps hardware designers answer the following question: – How to specify a hardware component and validate its specification? It allows designers to create executable specifications of an integrated circuit (IC) by modeling its functionality and use cases using simple yet powerful graphical … Read More → "CoFluent Design Delivers Graphical Specification And VAlidation Solution For The Questa Functional Verification Platform"

MILPITAS, CA – January 27, 2010 – Linear Technology Corporation introduces the LTC4449, a high speed synchronous MOSFET driver designed to drive upper and lower power N-channel MOSFETs in a synchronous rectified converter topology. This driver, combined with one of Linear Technology’s DC/DC controllers and power FETs forms a complete high efficiency synchronous regulator that can be used as a step-down or step-up DC/DC converter.

The LTC4449 drives both upper and lower MOSFET gates over a range of 4V to 6.5V and operates from a supply voltage up to 38V. This powerful driver can sink up to 4.5A … Read More → "High Speed Synchronous N-Channel MOSFET Driver Has Powerful Gate Drive for High Efficiency Buck or Boost DC/DC Converters"