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Perfectus Announces Availability of Industry’s Most Powerful SystemVerilog-Based OVM-Compliant PCI Express 3.0 Verification IP

SANTA CLARA, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Perfectus Technology, Inc., the leading provider of highest quality verification IPs for many industry standard protocols, today announced availability of SystemVerilog-based and Open Verification Methodology (OVM)-compliant PCI Express Gen3 verification IP (Genie-PCIe3 VIP) to help designers accelerate the verification of PCI Express Gen3-based products.

Genie-PCIe3 features a complete set of intelligent verification components for verifying PCI Express 1.1/2.0/3.0 and SR-IOV-based designs and it works in any verification environment, including SystemVerilog and OVM methodology. The Root complex and End Point Models, Comprehensive Test Suite … Read More → "Perfectus Announces Availability of Industry’s Most Powerful SystemVerilog-Based OVM-Compliant PCI Express 3.0 Verification IP"

Cortex M0 or BMW M3?

I’d rather have a full bottle in front of me than a full frontal lobotomy. That’s a great plan, unless you’re in the embedded processor business. Down here, you need to shave a little off the frontal lobe from time to time. Even shrink the cortex, you might say.

NXP Semiconductors has a new chip out that lowers the bar for 32-bit microcontrollers. It’s a cute little device … Read More → "Cortex M0 or BMW M3?"

A Mighty Wind of Programmability

Kevin Morris (Editor, FPGA Journal):  We did an interview two years ago when you first started as CEO of Xilinx. How have the first 2 years gone?

Moshe Gavrielov (President and CEO, Xilinx):  It’s been a blast.  I joined because I felt that everything was going toward programmables, and that feeling has just been reinforced the past 2 years.  Now, I believe we have reached a threshold where it is going to accelerate.  Of course, I’m sure you have heard … Read More → "A Mighty Wind of Programmability"

Xilinx-based Hardware/Software Co-simulation Accelerated on Dynalith/Impulse C to FPGA Prototyping System

Kirkland, WA/Seoul Korea – 4 January 2010 (for immediate release) Dynalith Systems (Korea) and Impulse Accelerated Technologies today announced the successful integration of a new tool kit for engineers simulating and prototyping high performance computer systems. Based on powerful Xilinx FPGAs, the kit supports a full development path from Visual Studio, GCC, and other compilers, through hardware/software partitioning to a deployable FPGA-based development board. The integrated tool flow streamlines development by creating an environment for hardware/software partitioning experimentation, and by automatically generating APIs. Software developers in particular are looking to accelerate algorithms in programmable platforms, but have been traditionally … Read More → "Xilinx-based Hardware/Software Co-simulation Accelerated on Dynalith/Impulse C to FPGA Prototyping System"

QuickLogic Showcases Innovative CSSP-Enabled Handset and Mobile CE Products at Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas

2010 International CES

SUNNYVALE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Demonstrating its continued commitment to the mobile consumer electronics market, QuickLogic Corporation (NASDAQ: QUIK) is showcasing a host of next-generation handheld and mobile consumer electronics (CE) devices based on QuickLogic’s Customer Specific Standard Product (CSSP) solutions during the CES show in Las Vegas, January 7-10, 2010. Among the technologies on display is the Visual Enhancement Engine (VEE™) and Display Power Optimizer (DPO) technology. QuickLogic’s VEE and DPO technologies bring a TV-quality visual … Read More → "QuickLogic Showcases Innovative CSSP-Enabled Handset and Mobile CE Products at Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas"

Realtek Licenses Wide Range of MIPS32® Pro Series® Cores to Develop High-Performance SoCs

SUNNYVALE, Calif. – December 30, 2009 – MIPS Technologies, Inc. (NasdaqGS: MIPS), a leading provider of industry-standard processor architectures and cores for home entertainment, communications, networking and portable multimedia markets, today announced that Taiwan-based Realtek Semiconductor has licensed a wide range of MIPS32® Pro Series® cores for broadband, networking, digital home and multimedia SoCs. Realtek’s adoption of the MIPS32 34Kc™ Pro and 24Kf® Pro cores … Read More → "Realtek Licenses Wide Range of MIPS32® Pro Series® Cores to Develop High-Performance SoCs"

GENIVI Alliance to Demonstrate GENIVI 1.0 — Its First Open Source-Based IVI Platform at International CES 2010

LAS VEGAS, Dec. 30 /PRNewswire/ — GENIVI Alliance, an automotive industry association driving the development and adoption of an open in-vehicle Infotainment (IVI) reference platform, will be publicly unveiling GENIVI Platform version 1.0 at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas from January 7th – 10th.

The GENIVI Platform 1.0 represents the collaborative efforts of the core and charter members of the Alliance, including founding companies BMW, Delphi, General Motors, Intel, Magneti Marelli, PSA, Visteon Corporation, and Wind River. The platform, recently made available to its member companies, may be used by Tier One and OEMs to reduce the … Read More → "GENIVI Alliance to Demonstrate GENIVI 1.0 — Its First Open Source-Based IVI Platform at International CES 2010"

Stereo Audio In the Kleer

“All I want for Christmas is my two front speakers, my two front speakers, my two front speakers!” You can just hear the little third-graders singing it now, can’t you? Ah, the innocence of youth. What all the nerdy kids really want is wireless speakers, and lucky for them, Santa is here to bring it to them.

“Santa” in this case comes in the form of Kleer, an Ottawa, Canada& … Read More → "Stereo Audio In the Kleer"

Agilent Technologies Offers Application Notes on X-Parameters, Baseband IQ Analysis, SDR Design, Amplifier Test and Migrating Legacy Analyzers using its X-Series Test Products

What:   The free application notes provide insight into solving tough measurement problems in a unique way; in both the manufacturing and design environments. Offering the best combination of speed and scalability, and created and supported by renowned worldwide measurement experts, Agilent’s X products help engineers bring innovative, higher-performing products to emerging markets around the globe. Application note topics are securing early design wins using X-Parameters, accurate  baseband  IQ analysis at a lower cost of test, developing optimal software defined radios, ensuring accurate ACPR measurements of LTE power amplifiers and easing the risk associated … Read More → "Agilent Technologies Offers Application Notes on X-Parameters, Baseband IQ Analysis, SDR Design, Amplifier Test and Migrating Legacy Analyzers using its X-Series Test Products"

Taiwan’s Magic Pixel Licenses MIPS® Processor IP for Advanced Multimedia Applications

SUNNYVALE, Calif. – December 21, 2009 – 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 Magic Pixel Inc., a leading supplier of advanced multimedia SoCs, has licensed the MIPS32® 24KEc™ and 4KEc® Pro Series® processor cores for development of next-generation digital photo frames (DPFs) and other portable multimedia& … Read More → "Taiwan’s Magic Pixel Licenses MIPS® Processor IP for Advanced Multimedia Applications"

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