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Xilinx DSP Design Platforms: Simplifying the Adoption of FPGAs for DSP

January 5, 2010

With their inherent flexibility, FPGAs are ideal for high-performance or multi-channel digital signal processing (DSP) applications that can take advantage of hardware parallelism to achieve a single-chip solution—all at a lower cost and power consumption than multi-DSP implementations.

The transition to FPGA-based DSP hardware from DSP processors can … Read More → "Xilinx DSP Design Platforms: Simplifying the Adoption of FPGAs for DSP"

EasyPath-6 Technology: Fast, Simple, Risk-Free FPGA Cost Reduction

by Jim Turley

January 5, 2010

Virtex®-6 FPGAs are the industry’s leading platform for designing complex systems in the fields of wired and wireless communication, storage, computing, instrumentation, automotive, industrial, and medical. Virtex-6 FPGAs not only deliver the most attractive set of features and functionality and the fastest time to market advantage, they are also paired with EasyPath™-6 technology, the fastest path to cost reduction.</ … Read More → "EasyPath-6 Technology: Fast, Simple, Risk-Free FPGA Cost Reduction"

Package Creep

by Bryon Moyer

January 5, 2010

It seems so often that, here, in this space, we end up reflecting: “It used to be so easy.” Taking yet another example, once upon a time, you had packaging engineers – mechanical engineering types – who took care of all the packaging stuff. They told you how big to make your bonding pads, and that was about it. Oh, yeah, and the pesky ESD stuff. (Does it have</ … Read More → "Package Creep"

MIPS Technologies Collaborates with Adobe to Optimize Flash Player 10.1 for MIPS® Architecture

by Jim Turley

January 5, 2010

INTERNATIONAL CES, LAS VEGAS, Nev. – January 5, 2010 – MIPS Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: MIPS), a leading provider of industry-standard processor architectures and cores, today announced it is participating in the Open Screen Project, an industry-wide initiative led by Adobe to enable the delivery of rich Internet experiences across mobile phones, televisions, set-top boxes, and other consumer electronics and devices through the Adobe® Flash® Platform. MIPS Technologies and Adobe are collaborating as part of the Open Screen Project to optimize Adobe Flash Player 10.1 for the MIPS® architecture.</ … Read More → "MIPS Technologies Collaborates with Adobe to Optimize Flash Player 10.1 for MIPS® Architecture"

ViXS Systems Teams with MIPS Technologies for High-Performance Processors used in Advanced Multimedia Applications

by Jim Turley

January 5, 2010

INTERNATIONAL CES, Las Vegas, Nev. – January 5, 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 … Read More → "ViXS Systems Teams with MIPS Technologies for High-Performance Processors used in Advanced Multimedia Applications"

Audience Announces Next Generation Voice Processor for Mobile Phones

by Jim Turley

January 5, 2010

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Jan. 5 /PRNewswire/ — Audience, Inc. a global provider of advanced voice and audio processors, today announced the latest generation of its industry-leading dynamic noise suppression solutions for mobile phones with the new A1026 Voice Processor chip. Featuring improved performance features and a highly integrated, more compact and energy-efficient design, the A1026 processor significantly improves mobile call quality in noisy environments by suppressing background noise, intermittent sounds and echoes – whether surrounding the caller or the person they’re speaking with – to enable clear communications.

The third generation in the … Read More → "Audience Announces Next Generation Voice Processor for Mobile Phones"

Most Powerful Pico-ITX Board Ever Packs the VIA Nano Processor, Powers VIA AMOS-3001, Industry’s Most Compact & Fanless IPC

by Jim Turley

January 5, 2010

Taipei, Taiwan, January 5, 2010 – VIA Technologies, Inc, a leading innovator of power efficient x86 processor platforms, today announced the VIA EPIA-P820, the first Pico-ITX form factor board to feature the high performance, 64-bit VIA Nano processor, bringing industry-leading digital multimedia performance and virtualization capabilities to the smallest of spaces with the VIA AMOS-3001 chassis system.

The choice of VIA Nano processor means that the VIA EPIA-P820 offers a range of advantages over competitor offerings, including full 64-bit software support, a high-performance superscalar architecture and full support of the latest virtualization technologies for next generation … Read More → "Most Powerful Pico-ITX Board Ever Packs the VIA Nano Processor, Powers VIA AMOS-3001, Industry’s Most Compact & Fanless IPC"

austriamicrosystems Introduces a Highly Integrated Power Management Unit with Configurable Start-up Sequences

by Jim Turley

January 5, 2010

2010 International CES

UNTERPREMSTAETTEN, Austria–(BUSINESS WIRE)–austriamicrosystems (SIX:AMS), a leading global designer and manufacturer of high performance analog ICs for communications, industrial, medical and automotive applications, complements its power and audio management unit portfolio with the introduction of the AS3607, a highly integrated power management IC (PMIC). The AS3607 features a level of start-up sequence programmability not found in competing devices. This PMIC is suitable for portable navigation devices, portable media players, e-dictionaries, GPS devices, PDAs and a wide range of battery powered … Read More → "austriamicrosystems Introduces a Highly Integrated Power Management Unit with Configurable Start-up Sequences"

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

by Jim Turley

January 5, 2010

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?

by Jim Turley

January 5, 2010

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?"