MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Oct. 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Synopsys, Inc. (NASDAQ:SNPS) , a world leader in software and IP for semiconductor design, verification and manufacturing, today announced that Juniper Networks has signed a multi-year business agreement establishing Synopsys as its primary EDA partner. Under the new agreement, Juniper will use Synopsys’ Galaxy(TM) Implementation and Discovery(TM) Verification Platforms to meet their expanding chip development needs.

“Synopsys has played a key role in helping us execute on our broad open foundry strategy, including the successful migration of some of our leading designs to advanced process nodes,” said R.K. … Read More → "Juniper Chooses Synopsys as Its Primary EDA Partner"

FPGA-based AMC-V5-10G provides high-speed I/O on AdvancedMC module

27th October 2009

Santa Clara, CA, USA – At the AdvancedTCA Summit Booth 510, CommAgility announced today the AMC-V5F-10G, a high performance FPGA-based interface and processing card for the latest wireless baseband and other demanding processing and optical data interfacing applications.

For systems that require very high speed optical links, a front panel SFP+ interface provides a fast data link, including Ethernet at 10Gbps, and 16x CPRI (running at 9.8304Gbps). As well as high end data networking applications, this enables advanced … Read More → "CommAgility targets high-end wireless and data processing applications with 10G Ethernet/CPRI interfaces"

New Vortex SDRxE Scalable GbE Data Recorder Supports
500MB/s of Streaming Data

DAYTON, OH – October 30, 2009 — Curtiss-Wright Controls Electronic Systems, a leading designer and manufacturer of rugged deployed subsystems for the aerospace and defense market, has introduced the new Vortex SDRxE, a fixed-featured off-the-shelf multi-channel Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) streaming data recorder system for demanding sensor-to-processor streaming data applications. The Vortex SDRxE combines a uniquely equipped 3U controller with a reliable, scalable storage subsystem. This rack mountable data recorder can record up to four channels of GbE data at 125MB/s per channel. … Read More → "Curtiss-Wright Controls Debuts Multi-Channel Gigabit Ethernet Data Recorder"

National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan Uses Virtex-5 and Spartan-3A FPGAs in its Newest Cryptographic Evaluation and Partial Reconfiguration Systems

TOKYO, Oct. 29 — Xilinx K.K., the Japanese subsidiary of Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ:XLNX) , today announced that the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan (AIST) selected Virtex®-5 and Spartan®-3A FPGA families for its SASEBO-GII boards for side channel attack standard evaluation and partial reconfiguration. The SASEBO-GII boards will enable the development and evaluation of performance and security of cryptographic circuits to contribute to the international … Read More → "Xilinx FPGAs Contribute to Global Standardization of Cryptographic Module Security Evaluation"

Nextreme NEW ASICs Enhance Video System Performance by 50%

SANTA CLARA, CA, – October 28, 2009 – eASIC Corporation, a provider of NEW ASIC devices, today announced that Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (Kyoto Works), a leading global manufacturer of display wall systems, has selected eASIC’s Nextreme NEW ASICs for its Seventy Series Display Wall Cube Systems. Mitsubishi Electric used eASIC’s Nextreme devices to replace existing gate-arrays and improve the video processing system performance by 50%.

Mitsubishi Electric is one of a number of manufacturers that are aggressively looking to increase performance and functionality by replacing … Read More → "Mitsuishi Electric Selects eASIC For Display Wall Cubes"

MILPITAS, CA – October 29, 2009 – Linear Technology announces the LTC3606B, a 2.25MHz, synchronous buck regulator with programmable average input current limit. It can deliver up to 800mA of continuous output current with efficiencies as high as 96%. Using a constant frequency and current mode architecture, the LTC3606B operates from an input voltage range of 2.5V to 5.5V, making it ideal for single-cell Li-Ion and USB applications. It can generate output voltages as low as 0.6V, enabling it to power the latest generation of low voltage DSPs and microcontrollers. The LTC3606B uses a switching frequency of 2.25MHz, allowing the … Read More → "2.25MHz Synchronous Step-Down DC/DC Converter with Programmable Input Current Limit Delivers up to 800mA"

National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan Uses Virtex-5 and Spartan-3A FPGAs in its Newest Cryptographic Evaluation and Partial Reconfiguration Systems

TOKYO, Oct. 29 — Xilinx K.K., the Japanese subsidiary of Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ:XLNX) , today announced that the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan (AIST) selected Virtex®-5 and Spartan®-3A FPGA families for its SASEBO-GII boards for side channel attack standard evaluation and partial reconfiguration. The SASEBO-GII boards will enable the development and evaluation of performance and security of cryptographic circuits to contribute to the international … Read More → "Xilinx FPGAs Contribute to Global Standardization of Cryptographic Module Security Evaluation"

Connectivity IP leader continues to innovate with the DesignWare USB 2.0 picoPHY – the first PHY IP to support USB 2.0 Battery Charging v1.1 and OTG 2.0 specifications

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – October 29, 2009 — Synopsys, Inc. (NASDAQ: SNPS), a world leader in software and IP for semiconductor design, verification and manufacturing, today announced the addition of the new DesignWare(R) USB 2.0 picoPHY IP to its USB 2.0 PHY IP product line that has been successfully deployed in more than 300 customer designs, and in more than 50 different process technologies ranging from 180nm to 32nm. Targeted at mobile and high-volume consumer applications … Read More → "Synopsys unveils 30 percent smaller area, low power USB 2.0 PHY IP for 28nm processes"

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Oct.27, 2009 — Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced it is collaborating with Hermon Labs TI to provide acoustic testing for GSM/CDMA/W-CDMA/3GPP wireless handsets. Hermon Labs TI uses Agilent’s 8960 wireless communications test set as a base station emulator while their TCA 4100 software controls and measures the tests according to TS 51.010-1, TS 26.131/2 acoustic standards. The combined test solution has been validated to comply with the TS standards, ensuring a high level of reliability and quality for acoustic conformance testing.

Since the conformance test processes have been validated on the Agilent 8960, … Read More → "Agilent Technologies, Hermon Labs TI to Offer Acoustic Wireless Handset Conformance Test Solution"