New Market Specific Distributions Target Industrial Automation, Automotive, Android, Portable Multimedia Devices, and Multicore Networking Applications

SANTA CLARA, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–MontaVista® Software, Inc., the leader in embedded Linux® commercialization, today announced more new Market Specific Distributions (MSDs) for MontaVista Linux 6. The new MSDs continue to expand the market specific focus of MVL6, delivering support for industrial automation, automotive, Android, portable multimedia devices, and multicore networking applications. All the new MSDs will be available this quarter and support processors from Cavium, Freescale, Intel, and Texas Instruments.

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ST adopts ARM Cortex-A9 multicore processor to deliver high-performance SoCs for an enhanced HDTV experience for consumers, while raising the bar for power efficiency in home entertainment equipment

GENEVA and CAMBRIDGE, England, Oct. 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — STMicroelectronics (NYSE:STM) , one of the world’s leading set-top-box chip makers, and ARM [; (NASDAQ:ARMH) ], announced today that ST has adopted the ARM® Cortex(TM)-A9 MPCore(TM) processor, in addition to the Mali®-400 graphics processor, for its upcoming set-top-box and digital TV system-on-chip (SoC) ICs.
The Cortex-A9 MPCore processor provides ST with the scalable high performance … Read More → "STMicroelectronics and ARM Team Up To Power Next-Generation Home Entertainment"

Symmetricom’s Q-Advisor Delivers Advanced Reporting of Digital Video Quality for Cable Providers; Featured at SCTE Cable-Tec Expo – October 28-30, 2009 – Denver, Colo.

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Oct. 28, 2009 — Symmetricom®, Inc. (NASDAQ: SYMM), a worldwide leader of precise time, synchronization and video quality management technologies that optimize next generation networks, today announced key enhancements to Q-Advisor, its Network Operations Center (NOC) management software for its V-Factor® Quality of Experience (QoE) monitoring platform. New advanced reporting capabilities enable video monitoring operators to prioritize specific troubleshooting actions and manage high impact outages, saving time, … Read More → "Symmetricom Announces Key Enhancements to Q-Advisor Digital Video Monitoring and Management Software"

New Research Discovery Paves Way for Scalable, Higher Density Phase Change Memory Products

2009 International Electron Devices Meeting
SANTA CLARA, Calif. & GENEVA–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Intel Corporation and Numonyx B.V. today announced a key breakthrough in the research of phase change memory (PCM), a new non-volatile memory technology that combines many of the benefits of today’s various memory types. For the first time, researchers have demonstrated a 64Mb test chip that enables the ability to stack, or place, multiple layers of PCM arrays within a single die. These findings pave the way for … Read More → "Intel and Numonyx Achieve Research Milestone With Stacked, Cross Point Phase Change Memory Technology"

Broad DesignWare audio IP portfolio shipped in more than 100 million units

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—October 28, 2009— Synopsys, Inc. (NASDAQ: SNPS), a world leader in software and IP for semiconductor design, verification and manufacturing, today announced the availability of its 40th audio codec IP with the release of the DesignWare(r) 96 dB Hi-Fi Audio IP in the SMIC 65-nanometer (nm) process. Synopsys has been a leading provider of audio IP for more than twelve years and provides designers with high-quality audio IP solutions supporting 20 different process nodes, from 180-nanomenter (nm) to 65-nm processes and with performance … Read More → "Synopsys announces 40th DesignWare audio codec IP"

Design-centric yield management enables product engineers to achieve rapid yield ramp and provide cost-effective yield control in volume production

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—October 28, 2009— Synopsys, Inc. (NASDAQ: SNPS), a world leader in software and IP for semiconductor design, verification and manufacturing, today announced that NVIDIA Corp. has adopted Synopsys’ Yield Explorer solution for yield analysis and yield ramp. NVIDIA, which invented the graphics processing unit, selected Yield Explorer because of its ability to coherently combine and cross-correlate large volumes of data from the design, fab and test domains to quickly identify dominant failure mechanisms. This … Read More → "NVIDIA adopts Synopsys Yield Explorer to reduce time to volume"