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Arasan Chip Systems extends UFS leadership with UFS, UniPro, and M-PHY IP

November 5, 2012

San Jose, California – November 5, 2012 – Arasan Chip Systems, Inc. (“Arasan”), a leading provider of Total IP Solutions, announced today it has strengthened its leading position in the UFS market with major new contracts giving Arasan the largest market share in the rapidly developing UFS market. Four out of the ten Top Semiconductor manufacturers have selected Arasan as their supplier for UFS/UniPro and M-PHY IP.

Arasan is the only IP provider that is simultaneously participating in MIPI® Alliance working groups defining M-PHY, in JEDEC defining UFS, and in UFSA defining the UFS test and compliance standards. UFS is … Read More → "Arasan Chip Systems extends UFS leadership with UFS, UniPro, and M-PHY IP"

Synopsys Announces Adoption of its TetraMAX ATPG and Yield Explorer Tools by STMicroelectronics as Essential Enablers of Rapid Yield Ramp

November 5, 2012

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Nov. 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq:SNPS), a global leader accelerating innovation in the design, verification and manufacture of chips and systems, today announced that STMicroelectronics (ST) has adopted Synopsys’ volume diagnostics solution company-wide for faster yield ramp. IC product teams must rapidly isolate and correct systematic failure mechanisms to ramp up new IC designs from low initial yield to mature yield in volume production. Synopsys’ solution has enabled ST engineers to quickly identify the most dominant systematic failure mechanisms on new designs, thereby driving yield improvement at a faster rate.

The solution is comprised … Read More → "Synopsys Announces Adoption of its TetraMAX ATPG and Yield Explorer Tools by STMicroelectronics as Essential Enablers of Rapid Yield Ramp"

Cortus Releases the World’s Smallest 32-bit Microcontroller IP Core

November 2, 2012

Montpellier, France – 31st October 2012. Cortus, a technology leader in cost effective, silicon efficient 32-bit processor IP, releases the world’s smallest 32-bit microcontroller IP core – the APS1. The launch of the silicon efficient, low cost APS1 completes Cortus’ 2012 processor roadmap. The APS1 is ideal for simpler embedded applications with limited code and data memory requirements. It offers a cost-effective way to replace many existing 8-bit cores by offering improved power consumption and simpler software development.

The Cortus APS1 is a native 32-bit core with a modern RISC … Read More → "Cortus Releases the World’s Smallest 32-bit Microcontroller IP Core"

Industry Leaders Collaborate to Accelerate Software Ecosystem for ARM Servers, and Join Linaro

November 2, 2012

[Santa Clara, US; 1 November 2012] Linaro, the not-for-profit engineering organization developing open source software for the ARM architecture, announced today the formation of the Linaro Enterprise Group (LEG) and the addition of AMD, Applied Micro Circuits Corporation, Calxeda, Canonical, Cavium, Facebook, HP, Marvell and Red Hat as Linaro members.

With significant market interest in energy-efficient ARM-based servers, industry leaders have joined together through Linaro, creating LEG, to collaborate and accelerate the development of foundational software for ARM Server Linux. LEG benefits have broad industry implications, including time to market acceleration, lower development costs, and access to innovative and … Read More → "Industry Leaders Collaborate to Accelerate Software Ecosystem for ARM Servers, and Join Linaro"

Green Hills Software Announces Record EEMBC CoreMark Benchmark Results

November 2, 2012

Green Hills Software, the largest independent vendor of embedded software solutions, has announced that its optimising compilersfor ARM^® Architecture were used by Freescale Semiconductor for published Embedded Microprocessor Benchmark Consortium^®(EEMBC^®) CoreMark^® scores on the Freescale Kinetis K70 90nm microprocessor based on the ARM Cortex™-M4. The Kinetis K70’s CoreMark/MHz score of 3.08, running at 150 MHz out of flash, represents the highest CoreMark scores ever published for a Freescale Kinetis microcontroller and exceeds all other published results for … Read More → "Green Hills Software Announces Record EEMBC CoreMark Benchmark Results"

Agilent Technologies to Display Test Innovations at Electronica

November 2, 2012

SANTA CLARA, Nov. 1, 2012 – Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced it will display its newest test innovations ranging from handheld analyzers to high-end X-Series instruments, including new 90000X and Q oscilloscopes, PXA spectrum analyzers and PNA-X network analyzers at Electronica 2012 (Hall A1, Booth 506), in Munich, Nov. 13-16.

“In 2011 Agilent redefined oscilloscopes with the InfiniiVision 2000 and 3000 X-Series, and on Nov. 13, 2012, we will do it again,” said Peter Kasenbacher, market segment manager … Read More → "Agilent Technologies to Display Test Innovations at Electronica"

Microchip’s Free MPLAB® XC32++ Compiler for All 32-bit PIC32 MCUs Offers Unlimited Code Generation

November 1, 2012

CHANDLER, Ariz., Oct. 30, 2012 [NASDAQ: MCHP] — Microchip Technology Inc., a leading provider of microcontroller, analog and Flash-IP solutions, today announced its free C++ compiler with unlimited code generation—the Free MPLAB^® XC32++ Compiler. The MPLAB XC32++ supports all of Microchip’s 32-bit PIC32 microcontrollers (MCUs). This compiler enables designers to develop and re-use C++ projects by making all of Microchip’s C language extensions available in an environment that is compliant with the majority of C++98 and C++2003 ANSI standards. Additionally, the Free MPLAB XC32++ Compiler includes … Read More → "Microchip’s Free MPLAB® XC32++ Compiler for All 32-bit PIC32 MCUs Offers Unlimited Code Generation"

Latest Release of Synplify Software Cuts Days off FPGA Implementation Time

November 1, 2012

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Oct. 31, 2012 /PRNewswire/ —

Highlights:

New debug flows for multiple error isolation and incremental fix capabilities enable faster implementation of large FPGA designs and FPGA-based prototypes, such as Synopsys’ HAPS® systems
New constraints setup assistance for Xilinx Vivado Design Suite users eases migration to Vivado flow, improves design performance and helps avoid constraints omissions
Triple modular redundancy and inference of error-correcting code fault-tolerant RAMs has been added for Altera devices
Support for Achronix Speedster22i HD FPGAs delivers optimized synthesis results

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Microsemi Introduces New Cost-effective Transient Voltage Suppressors to Protect Aircraft from Lightning Strikes

November 1, 2012

ALISO VIEJO, Calif., Oct. 31, 2012–Microsemi Corporation (Nasdaq: MSCC), a leading provider of semiconductor solutions differentiated by power, security, reliability and performance, today introduced two new cost-reduced versions of its transient voltage suppressor (TVS) devices in its patented plastic large area device (PLAD) package. The lower cost 15 kilowatt (kW) MPLAD15KP and 30 kW MPLAD30KP TVS families meet lightning-protection requirements in aircraft, including the multi-stroke standard (RTCA DO-160E), that have grown in importance as a result of the introduction and growing use of composite body airframes. Both devices are offered in a surface mount package and are backwards-compatible … Read More → "Microsemi Introduces New Cost-effective Transient Voltage Suppressors to Protect Aircraft from Lightning Strikes"

FPGA Based SATA Recording Solutions

November 1, 2012

October 2012, Northwich, Cheshire. Kane Computing Ltd (KCL) have signed an exclusive UK Distribution Agreement with Logic Design Solutions to sell their FPGA based recorder IP.

Logic Design Solutions supply software to support recording of data on SATA disk systems, up to 6G running on Xilinx Virtex 6 FPGAs.

The LDS_SATA_RECORDER_XV6 IP is a complete recorder system Software Solution (IP). It can be configured according to the recording performance required and the quantity of the data to record. The LDS_SATA_RECORDER_XV6 IP is available only on Xilinx Virtex 6 LXT/SXT FPGA. This … Read More → "FPGA Based SATA Recording Solutions"

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