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eoSemi unveils silicon oscillator technology, announces shipment of first silicon to select customers

March 13, 2012

Congleton, UK, March 13, 2012:  eoSemi today disclosed further details of its innovative silicon oscillator technology, and announced that it has commenced shipping pre-commercial versions of its first product. The company is working with a small group of key strategic customers and partners.

eoSemi’s ATOC™ (Accurate Timing Oscillator Circuit) technology allows the company to offer all-CMOS silicon alternatives to the costly, bulky quartz crystal oscillators that are used in almost every consumer electronic product. Because its devices can be made using standard semiconductor manufacturing technology, eoSemi’s products are cheaper, smaller, … Read More → "eoSemi unveils silicon oscillator technology, announces shipment of first silicon to select customers"

Accellera Systems Initiative Drafts SystemC AMS 2.0 Standard to Advance Dynamic and Reactive Mixed-Signal System Design

March 13, 2012

DRESDEN, GERMANY–(Marketwire – Mar 13, 2012) – Design, Automation & Test in Europe Conference — The Accellera Systems Initiative, an independent non-profit organization focused on the creation and adoption of electronic design automation (EDA) and intellectual property (IP) standards for design and verification, is pleased to announce the release of the SystemC Analog/Mixed-Signal (AMS) 2.0 draft standard to address the need for more dynamic and reactive modeling features for analog/mixed-signal system-level design.

This release marks the start of a public review of the SystemC AMS 2.0 draft standard, open through April 30, 2012. The SystemC AMS community of users, architects, designers and ESL … Read More → "Accellera Systems Initiative Drafts SystemC AMS 2.0 Standard to Advance Dynamic and Reactive Mixed-Signal System Design"

NXP Licenses ARM Cortex-M0+ Processor

March 13, 2012

EINDHOVEN, THE NETHERLANDS and SAN JOSE, CA–(Marketwire – Mar 13, 2012) – NXP Semiconductors N.V. (NASDAQ: NXPI) today announced that it is one of the lead ARM Partners to license the new ARM® Cortex™-M0+ processor. The Cortex-M0+ is the world’s most energy-efficient ARM microprocessor. It has been optimized to enable ultra-low-power, entry-level 32-bit microcontrollers for intelligent sensors and smart control systems in a broad range of applications, which include home appliances, white goods, medical monitoring, e-metering, lighting, power and motor control devices.

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Xilinx and Micron Demonstrate Industry’s First Hardware Interoperability of FPGA and RLDRAM 3 Memory Interface Standard

March 13, 2012

SAN JOSE, Calif., and BOISE, Idaho, March 13, 2012 – Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ:XLNX) and Micron Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq:MU), today announced the first public hardware demonstration of an FPGA interfacing with RLDRAM 3 memory, a new and emerging memory standard for high-end networking applications such as packet buffering and inspection, linked lists, and lookup tables. Operating with Virtex®-7 and Kintex™-7 FPGAs at data rates up to 1600 megabits per second (Mb/s), Micron’s high-performance RLDRAM 3 memory combines high density, high bandwidth and fast SRAM-like random access to enable a 60 percent higher data rate … Read More → "Xilinx and Micron Demonstrate Industry’s First Hardware Interoperability of FPGA and RLDRAM 3 Memory Interface Standard"

Riber and imec extend successful collaboration on next-generation III-V logic CMOS

March 13, 2012

Bezons (France) and Leuven (Belgium), March 13th, 2012 – Riber, a leading supplier of Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE) equipment and services to the compound semiconductor industry, today signed an agreement with imec to further collaborate on epitaxy process technologies for next-generation III-V CMOS devices. The agreement follows a successful collaboration in the field of advanced channel materials for high-performance CMOS scaling, germanium and compound semiconductor (III-V) materials.

In the quest for miniaturization, technology has come to a point where CMOS scaling beyond the 45nm node cannot be achieved by simply reducing transistor dimensions. Moreover, the need … Read More → "Riber and imec extend successful collaboration on next-generation III-V logic CMOS"

Methodics announces support for Synopsys’ Galaxy Custom Designer implementation solution to bring new levels of SoC design data management to popular IC design environment

March 13, 2012

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – March 13, 2012 – Methodics, Inc., a leading provider of integrated solutions used in managing design data and semiconductor intellectual property (IP) for complex IC design, today announced its VersIC™ platform is now integrated with the Synopsys Galaxy Custom Designer solution for cell-based and custom IC designs. The integration provides IC designers with a robust design data management foundation to use within the Synopsys custom IC design environment, enabling greater efficiency, predictability and quality in how design data is generated, used and tracked in complex multi-team IC design projects.

“The integration of Methodics … Read More → "Methodics announces support for Synopsys’ Galaxy Custom Designer implementation solution to bring new levels of SoC design data management to popular IC design environment"

RFEL creates flexible design emulation of Texas InstrumentsTM Graychip GC1012B Wideband DDC

March 13, 2012

Newport, Isle of Wight, UK – 13th March 2012 – As a number of Texas Instruments Graychip (GC) range of devices transition to “Not Recommended” for new designs and “Obsolete” status, RFEL has, in response to customer requests, developed specific IP to emulate the signal processing functionality of these devices and thereby provide an upgrade path to designs originally built upon them. Using specifically designed sub-modules a channelizer design can be realized on an FPGA platform, that offers higher performance, greater customization options and a lower price than the increasingly hard to obtain mature Graychip devices. 

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GUC and Synopsys Achieve Design Milestone

March 13, 2012

HSINCHU, Taiwan and MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., March 13, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — Global Unichip Corp. (GUC; TW:3443), the Flexible ASIC Leader™ and Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS), a world leader in software and IP used in the design, verification and manufacture of electronic components and systems, today announced the tape out of 30 customer devices during the past four years using a combination of Synopsys’ DesignWare® IP and GUC’s ASIC design services.

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Soitec announces adoption of fully depleted technology for advanced mobile platforms

March 12, 2012

Bernin, France – March 12, 2012 – Soitec (Euronext), a world leader in generating and manufacturing revolutionary semiconductor materials for the electronics and energy industries, announced today that ST-Ericsson, a leader in wireless platforms and semiconductors, has selected planar fully depleted silicon on insulator (FD-SOI) technology for use in future mobile platforms. Soitec’s innovative substrates ? with an extremely thin top layer which predefines critical characteristics of the transistor ? provide the foundation upon which fully depleted transistors are built.

“Next-generation mobile consumer devices will need to deliver an even better user experience and higher performance without … Read More → "Soitec announces adoption of fully depleted technology for advanced mobile platforms"

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