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Best-in-Class Transceivers and Market-Leading IP Cores Provide Optical System Vendors and Next-Generation 100G Optical Module Suppliers with High Bandwidth Communication Platforms

February 27, 2012

SAN JOSE, Calif., Feb. 27, 2012 – Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX) today announced participation at the Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exposition 2012 in Los Angeles, from March 6-8, at the Los Angeles Convention Center, Booth #737. At the conference, attendees will see how Xilinx® 7 series FPGAs, including the Virtex®-7 2000T device, the world’s highest capacity FPGA, can reach new levels of IP core integration to improve overall BOM … Read More → "Best-in-Class Transceivers and Market-Leading IP Cores Provide Optical System Vendors and Next-Generation 100G Optical Module Suppliers with High Bandwidth Communication Platforms"

Cypress Introduces Industry’s First True Single-Layer Sensor With Multitouch Capability

February 27, 2012

SAN JOSE, Calif., February 26, 2012 – Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (NASDAQ: CY) today unveiled the industry’s first single-layer touchscreen sensor solution with multitouch capability. The new SLIM^® (Single-Layer Independent Multitouch) sensor delivers high-performance touchscreen accuracy and responsiveness with a true single-layer sensor panel, drastically reducing the cost of the most expensive component of the touchscreen. It enables low-cost touchscreen phones to offer users the ability to perform gestures such as pinch, zoom, flick, drag, swipe and other gestures requiring more than two fingers.

Increasingly, capacitive touchscreens are viewed as a … Read More → "Cypress Introduces Industry’s First True Single-Layer Sensor With Multitouch Capability"

Freescale expands VortiQa networking software to include industry’s first comprehensive user space software framework for embedded Linux software development

February 27, 2012

SAN FRANCISCO (RSA Conference 2012) – Feb. 27, 2012 – Freescale Semiconductor is expanding its successful VortiQa networking software product line beyond traditional security and networking functionality. To help speed development and boost performance of embedded software for Freescale’s highly advanced multicore QorIQ and QorIQ Qonverge products, Freescale is introducing the VortiQa™ Platform Services Package (PSP), the industry’s first comprehensive embedded networking software framework for programming in the Linux^® user space.

VortiQa PSP streamlines development by minimizing bare-metal coding tasks and shifting more application development to the familiar Linux user space. … Read More → "Freescale expands VortiQa networking software to include industry’s first comprehensive user space software framework for embedded Linux software development"

Cadence Announces Production Release of Virtual Platform for Xilinx Zynq-7000 Extensible Processing Platform

February 27, 2012

NUREMBERG, GERMANY–(Marketwire – February 27, 2012) – “Time-to-market is extremely important for our customers’ new smart products, and the challenge lies in the software complexity,” said Endric Schubert, founder and CTO of Missing Link Electronics, Inc. “The Cadence virtual platform enables us to regularly pre-validate our rich open source software stack, even when decoupled from our FPGA hardware development environment.”Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CDNS), a leader in global electronic design innovation, today announced that the company’s Read More → "Cadence Announces Production Release of Virtual Platform for Xilinx Zynq-7000 Extensible Processing Platform"

Cavium and Microsemi Launch Joint IEEE 1588 / SyncE Platform for Next-Generation Mobile Networks

February 27, 2012

BARCELONA, SPAIN–(Marketwire – February 27, 2012) – Service providers are continuously balancing the need for streamlined infrastructure cost while also accommodating the explosive growth in data, voice and video traffic. Packet networks address this issue. With the migration to packet networks, synchronization for the next-generation 4G wireless applications becomes critical.GSMA Mobile World Congress — Cavium, Inc. (NASDAQ: CAVM), a leading provider of semiconductor products that enable intelligent processing for networking, communications, and the digital home, announced today a joint IEEE 1588 / SyncE solution with Microsemi Corporation ( … Read More → "Cavium and Microsemi Launch Joint IEEE 1588 / SyncE Platform for Next-Generation Mobile Networks"

SpringSoft and Synopsys Link Debug Technologies to Speed Protocol Verification for SoC Designs

February 27, 2012

HSINCHU, Taiwan and MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Feb. 27 , 2012 /PRNewswire/ — SpringSoft, Inc., a global supplier of specialized IC design software, 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 that they have linked SpringSoft’s Verdi™ Automated Debug System with Synopsys’ Protocol Analyzer. Part of the Synopsys Discovery™ VIP family, Protocol Analyzer enables engineers to quickly understand, identify and debug protocols in their designs. Through this linkage, the identified protocol violations and errors are seamlessly passed to the Verdi environment for … Read More → "SpringSoft and Synopsys Link Debug Technologies to Speed Protocol Verification for SoC Designs"

austriamicrosystems announces new smartphone LCD backlight LED drivers with the industry’s highest efficiency and smallest PCB area

February 27, 2012

Unterpremstaetten, Austria (February 27, 2012) – austriamicrosystems (SIX: AMS), a leading global designer and manufacturer of high-performance analog ICs, has announced the AS3674 and AS3490 LED backlight drivers for smartphone LCD displays. These new LED drivers enable the industry’s best application efficiency at a peak level of 90%, including the DC-DC converter and the current sources. With a PCB footprint of only 11.5 mm², and just four external components required, the AS3674 and AS3940 are well suited for smart phones and other mobile devices where space is at a premium.

The AS3674 … Read More → "austriamicrosystems announces new smartphone LCD backlight LED drivers with the industry’s highest efficiency and smallest PCB area"

HiSilicon and imec collaborate on reconfigurable RF transceivers

February 27, 2012

Leuven, Belgium, February 27, 2012 – HiSilicon and imec have signed a strategic research collaboration to develop innovative RF transceiver architectures for next-generation mobile terminals. With the partnership, HiSilicon joins imec’s R&D program on cognitive reconfigurable radio to jointly conceive low-power and compact high-performance reconfigurable RF transceivers leveraging on state-of-the-art CMOS technology.

Imec’s cognitive reconfigurable radio front-end program investigates reconfigurable RF solutions, high-speed/low-power analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) and new approaches to digitize future RF architectures and minimize antenna interface requirements. By combining fundamental rethinking of the circuit architectures and designs … Read More → "HiSilicon and imec collaborate on reconfigurable RF transceivers"

Synopsys Unveils Next-Generation Verification IP for Faster SoC Verification

February 27, 2012

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Feb. 27, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS), a world leader in software and IP used in the design, verification and manufacture of electronic components and systems, today unveiled its Discovery™ Verification IP (VIP) family based on the new VIPER architecture. Written entirely in SystemVerilog with native support for the UVM, VMM and OVM methodologies, Discovery VIP provides inherent performance, ease-of-use and extensibility to speed and simplify verification of the most complex system-on-chip (SoC) designs. The Discovery VIP family includes Protocol Analyzer, a unique protocol-aware debug environment. Discovery VIP supports all major simulators and offers up to … Read More → "Synopsys Unveils Next-Generation Verification IP for Faster SoC Verification"

SMART Storage Systems Expands Relationship with Avnet Electronics Marketing

February 27, 2012

SMART Storage Systems, an innovative and rapidly emerging SSD technology provider, and Avnet Electronics Marketing, an operating group of Avnet, Inc. (NYSE:AVT) and a global distributor of electronic components, enterprise computing and storage products, and embedded systems, today announced that they have expanded their global distribution relationship. The Avnet Memec and Avnet Embedded divisions of Avnet Electronics Marketing will now distribute SMART Storage Systems’ Xceed solid-state drive (SSD) product lines to its customers worldwide. Production quantities of the XceedIOPS, XceedIOPS 2 and XceedStor 500S SSDs are now available.

“Our customers are constantly looking for ways to improve … Read More → "SMART Storage Systems Expands Relationship with Avnet Electronics Marketing"

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