industry news archive
Subscribe Now

Xilinx Launches First Design Platforms for Accelerating 7 Series FPGA Design Productivity and System Integration

SAN JOSE, Calif., Jan. 31, 2012– Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX) today launched its first Targeted Design Platforms for accelerating systems development and integration with its 28nm 7 series Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs). Xilinx’s Targeted Design Platform approach to FPGA system design and integration provides the industry’s most comprehensive development kits – complete with boards, ISE® Design Suite tools, IP cores, reference designs and FPGA Mezzanine Card (FMC) support – so designers can begin applications development immediately.

At DesignCon 2012, attendees can visit Xilinx at booth #732 to see the new Virtex®-7 FPGA … Read More → "Xilinx Launches First Design Platforms for Accelerating 7 Series FPGA Design Productivity and System Integration"

Wideband I/Q Demodulator with IIP2 Optimization & DC Offset Cancellation Improves Receiver Performance

MILPITAS, CA – January 30, 2012 – Linear Technology announces the LTC5585, an ultrawide bandwidth direct conversion I/Q demodulator with outstanding linearity performance (IIP3 = 25.7dBm and IIP2 = 60dBm at 1.95GHz). The device is capable of baseband output demodulation bandwidth of over 530MHz, which can support new generation wideband LTE multimode receivers’ and … Read More → "Wideband I/Q Demodulator with IIP2 Optimization & DC Offset Cancellation Improves Receiver Performance"

NetLogic Microsystems Announces the Industry’s First Open–Source Xen® Hypervisor for Multi-Core MIPS64® Processors

Santa Clara, Calif. – January 30, 2011 –NetLogic Microsystems, Inc. [NASDAQ: NETL], a worldwide leader in high-performance intelligent semiconductor solutions for next-generation Internet networks, today announced the industry’s first open–source Xen® hypervisor for high-performance multi-core MIPS64® processors.  The new XEN hypervisor from NetLogic Microsystems enables highly efficient virtualization for next-generation communications, networking and server platforms using the industry’s best-in-class XLP® and XLP II multi-core, multi-threaded processors.  

Service providers, data centers and enterprises are increasingly embracing virtualization to increase hardware processing utilization and efficiency, … Read More → "NetLogic Microsystems Announces the Industry’s First Open–Source Xen® Hypervisor for Multi-Core MIPS64® Processors"

CoventorWare 2012 Software Increases 3D Simulation Capacity And Accuracy To Ease Verification Of Complex MEMS Devices

CARY, North Carolina – January 30, 2012 – At the IEEE MEMS 2012 Conference today, Coventor®, Inc., the leading supplier of software for developing micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS), introduced the 2012 release of its best-in-class CoventorWare® solution for MEMS design verification and optimization. CoventorWare 2012 capitalizes on increased computing power and software algorithm advancements to enable more complete and accurate verification of state-of-the-art MEMS designs.

CoventorWare 2012 continues to set the standard … Read More → "CoventorWare 2012 Software Increases 3D Simulation Capacity And Accuracy To Ease Verification Of Complex MEMS Devices"

Tilera Leaps Forward With the Breakthrough TILE-Gx Family, Design Wins and Welcomes Back Co-Founder as CEO

SAN JOSE, CA–(Marketwire – Jan 30, 2012) –

  • Tilera announces the immediate availability of the 36 and 16-core TILE-Gx™ 64-bit processors and evaluation systems
  • Shattering performance and performance per-watt benchmarks
  • More than 80 customers lined up, including Harmonic and Mercury Computer Systems
  • Devesh Garg, co-founder of Tilera, rejoins the company as CEO

Tilera® Corporation, the leader in manycore microprocessors, today announced several significant steps for the company including the immediate general availability of two of its highly anticipated, low-power, high-performance 64-bit processors — TILE-Gx36™ and TILE-Gx16™ — as well as … Read More → "Tilera Leaps Forward With the Breakthrough TILE-Gx Family, Design Wins and Welcomes Back Co-Founder as CEO"

QuickLogic Introduces New Background Color Compensator for Pico Projectors

Sunnyvale, CA – January 31, 2012 — QuickLogic Corporation (NASDAQ: QUIK), the leader in low power Customer Specific Standard Products (CSSPs), is proud to announce availability of a new Proven System Block (PSB) called the Background Color Compensator (BCC.)   This technology allows pico projected-content to be correctly viewed on projected surfaces of various colors. 

Hard-mounted projectors, such as those found in movie theatres and conference rooms, nearly always project onto a white screen.& … Read More → "QuickLogic Introduces New Background Color Compensator for Pico Projectors"

Mentor Graphics Announces Major New Functionality in HyperLynx Release 8.2

DESIGNCON 2012, SANTA CLARA, Calif., January 30, 2012 — Mentor Graphics Corporation (NASDAQ: MENT) today announced the release of version 8.2 of the HyperLynx® suite of analysis tools offering significant new functionality for optimizing printed circuit board (PCB) designs, including 3D full-wave field solving, and integrated thermal/power co-simulation analysis capabilities. Analysis of today’s multi-GHz SERDES channel interconnects—such as PCIe-Gen 3—requires specialized 3D modeling for accurate signal integrity analysis.

< … Read More → "Mentor Graphics Announces Major New Functionality in HyperLynx Release 8.2"
featured blogs
Mar 9, 2026
What happens to our digital history when the world's biggest archive of retro video games disappears?...