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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.

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