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Altera Continues Rollout of 28-nm Product Portfolio with Shipment of Arria V FPGAs

December 6, 2011

San Jose, Calif., November 29, 2011–Altera Corporation (NASDAQ:ALTR) today announced it has started shipping its 28-nm Arria^® V FPGAs. The Arria V devices are the lowest power mid-range FPGAs available on the market today with 10.3125-Gbps transceiver technology. The family’s innovative features allow designers to tailor their low power, high bandwidth, and low cost requirements for next-generation systems in wireless, broadcast, and military markets. The Arria V devices are the second family to ship from the company’ … Read More → "Altera Continues Rollout of 28-nm Product Portfolio with Shipment of Arria V FPGAs"

Magma’s FineSim SPICE Enables Dolphin Technology to Achieve 6X Faster Simulation Runtime, Reducing Time to Market and Improving IP Quality

December 6, 2011

SAN JOSE, Calif., Dec. 6, 2011 – Magma Design Automation Inc. (Nasdaq: LAVA), a provider of chip design software, today announced that Dolphin Technology, Inc., a leading provider of performance-optimized system-on-a-chip (SoC) memory cores and performance-matched standard cell libraries and input/outputs (IOs), has standardized on the FineSim™ SPICE multi-CPU circuit simulation technology to accelerate delivery of high quality intellectual property (IP). Magma’s FineSim SPICE has enabled Dolphin Technology to quickly and accurately run thousands of simulations of their IP across all process corners. By increasing … Read More → "Magma’s FineSim SPICE Enables Dolphin Technology to Achieve 6X Faster Simulation Runtime, Reducing Time to Market and Improving IP Quality"

New Cypress PSoC® Precision Analog Development Kit Highlights 20-Bit ADC with Micro-Volt Measurements and Differential Inputs

December 6, 2011

SAN JOSE, Calif., December 6, 2011 – Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (Nasdaq: CY) today announced the new CY8CKIT-025 Development Kit for its PSoC^® 3 and PSoC 5 programmable system-on-chip architectures. The new kit highlights PSoC’s unique 8- to 20-Bit Delta-Sigma ADC with an internal voltage reference of +- 0.1%, a sampling rate of up to 384 ksps, and up to 18-bit effective number of bits (ENOB) performance. It showcases the capability for measurements in microvolts enabled by a precision of 0.003 percent. In addition, the ADC enables designers to implement both differential and single-ended inputs for the Delta Sigma … Read More → "New Cypress PSoC® Precision Analog Development Kit Highlights 20-Bit ADC with Micro-Volt Measurements and Differential Inputs"

SiliconBlue Chips Selected for New Citizen Eco-Drive Watch

December 5, 2011

SANTA CLARA, California, December 5, 2011 – SiliconBlue® Technologies, the leader in Custom Mobile Device™ (CMD) solutions for handheld applications, today announced that Citizen Watch, the largest watchmaker and a leader in advanced watch technology, has selected SiliconBlue’s iCE65L08 device to be used in their new Eco-Drive Satellite Wave watch, the world’s first light-powered GPS-synchronized watch.

The highly advanced functionality of the Eco-Drive watch required ultra low-power, small footprint devices … Read More → "SiliconBlue Chips Selected for New Citizen Eco-Drive Watch"

Isolated Power Factor Corrected Offline Regulator Needs No Opto

December 5, 2011

MILPITAS, CA – December 5, 2011 – Linear Technology Corporation announces the LT3798, an isolated flyback controller with single stage active power factor correction (PFC). A power factor of greater than 0.97 is accomplished by actively modulating the input current, eliminating the need for an extra switching power stage and associated components. In addition, no opto-isolator or signal transformer is required for feedback since the output voltage is sensed from the primary-side flyback signal.

A LT3798-based design easily complies with the IEC61000-3-2 … Read More → "Isolated Power Factor Corrected Offline Regulator Needs No Opto"

Lattice Ships 75 Million MachXO Programmable Logic Devices

December 5, 2011

HILLSBORO, OR – DECEMBER 5, 2011- Lattice Semiconductor Corporation (NASDAQ: LSCC) today announced that it has shipped more than 75 million MachXO™ PLDs (programmable logic devices) since their introduction. Widely adopted in a broad range of high volume, cost sensitive applications, customers worldwide are taking advantage of the MachXO PLD family’s innovative combination of ease-of-use, flexibility, system integration and price.

The MachXO PLD family’s unique system integration benefits have continued to drive its widespread adoption in a broad range of low-density applications that require general purpose I/O expansion, interface bridging … Read More → "Lattice Ships 75 Million MachXO Programmable Logic Devices"

austriamicrosystems releases comprehensive High-Voltage CMOS, High-Voltage Flash and RF Multi Project Wafer Services schedule for Foundry Customers

December 5, 2011

Unterpremstaetten, Austria (November 30, 2011) – austriamicrosystems’ (SIX: AMS) Full Service Foundry business unit today released its further expanded fast and cost-efficient IC prototyping service, known as Multi-Project Wafer (MPW) or shuttle run, with an even more extensive schedule in 2012. The prototyping service, which combines several designs from different customers onto a single wafer, offers significant cost advantages for foundry customers as the costs for wafers and masks are shared among a number of different shuttle participants.

austriamicrosystems’ best-in-class MPW service includes the whole range of 0.18µm and 0.35µm specialty processes. In order … Read More → "austriamicrosystems releases comprehensive High-Voltage CMOS, High-Voltage Flash and RF Multi Project Wafer Services schedule for Foundry Customers"

Agilent Technologies Introduces Signal Processing Libraries for 802.11ac WLAN and 60-GHz 802.11ad

December 5, 2011

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Nov. 16, 2011 – Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today released SystemVue 2011.10, the latest update to the leading design environment for wireless physical-layer architects.

The release provides new digital signal processing reference libraries for emerging connectivity standards IEEE 802.11ac and 802.11ad, and delivers updates for 4G-LTE, 3G-HSPA and wideband digital predistortion libraries. These industry-first libraries will help PHY system architects and component designers accelerate product design cycles and achieve higher overall system performance.

The new 802.11ac WLAN connectivity standard promises data throughputs of more than 1 Gb/sec for short-range media streaming, gaming and … Read More → "Agilent Technologies Introduces Signal Processing Libraries for 802.11ac WLAN and 60-GHz 802.11ad"

element14 announces “The Innovation Series” event

December 5, 2011

5 December 2011 – London – element14, a collaborative global electronics community from Premier Farnell plc (LSE:pfl), has today announced it is hosting a two-day virtual event “the element14 Innovation Series” on the 16^th and 17^th of January 2012.

Last month element14 challenged the electronics community to answer the question “Who is … Read More → "element14 announces “The Innovation Series” event"

Industry Leaders Achieve Significant Power and Performance Gains With Synopsys’ Low Power Solution

December 5, 2011

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Dec. 5, 2011 /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 announced that industry leaders worldwide have broadly deployed and successfully taped out more than 125 advanced multi-voltage designs using the Galaxy™ Implementation Platform low power solution and IEEE-1801 Unified Power Format (UPF) resulting in significant productivity, power and chip performance gains. Among these companies are Aquantia, Chongqing Chongyou Information Technology Co., Ltd. (CYIT), Emulex, HiSilicon Technologies, Lantiq, Microchip Technology, Movidius, Oticon, Progate Group Corporation, Samsung, Sunplus Technology, TSMC, VeriSilicon, … Read More → "Industry Leaders Achieve Significant Power and Performance Gains With Synopsys’ Low Power Solution"

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