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Nominations for EDA Industry’s Annual Phil Kaufman Award Open Through June 30

May 18, 2011

SAN JOSE, Calif. and NEW YORK — May 18, 2011 — Nominations are being accepted now through Thursday, June 30, for the Phil Kaufman Award for Distinguished Contributions to Electronic Design Automation (EDA) sponsored by the EDA Consortium (EDAC) and the IEEE Council on Electronic Design Automation (CEDA).

Last year’s recipient was Pasquale (Pat) O. Pistilli, chairman of MP Associates of Louisville, Colo., who pioneered the EDA industry and built the Design Automation Conference as its premiere showcase and networking platform.

The award, to be presented at a dinner ceremony in October in … Read More → "Nominations for EDA Industry’s Annual Phil Kaufman Award Open Through June 30"

EVE Expands ZeBu Line with New Vertical Solutions

May 18, 2011

SAN JOSE, CALIF. –– May 18, 2011 –– EVE, the leader in hardware/software co-verification, today began shipping four new vertical solutions, further expanding its best-in-class ZeBu hardware-assisted verification family into computer/peripherals, embedded processors, networking and video markets.

The addition of PCI-Express 3.0, Multiport Gigabit Ethernet, USB and HDMI transactors underscores EVE’s commitment to grow its catalog of verification intellectual property (VIP) components to support system-on-chip (SoC) verification in a broad range of markets.

ARM Upgrades Validation Methodology for Processor and System IP With Jasper

May 18, 2011

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA–(Marketwire – May 18, 2011) – Jasper Design Automation, the leading provider of verification solutions based on formal technology, today announced that ARM has completed a deployment of Jasper technology and solutions that enhances the validation methodology for ARM^® AMBA^® protocol-based processor and system IP. The adoption enables design and validation teams at ARM to address a wide range of verification issues such as the absence of deadlocks, cache coherency, x-propagation detection, control register verification, and protocol certification.

“We selected Jasper’s formal verification technology to be deployed across our … Read More → "ARM Upgrades Validation Methodology for Processor and System IP With Jasper"

NXP Showcases Base Station TRx Component Demonstrator for LTE / LTE Advanced Wireless Air Interface Standards at IMS 2011

May 18, 2011

EINDHOVEN, NETHERLANDS–(Marketwire – May 18, 2011) – NXP Semiconductors N.V. (NASDAQ: NXPI) will demonstrate a component for a complete, mixed signal, Base Transceiver Station (BTS) radio at the IEEE International Microwave Symposium (IMS 2011) to be held June 5-10 in Baltimore, Maryland (booth #420). The NXP BTS transceiver component demonstrator fully supports the demanding requirements of leading-edge wireless air interface standards, such as LTE Advanced, and showcases NXP’s … Read More → "NXP Showcases Base Station TRx Component Demonstrator for LTE / LTE Advanced Wireless Air Interface Standards at IMS 2011"

IAR Systems delivers complete starter kit for low-power STM32L family

May 18, 2011

Uppsala, Sweden—May 18, 2011—IAR Systems today announces a new kit for STMicroelectronics’ ARM Cortex-M3 based STM32L family with all necessary hardware and software for evaluation and prototyping included. IAR KickStart Kit for STM32L includes an evaluation board featuring an STM32L152VB microcontroller, LCD and other peripherals, an IAR J-Link Lite debug probe providing JTAG and SWD connections to the board, and a CD with software tools, example projects, and board support packages for different RTOSes.

The STM32L family is designed for low-power applications. When the board is connected to … Read More → "IAR Systems delivers complete starter kit for low-power STM32L family"

SPIRIT DSP Powers Roland Corp’s Newly Launched Mobile Audio Recorder with High Quality Audio

May 18, 2011

MOSCOW, Russia – May 16, 2011 – SPIRIT DSP <http://www.spiritdsp.com/> , the world’s top audio and video over IP engines provider, has announced today that it’s MP3 audio codec is enabling high-definition (HD), crystal clear audio and significant battery-life savings to Roland Corporation’s <http://www.roland.com/> newly released portable consumer mobile audio recording devices, the multi-track recorder MICRO BR BR-80 <Read More → "SPIRIT DSP Powers Roland Corp’s Newly Launched Mobile Audio Recorder with High Quality Audio"

LPI Announces New Training Partners in China and Philippines

May 18, 2011

(Sacramento, CA, USA: May 17, 2011) The Linux Professional Institute (LPI), the world’s premier Linux certification organization (http://www.lpi.org), and its affiliate, LPI-Asia Pacific (http://www.lpi-apac.org/) announced new LPI-Approved Training Partners (LPI-ATP) in the region: Beijing Shenghao Boyuan Technology Company of mainland China (http://www.linux-bjsh.com/) and Concentrix of the Philippines (http://www.concentrix. … Read More → "LPI Announces New Training Partners in China and Philippines"

Tilera and Qosmos Collaborate to Offer up to 50 Gbps of Network Intelligence in a 2U Linux Server

May 18, 2011

SAN JOSE, Calif. – May 18, 2011 -Tilera® Corporation, the leader in manycore general purpose microprocessors, in collaboration with Qosmos, today announced the highest performance network intelligence Linux server solution, at a whopping 50 gigabits per-second. The solution runs Qosmos technology software stack on the Tilera-based S2Q server, available from Quanta Computers.The server combines up to eight Tilera TilePro64™ processors into a 2U form factor, enabling dramatically increased performance in a standard Linux environment. Other solutions in the market today require exotic ASICs which are hard to program or expensive high-power servers to achieve the same performance.

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Digi-Key Corporation and Nuventix Sign Global Distribution Agreement

May 18, 2011

Tuesday, May 17, 2011 – THIEF RIVER FALLS, Minnesota, USA – Electronic components distributor Digi-Key Corporation, recognized by design engineers as having the industry’s Read More → "Digi-Key Corporation and Nuventix Sign Global Distribution Agreement"

smxWiFi Supports Ralink RT5370 Wireless Chipset

May 18, 2011

Costa Mesa, California, May 17, 2011 – smxWiFiTM now supports the Ralink RT5370 chipset used in USB WiFi adapters. smxWiFi supports all current Ralink USB WiFi chipsets: RT2573, RT2870, RT3070, RT3572, and RT5370, and it supports the RT2760 PCI chipset. For maximum flexibility, all can be purchased and used in a system, and the proper one is selected at run-time when the WiFi adapter is plugged in.

smxWiFi provides the necessary software to easily add wireless connectivity to an embedded system. It is a robust, 802.11 Media Access Control (MAC) stack specifically designed … Read More → "smxWiFi Supports Ralink RT5370 Wireless Chipset"