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Microsemi Expands S-Band RF Power Transistor Family to Include High-Performance GaN-on-SiC Devices

June 9, 2011

IRVINE, Calif., June 6, 2011 — Microsemi Corporation (Nasdaq:MSCC), a leading provider of semiconductor technology aimed at building a smart, secure, connected world, has expanded its family of S-band RF power transistors to include devices that use advanced gallium nitride (GaN) process technology on a silicon carbide (SiC) substrate. The company’s GaN-on-SiC high-pulsed power transistors deliver industry-leading peak power and power gain for radar systems operating in the 2.7 GHz to 3.5 GHz frequency band.

“This is a significant step in Microsemi’s ongoing strategy to extend its product development and marketing initiatives to support the increasingly challenging requirements … Read More → "Microsemi Expands S-Band RF Power Transistor Family to Include High-Performance GaN-on-SiC Devices"

Vivid Engineering releases Symica EDA tool suite

June 9, 2011

San Jose, California – April 25, 2011 – Vivid Engineering, Inc., a design and product-development group providing state-of-the-art analog and mixed-signal IC designs and design services, today announced the release of the Symica EDA toolkit.

Symica is a suite of tools that offers an affordable mixed-signal design flow including schematic capture, circuit simulation, waveform probing, physical layout, and easy accommodation of different Process Development Kits (PDKs). Symica offers an attractive solution for startups, mid-size design teams and independent designers.

Matrox and Trenton Partner to Provide Integrated Hardware Systems for Video Walls

June 9, 2011

Montreal, Canada, June 8, 2011 — Matrox Graphics Inc. and Trenton Systems today announced a new technology partnership to deliver video wall solutions for the AV market, beginning with the Trenton TVC4401 4U rackmount system. The new Matrox-certified system can combine up to six, single-slot Matrox Mura MPX</ … Read More → "Matrox and Trenton Partner to Provide Integrated Hardware Systems for Video Walls"

Agilent Technologies’ Latest 3-D EM Simulation Platform Provides New Solver, Speed Improvements

June 9, 2011

SANTA CLARA, Calif., June 7, 2011 – Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced the release of Electromagnetic Professional 2011.07, an electromagnetic modeling and simulation platform that creates 3-D models and analyzes the electrical performance of packages, connectors, antennas and other RF components.

Known as EMPro, the platform is tightly integrated with Agilent’s Advanced Design System software for the design of RF and high-speed integrated circuits, modules and PC boards. The release features significant new capabilities and improved speed for modeling RF and high-speed … Read More → "Agilent Technologies’ Latest 3-D EM Simulation Platform Provides New Solver, Speed Improvements"

TI introduces highly integrated audio codec to speed soundbar development

June 9, 2011

DALLAS (June 8, 2011) – Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) (NYSE:TXN) today introduced a flexible stereo audio codec with two fully-programmable miniDSP cores to support customized processing solutions for use in soundbars and docking stations. The PCM3070 includes a stereo 24-bit digital-to-analog converter (DAC), stereo 24-bit analog-to-digital converter (ADC) and integrated phased-locked loop (PLL) for flexible audio clock generation. The codec enables designers to produce high-quality, low-cost soundbar solutions and, coupled with the Value Soundbar Reference Design Kit, develop their products quickly. For more information and to order samples of the PCM3070, visit Read More → "TI introduces highly integrated audio codec to speed soundbar development"

High-End Communications Processor AdvancedMC® Board based on multi-core Freescale® QorIQTM P4080 and Virtex-6 FPGA

June 9, 2011

N.A.T. presents the market’s most powerful single-width AdvancedMC® (AMC) processor board designed around the new octal core Freescale® QorIQ^TM P4080 and Xilinx® Virtex-6 FPGA.

The single-width AMC board, NAMC-QorIQ-P40, combines the best of two worlds: Freescale®’s octal PowerPC cores (e500) and Xilinx®’s Virtex-6 FPGA satisfying the constantly growing demand for high bandwidth and high performance in today’s protocol processing applications.

With up to 1,5GHz frequency, the NAMC-QorIQ-P40 delivers industry leading performance for MicroTCA^{TM</ … Read More → "High-End Communications Processor AdvancedMC® Board based on multi-core Freescale® QorIQTM P4080 and Virtex-6 FPGA"}

Magma Announces Reference Flow for GLOBALFOUNDRIES’ 28-nm Low-Power Technology

June 9, 2011

DESIGN AUTOMATION CONFERENCE, SAN DIEGO, Calif., June 6, 2011 — Magma® Design Automation (Nasdaq: LAVA), today announced the availability of a netlist-to-GDSII reference flow for GLOBALFOUNDRIES’ 28-nanometer (nm) super low-power (SLP) high-k metal-gate (HKMG) technology. This sign-off-ready reference flow integrates with GLOBALFOUNDRIES’ sign-off verification modules and leverages the Talus® IC implementation system’s unique Talus Flow Manager™ and Talus Visual Volcano™ to provide unique visualization capabilities that enable mutual customers to quickly and easily import an existing design, then analyze and evaluate its performance in … Read More → "Magma Announces Reference Flow for GLOBALFOUNDRIES’ 28-nm Low-Power Technology"

RFMD® Expands Industry-Leading General Product Catalog With Two New Voltage Controlled Attenuators

June 9, 2011

Greensboro, N.C., June 2, 2011– RF Micro Devices, Inc. (Nasdaq GS: RFMD), a global leader in the design and manufacture of high-performance radio frequency components and compound semiconductor technologies, today announced the release of two new voltage controlled attenuators (VCAs), the RFSA2013 and RFSA2023. The new VCA components, which operate from 5V and 3V supplies, respectively, cover a wideband frequency range of 50 to 4000MHz and satisfy a wide range of applications across end markets.

These fully monolithic VCAs feature exceptional linearity with a third order intercept point greater than 50dBm over a 30dB gain control range. The … Read More → "RFMD® Expands Industry-Leading General Product Catalog With Two New Voltage Controlled Attenuators"

Cavium Networks Announces Availability of Higher Performance 1.8GHz Per-core OCTEON® II CN63XX Processor Family

June 9, 2011

Mountain View, Calif., June 8, 2011 – Cavium Networks (NASDAQ: CAVM), a leading provider of semiconductor products that enable intelligent processing for networking, communications, and the digital home, announced today that it has delivered its OCTEON® II CN63XX 2 to 6-core MIPS64 processors, with up to 10.8GHz of 64 bit processing with each CPU core running at up to 1.8GHz, to customers worldwide. This new 1.8GHz operating frequency more than doubles the CPU core frequency available relative to the previous generation of OCTEON Plus processors, providing customers a huge performance boost … Read More → "Cavium Networks Announces Availability of Higher Performance 1.8GHz Per-core OCTEON® II CN63XX Processor Family"

CEVA and Carbon Design Systems Partner to Offer Fast Simulation Models for CEVA DSPs

June 9, 2011

SAN DIEGO, Calif. – Design Automation Conference – June 07, 2011 – CEVA, Inc. [(NASDAQ: CEVA); (LSE: CVA)], the leading licensor of silicon intellectual property (SIP) platform solutions and DSP cores, and Carbon Design Systems™, the leading supplier of solutions for architectural analysis, performance optimization and pre-silicon firmware debug, today announced the availability of fast simulation models for CEVA’s industry-leading CEVA-X and Read More → "CEVA and Carbon Design Systems Partner to Offer Fast Simulation Models for CEVA DSPs"

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