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Cadence Silicon Realization End-to-End Verification Wins Design Tool and Development Software Category

January 3, 2011

SAN JOSE, Calif., and BRACKNELL, UK , 20 Dec 2010 — Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CDNS), a global leader in electronic design innovation, is pleased to announce that the Cadence® Virtuoso® Accelerated Parallel Simulator has won the Elektra Electronics Industry Awards 2010 as the best design tool and development software. The Elektra Awards, established in 2003 and organized by Electronics Weekly and Reed Business Information in Europe, gives the industry an opportunity to recognize the achievements of individuals and companies across Europe.

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Siemens Building Technologies Division Expands its Mentor Graphics Design Environment with Expedition Enterprise and HyperLynx Signal Integrity/Power Integrity Solution

January 3, 2011

WILSONVILLE, Ore., December 21, 2010 – Mentor Graphics Corporation (NASDAQ: MENT) today announced that Siemens Building Technologies Division, Switzerland, has successfully benchmarked the Mentor Graphics® Expedition® Enterprise printed circuit board (PCB) design flow and has smoothly migrated from its existing Board Station® design environment and tools of other PCB design solution vendors to Expedition Enterprise and the HyperLynx® Signal Integrity (SI)/Read More → "Siemens Building Technologies Division Expands its Mentor Graphics Design Environment with Expedition Enterprise and HyperLynx Signal Integrity/Power Integrity Solution"

Siemens Building Technologies Division Expands its Mentor Graphics Design Environment with Expedition Enterprise and HyperLynx Signal Integrity/Power Integrity Solution

January 3, 2011

GreenPeak launches three new chips for the RF4CE market

January 3, 2011

Utrecht, Netherlands 3 January 2011 GreenPeak Technologies, a leading fabless semiconductor company, today announced the launch of three new chips, allowing the development of robust and low cost ZigBee RF4CE remote control applications for TVs and set-top boxes, addressing an overall one billion unit annual market.

The three devices all have full RF4CE functionality with ZRC embedded, targeting specific product applications:

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VIA Launches VIA eH1, Embedded Industry’s First Dedicated Graphics Card

January 3, 2011

TAIPEI, TAIWAN, January 3, 2011 – VIA Technologies, Inc, a leading innovator of power efficient x86 processor platforms, today announced the world’s first graphics card designed specifically for the embedded market with the VIA eH1, a DX10.1 compliant, multi-display card that thrusts any system with a PCI Express slot into a new realm of graphics and video capability.

The VIA eH1 comes with a three year product longevity guarantee and is the most power-efficient discrete graphics and video solution on the market today. The VIA eH1 AIB features an advanced DirectX 10.1, OpenGL 3.1, OpenGL ES 2.0 compatible 64 … Read More → "VIA Launches VIA eH1, Embedded Industry’s First Dedicated Graphics Card"

Avnet Electronic Marketing, MathWorks, Texas Instruments and Xilinx Deliver Workshops on Co-Processing Design Solutions

January 3, 2011

PHOENIX— January 3, 2011 — Avnet Electronics Marketing Americas, a business region of Avnet, Inc. (NYSE: AVT), along with MathWorks, Texas Instruments (TI) and Xilinx is offering a new series of SpeedWay Design Workshops™ focusing on designing Read More → "Avnet Electronic Marketing, MathWorks, Texas Instruments and Xilinx Deliver Workshops on Co-Processing Design Solutions"

Altera Acquires Avalon Microelectronics, Extending Its Communication System IP for FPGA and ASIC Product Portfolio

December 28, 2010

SAN JOSE, Calif., Dec. 14, 2010–Altera Corporation (Nasdaq: ALTR) announced today it has acquired Avalon Microelectronics Inc., an industry leader in flexible Optical Transport Network (OTN) IP, for use in its FPGA and ASIC products. With the acquisition of Avalon, Altera expands its portfolio of customizable IP solutions for OTN applications, supporting data rates at 1.2G, 2.5G and 10G, as well as 40G and 100G.

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Curtiss-Wright Controls Enhances VPX Memory Card to Support Large HPEC Systems

December 28, 2010

CHATSWORTH, CA – December 23, 2010 — Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing (CWCEC), a business group of Curtiss-Wright Controls and a leading designer and manufacturer of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) VME, VPX, OpenVPX™ and CompactPCI products for the rugged deployed aerospace and defense market, has announced that it has enhanced the MFC700 OpenVPX high-density memory card with significantly increased available on-board memory. CWCEC is also pleased to announce that it has completed the rugged qualification of the conduction cooled variant of the MFC700. The rugged 6U VPX MFC700 card now provides Serial RapidIO (SRIO) host interfaces with up to 32 … Read More → "Curtiss-Wright Controls Enhances VPX Memory Card to Support Large HPEC Systems"

Curtiss-Wright Controls Adds 8GB SDRAM option to Dual-Core Intel® Core™ VME64x Single Board Computer

December 27, 2010

SAN DIEGO, CA – December 23, 2010 – Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing (CWCEC), a business group of Curtiss-Wright Controls and a leading designer and manufacturer of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) VME, OpenVPX™ and CompactPCI products for the rugged deployed aerospace and defense market, has expanded the onboard memory capacity of its dual-core Intel® Core™-based SVME/DMV-1905 VME64x single board computer (SBC) with support for up to 8GB of SDRAM. The rugged SVME/DMV-1905 features a dual-core Intel® Core™ i7-610E processor and brings the low-power, high-performance advantages of … Read More → "Curtiss-Wright Controls Adds 8GB SDRAM option to Dual-Core Intel® Core™ VME64x Single Board Computer"

Curtiss-Wright Controls Adds 8GB SDRAM option to Dual-Core Intel® Core™ VME64x Single Board Computer

December 27, 2010