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• Cactus Semiconductor chooses Dolphin Integration's Library for their low power, portable medical applications (Tuesday Apr. 22, 2014)
  Cactus Semiconductor and Dolphin Integration are proud to announce their partnership for the optimization of Cactus Semiconductor’s portable and medical applications thanks to the low power Dolphin Integration's standard cell library.
  
  
• MegaChips and Vidatronic execute Joint Development Agreement (Thursday Apr. 17, 2014)
  MegaChips introduces MegaChips’ new generation LDO, a new line of low dropout (LDO) linear voltage regulators offering superior performance over traditional LDO products. The partnership with Vidatronic, a leading provider of power management intellectual property (IP) solutions with analog and mixed signal circuit design expertise and a proprietary, industry-revolutionizing LDO architecture, enables MegaChips to enter the power management integrated circuit (PMIC) market.
  
  
• NEC uses eASIC to Optimize iPasolink Microwave Products (Tuesday Apr. 15, 2014)
  eASIC today announced that NEC Corporation, a provider of leading solutions in the microwave backhaul market, is using eASIC’s Nextreme-2 product to optimize the performance and power of key functionality in their iPasolink backhaul products.
  
  
• Entropic Selects OmniPhy High-Speed Physical Interface Solution for Next-Generation Set-top Box System-on-a-Chip Designs (Monday Apr. 14, 2014)
  OmniPhy today announced Entropic, a world leader in semiconductor solutions for the connected home, has licensed the OmniPhy DDR4/3 solution to design low-power, high-performance system-on-a-chip (SoC) solutions for set-top box (STB) applications.
  
  
• Chips&Media's HEVC 4:2:0 10-Bit Decoder IP Licensed to Chipmaker (Friday Apr. 11, 2014)
  Chips&Media Inc. announced today that they has signed a licensing agreement with one of the major fabless companies for WAVE410™v2- HEVC 4:2:0 10bit decoder IP and has finished shipping.
  
  
• Global Unichip Corp. (GUC) Licenses Arteris FlexNoC Fabric IP for 16nm System-on-Chip (SoC) IP Verification Platform (Thursday Apr. 10, 2014)
  Arteris today announced that GUC has licensed Arteris FlexNoC fabric IP for use in its 16nm system-on-chip (SoC) IP verification platform.
  
  
• Harmonic Chooses Altera Solution for H.265 4Kp60 Video Encoding (Monday Apr. 07, 2014)
  Altera today announced that Harmonic, the worldwide leader in video delivery infrastructure, has chosen Altera’s new 4Kp60-capable H.265 enhanced motion estimation engine (EME), a server co-processing solution based on the company’s Stratix® V FPGAs to dramatically improve efficiency and performance of Harmonic’s PURE Compression Engine for the delivery of 4Kp60 content.
  
  
• Vidatronic Announces Partnership with Industry-Leading Semiconductor Company (Friday Apr. 04, 2014)
  Vidatronic announced a Joint Development Agreement with an industry-leading Japanese semiconductor company. Vidatronic, a leading provider of power management intellectual property (IP) solutions with analog and mixed-signal circuit design expertise and a proprietary, industry-revolutionizing LDO architecture, will enable this partner to enter the power management market.
  
  
• Vivante GC7000 GPUs Deliver Desktop-Class Graphics to Mobile Devices (Thursday Apr. 03, 2014)
  Vivante today announced multiple silicon partner integrations of its GC7000 Series GPU IP into SoCs targeting wearables, mobile, automotive, and 4K TV products. GC7000 supports the newly released OpenGL ES 3.1* API and hardware TS/GS/CS (tessellation / geometry / compute shader) extensions for Android. Integrated TS/GS/CS support puts the most advanced desktop 3D features in your hand bringing 4K rendering to the next level by adding even more stunning, fine-grained 3D detail and realism to game play, while lowering power and memory bandwidth.
  
  
• Pyxalis adopts Cortus APS cores for smart CMOS image sensors (Wednesday Apr. 02, 2014)
  Cortus, a technology leader in low power, silicon efficient, 32-bit processor IP, and CMOS image sensor solution company, Pyxalis, announce that Pyxalis has been using Cortus APS cores in multiple design projects.
  
  
• Discretix Content Protection Solutions Shipped in More than 250 Million Devices, following Widespread Adoption of its Hardware-Assisted DRM and Link Protection (Monday Mar. 31, 2014)
  Discretix today announced that the widespread deployment of HD content and OTT services has led to a rapid adoption of its hardware assisted DRM and link protection solutions. More than 250 million of Discretix’ content protection solutions have been shipped on many of the best-selling devices.
  
  
• XIMEA chooses PLDA PCIe DMA IP for their new, 5K camera application (Friday Mar. 28, 2014)
  PLDA today announced that XIMEA, a leading manufacturer of machine vision systems, chose the PLDA DMA IP solution for their recently announced 5K camera application. Reasons for choosing the PLDA ip included it’s flexibility and ease-of-integration.
  
  
• Barco Silex JPEG2000, AES and HMAC IP cores are part of new Barco Alchemy digital cinema projectors (Wednesday Mar. 26, 2014)
  Barco is proud to announce that its Barco Integrated Cinema Media Processor has achieved full DCI compliance. The new Barco Alchemy module integrates highly optimized JPEG2000 decoding and crypto engines from Barco Silex, a Barco subsidiary and a leader in video processing, encryption and security IP cores and platforms.
  
  
• Elliptic Technologies End-to-End DTCP+ Content Protection Solutions Selected by TP Vision (Wednesday Mar. 19, 2014)
  Elliptic Technologies today announced that TP Vision has selected Elliptic’s tVault™ for end-to-end Digital Transmission Content Protection over Internet Protocol (DTCP-IP) security solutions to protect the streaming and sharing of premium content for world leading, next generation smart TVs.
  
  
• GIT Japan Uses CAST 8051 in AIST's MEMS-EFS Electrostatic Sensor (Wednesday Mar. 19, 2014)
  GIT Japan has used an 8051 IP core licensed from CAST, Inc. in a custom chip GIT developed for Japan’s National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST). The 8051-managed chip implements AIST’s research on applying Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems Electrostatic Field Sensors (MEMS-EFS) to detecting and measuring static charges.
  
  
• Argon Design Through its Partner ChipStart Licenses HEVC/H.265 Streams Technology to Advanced Micro Devices (Wednesday Mar. 05, 2014)
  Argon Design has announced the licensing of their Streams and Coverage Tool to Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (“AMD”). AMD will use Argon’s technology to validate its video decoder design and ensure that its designs are fully compatible with the latest HEVC video compression specification.
  
  
• Spreadtrum Adopts Arteris FlexNoC Interconnect IP for Mobile Phone Processor and Baseband Systems-on-Chip (Friday Feb. 28, 2014)
  Arteris today announced that Spreadtrum Communications has licensed Arteris FlexNoC fabric IP for use in its sophisticated system-on-chip (SoC) product line.
  
  
• Cadence Licenses Tensilica ConnX BBE16 DSP to GCT Semiconductor (Wednesday Feb. 26, 2014)
  Cadence today announced that GCT Semiconductor, Inc. licensed the Cadence® Tensilica® ConnX BBE16 digital signal processing (DSP) core for a next-generation chipset targeting mobile applications.
  
  
• Imagination's PowerVR Series6 GPU enables GPU leadership in Allwinner UltraOcta A80 processor (Tuesday Feb. 25, 2014)
  Imagination Technologies reports that Allwinner Technology today unveiled its next-generation UltraOcta A80 processor, which Allwinner claims is the world’s first octa-core heterogeneous SoC design to include a PowerVR Series6 GPU.
  
  
• Mobileye and Imagination strengthen partnership (Tuesday Feb. 25, 2014)
  Mobileye and Imagination Technologies announced today that they are extending their partnership focusing on creation of highly reliable, efficient vision processing for Mobileye’s ADAS technology.
  
  
• Imagination delivers connectivity and multimedia capability in new Toshiba TZ5000 series applications processors (Tuesday Feb. 25, 2014)
  Imagination announces that Toshiba Corporation’s new TZ500 series applications processors integrate multiple Imagination IP cores including PowerVR graphics and video processors (GPU and VPU) and Ensigma Series4 radio communications processor (RPU) for 802.11ac 2x2 functionality.
  
  
• Brocade Integrates Altera's 120G and 150G Interlaken IP into its Multi-Terabit Core Routers (Monday Feb. 24, 2014)
  Altera today announced its Interlaken IP core has been qualified and selected for production shipments in Brocade® MLX® Series multi-terabit core routers for use in datacenters. The Interlaken IP is implemented on a Stratix® V FPGA and helps enable Brocade routers to rapidly and efficiently scale cloud-optimized networks.
  
  
• Altair Semiconductor Renews License Agreement for Use Of Sonics’ On-Chip Interconnect IP in its Award-Winning 4g LTE Products (Monday Feb. 24, 2014)
  Sonics today announced that Altair Semiconductor has renewed its license agreement to use Sonics’ interconnect intellectual property (IP) in its line of single-mode, 4G LTE systems-on-chip (SoC).
  
  
• Yamaha Selects CEVA-TeakLite-4 Audio/Voice DSP (Monday Feb. 24, 2014)
  CEVA today announced that Yamaha has licensed multiple members of the CEVA-TeakLite-4 DSP family of cores.
  
  
• Realtek Licenses HEVC (H.265) Decoder from Ittiam for Next Generation Consumer Applications (Thursday Feb. 20, 2014)
  Ittiam is pleased to announce Realtek as one of its leading customers in the Consumer Electronics space, with the licensing of HEVC Decoder. The solution licensed is for HEVC decode on ARM CPU based TV SOC.
  
  
• Arteris Announces Freescale's License of Multiple FlexNoC Fabric IP Instances for QorIQ Systems-on-Chip (Wednesday Feb. 19, 2014)
  Arteris today announced that Freescale® Semiconductor has licensed Arteris FlexNoC fabric IP for use in multiple chips within its QorIQ processing platform SoC product line.
  
  
• NGCodec Licenses H.265/HEVC Encoder IP core to Leading Fabless Semiconductor Company (Wednesday Feb. 19, 2014)
  NGCodec, an emerging company in silicon video Intellectual Property (IP), reports that it has signed a royalty bearing license agreement with a fabless semiconductor company for its next-generation H.265/HEVC encoder IP core called ‘Harrier’.
  
  
• CYIT Licenses CEVA-TeakLite-4 Audio/Voice DSP for Mobile SoCs (Tuesday Feb. 18, 2014)
  CEVA today announced that Chongqing CYIT Communication Technology Co., Ltd has licensed the CEVA-TeakLite-4 DSP for its multi-mode wireless baseband chips targeting 4G terminals, including smartphones and tablets.
  
  
• Microsoft Employs Cadence Tensilica Processors in Xbox One (Wednesday Feb. 12, 2014)
  Cadence today announced that Microsoft utilized four Tensilica® processors in the Xbox One audio subsystem as noted in the Linley Group Microprocessor Report entitled, “Inside the Xbox One Mega-SoC”.
  
  
• Crocus Technology Licenses ARM SecurCore Processor (Thursday Feb. 06, 2014)
  ARM® and Crocus Technology today announce that Crocus has licensed the ARM SecurCore® SC000 ™ processor. Crocus's new range of secure microcontrollers will combine SecurCore technology with Crocus's innovative Magnetic Logic Unit™ (MLU) architecture.