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• Freescale Licenses Synopsys' DesignWare IP Portfolio to Accelerate SoC Designs (Wednesday Mar. 23, 2011)
  Synopsys today announced that Freescale Semiconductor has licensed Synopsys' DesignWare® IP. The multi-year agreement gives Freescale access to Synopsys' broad portfolio of DesignWare interface and analog IP such as USB, HDMI, PCI Express®, SATA, and MIPI interfaces, as well as data converters, audio codecs and video front -ends.
  
  
• Wilocity Tapes-Out Multi-Gigabit Wireless Communication SoC Using Synopsys DesignWare IP (Tuesday Mar. 22, 2011)
  Synopsys today announced that Wilocity has successfully taped-out its multi-gigabit Wireless Gigabit Alliance-compliant system-on-chip (SoC) utilizing Synopsys' broad portfolio of high-quality DesignWare® IP and assistance from Synopsys Professional Services.
  
  
• Xincomm Selects CEVA DSP Core for LTE Baseband Chipsets (Monday Mar. 21, 2011)
  CEVA today announced that Xincomm Communications [China] has licensed the CEVA-X DSP to power its next-generation TDD/FDD-LTE UE baseband SoC.
  
  
• Rambus Signs Patent License Agreement with Toshiba (Wednesday Mar. 16, 2011)
  Rambus announced today it has renewed its patent license agreement with Toshiba. This five year agreement covers Toshiba’s products with DRAM memory controllers for SDR, DDR, DDR2, DDR3, and other DRAM devices.
  
  
• FULAN Selects Tuxera NTFS for Multi-Channel PVR Over USB (Monday Mar. 14, 2011)
  Tuxera announced today that FULAN Electronics, based in Shenzhen, China, has selected Tuxera NTFS interoperable file system solution for its Full HD set-top boxes powered by Fulan’s new Spark service.
  
  
• ABIT chooses Fractional PLL from Cosmic Circuits for the RF SoC (Thursday Mar. 10, 2011)
  Cosmic Circuits today announced that ABIT, a Japanese fabless company, has licensed a fractional PLL from Cosmic Circuits.
  
  
• SMS Business Momentum Adds to eSilicon's Revenue Growth (Thursday Mar. 10, 2011)
  eSilicon today announced that Ozmo Inc., a leading provider of low-power Wi-Fi PAN products, will produce its chips through eSilicon’s Semiconductor Manufacturing Services (SMS) business unit.
  
  
• Vimicro PC-CAM Processors in Production With Kilopass' Embedded Non-Volatile Memory Technology (Wednesday Mar. 09, 2011)
  Kilopass Technology and Vimicro International today announced that Vimicro is using Kilopass NVM IP in a line of notebook PC-camera processors.
  
  
• MediaTek's newly announced MT6573 application processor integrates POWERVR graphics from Imagination Technologies (Tuesday Mar. 08, 2011)
  MediaTek and Imagination Technologies announce that MediaTek’s new application processor, features Imagination’s POWERVR graphics acceleration.
  
  
• Grace, eMemory Announced Volume Production of Cost Effective OTP Solution for MCU Application (Thursday Mar. 03, 2011)
  Grace Semiconductor announced the volume production of its 0.18µm CE (cost-effective) OTP process. This process integrates eMemory’s green OTP, which sets an industry record as the smallest OTP cell, into Grace’s 0.18µm node with a low mask count.
  
  
• Aliathon Ltd announcing CommProve as a Network Analytics / Assurance Client (Thursday Mar. 03, 2011)
  Aliathon Ltd. today are delighted to announce that CommProve, a leading provider of network monitoring and business solutions for wireless operators have committed to using Aliathon’s FPGA solutions in their next generation NetLedge platform.
  
  
• SMSC Inter-Chip Connectivity Technology Licensed by NVIDIA (Tuesday Mar. 01, 2011)
  SMSC announced today that NVIDIA has licensed SMSC's patented Inter-Chip Connectivity(TM) (ICC) technology.
  
  
• NXP and ARM Extend Strategic Licensing Agreement for Microcontrollers (Monday Feb. 28, 2011)
  NXP Semiconductors and ARM today announced that they have expanded their strategic relationship with a long-term subscription licensing agreement around the ARM® Cortex™-M series processors for microcontrollers.
  
  
• Fujitsu Semiconductor and ARM Sign Comprehensive License Agreement (Monday Feb. 28, 2011)
  Fujitsu Semiconductor and ARM today announced that they have signed a comprehensive license agreement for ARM IP products. Through this strategic agreement, Fujitsu Semiconductor will offer platforms featuring the latest ARM technology including the Cortex™-A15 processor, Mali™ graphics and CoreLink™ systems IP, in order to help accelerate its customers’ product development.
  
  
• InterDigital to Deliver SlimChip Modem Core to New Entrant to Mobile Chipset Market in China (Monday Feb. 28, 2011)
  InterDigital today announced that its subsidiary, InterDigital Communications, LLC, previously entered into an agreement to provide its SlimChip™ 2G and 3G modem technology to a new entrant to the mobile chipset market in Mainland China.
  
  
• InterDigital Signs SII Mobile Communications to Worldwide Patent License Agreement (Thursday Feb. 24, 2011)
  InterDigital today announced that its patent holding subsidiaries have previously entered into a worldwide, non-transferable, non-exclusive, royalty-bearing patent license agreement with SII Mobile Communications Inc., a subsidiary of Seiko Holdings Corporation, headquartered in Japan.
  
  
• Fortis Chooses Tuxera NTFS to Extend Interoperability for Its Full HD PVRs (Tuesday Feb. 22, 2011)
  Tuxera announced today that Fortis Inc. has selected Tuxera NTFS interoperable file system solution for Fortis’ Full HD PVRs
  
  
• Cypress Signs Innopower to Enable SONOS-Based Embedded Flash Solutions for 130-nm and 65-nm Technology Nodes (Thursday Feb. 17, 2011)
  Cypress today announced that it has licensed 130-nm and 65-nm SONOS (Silicon Oxide Nitride Oxide Silicon) embedded nonvolatile memory technology IP to Innopower. Under the licensing agreement, Innopower will combine Cypress’s technology with its technical support services and other IP elements to help designers of next-generation SOCs and ASICs integrate non-volatile memory (NVM) solutions within their new ICs.
  
  
• Huawei Extends License with SPIRIT DSP for HD Voice & Video (Thursday Feb. 17, 2011)
  World's Second-Largest Telecom Equipment Provider to Use SPIRIT's TeamSpirit Voice&Video Engine in its IMS, UC and FMC Solutions and Applications for Carriers
  
  
• Gemtek Licenses Discretix Multi-Scheme DRM Client with Microsoft PlayReady support (Tuesday Feb. 15, 2011)
  Discretix announced today that Gemtek Technology has licensed its Multi-Scheme DRM Client with Microsoft PlayReady® support for Android based pocket-size smart TV box.
  
  
• SMSC's Inter-Chip Connectivity Technology Licensed by Leading Company (Tuesday Feb. 15, 2011)
  SMSC announced today that Qualcomm Incorporated has licensed SMSC's patented Inter-Chip Connectivity(TM) (ICC) technology.
  
  
• Broadcom and ARM Extend Relationship with Strategic Licensing Agreement (Tuesday Feb. 15, 2011)
  Broadcom and ARM today announced the signing of a broad reaching license agreement, enabling Broadcom to access the entire range of ARM processors, from the smallest, lowest-power ARM® Cortex™-M0 processor, through to the newly introduced, high-performance Cortex-A15 MPCore™ application processor and beyond.
  
  
• Imagination Technologies reports licence agreement with STMicroelectronics NV (Tuesday Feb. 15, 2011)
  Imagination Technologies reports that it has signed a licence agreement with STMicroelectronics NV for Imagination's POWERVR Series6 multimedia family, codenamed Rogue.
  
  
• Altair Semiconductor Licenses Sonics' On-Chip Networks for Ultra-Low Power, High-Performance 4G Processors (Tuesday Feb. 15, 2011)
  Sonics today announced that three of its on-chip network solutions have been licensed by Altair Semiconductor, the world's leading developer of ultra-low power, small footprint and high performance 4G LTE chipsets, for the company's existing and next-generation line of ultra-low power, small footprint LTE processors.
  
  
• MIPS Technologies Gains Further Traction in Mobile Baseband Designs (Tuesday Feb. 15, 2011)
  MIPS Technologies today announced that Mobile Devices, Inc., a Taiwan-based fabless designer of baseband systems-on-chips (SoCs), has licensed the MIPS32® M14Kc core for development of SoCs targeting wireless and mobile applications.
  
  
• Skyviia Selects Tuxera NTFS for Multimedia Chipsets (Tuesday Feb. 15, 2011)
  Tuxera announced today that Taiwan-based Skyviia Corporation has selected its high-performance Tuxera NTFS interoperable file system solution.
  
  
• MIPS Technologies Processor Cores to Power Devices for Mobile TV in Handsets and Other Mobile Products (Monday Feb. 14, 2011)
  MIPS today announced that MaxRise Inc., a Macronix International Co., Ltd. Group Company, has licensed its MIPS32® M4K® processor core to develop mobile TV solutions.
  
  
• Sequans Communications Uses VeriSilicon's ZSP Core for WiMAX/LTE Products (Monday Feb. 14, 2011)
  VeriSilicon today announced that Sequans Communications will be using the synthesizable Quad-MAC ZSP DSP core for its next generation mobile WiMAX and LTE baseband processors.
  
  
• Alcatel OT-980 Android Phone Integrates AuthenTec DRM Solution (Thursday Feb. 10, 2011)
  AuthenTec today announced that TCL Communication has chosen AuthenTec’s DRM Fusion Agent for integration in its new Alcatel OT-980 Android smartphone.
  
  
• Indian x86 FPGA Core Used in Japanese Air Traffic Control (Thursday Feb. 10, 2011)
  iWave Systems Technologies set the example of the rich expertise in the Indian companies in the areas of hardware board design, FPGA cores and software by bagging the project for the Japanese Air Traffic Control.