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• MediaTek Licenses Coresonic DSP Architecture (Thursday Feb. 10, 2011)
  Coresonic today announced that MediaTek licenses its SIMT™ DSP architecture. Through this cooperation, MediaTek is enabled to develop, manufacture and sell wireless communications products based on Coresonic’s technology and patents around the world.
  
  
• Altair Semiconductor Licenses MIPS Technologies' Multi-threaded IP for LTE Broadband and Mobile Devices (Wednesday Feb. 09, 2011)
  MIPS Technologies announced today that Altair Semiconductor, the world's leading developer of ultra-low power, small footprint and high-performance 4G LTE chipsets, licensed MIPS Technologies' multi-threaded synthesizable processor IP for next-generation chipsets targeting mobile broadband baseband and modem applications for mobile devices.
  
  
• Mindspeed and CEVA Collaborate to Bring Software-Defined Radio Technology to LTE Wireless Infrastructure Market (Tuesday Feb. 08, 2011)
  CEVA and Mindspeed Technologies announced today that the two companies are collaborating to bring the benefits of software-defined radio (SDR) technology to wireless infrastructure equipment. Mindspeed has selected the CEVA-XC323 communication processor to further improve the performance and flexibility of its Transcede™ 4G wireless baseband solutions.
  
  
• HiSilicon, a Division of Huawei, Extends License of Tensilica's IP Cores, ConnX Baseband Engine, and HiFi Audio DSP for LTE Base Stations and Handsets (Thursday Feb. 03, 2011)
  Tensilica today announced that HiSilicon Technologies, a division of Huawei, has expanded its license for Tensilica's dataplane processors (DPUs), ConnX Baseband Engine (BBE16), and HiFi Audio DSP (digital signal processing) semiconductor IP cores for LTE (Long-Term Evolution) basestations, handsets and other network infrastructure and customer premise equipment.
  
  
• DesignArt Networks Selects SonicsMX for High-Powered, Next-Generation Mobile Base Station SoC Platform (Tuesday Feb. 01, 2011)
  Sonics today announced that its SonicsMX™ on-chip network has been selected by DesignArt Networks—the leading provider of single-chip 4G base station SoCs—for use in the company’s line of 4G SoC platforms for compact high-performance, high-capacity mobile base stations.
  
  
• InterDigital Signs Acer to Worldwide Patent License Agreement (Tuesday Feb. 01, 2011)
  InterDigital today announced that its patent holding subsidiaries have entered into a worldwide, non-transferable, non-exclusive, royalty-bearing patent license agreement with Acer. The products licensed under the agreement are designed to operate in accordance with 2G, 3G and 4G wireless technologies, including LTE, LTE-Advanced, and WiMax standards.
  
  
• Fujitsu Signs Multi-Year Corporate License for Tensilica's Audio, Baseband DSP and Dataplane Processor IP Cores (Monday Jan. 31, 2011)
  Tensilica today announced that Fujitsu Limited has signed a multi-year corporate license for Tensilica's audio, baseband DSP (digital signal processor) and dataplane processor units (DPUs). The contract includes access to Tensilica IP cores for all Fujitsu divisions.
  
  
• Motorola and WiLAN Settle Litigation (Friday Jan. 28, 2011)
  WiLAN today announced that it has settled all pending patent litigation with Motorola, Inc.
  
  
• Rambus and Panasonic Sign Patent License Agreement (Friday Jan. 28, 2011)
  Rambus announced today it has renewed its patent license agreement with Panasonic Corporation.
  
  
• Dongbu HiTek licenses EnSilica's eSi-RISC processor cores (Thursday Jan. 27, 2011)
  EnSilica, a leading independent provider of front-end IC design services, has announced that Korea’s Dongbu HiTek has licensed the eSi-1600, part of its eSi-RISC family of embedded processor cores.
  
  
• CSR Licenses Advanced ARM Cortex Multiprocessor Technology (Wednesday Jan. 26, 2011)
  ARM and CSR plc, (LSE: CSR) today announced that they have signed a major licensing agreement for the ARM® Cortex™ -A5 MPCore™ and Cortex-A9 MPCore multicore processors.
  
  
• Pixelworks Again Chooses Arteris for Network-On-Chip (NoC) Interconnect Fabric IP (Wednesday Jan. 26, 2011)
  Arteris today announced that Pixelworkshas licensed Arteris’ latest FlexNoC network-on-chip interconnect fabric IP and the Arteris memory scheduler for use in Pixelworks’ real-time video processing SoCs.
  
  
• Hewlett Packard licenses Arasan Chip System's SuperSpeed USB 3.0 Controller IP core (Tuesday Jan. 25, 2011)
  Arasan Chip Systems announced that Hewlett Packard has licensed Arasan’s SuperSpeed USB3.0 Controller IP core for next generation products.
  
  
• True Circuits PLLs Used by ARM in Verification of Cortex-A9 Microprocessor Cores (Monday Jan. 24, 2011)
  True Circuits announced today that ARM is using clock generator PLL designs from TCI in a test chip for the ARM® Cortex™-A9 microprocessor core to validate it in TSMC’s 40nm general purpose process technology.
  
  
• Realtek Semiconductor Licenses Wide Range of Processors from MIPS Technologies (Tuesday Jan. 18, 2011)
  MIPS Technologies announced today that one of the world's leading IC design houses, Realtek Semiconductor Corp., reaffirmed its long-time commitment to the MIPS® architecture by licensing a broad range of MIPS32® processor cores.
  
  
• Cavium and ARM Strengthen Partnership to Develop Next Generation Multi-Core SoCs for Consumer and Broadband Networking Applications (Thursday Jan. 06, 2011)
  Cavium Networks and ARM announced today that Cavium’s next-generation products will be powered by ARM’s Cortex-A family of processor cores.
  
  
• RivieraWaves licensed Bluetooth low energy IP to Renesas Electronics (Thursday Jan. 06, 2011)
  RivieraWaves unveiled today that they have licensed Bluetooth low energy IP to Renesas Electronics a premier provider of advanced semiconductor solutions, for its new Bluetooth low energy integrated products.
  
  
• Leading DTV IC Supplier MStar Semiconductor Licenses New Processor Cores from MIPS Technologies (Wednesday Jan. 05, 2011)
  MIPS Technologies today announced that long-time MIPS licensee MStar Semiconductor has licensed the multi-threaded multiprocessing MIPS32® 1004K Coherent Processing System (CPS) and the superscalar MIPS32 74K® core.
  
  
• Wolfson licenses Oxford Digital's TinyCore DSP (Wednesday Jan. 05, 2011)
  Wolfson Microelectronics has today announced a licence agreement with audio processing specialist Oxford Digital Limited to use its digital signal processor (DSP) core in a selection of Wolfson’s industry-leading Audio Hub products.
  
  
• DOVADO Integrates Tuxera NTFS Into its 3G/4G Routers (Tuesday Jan. 04, 2011)
  Tuxera announced today that DOVADO has licensed Tuxera NTFS to bring fully interoperable NAS functionality to its feature-rich DOVADO 4GR mobile broadband router.
  
  
• Ingenic Semiconductor Licenses MIPS32 Architecture for Mobile Devices (Tuesday Jan. 04, 2011)
  MIPS Technologies announced today that Ingenic Semiconductor, a leading China-based CPU provider for mobile multimedia applications, has licensed the MIPS32® architecture for its mobile device SoCs.
  
  
• N-trig attains success in mass production using custom ASIC from Cosmic Circuits (Tuesday Jan. 04, 2011)
  Cosmic Circuits today announced that N-trig providers of DuoSense® a pen and projected capacitive multi-touch solution enabled over a single digitizer has now implemented into mass production a custom ASIC having high performance analog circuits.
  
  
• Leading IPTV provider Free deploys Movea's MotionIC in next generation remote controls (Monday Jan. 03, 2011)
  Free, the world’s leading IPTV service provider, has announced that it is deploying Movea’s MotionIC™ technologies in next generation remote controls that will come with the new Freebox set-top box (STB) that was launched in late December 2010 in France.
  
  
• Rambus and Renesas Electronics Sign Patent License Agreement (Monday Dec. 27, 2010)
  Rambus announced today it has renewed its patent license agreement with Renesas Electronics Corporation.
  
  
• SPIRIT Signs Fourth Licensing Deal with Polycom (Thursday Dec. 23, 2010)
  SPIRIT DSP has announced today it has signed a fourth contract with Polycom, a global leading conferencing equipment provider.
  
  
• Sigma Designs and MIPS Technologies Strengthen Relationship Targeting Development of Next-Generation Connected Devices (Tuesday Dec. 21, 2010)
  MIPS Technologies today announced that Sigma Designs reaffirmed its commitment to the MIPS® architecture with a new license agreement. The agreement encompasses a broad spectrum of MIPS32® cores, including the MIPS32 4KEc® Pro core, M14K
  
  
• Arteris FlexNoc Network-On-Chip (NoC) Interconnect IP Selected by Nethra Imaging for Advanced Imaging SoCs (Tuesday Dec. 21, 2010)
  Arteris today announced that Nethra Imaging has selected its FlexNoC™ network-on-chip interconnect fabric product and memory scheduler for use in Nethra Imaging’s low power, real-time image processing products.
  
  
• Pantech Selects AuthenTec's DRM Client Solution for Android (Thursday Dec. 16, 2010)
  AuthenTec today announced that leading mobile device maker Pantech has chosen AuthenTec’s DRM Fusion Agent to help protect high-value content on several new Android 2.2-based mobile phones.
  
  
• Mixel Gains Momentum with MIPI M-PHY IP (Tuesday Dec. 14, 2010)
  Mixel announced today that it continues to gain traction with its MIPI MPHY SM offering by adding one more licensee to its growing list of MIPI PHY customers.
  
  
• CEVA Announces Licensing Agreement With PMC-Sierra for Voice-Over-IP Platform to Enable VoIP in Fiber-to-the-Home SoC Solutions (Tuesday Dec. 14, 2010)
  CEVA today announced that PMC-Sierra has licensed its CEVA-VoP™ voice-over-IP platform for use in PMC-Sierra's next generation system-on-chip (SoC) devices for Fiber-To-The-Home applications.