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• Virage Logic Selected by NEC Electronics as Trusted IP Partner for Advanced 40nm Technologies (Monday Mar. 02, 2009)
  Virage Logic has been selected by NEC Electronics to provide a comprehensive portfolio of silicon proven Silicon Aware IP(TM) at the 40-nanometer (nm) process node. Virage Logic has been serving as NECEL's trusted IP partner since 2002 with its initial selection of Virage Logic's 130nm Area, Speed and Power (ASAP(TM)) Memory and 150nm Non-Volatile Electrically Alterable (NOVeA(R)) Memory products.
  
  
• Sidense OTP for Low-Power 90nm Implementation Selected by Fujitsu Microelectronics (Wednesday Feb. 25, 2009)
  Sidense has announced that Sidense’s one-time programmable (OTP) memory was selected by Fujitsu Microelectronics Limited for use in ICs fabricated in its low-power 90nm (CS100A-LL) silicon process.
  
  
• NextIO Adopts Denali's Verification IP for New PCI Express Expansion and I/O Virtualization Module for Blade Systems (Tuesday Feb. 24, 2009)
  Denali today announced that NextIO, the premier provider of next-generation I/O solutions, has successfully utilized PureSpec™ verification IP (VIP) to verify compliance with the latest PCI Express 2.0 Multi-Root-I/O Virtualization (IOV) protocol specifications and validate interoperability on their new generation N1400-PCM High-Speed Switch Module.
  
  
• Discretix CryptoCell Security Platform for 4G LTE Chipsets (Tuesday Feb. 17, 2009)
  Discretix today announced that its CryptoCell® security technology has been chosen to provide integrated protection for LG Electronics’ new LTE (Long Term Evolution) chipsets.
  
  
• SafeNet Security IP Helps Secure Texas Instruments Next-Generation OMAP Applications Processors (Tuesday Feb. 17, 2009)
  SafeNet today announced that its silicon-proven SafeXcel IP will add security capabilities to the Texas Instruments (TI) Incorporated OMAP4 platform.
  
  
• On2 Technologies Licenses Video Codecs to Shanghai InfoTM (Monday Feb. 16, 2009)
  On2 Technologies announced today that it has licensed the Hantro(TM) 8190 hardware video decoder, 7280 hardware video encoder, and On2 VP6(R) software video decoder to Shanghai InfoTM, a subsidiary of Shuoying Digital Science & Technology (China) Co., Ltd.
  
  
• ARM Mali GPU Licensees Increase to 18 with Addition of Amlogic and Mtekvision (Thursday Feb. 12, 2009)
  ARM announces two additional licensees for the ARM® Mali™-200 and ARM Mali-55 graphics processing units. New Mali GPU licensees include Amlogic of China and Mtekvision of Korea, leading fabless semiconductor companies in the Far Eastern market, bringing the total count of Mali GPU licensees to 18.
  
  
• ALLEGRO licenses its H.264/MPEG-4 AVC High-Definition Video Encoding IP to one of the world’s top 10 IC vendors (Tuesday Feb. 10, 2009)
  Allegro announces it has signed a license agreement for its H.264/MPEG-4 AVC high-profile, high-definition hardware video encoding IP with another of the world’s top 10 IC vendors. Allegro’s H.264 encoding IP will be used in a complex System-On-Chip (SOC) for high-volume consumer applications.
  
  
• TMC and Dolphin Integration enter in a partnership for microprocessor cores to enable better competitiveness in the highly price-sensitive smart-card market (Monday Feb. 09, 2009)
  The mass Smart-Card market is dominated by the 8-bit 8051 architecture. In a market so sensitive to chip price, it has been hard for IC companies to differentiate their ICs beyond mere cost shrinking. The agreement with Dolphin enables TMC to benefit from a MCU core fully code-compatible with the legacy i80C51 while providing much better performances than conventional architectures cloning the 8051.
  
  
• I&C Technology Selects Mixed-Signal IP from S3 for Mobile TV SoC (Monday Feb. 09, 2009)
  Silicon & Software Systems today announced that I&C Technology has licensed S3's mixed-signal IP for their leading-edge mobile TV SoC. The SoCs are now in volume production for the Korean mobile TV market and integrated into market-leading mobile phone devices.
  
  
• ESS Relicenses Kilopass XPM Memory (Wednesday Feb. 04, 2009)
  Kilopass announced today that ESS Technology is now using the same Kilopass product in multiple foundries. Second-source foundries are critical for cost containment and for ensuring product delivery in these uncertain times. Kilopass’s low-cost, highly secure One-Time Programmable (OTP) XPM memory technology is used by ESS for HDMI/HDCP key storage in their ICs.
  
  
• Virage Logic Selected as Sharp Corporation's Trusted IP Partner for Latest CMOS Image Sensor System-on-Chip (Tuesday Feb. 03, 2009)
  Virage Logic today announced that Sharp Corporation, the industry leader in CMOS image sensor (CIS) applications targeting high-end cell phone designs, has selected Virage Logic's Area, Speed and Power (ASAP) Memory IP architecture to be optimized for its latest CMOS image sensor devices.
  
  
• SMSC ARC-Based Embedded Controllers Now Shipping in PC Applications (Tuesday Feb. 03, 2009)
  ARC today announced that its processor IP, incorporated in certain SMSC embedded controllers, is now shipping in volume. A long-time ARC customer, SMSC's ARC-Based™ embedded controllers manage the user interface, power management, and operating temperature in many PC designs.
  
  
• Nokia Licenses MOSAID Wireless Patents (Monday Feb. 02, 2009)
  MOSAID today announced that it has signed a worldwide, non-exclusive wireless patent license agreement with Nokia Corporation of Finland. Under the terms of the patent portfolio license agreement, MOSAID grants Nokia a license under MOSAID's wireless technology patents, as well as certain other patents, covering the company's products sold globally under the Nokia brand name.
  
  
• Broadcom Licenses Cryptography Research's CryptoFirewall, Boosting Tamper Resistance and Security (Thursday Jan. 29, 2009)
  Cryptography Research today announced that Broadcom has signed a license agreement for Cryptography Research’s CryptoFirewall™ security technology for future integration into its multimedia system-on-a-chip (SoC) set-top box chips. The CryptoFirewall is a self-contained hardware security core designed to protect cryptographic keys and computations in a chip from attack even if surrounding components are compromised.
  
  
• Linear Technology Selects Virage Logic's AEON(R) Non-Volatile Memory for use in High-Performance Power Management ICs (Wednesday Jan. 28, 2009)
  Virage Logic today announced that Linear Technology has licensed Virage Logic's AEON(R) embedded non-volatile memory (NVM) solution. Linear Technology will employ Virage Logic's NVM in its high-performance analog and power management ICs used in a wide range of applications.
  
  
• MOSAID Grants Wireless Patent License to Japan's Buffalo Inc. (Wednesday Jan. 28, 2009)
  MOSAID today announced that it has signed a wireless patent license agreement with Buffalo Inc., a global designer and manufacturer of wired and wireless networking, storage and memory products for businesses and consumers.
  
  
• Tensilica's Diamond Standard 330HiFi Audio DSP Licensed by Fujitsu Microelectronics for Portable Consumer Electronics (Tuesday Jan. 27, 2009)
  Tensilica, today announced that its Diamond Standard 330HiFi Audio DSP (digital signal processor) has been licensed by Fujitsu Microelectronics Limited for use in a customer’s portable consumer electronics design.
  
  
• Synochip Takes an ARC License to Provide Consumers Enhanced Security for Personal Data (Tuesday Jan. 27, 2009)
  ARC International announced today that Synochip has taken an ARC license to build system on chips (SoCs) that provide advanced security for PCs, flash drives, portable video players and information security and online payment systems. Synochip, China's leading provider of fingerprint biometric solutions, will employ ARC's intellectual property (IP) in its next generation SoCs.
  
  
• Silicon Motion Takes an ARC License To Target Digital Multimedia and Solid State Storage Devices (Tuesday Jan. 20, 2009)
  ARC International announced that Silicon Motion Technology has taken a license to design ARC's IP into chips for high-volume consumer multimedia products such as mobile TV, portable media players and MP4 players, as well as flash memory and solid state storage devices.
  
  
• Arteris Network on Chip (NoC) Selected by NEC Electronics Europe for Advanced Development of Complex SoC Applications (Monday Jan. 19, 2009)
  Arteris today announced that it has been selected by NEC Electronics Europe as the interconnect IP and tool solution supplier for advanced SoC design. NEC Electronics Europe will use the on-chip communication management capabilities of the Arteris NoC solution in the development of next-generation semiconductor products.
  
  
• Wi-LAN Wireless Technology Licensed by Pantech (Monday Jan. 19, 2009)
  Wi-LAN today announced that Pantech & Curitel Communications, Inc. (Pantech) has signed a license agreement related to certain patents of Wi‑LAN in the area of wireless technology.
  
  
• Intelop delivers their second generation TCP-Offload Engine SoC IP with integrated G-bit Ethernet MAC and AMBA host bus interface SOC-FPGA to a strategic European OEM customer in Network Security systems and Telecom markets (Monday Jan. 19, 2009)
  Intelop today announced delivery of their second generation TCP offload engine SoC solution with integrated with ARP hardware module, G Bit Ethernet MAC and AMBA host bus interface running at 2 Gbps sustained rates . It implements control plane and data plane processing of TCP/IP in hardware that is at least 20 times faster than TCP/IP software stack.
  
  
• Samsung Licenses Wi-LAN Wireless Technology (Thursday Jan. 15, 2009)
  Wi-LAN today announced that Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. has signed a license agreement related to certain patents of Wi‑LAN in the area of wireless technology. The multi-year agreement covers all wireless products sold by Samsung.
  
  
• Sequans Communications Achieves First-Pass Silicon Success with Synopsys DesignWare USB 2.0 nanoPHY IP (Wednesday Jan. 14, 2009)
  Sequans' advanced Mobile WiMAX baseband chip, the SQN1130, implements a unique, low-complexity MIMO algorithm, mimoMAX™, that delivers high data throughput with very low power consumption. Sequans needed a USB 2.0 PHY core that would meet their low power and small area requirements. After evaluating several IP providers, Sequans selected Synopsys DesignWare USB nanoPHY IP because it was 30 percent lower in area and up to 15 percent lower in power compared to other IP offerings.
  
  
• Zoran Corporation Takes ARC IP Solution License (Tuesday Jan. 13, 2009)
  ARC International announced that Zoran has taken a license to use ARC's configurable consumer IP solution. The first Zoran consumer system on chip (SoC) platform to use ARC's unique IP solution is from Zoran's Mobile Division.
  
  
• Wipro-NewLogics High Speed Interface Technology to Be Included in Microsoft Corporations Microsoft Auto Platform (Thursday Jan. 08, 2009)
  The 1394 Software IPs will be included in the Microsoft Auto platform and can be used by Automotive OEMs and Suppliers for in-car information and entertainment applications. The high throughput and Quality of Service provided by IEEE 1394 technology will make in-car entertainment richer by supporting front and rear seat audio and video distribution for the passengers
  
  
• Rambus DDR3 Interface Solution Selected by Panasonic (Wednesday Jan. 07, 2009)
  Rambus today announced that Panasonic has licensed Rambus' DDR3 memory controller interface solution for system LSI implementation in consumer electronics products. This fully-integrated macro cell architecture provides the physical layer (PHY) interface between the controller logic and DDR3 DRAM devices to achieve data rates up to 1.6Gbps.
  
  
• Sigma Designs Employs Sidense Memory in IPTV Product (Tuesday Jan. 06, 2009)
  Sidense today announced that Sigma Designs has selected Sidense’s one-time programmable (OTP) memory IP for their future chipset products. Sidense’s flexible SiPROM architecture allows Sigma to securely embed HDCP keys as well as boot code in their next-generation internet protocol television (IPTV) SoCs.
  
  
• GainSpan Licenses Wipro-NewLogic's WiLD 802.11 WLAN IP for Extreme Low Power Wireless Sensor Applications (Tuesday Jan. 06, 2009)
  Wipro-NewLogic today announced that GainSpan has licensed Wipro-NewLogic’s WiLD 802.11 WLAN MAC, Modem and Radio IP for use in its GS1010 SoC for Wi-Fi sensors.