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• Fujitsu Adopts Tensilica's Xtensa Processor as Baseband Processor for Fujitsu Mobile Phone (Monday Sep. 29, 2008)
  Tensilica, Inc. today announced that Fujitsu Limited of Tokyo, Japan, has licensed the Xtensa LX2 customizable processor core as the baseband processor for Fujitsu’s mobile phone.
  
  
• Zoran Uses Kilopass XPM Memory in Consumer Electronic Chips (Monday Sep. 29, 2008)
  XPM standard logic CMOS compatible one-time programmable memory adds on-chip security to DVD and DTV products
  
  
• Transmeta Announces Two Agreements with Intel (Thursday Sep. 25, 2008)
  Transmeta today announced that it has entered into two agreements with Intel Corporation relating to the licensing of Transmeta technologies and intellectual property. Transmeta to Receive One-Time Payment of $91.5 Million
  
  
• Aldec selected by Thales to deploy DO-254/ED-80 CTS for Level B Certification Compliance of Advanced Avionics System (Thursday Sep. 25, 2008)
  Aldec, Inc. announced today that Thales has decided to deploy the DO-254/ED-80 CTS(Compliance Tool Set) from Aldec. The DO-254/ED-80 CTS is an In-Hardware FPGA validation system developed to meet Level A-D requirements defined by the DO-254/ED-80 Design Assurance Guidance for Airborne Electronic Certification Manual.
  
  
• Denali Software Design and Verification IP Adopted By Siverge Networks to Accelerate ASIC Design for Wireless Solution Providers (Tuesday Sep. 23, 2008)
  Denali's design IP, integrated PHY, and verification IP accelerates Siverge's designers' ability to design DDR2/3 memory systems, lower their integration risk, and speed their time-to-market for their new convergence chip.
  
  
• IPextreme Provides Solarflare Additional Licenses of Infineon C166SV1 Microcontroller IP (Thursday Sep. 18, 2008)
  IPextreme and Solarflare announced that after a successful release of the 10Xpress SFT9001 10GBASE-T PHY, the existing C166SV1 Microcontroller license has been extended.
  
  
• Frontier Silicon Selects Elliptic as Security Supplier (Thursday Sep. 18, 2008)
  The next-generation Frontier product will offer enhanced security capability for multi-scheme digital rights management (DRM) including support for Microsoft Certified for Windows Vista® DRM (formerly known as PlaysForSure).
  
  
• Cryptography Research Announces License Agreement for Differential Power Analysis Countermeasures Patents with Renesas Technology (Wednesday Sep. 17, 2008)
  Cryptography Research Inc. (CRI) today announced an agreement with Renesas Technology Corp. regarding the use of CRI’s patents to enhance the security of tamper-resistant smart card chips against Differential Power Analysis (DPA) and related attacks.
  
  
• PLDA announces that PLDA's AHB-PCIe Bridge IP has been selected for JVC's next generation professional digital camcorder system. (Monday Sep. 15, 2008)
  JVC will be utilizing the PLDA AHB - PCIe Bridge IP to provide a robust interconnect solution for its newest professional digital camcorder optional product . The PLDA AHB-PCIe Bridge IP will be used inside the JVC camcorder option to enable connection to an ExpressCard™ removable memory card.
  
  
• Sunplus mMedia Licenses CEVA's MM2000 Multimedia Solution for Portable Multimedia Processors (Tuesday Sep. 09, 2008)
  CEVA today announced that Sunplus mMedia has licensed the fully programmable MM2000 portable multimedia solution for the development of low-cost, high performance system-on-chips (SoCs) for power-sensitive applications, including portable multimedia players (PMPs).
  
  
• Analog Devices Selects Virage Logic's AEON(R) Non-Volatile Memory Technology for High-Reliability Applications (Tuesday Sep. 09, 2008)
  The AEON product line, acquired by Virage Logic as part of its recent purchase of the NVM IP business of Seattle-based Impinj, Inc., is part of the company's comprehensive portfolio of embedded NVM solutions.
  
  
• CEVA MM2000 Multimedia Solution Powers Solomon Systech MagusCore High Performance Portable Multimedia Processor (Tuesday Sep. 09, 2008)
  MagusCore SSD1933 dual-core multimedia processor leverages MM2000 to deliver superior multimedia performance at ultra-low power consumption for portable devices
  
  
• Tensilica's Xtensa Processor Core Adopted by NEC For NEC's Mobile Phone SOC (Monday Sep. 08, 2008)
  Tensilica today announced that NEC Corporation of Tokyo, Japan, has licensed the Xtensa LX2 customizable processor core for NEC’s Mobile Phone SOC (system-on-chip).
  
  
• SP Devices' time-interleaving technology in module from Texas Instruments (Thursday Sep. 04, 2008)
  TI today introduced an evaluation module (EVM) that combines TI's fastest 14-bit analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) in an interleaved fashion with a Xilinx® Virtex®-5 FPGA to create the best-performing high-speed digitizer solution in the market. The FPGA comes pre-installed with SP Devices' proprietary time-interleaving technology to eliminate interleaving spurs, which enhances performance and facilitates rapid system-level evaluation for wireless communications, military, test and measurement applications.
  
  
• Imagination Technologies Extends Relationship with International Electronics Systems Company with Significant Multi-year Licensing Deal (Thursday Sep. 04, 2008)
  Imagination Technologies reports that, further to its announcement on 6th July 2007 of an initial license agreement with an international electronics systems company, this company has now concluded a new multi-year, multi-use license agreement which gives it access to Imagination’s wide range of current and future POWERVR® graphics and video IP cores.
  
  
• Percello Licenses CEVA DSP Core for Femtocell Basestations (Wednesday Sep. 03, 2008)
  Percello's processor architecture leverages the powerful and fully programmable CEVA-TeakLite-III DSP to deliver a highly-integrated and cost-effective Femtocell solution, offering un-precedented levels of performance and functionality.
  
  
• Sigma Designs Licenses Imagination's POWERVR SGX Graphics Core Family (Tuesday Sep. 02, 2008)
  Imagination Technologies reports that Sigma Designs has licensed a member of Imagination's POWERVR SGX graphics core family under a multiple-use license arrangement for use in SoC devices targeting multimedia consumer electronics products.
  
  
• Renesas Technology Adopts Stratosphere Solutions' StratoPro-STX Variability Characterization Platform for 45nm (Tuesday Sep. 02, 2008)
  Random and systematic process variability is a significant cause of parametric yield loss and higher design margins at 65nm and 45nm. Using StratoPro-STX, engineers incorporate complex devices within their characterization infrastructure, extract within-die statistics such as mean and 3-sigma and pin-point the exact location of any failing device while minimally using scarcely available tester resources.
  
  
• Qimonda Started Volume Production of Rambus XDR DRAM for PlayStation(R)3 Computer Entertainment System (Tuesday Aug. 26, 2008)
  Qimonda and Rambus today announced that Qimonda has started shipping XDR™ DRAM in volume for the PLAYSTATION(R)3 (PS3™) computer entertainment system.
  
  
• Marvell Enters Licensing Agreement with Trimble for GPS Software Technology (Tuesday Aug. 26, 2008)
  With this agreement, Marvell gains direct access to Trimble's full GPS Digital Signal Processor (DSP) software as well as tools for development support and testing, all of which are backed by Trimble's historical leadership and its strong GPS intellectual property portfolio.
  
  
• Tensilica Confirms New Intel Media Processor for Consumer Electronics Devices Uses Company's HiFi 2 Audio Processor (Wednesday Aug. 20, 2008)
  Tensilica, Inc. today announced that the new Intel Media Processor CE 3100 (formerly codenamed “Canmore”) for Internet-connected CE devices includes Tensilica’s HiFi 2 audio processor.
  
  
• Arteris Network-on-Chip (NoC) Selected by Texas Instruments to Provide SoC Interconnect (Monday Aug. 18, 2008)
  The Arteris NoC Solution was selected for its ability to effectively manage the on-chip communication of large-scale SoC designs in 65- and 45-nanometer (nm) process geometries, and below. This includes efficient top-level integration and management of multiple IP blocks in multiple IP communication protocols including OCP(TM) and AXI(TM).
  
  
• LG chooses Coreworks' audio Sample Rate Converter (SRC) for their next generation mobile devices and digital TV products (Thursday Aug. 14, 2008)
  Coreworks today announced that LG Electronics has licensed Coreworks CWda52 family of Sample Rate Converters for their low power mobile devices and high performance digital television products.
  
  
• Cryptography Research and Infineon Technologies Sign License Agreement For Differential Power Analysis Countermeasures (Thursday Aug. 14, 2008)
  Under the agreement, Infineon will license CRI’s patents for countermeasures to Differential Power Analysis (DPA) and technology and patents related to CRI’s CryptoFirewall™ to help further expand its own expertise and portfolio.
  
  
• RF Engines supply advanced designs for LIG Nex1's new spectrum analyser (Tuesday Aug. 12, 2008)
  RFEL have been working with LIG Nex1 of Korea for a number of years, and have most recently supplied an advanced SpectraChipTM IF design that effectively is a digital replacement for the analogue intermediate frequency (IF) filtering section of LIG Nex1’s latest instrument.
  
  
• Transmeta Licenses LongRun and Low Power Computing Technology To NVIDIA (Thursday Aug. 07, 2008)
  The agreement grants to NVIDIA a non-exclusive and fully paid-up license to all of Transmeta's patents and patent applications, and a non-exclusive license and transfer of certain Transmeta advanced power management and other computing technologies.
  
  
• MIPS Technologies Pushes Further into Cellular Arena with Femtocell Design Win (Wednesday Jul. 30, 2008)
  Startup Percello Licenses MIPS32® 24Kc™ Core for Advanced Baseband Chipset Development
  
  
• AMD's ATI Radeon(TM) HD Products Leverage Virage Logic's Embedded Memory IP (Wednesday Jul. 30, 2008)
  The relationship between AMD and Virage Logic provides AMD with access to Virage Logic's embedded memory IP offering to support graphics processors and other devices for 65-nanometer (nm) and 55nm processes and beyond.
  
  
• CopperGate Takes New Multiuse ARC License To Develop Home Networking Products (Wednesday Jul. 23, 2008)
  CopperGate will use its new ARC license to create high performance, next-generation chipsets targeting the "existing wire" home networking and Multi-Dwelling Unit (MDU) broadband access markets.
  
  
• MIPS Technologies Announces New Licensing Agreement with PMC-Sierra for a Broad Range of MIPS(R) Cores (Tuesday Jul. 22, 2008)
  Included in the agreement are MIPS Technologies' highest performance single-threaded cores, multi-threaded cores, and its new multi-threaded, multiprocessor IP core, the MIPS32® 1004K(TM) Coherent Processing System.