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• Qimonda Selects Denali to Enable Rapid Deployment of Industry's First GDDR5 Memories (Tuesday Aug. 21, 2007)
  Over the last several months, Denali and Qimonda have been supporting early adopters of GDDR5 with jointly verified simulation models from Denali. The GDDR5 memory devices from Qimonda are designed to meet the high-performance requirements from graphic applications on game consoles, desktop PCs and notebooks.
  
  
• SiBEAM, Inc. Selects Tensilica Configurable Processor for Baseband DSP in Wireless Link for HDTV Devices (Monday Aug. 20, 2007)
  Tensilica, Inc. today announced that SiBEAM, Inc., a leading innovator of millimeter wave (mmWave) solutions and developer of high-speed wireless communications platforms, has selected Tensilica’s Xtensa configurable processor for an upcoming chip design project.
  
  
• Speed Pixel Licenses ARM7TDMI Processor for New Digital Wireless Video SoC (Monday Aug. 13, 2007)
  ARM today announced that Speed Pixel Technology has licensed the ARM7TDMI® processor through the ARM® Processor Foundry Program. Following this agreement with ARM, Speed Pixel will be able to develop advanced SoC solutions for short- to mid-range digital wireless video applications. The company started its ARM technology-based design through the ARM DesignStart™ Program. Now backed by venture capital funding, Speed Pixel are in the process of completing their designs which will be available in Q3 2007.
  
  
• Hynix Semiconductor Licenses ISi's Z-RAM Memory Technology for DRAM Products (Monday Aug. 13, 2007)
  Z-RAM-based DRAMs will use a single transistor bitcell – rather than a combination of transistors and capacitor elements – representing the first fundamental DRAM bitcell change since the invention of the DRAM in the early 1970s. Hynix has received the first-mover opportunity to bring Z-RAM to the DRAM market; and to ensure this advantage, the two companies have committed considerable engineering resources to work side-by-side on the program.
  
  
• Samsung Teams with Denali Software to Improve Memory System Design Process (Wednesday Aug. 08, 2007)
  Denali Software today announced that it has become the exclusive commercial provider of simulation models for memory devices made by Samsung Electronics. In naming Denali as exclusive provider of its simulation models, Samsung is ensuring faster access to high-quality simulated designs for its memory customers, while enabling designers to speed development of systems that utilize Samsung DRAM and NAND Flash memory, among other current and future memory devices.
  
  
• Genesis Microchip Licenses MIPS Cores to Power Next-Generation Flat-Panel Display Solutions (Tuesday Aug. 07, 2007)
  MIPS Technologies today announced that Genesis Microchip Inc. has licensed a range of 32-bit MIPS® cores to drive the development of a variety of next-generation consumer display products. Under the license agreement with MIPS, the company has access to a variety of cores ranging from the entry-level MIPS32® 4KE™ Pro family to the popular 24K® Pro cores.
  
  
• AIT Licenses ARM926EJ-S Processor For Next-Generation Feature Phones (Tuesday Aug. 07, 2007)
  As digital cameras, MP3 players and Internet browsers become “must have” features in mobile handsets, the need for enhanced low-power processing engines has grown significantly. To address this challenge, ARM provides advanced processing performance, as well as a comprehensive ecosystem whereby its Partners can easily access all resources, tools and support essential to increase design efficiency.
  
  
• Wi-LAN Signs another U.S. V-chip License (Friday Aug. 03, 2007)
  Wi-LAN Inc. announced today that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Wi-LAN V-chip Corp., has concluded a running royalty licensing agreement for Wi-LAN’s United States V-chip Patent No. 5,828,402 to Good Mind Innovation Co., Ltd. of Taiwan. The license is valid for the life of the patent through 2016.
  
  
• QUALCOMM and Exoteq Sign OFDM/OFDMA License Agreement (Thursday Aug. 02, 2007)
  Under the terms of the worldwide, royalty-bearing agreement, QUALCOMM has granted Exoteq a patent license to develop, manufacture and sell subscriber unit and modem card products for high-speed mobile broadband access based on OFDM/OFDMA technologies, including QUALCOMM's FLASH-OFDM ® technology.
  
  
• Wi-LAN Signs License with Powerstar International (Thursday Aug. 02, 2007)
  Under the terms of the 5-year royalty-based agreement, Powerstar will make quarterly cash payments to Wi-LAN on revenues generated from its Wi-Fi/WiMAX hot spots, based on a 0.5% running royalty.
  
  
• MIPS32 24KE Core Designed Into VDSL2 Residential Gateway from Ikanos (Wednesday Aug. 01, 2007)
  Ikanos’ Vx180 single chip, multi-mode VDSL2 gateway processor is designed to deliver 2.7 GHz of processing power, Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), multi-mode DSL and security, while supporting best-in-class Quality of Service (QoS) and wire speed performance.
  
  
• Comsys Licenses ARM processor and System Design Tools For WiMAX Baseband Processors (Tuesday Jul. 31, 2007)
  Wireless baseband specialist selects ARM11 family processor, RealView SoC Designer tool and PrimeCell peripherals
  
  
• Infineon Expands Relationship With ARM (Thursday Jul. 26, 2007)
  ARM today announced that Infineon Technologies AG has extended a license agreement to enable low-cost, high-performance ARM® processors to be used in next-generation handset platforms. The ARM processors will enable re-use of development processes, accelerated time-to-market and higher performance solutions for OEMs. The switch will also enhance the end-user experience, enabling products to be easily differentiated by compelling software features.
  
  
• Siemens IT Solutions and Services Adopts Cadence's Assertion-based VIP to Speed Development (Wednesday Jul. 25, 2007)
  Cadence Design Systems today announced that CES Design Services has deployed Cadence® assertion-based verification IP (ABVIP) to maximize quality and minimize completion time for its client designs and for its own standard IP blocks
  
  
• Imagination Technologies Licenses Video Display Processing Core to NEC Electronics (Friday Jul. 20, 2007)
  NEC Electronics will incorporate the technology in SoC devices targeting digital AV markets. Under the terms of its licensing arrangements Imagination receives license fees and royalty revenues on SoCs incorporating Imagination’s IP shipped by partners.
  
  
• Ridgetop Group Receives Purchase Order from Raytheon Missile Systems for Solder-Soint BIST Demonstration Kits (Thursday Jul. 19, 2007)
  Ridgetop Group reported it has received a purchase order from Raytheon Missile Systems (RMS), Tucson, AZ, to design, build, program, and deliver Solder-Joint Built-in-Self-Test™ (SJ BIST™) evaluation and demonstration kits. The demonstration kits will allow RMS to evaluate SJ BIST for possible inclusion in one or more RMS programs. SJ BIST, patent pending, another of the many electronic prognostic innovations invented, designed and built by Ridgetop Group, is a result of innovative research focused on solder-joint degradation prognostics.
  
  
• ST Microelectronics licenses Lightspeed Logic's Manufacturability Optimized Reconfigurable Logic for 65nm and 45nm (Wednesday Jul. 18, 2007)
  Lightspeed Logic today announced that STMicroelectronics has selected Lightspeed Logic’s Reconfigurable Logic IP for use at 65nm and below. In addition to providing increased flexibility in chip architecture, significant reduction in design cost and rapid time-to-market, the regular structure of the tile-based architecture helps reduce lithography and stress-related variability challenges at nanometer scale process nodes.
  
  
• MoSys Ships World's Fastest Embedded Flash Memory to Luminary Micro (Tuesday Jul. 17, 2007)
  The MoSys 1T-FLASH IP runs at 100Mhz and is implemented in a standard 0.13u CMOS logic process. This flash technology is substantially faster than other embedded flash memory technologies. The MoSys technology is also the densest embedded Flash technology available on a standard CMOS process.
  
  
• Infineon Licenses MIPS Next-Generation MIPS32 74K Core (Monday Jul. 16, 2007)
  Infineon is the first semiconductor company to license the next-generation 74K core family since the cores became generally available in May 2007. Based on a unique microarchitecture, the MIPS-Verified™ 74K cores are the embedded industry's first fully synthesizable processors to exceed 1GHz in TSMC 65nm process.
  
  
• Toshiba Selects ARM Cortex-M3 Processor For Automotive Applications (Monday Jul. 16, 2007)
  Through licensing the ARM Cortex-M3 processor, Toshiba will expand its portfolio of microcontrollers and solutions for the automotive controller market, where low power consumption and exceptional system response to interrupts, combined with computational performance and excellent code density are vital.
  
  
• Jetway Security Micro Adopts Elliptic's Public Key Cryptography Engine (Friday Jul. 13, 2007)
  Jetway Security Micro and Elliptic have signed a license agreement for Elliptic's asymmetric security engines. The license will permit Jetway to better serve the emerging Asian and world markets for security systems requiring high performance public key algorithms.
  
  
• Opulan Selects ARM High-Speed Physical Interface Solution For Next Generation Network SoC Designs (Thursday Jul. 12, 2007)
  As part of the ARM product family of Physical IP, the Velocity DDR is a high-speed physical interface solution for a broad range of SDRAM DDR applications ranging from mission-critical to low-power memory subsystems. Available immediately, Opulan’s ARM technology-based products are designed for Next Generation Network (NGN) applications
  
  
• Tower Semiconductor licenses 20kV HBM ESD protection from Sarnoff (Wednesday Jul. 11, 2007)
  Sarnoff Europe and Tower Semiconductor today announced that Tower Semiconductor has licensed Sarnoff Europe's TakeCharge® electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection IP portfolio. Tower Semiconductor will use TakeCharge for its customer's analog and mixed-signal applications requiring high-performance low-capacitance ESD protection of up to 20kV HBM.
  
  
• Teradici Licenses MIPS Technologies' Most Popular Embedded Processor for Innovative TERA Chipset in Datacenter-Based Computing (Wednesday Jul. 11, 2007)
  Teradici Corporation today announced it has selected the MIPS32® 24Kc™ Pro processor core for Teradici's groundbreaking TERA Host and Portal chipset. MIPS Technologies' 24Kc™ core was selected as a highly-configurable processor core with exceptional performance on a MHz per milliwatt basis
  
  
• 11 North American Companies Adopt ARC's Low Power Configurable Solutions for a Wide Range of High-Volume Applications (Wednesday Jul. 11, 2007)
  Low power consumption is one of the most important considerations for system-on-chip (SoC) designers creating products for next-generation electronic applications. This is a key reason why eleven companies in North America have adopted ARC International's configurable media subsystem and processor solutions to create power-sensitive chips for medical, government/security, multimedia, and networking/peripheral devices.
  
  
• Thrane & Thrane Licenses HelloSoft VoIP for EXPLORER Handset (Tuesday Jul. 10, 2007)
  HelloSoft, Inc. announced today that Thrane & Thrane, the world's leading manufacturer of terminals and land earth stations for global mobile satellite and radio communication, has licensed HelloSoft's award winning VoIP technologies for their next generation EXPLORER® handset.
  
  
• Beijing Microelectronics Technology Institute Licenses ARM922T Processor For Advanced SoC Research (Monday Jul. 09, 2007)
  BMTI, a high-tech research institute sponsored by the Chinese government, and ARM today announced that BMTI has licensed the ARM922T™ processor through the ARM® Academic Licensing Program. With this agreement, BMTI will be able to leverage the ARM architecture and benefit from the well-established ARM ecosystem in China for its advanced SoC research.
  
  
• Denali IP Products Deployed in First Terminal Chipset Solutions for Mobile WiMAX (Monday Jul. 09, 2007)
  Denali Software today announced that Beceem Communications has incorporated its Databahn(TM) DDR memory controller into the first commercially available terminal chipset for the latest Mobile WiMAX standard. Denali's Databahn(TM) DDR controller IP enabled Beceem engineers to achieve optimal system-level performance for its DRAM systems in the design of the 802.16-2005 mobile wireless BCS200 chipset.
  
  
• Imagination Technologies Licences Multimedia IP Cores To An International Electronics Systems Company (Monday Jul. 09, 2007)
  Imagination Technologies reports that it has licensed next generation graphics and video IP cores to an international electronics systems company under a multi-use licensing agreement.
  
  
• Transmeta Announces That NEC Electronics' M2 Mobile Phone Chip Incorporates LongRun2 Technologies (Thursday Jul. 05, 2007)
  The M2 is fabricated in NEC Electronics' advanced 65-nanometer process technology and incorporates LongRun2 technologies to help manage threshold voltage and leakage current. NEC Electronics became Transmeta's first LongRun2 licensee in March 2004 and its M2 Mobile Phone Chip is the first licensed commercial product to implement Transmeta's LongRun2 technologies.