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• Dillon Engineering Wins ASIC FFT/IFFT IP Contract (Tuesday Aug. 01, 2006)
  Dillon Engineering won the contract for and delivered a fully custom FFT/IFFT engine to Magellan System Japan. The IP was delivered ready for inclusion in their upcoming ASIC as well as for immediate prototype in a Xilinx Virtex-4 FPGA
  
  
• Airbee and ZMD Team to Deliver 900 MHz ZigBee Technology (Thursday Jul. 27, 2006)
  Airbee Wireless today announced that it has executed a license agreement with ZMD, to provide ZigBeeTM compliant and ZigBee based network protocol stacks (ZNS & ZNS Lite)
  
  
• Sarnoff Corporation Licenses ARM11 MPCore Multi-Core Processor (Tuesday Jul. 25, 2006)
  Sarnoff Corporation and ARM (LSE: ARM; (Nasdaq: ARMHY), today announced that Sarnoff has licensed the ARM11™ MPCore™ multi-core processor. Sarnoff will use the processor to develop high-performance, low-power mobile vision System-on-Chips (SoC).
  
  
• AVID Electronics Corporation Adopts ARC Video Subsystem (Tuesday Jul. 25, 2006)
  By adopting the configurable ARC Video Subsystem, AVID's design team will be able to create multimedia, multi-formatted solutions that offer single- to high-definition audio and video functionality.
  
  
• Teknovus Licenses MoSys 1T-SRAM(R) for Their Gigabit Ethernet Passive Optical Network (GEPON) Chip Sets (Tuesday Jul. 25, 2006)
  MoSys, Inc. (Nasdaq:MOSY), the industry's leading provider of high-density system-on-chip (SoC) embedded memory solutions, announced today the silicon validation of MoSys' 1T-SRAM(R) embedded memory technology within Teknovus' Optical Network Unit (ONU) c
  
  
• MIPS Technologies Licenses Processor Cores to Toshiba for Next-Generation Digital Consumer SoC Solutions (Monday Jul. 24, 2006)
  Long-time MIPS(R) Architecture Licensee Selects the MIPS32(R) 24KE(TM) Family of High-Performance, Low-Power Processor Cores
  
  
• Virage Logic Library Powers SOCLE's Structured ASIC Platforms (Monday Jul. 24, 2006)
  ASAP Logic Metal Programmable Library Enables SOCLE's Latest Rapid Turnaround and Cost-Saving SoC Design Solution
  
  
• Virage Logic's ASAP Memory Solidifies Place in the SoC Ecosystem with Incorporation into CEVA DSP Platform (Monday Jul. 24, 2006)
  High-Speed, High-Performance Memories Accelerate Silicon Success of DSPs for High-Volume Consumer and Communications Applications
  
  
• CEVA and ASTRI Form Partnership to Develop New-Generation Multimedia Solutions for Hong Kong and Greater China (Thursday Jul. 20, 2006)
  ASTRI develops CEVA-TeakLite™ DSP-based, Low-power Portable Audio Solution
  
  
• Silicon & Software Systems (S3) Announces 90nm CMOS IP Licensing Agreement for Mobile TV Applications (Wednesday Jul. 19, 2006)
  Abilis will incorporate S3’s analog-digital converter IP into its first generation single-chip mobile TV applications
  
  
• Tri-Vision licenses U.S. V-chip to Lite-On (Wednesday Jul. 19, 2006)
  Tri-Vision International Ltd./Ltee today announced that it has licensed its V-chip technology under United States Patent # 5,828,402 (the '402 Patent) to original equipment manufacturer Lite-On Technology Corporation of Taiwan
  
  
• Market Rapidly Embraces Tensilica's Diamond Standard Processor Cores in 2Q06 (Tuesday Jul. 18, 2006)
  As of the end of the second quarter of 2006, the company had licensed 12 Diamond Standard series cores. This number included 10 new customers who had not previously used Tensilica’s processor products. In most of these designs, the Diamond Standard proces
  
  
• Anyka Selects ARM Architecture For Advanced Multimedia Processor Development (Tuesday Jul. 18, 2006)
  ARM926EJ-S processor to accelerate Anyka multimedia processor design with enhanced support for media-rich applications
  
  
• BiTMICRO(R) Networks Signs Corporate Agreement for Kilopass 90-Nanometer XPM Memory Technology; XPM Picked for Secure Software Storage for Next-Generation Storage Solutions (Monday Jul. 17, 2006)
  Kilopass Technology and BiTMICRO Networks announced that the companies have signed a corporate license agreement. BiTMICRO is integrating Kilopass' XPM embedded, non-volatile memory technology in its next-generation system-on-chip (SoC) devices and large
  
  
• PLDA and HARDI Electronics Forge Strategic Partnership (Thursday Jul. 13, 2006)
  PLDA's PCIe IP Controller Bundled with the HARDI ASIC Prototyping System
  
  
• Azul Systems Deploys Denali Memory Solutions in Second-Generation Compute Appliances (Wednesday Jul. 12, 2006)
  Denali today announced that Azul Systems, the pioneer of the first network attached processing solution, has successfully implemented Denali's Databahn™ DDR2 memory controller in its new Vega™ 2 processor chip
  
  
• iPackets Selects the ARM7 System-on-Chip for Its Next-Generation iPMine-M8 810C Tracking Device (Tuesday Jul. 11, 2006)
  iPackets announced today that it has selected the ARM7 system-on-chip 802.11 wireless technology for its next-generation compact iPMine-M8 810C tracking device, which is scheduled for market introduction during the fourth quarter of this year.
  
  
• Sarnoff Awarded $12 Million Contract Renewal for Design and Production of Replacement Integrated Circuits; Sarnoff Team Builds Upon Two Decades of Delivering Quality Reliable Components to Support the Warfighter (Monday Jul. 10, 2006)
  Sarnoff Corporation announced today a $12 million contract renewal with the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) and the Defense Supply Center Columbus (DSCC) to continue research and development (R&D) and production of military quality microcircuits for equipm
  
  
• Rambus and Matsushita Sign Patent License Agreement (Thursday Jul. 06, 2006)
  This five-year agreement with an effective date of October 1, 2005 grants Matsushita a license to Rambus patents for SDRAM and DDR SDRAM memory controllers. Rambus will receive royalty payments based on the shipment of these memory controllers
  
  
• PnpNetwork Licenses Diamond Standard 330HiFi and 212GP for Mobile Phone TV Chip Designs (Thursday Jul. 06, 2006)
  PnpNetwork will use the Diamond Standard 330HiFi for high-quality audio processing and the Diamond Standard 212GP as a control processor for their chip designs
  
  
• Toshiba and Rambus Sign Patent License Agreement (Wednesday Jul. 05, 2006)
  Rambus Inc. announced today it has signed a new patent license agreement with Toshiba Corporation. This agreement grants Toshiba a license to Rambus patents for SDRAM and DDR SDRAM memory controllers.
  
  
• TTPCom extends partnership with Silicon Laboratories (Monday Jul. 03, 2006)
  TTPCom today announces that it has extended its existing partnership with Silicon Laboratories (Nasdaq: SLAB) to allow TTPCom’s GSM/GPRS protocol software to be distributed directly on Silicon Laboratories’ AeroFONE™ single-chip cellular platform.
  
  
• Toshiba Licenses Staktek's NAND Flash-Memory Technologies (Friday Jun. 30, 2006)
  Staktek Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: STAK), a world-leading provider of intellectual property and services for next-generation, chip-stacking and module technologies for high-speed, high-capacity systems, today announced a license agreement in which Staktek ha
  
  
• Patriot Scientific Confirms PENTAX Joins Growing Roster of Global Manufacturers Licensed to Use the Moore Microprocessor Patent(TM) Portfolio (Thursday Jun. 29, 2006)
  PENTAX Becomes Seventh Major System Manufacturer During 2006 to Purchase Rights to Use Fundamental MMP Portfolio Technologies
  
  
• Scaleo chip and Wipro-NewLogic bring together their technology to reinforce their presence in the Bluetooth applications market (Thursday Jun. 29, 2006)
  Scaleo chip, formerly Europe Technologies, the recognized specialist in ARM-based Systems on Chips (SoC), is reinforcing its mastery of multicore integration with the signature of a technological partnership agreement with Wipro-NewLogic, a supplier of IP
  
  
• Patriot Scientific Corporation Confirms Seiko Epson Agreement to Purchase MMP License (Tuesday Jun. 27, 2006)
  Seiko Epson joins a stellar group of MMP portfolio system licensees that includes HP, Fujitsu, Casio, Sony and Nikon. Terms of the Seiko Epson agreement to purchase a license were not disclosed.
  
  
• LogicVision and Dolphin Technology Announce Integration of 90nm and 65nm memories with Comprehensive Self-test and Repair Solutions (Tuesday Jun. 27, 2006)
  Dolphin RAMpilerTM based memories fully and automatically supported by LogicVision’s next generation ETMemory(TM) solutions
  
  
• NVIDIA GoForce 5500 Employs Tensilica's Xtensa HiFi 2 Audio Engine for High-Quality Audio in Mobile Phones (Tuesday Jun. 27, 2006)
  Tensilica, Inc. today announced that its Xtensa HiFi 2 Audio Engine drives the high-quality 24-bit audio processing in the recently introduced NVIDIA GoForce 5500 handheld graphics processing unit (GPU).
  
  
• Oki Electric Adopts Elliptic Semiconductor's Ttechnology For Comprehensive DTCP Rights Management Solution (Friday Jun. 23, 2006)
  Oki's SoC integrates a crypto offload engine from Elliptic that implements a high performance DTCP solution capable of supporting over 200 Mbps of encrypted content for use in audio, video and high-definition television applications across Firewire, USB,
  
  
• WiQuest Licenses Tensilica's Xtensa Processor for Low-Power Wireless USB Chip Design (Thursday Jun. 22, 2006)
  Tensilica, Inc. today announced that WiQuest Communications, Inc. has deployed the Xtensa configurable processor in WiQuest’s WQST110 ultrawideband (UWB) wireless USB chip design