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• True Circuits PLLs Selected by Icera (Tuesday Apr. 25, 2006)
  True Circuits, Inc. (TCI), a leading provider of analog and mixed-signal intellectual property (IP) for the semiconductor, systems and electronics industries today announced that multiple instances of its Phase-Locked Loop (PLL) hard macros have been used
  
  
• Tri-Vision U.S. V-Chip Patent Licensed to NEC (Monday Apr. 24, 2006)
  Tri-Vision International Ltd./Ltee (TSX:TVL - News) today announced that it has licensed its United States Patent No. 5,828,402 to NEC Display Solutions, Ltd. of Japan. NEC Display Solutions was awarded a license for Canadian Patent No. 2,179,474 in Febru
  
  
• Chip Industry's Top Manufacturers License ARM Debug And Trace Technology (Monday Apr. 24, 2006)
  ARM today announced that more than ten industry-leading semiconductor companies including Broadcom Corporation, Royal Philips Electronics and Samsung are integrating ARM® CoreSight™ debug and trace capabilities into their future chip designs
  
  
• Doradus Technologies Secures IP Licensing Contract for Its ATSC/QAM Demodulator IP Core With a Major Semiconductor Supplier (Friday Apr. 21, 2006)
  Doradus Technologies, Inc., a leader in the design and implementation of advanced modulation technologies for consumer and communication transmission, today announced that it is licensing its VSB/QAM demodulator (DoraVision(TM)) core for digital terrestri
  
  
• ESS Technology Licenses MIPS32 24Kc Core from MIPS Technologies (Friday Apr. 21, 2006)
  MIPS Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: MIPS), a leading provider of industry-standard processor architectures and cores for digital consumer and business applications, today announced that ESS Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: ESST), a provider of high-performance digi
  
  
• Aquantia Licenses Tensilica's Diamond Standard 108Mini for Next-Generation 10GE Over Copper Integrated Circuit (Thursday Apr. 20, 2006)
  Tensilica, Inc. today announced that Aquantia Corp. of Milpitas, Calif., has licensed the Diamond Standard 108Mini processor core for their 10 Gigabit Ethernet physical layer transceiver chip design. Aquantia is developing chips which will enable the upco
  
  
• Sunplus Technology extends license with Imagination Technologies (Wednesday Apr. 19, 2006)
  Imagination Technologies reports that Sunplus Technology has extended its license agreement with Imagination for PowerVR MBX IP cores for integration into a wider range of processors as SoC solutions for consumer electronics devices
  
  
• ARM and TSMC Sign Long-Term Physical IP Agreement for 65- and 45-Nanometer Technologies (Wednesday Apr. 19, 2006)
  ARM (LSE:ARM); (Nasdaq:ARMHY) and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (NYSE: TSM), have agreed to extend the companies' long-term relationship to development of a new suite of ARM(R) Advantage(tm) products, part of its family of Artisan(R) physical
  
  
• Tri-Vision V-chip licensed to Chunghwa for U.S. and Canada (Tuesday Apr. 18, 2006)
  Tri-Vision International Ltd./Ltee (TSX:TVL) today announced that it has licensed its United States Patent No. 5,828,402 and Canadian Patent No. 2,179,474 to DTV original equipment manufacturer Chunghwa Picture Tubes Ltd. (CPT) of Taiwan. The licenses are
  
  
• Lucid Information Technology, Ltd., Licenses Tensilica's Diamond 212GP Controller Core (Tuesday Apr. 18, 2006)
  Tensilica, Inc. today announced that Lucid Information Technology, Ltd., of Kfar Netter, Israel, has licensed its Diamond Standard 212GP general-purpose processor core for a new scalable multi-GPU chip design project.
  
  
• Spreadtrum to Integrate Hantro Multi-Format Video Solution into their Next Generation 3G TD-SCDMA Baseband IC (Tuesday Apr. 18, 2006)
  Hantro today announced the signing of a license agreement under which Spreadtrum Communications Inc. will integrate Hantro’s multi-format hardware technology into its SC8800 series 3G TD-SCDMA/GSM/GPRS baseband chip
  
  
• BiTMICRO Networks Adopts Configurable ARC 700 Core Family for Next Generation E-Disk (Tuesday Apr. 18, 2006)
  ARC International (LSE: ARK) today announced that BiTMICRO Networks, Inc., the leading provider of high performance non-volatile solid state disk, flash disk drive and network storage and management solutions, has taken a license for the ARC™ 700 family o
  
  
• Toshiba Electronics Europe Licenses SMSC's MediaLB Technology; Integration of MediaLB Interface Adds MOST(R) Connectivity to Advanced Automotive Display SoCs (Thursday Apr. 13, 2006)
  SMSC (Nasdaq: SMSC) today announced that the company and Toshiba Electronics Europe GmbH (Toshiba) have reached a licensing agreement under which Toshiba is integrating SMSC's Media Local Bus (LB) technology to provide an interface from its Capricorn SoCs
  
  
• Arasan Chip Systems licenses the SDIO Device IP core to Samsung Electronics (Thursday Apr. 13, 2006)
  Arasan has licensed its SDIO Device Controller IP Core to Samsung Electronics, Korea. Arasan’s IP will be used in a wide range of Samsung Products
  
  
• Oki Electric Adopts ARC Sound Advanced Subsystem For Advanced Car Audio Applications (Monday Apr. 10, 2006)
  ARC International (LSE: ARK) today announced that Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd. (TSE: 6703) has taken a license for the new ARC™ Sound Advanced Subsystem. Oki plans to incorporate the ARC Sound Advanced Subsystem into an application specific standard pr
  
  
• RF Engines contracted by Australia's Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO) (Monday Apr. 10, 2006)
  RF Engines (RFEL), the experts in signal processing for FPGA, have been awarded a contract by Australia’s Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO), for the provision of high performance digital filter designs. The designs, which form a key role
  
  
• Hantro Licenses Multimedia Technology to Skyworks for Lynx EDGE Multimedia Mobile Platform (Friday Apr. 07, 2006)
  Hantro, a leading provider of multimedia technology for mobile devices, announced today that it has licensed video and audio coding technology to Skyworks Solutions, Inc., and industry leader in radio solutions and precision analog semiconductors. This a
  
  
• Transmeta and Sony Group Renew Project Agreements for 2006 (Friday Apr. 07, 2006)
  Transmeta Corporation (NASDAQ:TMTA), the leader in efficient computing technologies, today announced it has entered into a series of new project agreements for Transmeta to continue providing design and engineering services to Sony Computer Entertainment
  
  
• HiSilicon Integrate Hantro Video Technology into their Chipset (Thursday Apr. 06, 2006)
  The market share of multimedia handsets saw significant growth through 2005 and with the focus of handset development shifting from music to video, applications such as: PMP, stream media and TV are becoming prerequisite features of next generation handse
  
  
• MIPS Technologies Licenses MIPS32(R) 24KEc(TM) Processor Core to Fangtek Ltd. for Mobile Phone Applications (Wednesday Apr. 05, 2006)
  MIPS Technologies, Inc., a leading provider of industry-standard processor architectures and cores for digital consumer and business applications, today announced that Fangtek Ltd., a leading provider of IC solutions for mobile devices with offices in the
  
  
• Lionic Adopts Altera's Nios II Processor and Cyclone Series of FPGAs for Silicon-Based Antivirus Solutions (Wednesday Apr. 05, 2006)
  To generate cost and performance benefits from its ePavis family of low-cost network security devices, Lionic Corporation has adopted the Nios® II embedded processor and CycloneTM series FPGAs from Altera Corporation (NASDAQ:ALTR), the two companies annou
  
  
• msystems' Security IP Selected by National Semiconductor for New Generation Secured Processor for Automotive ApplicationsProcessor for Automotive Applications (Wednesday Apr. 05, 2006)
  Under the terms of the agreement, National will enhance its product offerings for the automotive market by integrating msystems' mSafe(TM) SuperMAP®-III cryptographic coprocessors within a secure controller system for automotive applications.
  
  
• 5V Technologies Licenses HelloSoft's VoIP for 5VT's Single-Chip Solution (Tuesday Apr. 04, 2006)
  HelloSoft, a leading provider of high-performance communications IP for next generation VoIP, VoWLAN, WLAN and Mobile Devices today announced that 5V Technologies Ltd a leading VoIP chip developer, has licensed HelloSoft's industry leading Voice-over-IP (
  
  
• GDA Technologies Selected by iStor Networks for PCI Express Cores (Tuesday Apr. 04, 2006)
  The GDA PCI Express Controller core, called GPEX, is integrated into iStor products for iSCSI storage area networks. GPEX is a highly configurable core that is optimized for link utilization, latency, reliability, and silicon footprint for both ASIC and F
  
  
• QUALCOMM and Icera Sign WCDMA Wireless Software Patent Agreement (Tuesday Apr. 04, 2006)
  QUALCOMM and Icera today announced that they have signed a worldwide wireless software patent agreement. Under the terms of the multi-million dollar agreement, QUALCOMM has granted Icera rights under certain QUALCOMM patents to develop, manufacture and se
  
  
• Denali's PCI Express Compliance Suite Licensed by Sun Microsystems (Monday Apr. 03, 2006)
  Denali Software today announced that its PureSuite™ product has been licensed by Sun Microsystems, Inc. for use in the verification of PCI Express* interfaces in Sun's next-generation server chip
  
  
• SMSC Licenses the ARC 600 Family of Configurable Processors from ARC International (Monday Apr. 03, 2006)
  ARC International, the world leader in configurable CPU/DSP cores and application subsystems, today announced that SMSC has taken a license for the ARC™ 600 family of configurable processors for computing applications
  
  
• Elliptic Semiconductor licenses its multi-DRM security solution to MtekVision (Thursday Mar. 30, 2006)
  ASIC IP SATA Controller Core provides flexibility and ease in integration to customized software and both Host and Device applications. The SATA Core supports both Gen I and Gen II speeds
  
  
• Renesas Technology Corp. Licenses Imagination Technologies' PowerVR SGX (Thursday Mar. 30, 2006)
  Imagination Technologies reports that Renesas Technology has extended its agreement with Imagination to the next generation of PowerVR, and has licensed one of the PowerVR SGX graphics / video core family members under a multiple-use license arrangement
  
  
• MP MAN Makes the Switch to SigmaTel; European MP3 Manufacturer Will Move 100% of Flash-Based Devices to SigmaTel (Wednesday Mar. 29, 2006)
  SigmaTel, Inc., a leader in mixed-signal multimedia semiconductors, today announced that MP MAN, a leading European electronics manufacturer, will move their entire portfolio of MP3 player offerings to SigmaTel-based solutions. Currently MP MAN sells 31 d