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• Smallest, Lowest-Power OpenVG Vector Graphics IP Core Now Available from CAST (Thursday Apr. 17, 2014)
  A competitively small and low-power vector graphics processing unit (GPU) IP core is now available from semiconductor intellectual property provider CAST, Inc. The ThinkVG Vector GPU IP Core offers full support of the OpenVG™ 1.1 vector graphics API.
  
  
• Analog Bits Leads the Industry with New Mixed Signal IP Products (Thursday Apr. 17, 2014)
  Analog Bits today announced the successful migration of their products to the latest advanced process node: 14nm "FinFET". By pre-testing these hard-macro products on such advanced nodes, customers are ensured of reliable solutions on the broadest range of manufacturing platforms. 
  
  
• Elliptic Technologies Announces the Availability of High Performance, NIST SP 800-90 Compliant Random Number Generators (Wednesday Apr. 16, 2014)
  Elliptic Technologies today announced the launch of two NIST (National Institute of Standards Technology) SP 800-90a/b/c Compliant True Random Number Generators (TRNG): CLP-850 and CLP-890 to add to their extensive security portfolio.
  
  
• Faraday Delivers a Complete Set of UMC 28nm Cell Libraries and Memory Compilers (Wednesday Apr. 16, 2014)
  Faraday Technology today announced the availability of its complete set of cell libraries and memory compilers in UMC 28nm HPM (High Performance for Mobile) and HLP (High-Performance Low Power) processes.
  
  
• M31 high density and low power IP solutions on TSMC 55nm embedded flash technology (Thursday Apr. 10, 2014)
  M31 Technology announced its IP development completion on TSMC 55nm embedded flash technology. These IP address high-speed data processing, graphics computing, power IC management, and portable telecommunication designs. They have passed TSMC9000 physical review and pre-silicon stage, and are ready for design integration.
  
  
• Novel Features of new Multi-Channel Video Processor on show at NAB (Wednesday Apr. 09, 2014)
  A new version of the OSVP Scalable Video Processor IP block for Xilinx FPGAs from video-processing specialist OmniTek offers a range of novel features that are sure to be of interest to video-system designers who visit the NAB Show.
  
  
• OmniTek releases enhanced version of Multi-Channel Streaming DMA Controller Core (Wednesday Apr. 09, 2014)
  Video-processing specialist OmniTek has released an enhanced and universal version of its Multi-Channel Streaming DMA Controller FPGA IP-core for transferring streaming data such as video across a PCIe interface. The new version of the core is available to registered users on the company’s website and will be demonstrated on the OmniTek booth at the NAB Show.
  
  
• VeriSilicon Expands Its Hantro Video IP Portfolio With HEVC Main 10 Profile and AVS+ Decoder Capabilities (Tuesday Apr. 08, 2014)
  VeriSilicon Holdings Co., Ltd. (VeriSilicon), a leading custom silicon solution and semiconductor IP provider, today announced the availability of High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) Main 10 Profile decoder in Hantro Video IP as well as the availability of AVS+ decoder IP to support HDTV and 3D TV services in China.
  
  
• eMemory's SIP Introduced to Electro-Medical Applications (Tuesday Apr. 08, 2014)
  eMemory announced today its eNVM solutions have been successfully introduced to the electro-medical applications. With the advantages of high efficacy, small footprint, and low-power consumption; eMemory’s Silicon Intellectual Property (SIP) is beneficial to electro-medical application clients with high demands of security and reliability in smart device developments.
  
  
• First VESA Display Stream Compression (DSC) Decoder IP Announced by Hardent (Monday Apr. 07, 2014)
  Hardent Inc. introduces the first real-time video compression intellectual property (IP) technology that is VESA Display Stream Compression (DSC)-compliant. This decoder will facilitate electronics manufacturers with accelerating time-to-market for ultra high-definition resolution products.
  
  
• PLDA and OmniPhy Announce PCIe Gen 2 Controller and PHY Combination for the TSMC 28nm Process (Monday Apr. 07, 2014)
  PLDA and OmniPhy today announced successful interop testing for a combined PCIe Gen 2 Controller IP and PHY IP solution. Initially targeting the TSMC 28nm process, the combined PCIe 2.0 Controller/PHY solution can also be ported to additional fabs and processes.
  
  
• Barco Silex and Vanguard Video announce strategic partnership for FPGA based H.265/HEVC encoder showcasing on Xilinx FPGA (Thursday Apr. 03, 2014)
  Barco Silex, the leading provider of FPGA based video solutions and Vanguard Video, leader in broadcast quality video compression technology, are joining forces to develop and provide the market with high quality H.265/HEVC encoder solutions based upon Xilinx FPGA devices.
  
  
• Tata Elxsi announces HEVC Ultra HD (4K) Decoder compliance with Harmonic Encoding Technology (Thursday Apr. 03, 2014)
  In a bid to provide a complete solution for customers deploying HEVC Ultra HD solutions, Tata Elxsi has announced the successful interoperability of their HEVC decoder with streams encoded using Harmonic encoding technology.
  
  
• 100 million instructions for (good old?) M68HC08 (Wednesday Apr. 02, 2014)
  DCD’s DF6808 IP Core is binary-compatible with the industry standard Motorola 68HC08 8-bit microcontroller, but thanks to highly sophisticated on-chip peripheral capabilities, it performs 45-100 million instructions per second. FAST architecture implemented in DF6808 enable this mcu to run at least 3 times faster than the original solution.
  
  
• Moortec Semiconductor Target Stacked DRAM Applications with its High Accuracy On-Chip Temperature Sensor (Wednesday Apr. 02, 2014)
  Moortec Semiconductor, provider of high accuracy on-chip temperature sensors for advanced-node CMOS technologies, target 3D stacked Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM) applications supporting temperature compensated refresh rate schemes and optimised power performance.
  
  
• HDL Design House Announces JESD204B PCS Tx IP Core HIP 600 (Tuesday Apr. 01, 2014)
  HDL Design House, provider of high performance digital and analog IP cores and SoC design and verification services, has announced the availability of its JESD204B PCS Tx IP core (HIP600). The silicon proven JESD204B PCS Tx IP core, available now in various process nodes and technologies, is developed for a wide range of applications, such as wireless transceivers, signal processing cards, industrial, test and medical equipment.
  
  
• intoPIX Bridges the Worlds of Professional Video Production and Ethernet Networks with New AVB FPGA IP-cores (Tuesday Apr. 01, 2014)
  At the upcoming NAB show,the leading technology provider intoPIX (booth C5243) is announcing new IEEE 802.1 and IEEE1722 Ethernet AVB (Audio Video Bridging) FPGA IP-cores made to boost the Broadcast studios and facilities transition towards a fully networked infrastructure with a cost-effective and future-proof standard that offers a maximum of reliability, quality and interoperability.
  
  
• Shikino Launches Still Image Encoder IP Obtaining High-speed Image Processing in 16X speed (16 data/clock) (Tuesday Apr. 01, 2014)
  As a new product from the "KJN series" with the world's top share in the still image compression/decompression technology, Shikino developed this still image encoder IP which has the world's first image processing performance, 16X speed (16 data/clock), in the JPEG compression with high bit depths (8-bit/10-bit/12-bit). The product is most suitable for the mobile/broadcasting/ medical/aerospace fields and so forth.
  
  
• Imagination's PowerVR Series6 is the first mobile GPU to pass OpenCL 1.2 conformance with Khronos (Monday Mar. 31, 2014)
  Imagination Technologies announces its PowerVR Series6 Rogue GPU technology is the first mobile GPU to pass OpenCL 1.2 conformance with Khronos. The OpenCL 1.2 standard is an open, royalty-free standard for cross-platform, parallel programming of modern processors in a broad range of devices. PowerVR Series6 GPUs are optimized to enable developers to use OpenCL to access the full processing horsepower of the Rogue architecture.
  
  
• Barco Silex Demonstrates 4K Video over IP with JPEG2000 on a single FPGA at NAB 2014 (Friday Mar. 28, 2014)
  Barco Silex, the leading provider of FPGA based video solutions and JPEG2000 compression IP cores, has upgraded to 4K its well-known Video over IP reference design that integrates Barco Silex JPEG2000 compression and Transport Stream solutions with Xilinx SMPTE 2022 cores on a single Kintex-7 device.
  
  
• Jointwave zero-latency video transmission solution on Altera FPGA (Wednesday Mar. 26, 2014)
  Semiconductor IP H.264/H.265 silicon IP core provider Jointwave published a series of video encoding and decoding RTL IP cores. It has been successfully applied in business, industrial, avionics and military areas including UAV, remote medical treatments, wireless monitors WDE, video commanding, space crafts, etc.
  
  
• Sunrise Micro Devices Announces Low-Power Bluetooth Smart Radio Core to Get Billions of IoT Sensors Talking (Wednesday Mar. 26, 2014)
  Wireless intellectual property (IP) company Sunrise Micro Devices Inc. (SMD), is announcing CORDIO™ BT4 radio core, the first radio core offering from its CORDIO family of sub-volt wireless products. This low-power radio core is targeted at the billions of battery or energy harvester-powered Internet of Things (IoT) sensors forecast to be shipped in the coming years.
  
  
• Sunrise Micro Devices is Unlocking the Potential of IoT by Offering Radio Design in IP Form (Tuesday Mar. 25, 2014)
  Sunrise Micro Devices Inc., (SMD) an expert in sub-volt wireless design, is now a wireless intellectual property (IP) company delivering complete radio solutions to help accelerate the deployment of Internet of Things (IoT) devices.
  
  
• PLDA and Mentor Graphics strengthen longstanding technical collaboration (Tuesday Mar. 25, 2014)
  The technical collaboration at the heart of the improved interoperability was accomplished by using PLDA PCIe IP during regression testing, across multiple test scenarios, for the Mentor Graphics Questa functional verification platform, including Questa Verification IP (VIP).
  
  
• IPrium adds 128-APSK and 256-APSK support to QAM Modulator IP Core (Tuesday Mar. 25, 2014)
  FPGA intellectual property (IP) provider IPrium LLC today announced that it has added 128-APSK and 256-APSK (DVB-S2X) constellation support to the QAM Modulator IP Core. The QAM Modulator IP Core has been silicon-proven using multiple development boards and is compliant with DVB Document A83-2 Part II.
  
  
• ChaoLogix Introduces ChaoSecure Technology to Boost Semiconductor Chip Security for Applications from Smart Cards to Smartphones (Thursday Mar. 20, 2014)
  ChaoLogix, Inc., a semiconductor technology provider focused on developing embedded security and low-power design intellectual property, today introduced ChaoSecure™ technology that deters side channel attacks on semiconductor chips and contributes a superior layer of security compared to existing solutions.
  
  
• CEVA, SMIC and Brite Semiconductor Partner to Provide Hard Macro Versions of CEVA DSP Cores and Platforms (Wednesday Mar. 19, 2014)
  CEVA, Brite Semiconductor and SMIC today jointly announced a collaboration to provide hard macro versions of CEVA's DSP cores for customers wishing to reduce the risk and design cycle time for their SoC projects.
  
  
• intoPIX Demonstrates First TICO Lightweight Compression Technology Running on FPGA Hardware at NAB 2014 (Tuesday Mar. 18, 2014)
  
  
  
• Imagination Technologies delivers revolution in graphics with new Wizard family of PowerVR Ray Tracing GPUs (Tuesday Mar. 18, 2014)
  Imagination delivers a revolutionary new family of graphics IP cores that raises the bar for ray traced graphics to a dramatic new level, delivering astonishing realism and performance at mobile power budgets.
  
  
• eMemory's SIP NeoFuse Received CA Certification For Advanced Security Applications (Tuesday Mar. 18, 2014)
  eMemory announced today its innovative anti-fuse technology NeoFuse has received CA certification. This approval recognizes the solution’s advanced security and encryption capability; which is most suitable for products require low-power consumption, high-reliability, and secure encryption including set top box (STB), digital TV (DTV), and CMOS image sensor (CIS ICs).