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• Sonics Introduces SoC Performance Profile and Debug IP for System Architects and Software Developers (Tuesday Mar. 18, 2014)
  Sonics today introduced Sonics Performance Monitor and Hardware Trace™ (SonicsMT™), a new semiconductor intellectual property (IP) product that accelerates the post-silicon system validation and software development processes for complex systems-on-chip (SoC).
  
  
• Mobiveil's UNEX NVM Express IP Passes University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL) Testing (Thursday Mar. 13, 2014)
  Industry's First UNH-Certified NVM Express Controller IP on the NVM Express Integrators List; UNEX NVM Express IP Ensures SoC Designs Will Be Compliant and Interoperable With Enterprise Server Platforms and Operating Systems
  
  
• Dolphin Integration reveals the first audio converter IP with voice detection feature for home appliance electronics (Thursday Mar. 13, 2014)
  Dolphin Integration rolls out sCODp-MT1-VD.02, a voice-oriented converter supporting both analog and digital microphones.
  
  
• Creonic to Deliver IP Cores for the New DVB-S2X Standard (Tuesday Mar. 11, 2014)
  Creonic announced the availability of demodulator and decoder IP cores for the new DVB-S2X specification that was approved recently by the Steering Board of the DVB project. For professional applications, DVB-S2X achieves spectral efficiency gains of up to 50%, drastically reducing OPEX.
  
  
• Digital Core Design unveils 32bit CPU during CeBIT 2014 (Friday Mar. 07, 2014)
  Digital Core Design, IP Core provider and a system on chip design house from Poland, will be exhibiting at CeBIT, in Hannover, Germany. During the biggest IT fair show, Polish company on the booth located in Hall 5, stand E48 will present latest news about the D32PRO, 32-bit deeply embedded royalty free processor.
  
  
• Chips&Media releases CFrame10, its new hardware design for frame buffer compression (Friday Mar. 07, 2014)
  Chips&Media announced today that they have signed licensing agreements with some of major SoC manufacturers in the US and other regions for their lossless frame buffer compression solution. They said development of this standalone IP had already been completed in the fourth quarter of 2013 and recently it has started to ship.
  
  
• StreamDSP Announces 20nm Device Support For its sFPDP IP Core, Enabling Serial FPDP in Altera Arria-10 and Xilinx UltraScale Devices (Wednesday Mar. 05, 2014)
  The release of version 4.5 of the StreamDSP VITA 17.1 Serial Front Panel Data Port (sFPDP) IP core has been announced by StreamDSP, enabling support for the latest 20nm FPGA devices from Altera and Xilinx.
  
  
• Startup Slashes SRAM Power With Standard Logic Process (Wednesday Mar. 05, 2014)
  A UK startup has developed an entirely new way of building static memory on a standard logic process that cuts the power in half without paying a penalty in area or speed.
  
  
• Mobiveil's GPEX PCI Express 3.0 IP Passes PCI-SIG PCIe 3.0 Compliance Testing (Tuesday Mar. 04, 2014)
  Mobiveil today announced that its GPEX™ PCI Express® (PCIe®) 3.0 endpoint controller passed PCI-SIG® Gold and Interoperability testing. To achieve compliance, the IP must pass protocol, electrical and interoperability testing for PCIe Gen3 8GT/s. Mobiveil's GPEX has a highly flexible and configurable IP design targeted for end-points or root complex type devices, as well as switches and bridge implementations.
  
  
• Sibridge Technologies Enhances Ethernet IP Cores with IEEE 1588 PTP (Tuesday Mar. 04, 2014)
  Sibridge Technologies today announced availability of IEEE 1588-2008 Precision Time Protocol (PTP). The addition of IEEE 1588-2008 to Sibridge Technologies’ Design IP portfolio will enable Sibridge to support existing customers and acquire new customers in the networking domain.
  
  
• Semtech Announces Ultra-High Speed ADC and DAC for Advanced Communication Systems (Monday Mar. 03, 2014)
  Semtech today announced that 64GSPS ADC and DAC preliminary cores are available utilizing IBM's 32nm SOI technology for integration in high performance System on Chip (SoC) solutions.
  
  
• Recore Systems releases a many-core processor subsystem IP-on-FPGA (Monday Mar. 03, 2014)
  Recore Systems today releases a many-core processor subsystem IP connecting Recore Xentium DSP cores, a General Purpose Processor, and other IP blocks in a heterogeneous many-core processor architecture via a hybrid Network-on-Chip/AMBA bus interconnect.
  
  
• S3 Group Launches the Industry's Smallest, Most Efficient High-Speed ADC (Tuesday Feb. 25, 2014)
  S3 Group today launched the industry’s smallest, most-efficient high speed SAR-ADC (successive approximation register analog-to-digital converter). The product is the first in a family of SAR ADCs being developed by the company specifically optimized for consumer SoCs.
  
  
• New Embedded GPU Platform for General-Purpose Computing Delivers the Highest Performance per Energy or Area (Tuesday Feb. 25, 2014)
  A new platform for general-purpose computing on an embedded graphics processing unit called the Nema™ GPU is now available from semiconductor intellectual property provider CAST, Inc.
  
  
• New CAST Platforms Enable Graphics Processing and Display IP for the Xilinx Zynq All Programmable SoC (Tuesday Feb. 25, 2014)
  New reference design systems available from semiconductor intellectual property provider CAST, Inc. combine graphics processing and display IP cores with the Xilinx® Zynq®-7000 AP SoC ZC706 Evaluation Board to facilitate cost-effective embedded IP evaluation or early system development.
  
  
• eMemory Offers Mature Full-HD SDDI Solutions In Advanced 55nm High-Voltage Process (Tuesday Feb. 25, 2014)
  eMemory announced today that its One Time Programmable (OTP) embedded non-volatile memory silicon IP (SIP), NeoBit, has successfully expanded applications into Full-HD small-panel display driver IC (SDDI).
  
  
• Dolphin Integration enrich their Reusable Power Kit Library DELTA with Linear Regulators optimized for noise sensitive applications (Monday Feb. 24, 2014)
  Dolphin Integration have released a complete family of Linear Regulators for embedding any traditional discrete LDO. They now effectively target the protection of noise sensitive blocks such as Audio converters, PLL and RF blocks with low noise Linear Regulators (nLR).
  
  
• Imagination releases first IP core based on innovative PowerVR Raptor imaging processor architecture (Monday Feb. 24, 2014)
  Imagination Technologies is rolling out the first intellectual property (IP) core based on its innovative PowerVR Raptor imaging processor architecture which takes image processing to the next level for next generation applications.
  
  
• Cadence Announces New Tensilica Imaging and Video Processor for Increasingly Complex Signal Processing Functions (Thursday Feb. 20, 2014)
  Cadence today introduced the Tensilica® Imaging and Video Processor-Enhanced Performance (IVP-EP) core, the latest imaging and video dataplane processor in the IVP product line
  
  
• Alma Technologies announces the immediate availability of its new 12-bit Extended JPEG Decoder Core (Thursday Feb. 20, 2014)
  Alma Technologies has extended its JPEG IP core range by offering a 12-bit Extended JPEG decoder. With this addition a complete low-complexity solution for compression/decompression in 8 or 12 bits per sample is now available. The Extended JPEG IP core range is suitable for applications demanding higher image dynamic range such as machine vision, medical or automotive imaging and high-end image compression.
  
  
• Cadence Launches Next-Generation Tensilica High-Performance ConnX Baseband DSP Family (Wednesday Feb. 19, 2014)
  New products in the family include the ConnX BBE32EP and BBE64EP, optimized for complex number processing at low power and ideally suited for smartphones and tablets, HDTVs, set-top boxes, and automotive communications infrastructure system applications.
  
  
• World's First 802.11ah IP Introduced by Antcor (Tuesday Feb. 18, 2014)
  Antcor S.A., a leading innovator of Wi-Fi IP announces world's first 802.11ah IP, a unique offering designed to enable the next generation of connectivity processors.
  
  
• Xilinx Announces 1.6Gbps Low Power, Low Cost, Small Cell Backhaul Modem SmartCORE IP for Millimeter Wave Applications (Tuesday Feb. 18, 2014)
  
  
  
• Apical and NGCodec Announce H.265/HEVC Encoder with Region Of Interest Optimization via Object Tracking (Tuesday Feb. 18, 2014)
  Apical™ and NGCodec™ announce new capabilities of the Apical Assertive Vision Processor and the NGCodec H.265/HEVC encoder that allow the two IP components to be seamlessly integrated into an SoC or ASIC design.
  
  
• M31 Technology Announces its USB 3.0 PHY Completed TSMC IP Validation (Tuesday Feb. 18, 2014)
  M31 Technology announced that the company’s USB 3.0 PHY, developed for TSMC’s 55 nanometer (nm) low power process, has successfully completed validation and testing through the TSMC IP Validation Center Program. This IP has been broadly adopted by Taiwanese IC design houses and is expected to accelerate their time to market with low risk IP integration.
  
  
• Xylon Expands Portfolio with the Face Detection and Tracking Computer Vision Technology (Monday Feb. 17, 2014)
  Through a partnership with Visage Technologies AB, a software expert company for computer vision and computer graphics, Xylon expands its product portfolio with the Face Detection and Tracking computer vision technology that increasingly finds place in applications like automotive driver assistance, assistive technologies for disabled people, marketing and retail, entertainment and gaming, surveillance, biometrics and many others.
  
  
• Sital Delivers Mil-Std-1553 IP core with Multi-RT and Error Injection Capabilities (Thursday Feb. 13, 2014)
  Until now, IP cores delivered to customers were mainly targeted for in-flight applications. This means that no errors are allowed to be generated from the system. However, a recent customer application required Mil-Std-1553 testing capabilities from an already-existing flight system, so that the same system can be used as a bus simulator on the ground or as an in-flight operational system.
  
  
• Allegro DVT unveils its hardware HEVC/H.265 Encoder IP (Tuesday Feb. 11, 2014)
  Allegro DVT announces its HEVC/H.265 encoder IP core, implementing the High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) standard.
  
  
• 3iLogic-Designs Introduces SimSim, Embedded Speech Recognition IP Core, Enabling Voice-Activated User Interfaces for a Range of Consumer Devices (Tuesday Feb. 11, 2014)
  3iLogic-Designs announced today its flagship solution, SimSim™. Semiconductor manufacturers can easily integrate this patent-pending, high-performance, ultra-low power, low cost embedded speech recognition IP core in their application processors, microcontrollers, ASICs, and FPGAs.
  
  
• ARM Enhances IP Suite for 2015 Mid-Range Mobile and Consumer Markets (Tuesday Feb. 11, 2014)
  ARM today announced an enhanced suite of higher performance and more energy-efficient products specifically designed for the rapidly growing mid-range mobile and consumer electronics markets. The suite, comprised of processor, graphics processor and physical IP, is an update to ARM's mid-range IP offering targeting devices for production in 2015 and beyond.