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• eMemory and HLMC Cooperate on High-Voltage Advanced Fabrication Platform (Tuesday Mar. 20, 2012)
  eMemory and Shanghai Huali Microelectronics Corporation (HLMC) are announcing that eMemory's One Time Programmable (OTP) technology, NeoBit, has already completed silicon IP verification in HLMCˇs 55nm high-voltage process.
  
  
• Adapteva close to sampling 28-nm, 64-core coprocessor (Monday Mar. 19, 2012)
  Adapteva, a small and lean fabless startup that has developed a series of multicore floating-point processors, claims its latest device, a 28-nm 64-core processor is close to sampling.
  
  
• Liquid Design Systems Inc. launches sales of leading edge TV and its related IPs developed by JVC (Thursday Mar. 15, 2012)
  Liquid Design Systems Inc. launches sales of leading edge TV and its related IPs developed by JVC
  
  
• Nuvation Engineering Delivers Advanced 3rd Generation Battery Management System (Wednesday Mar. 14, 2012)
  Nuvation Engineering has developed the 3rd generation version of its Battery Management System (BMS) that monitors, balances and protects large-scale lithium battery stacks.
  
  
• Vivante and Cadence Unveil Mass Market GPU-Optimized DDR Memory Solution (Wednesday Mar. 14, 2012)
  Vivante today announced that it has worked with Cadence to qualify the Cadence double data rate (DDR) Memory controller on-chip intellectual property (IP) solution for use with Vivante's graphics processing unit (GPU) IP solution
  
  
• RFEL creates flexible design emulation of Graychip GC1012B Wideband DDC (Wednesday Mar. 14, 2012)
  As a number of Texas Instruments Graychip (GC) range of devices transition to “Not Recommended” for new designs and “Obsolete” status, RFEL has, in response to customer requests, developed specific IP to emulate the signal processing functionality of these devices and thereby provide an upgrade path to designs originally built upon them. Using specifically designed sub-modules a channelizer design can be realized on an FPGA platform, that offers higher performance, greater customization options and a lower price than the increasingly hard to obtain mature Graychip devices.
  
  
• World's Most Energy-efficient Processor From ARM Targets Low-Cost MCU, Sensor and Control Markets (Tuesday Mar. 13, 2012)
  ARM today announced the ARM® Cortex™-M0+ processor, the world's most energy-efficient microprocessor. The Cortex-M0+ processor has been optimized to deliver ultra low-power, low-cost MCUs for intelligent sensors and smart control systems in a broad range of applications including home appliances, white goods, medical monitoring, metering, lighting and power and motor control devices.
  
  
• Xylon Releases the logiMLB IP Core Based on Licensed SMSC's MediaLB Technology (Tuesday Mar. 13, 2012)
  The new IP core from Xylon’s logicBRICKS™ IP library enables an easy interfacing of next-generation Xilinx® FPGA based automotive infotainment and driver assistance systems with the most popular automotive infotainment backbone
  
  
• Cortus Announces Bridges for AHB-Lite and APB to Enable Migration to the APS and FPS Processor Product Range (Tuesday Mar. 13, 2012)
  Cortus offers low latency bridges between the Cortus APS bus and AHB-Lite™ and APB™. These bridges facilitate the migration of older designs using processors supporting AHB-Lite™ to Cortus APS3 and FPS6 processors.
  
  
• Posedge Inc announces the availability of "Wireless Packet Processor" (Monday Mar. 12, 2012)
  Posedge has expanded its portfolio by announcing the availability of Posedge Wireless Packet Processor (PE WPP). The highly integrated PE WPP enables high throughput and flexible packet processing including layer 2-4 header modifications, switching, IPv4/IPv6 routing and inline flow classification. The PE WPP’s integrated traffic management provides Quality of Service (QoS), with hierarchical per-flow/per-class rate control, traffic shaping, and congestion management at 1.4 Gbps data rates.
  
  
• Arasan Chip Systems first to market with MIPI D-PHY Rev 1.1 compliant PHY IP (Thursday Mar. 08, 2012)
  Arasan's MIPI D-PHY 1.1 implementation, with full 1.5Gbps data rates on each lane, allows tablet designers to go to 2560x2048 resolution at 30 fps and 2048x1536 resolution at 60fps
  
  
• Systemcom Ltd launches new silicon validated Current-Input Analogue Front End with Digital Control and SPI Interface at TSMC 180nm (Thursday Mar. 08, 2012)
  Systemcom Ltd announces the availability of its new silicon validated Current Measurement Analogue Front End with Digital Control and SPI Interface, to be embedded into SoC for sensor applications and MEMS. It is also suitable as ASIC solution. SC-I-AFE-180F210 optimally covers the needs of measurement applications with high requirements in terms of high linearity, wide input current and temperature range.
  
  
• SMIC Announces Ultra High Density IP Library for 0.11um Cu-BEoL Process (Thursday Mar. 08, 2012)
  SMIC today announced an ultra high density (UHD) library solution for its 0.11um Cu-BEoL (Copper Back End of Line) manufacturing platform that can reduce chip size by an average of 31%.
  
  
• CEVA Extends Bluetooth Portfolio With Bluetooth 4.0 IP (Wednesday Mar. 07, 2012)
  CEVA today announced the availability of its low energy CEVA-Bluetooth 4.0 IP, for both single mode and dual mode applications. CEVA-Bluetooth 4.0 incorporates Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) functionality, significantly expanding the addressable market for Bluetooth connectivity to include a wide range of smaller, cost-efficient applications previously limited by the power consumption of older Bluetooth standards.
  
  
• Cut Down Silicon Cost with SWORD - the Single Wire Debugging Solution from Evatronix (Wednesday Mar. 07, 2012)
  Evatronix SA announced today a completely new addition for its 8051 microcontroller IP core. The Evatronix SWORD introduces a single wire connection between the microcontroller and the debugging interface as the least expensive and most effective application debugging solution.
  
  
• Uniquify Extends Patented Timing Calibration Innovation to Solve Dynamic Variation in DDR Memory Subsystems (Tuesday Mar. 06, 2012)
  Uniquify, today announced that it has extended its patented self-calibrating logic IP for double data rate (DDR) memory subsystems to solve dynamic variation problems during system operation.
  
  
• Aizyc Technology introduces USB 3.0 Device IP with a production worthy USB 3.0 to Gigabit Ethernet application (Monday Mar. 05, 2012)
  Aizyc Technology announces the availability of its USB3.0 Device IP Core also known as the super speed USB. The IP core is available with an evaluation platform that has been tested with multiple industry standard PHY’s. The EVB consists of a fully implemented production worthy USB3.0 to Gigabit Ethernet design that is class specific and operates driver free on windows OS.
  
  
• MTI Releases the next generation in OBSAI, CPRI, & JESD technology (Thursday Mar. 01, 2012)
  MTI Mobile – a world-leading developer of radio network technology for 3G and LTE - is launching a range of next generation of high-speed Intellectual Property Core (IPC) solutions allowing mobile & wireless equipment providers to develop faster and more powerful radio network solutions.
  
  
• Kilopass First to Demonstrate Antifuse Reliability Data in 28nm HKMG (Thursday Mar. 01, 2012)
  Kilopass today announced that it is the first non-volatile memory (NVM) IP provider to demonstrate antifuse reliability in 28nm High-K Metal Gate (HKMG). Kilopass has successfully completed 500 hours of High Temperature Operating Life (HTOL) and 500 hours of High Temperature Storage life (HTSL) per JEDEC 47 standard qualification with no failures.
  
  
• eMemory Announces Ultra Low Power OTP Solution in Low Cost Process Platform (Thursday Mar. 01, 2012)
  eMemory is announcing continued innovation and development of its One Time Programmable (OTP) technology, NeoBit, in the green process platform, this time aiming at the consumer MCU niche market, rolling out the 1.2V and 5V OTP solutions.
  
  
• Alvand Technologies Offers Silicon Proven ADC / DAC IP in GLOBALFOUNDRIES 40nm Process (Wednesday Feb. 29, 2012)
  Alvand Technologies today announced that it is offering its silicon proven high-speed ADC/DAC IPs in GLOBALFOUNDRIES 40nm process. These data conversion products include 10-bit and 12-bit ADCs operating at 80 MSPS, and 10-bit and 12-bit DACs operating at 320 MSPS.
  
  
• Synopsys Introduces Industry's First 28-nm Multi-Gear MIPI Alliance M-PHY IP Supporting Six Standards for Mobile Applications (Wednesday Feb. 29, 2012)
  Synopsys today announced availability of a new DesignWare® MIPI M-PHY IP solution supporting multiple speed gears and a broad range of high-speed interfaces for mobile applications.
  
  
• Synopsys and Arteris Develop IP Solution to Reduce Mobile Phone Memory Costs (Wednesday Feb. 29, 2012)
  Synopsys and Arteris today announced their joint analog and digital IP solutions to implement the MIPI Alliance Low Latency Interface (LLI) 1.0 specification.
  
  
• Arteris Unveils FlexLLI MIPI Alliance Low Latency Interface (MIPI LLI) IP to Reduce Mobile Phone Cost (Wednesday Feb. 29, 2012)
  Arteris today announced availability of its FlexLLI™ digital controller IP that implements the MIPI Alliance Low Latency Interface (LLI) 1.0 interchip communication specification. This chip-to-chip interface IP is silicon proven, having been implemented in the industry's first systems on chip (SoCs) that have LLI, including the OMAP5430 from TI.
  
  
• Cortus Announces FPS6 32 bit Floating Point Microcontroller IP Core for High Performance Control and Signal Processing Applications (Tuesday Feb. 28, 2012)
  Cortus extends family of 32 bit modern RISC microcontroller IP cores with high performance FPS6 microcontroller IP core. The FPS6 is aimed at demanding floating point applications such as industrial control & smart grid and is capable of multi-processor configuration.
  
  
• Imagination Technologies: PowerVR graphics driving mass market smartphone graphics adoption (Tuesday Feb. 28, 2012)
  Imagination Technologies announces that the first two cores of its new PowerVR Series6 ‘Rogue’ family, G6200 and G6400, are now available and deliver the highest performance for all markets.
  
  
• RivieraWaves Adds 802.11n and 802.11ac Silicon IP to Portfolio (Monday Feb. 27, 2012)
  RivieraWaves announced the expansion of its Intellectual Property (IP) portfolio with IP families for Wi-Fi™ 802.11n and 802.11ac specifications. RivieraWaves now has the broadest wireless connectivity IP portfolio with a complete offering for Bluetooth® and Wi-Fi™.
  
  
• Posedge Announces NVM Express Compliant Flash Controller IP Core (Monday Feb. 27, 2012)
  Posedge has expanded its NAND Flash Controller IP portfolio by announcing the availability of NVM Express compliant Flash Controller IP Core.
  
  
• Tensilica HiFi Audio DSP Supports Dolby Digital Plus for Surround Sound on Mobile Devices (Monday Feb. 27, 2012)
  Tensilica, Inc. today announced the immediate availability of Dolby Laboratories' newest technology suite optimized for mobile entertainment experiences - Dolby Digital Plus - on its popular HiFi Audio DSPs. Now designers of SOCs (systems on chips) for mobile devices can enable stunning audio settings, including full 5.1-channel HD audio.
  
  
• First 28nm ARM Cortex-A9 Processor Optimization Pack now Available for GLOBALFOUNDRIES 28nm-SLP HKMG Process (Thursday Feb. 23, 2012)
  ARM today announced the availability of the ARM(R) Cortex(TM)-A9 MPCore(TM) Processor Optimization Pack (POP) for GLOBALFOUNDRIES' 28nm-SLP High-K Metal Gate process technology.