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Semi IP licensing growth slows, vendor ranking stabilizes
Semi IP licensing growth slows, vendor ranking stabilizes
Market news |
The pace of growth for the market for semiconductor intellectual property (IP) slowed in 2014 after four years of double-digit…
Chip market growth was strong Q1 in US, China
Chip market growth was strong Q1 in US, China
Market news |
The global chip market continued to be a tale of contrasting fortunes with Europe and Japanese markets contracting and the…
No-cost “light” design tool edition from Xilinx speeds system verification
No-cost “light” design tool edition from Xilinx speeds system verification
New Products |
Xilinx’ Vivado Design Suite 2015.1 embodies major productivity advances for the development and deployment of All Programmable FPGAs and SoCs.
How the 3 Cs are driving IC consumption
How the 3 Cs are driving IC consumption
Market news |
The communications, computers and consumer electronics sectors are set to be responsible for more than 70 percent of IC sales…

How the 3 Cs drive IC consumption
How the 3 Cs drive IC consumption
Market news |
The communications, computers and consumer electronics sectors are set to be responsible for more than 70 percent of IC sales in every geographic region – Americas, Europe, Japan, and Asia-Pacific…
Gartner lowers 2015 chip market growth forecast
Gartner lowers 2015 chip market growth forecast
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A mix of currency shifts, excess inventory and the end a PC upgrade cycle is set to slow growth in the global semiconductor market to 4 percent in 2015, according…
Configurable mixed-signal IC hosts high-accuracy analogue functions
Configurable mixed-signal IC hosts high-accuracy analogue functions
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Silego Technology’s SLG46140V GreenPAK configurable mixed-signal IC (CMIC) contains the company’s 4th generation analogue and digital components in 1.6 x 2.0 mm, 14-pin STQFN.
Intel’s 10nm secrets predicted
Intel’s 10nm secrets predicted
Technology News |
A semiconductor analyst is making a bold and detailed prediction about the process technology Intel Corp. will use for its next two generations. If he is right, the world’s largest…
WSTS marks America up for 2015 boom
WSTS marks America up for 2015 boom
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The market for semiconductors in the Americas region will grow by 15 percent in 2015, according to a revised estimate from the World Semiconductor Trade Statistics (WSTS) organization.
Real-time HD video stabilisation targets surveillance on the move
Real-time HD video stabilisation targets surveillance on the move
Technology News |
RFEL's off-the-shelf solution for real-time HD video stabilisation, the StableEyesHD comes as a plug-and-play box design able to perform video corrections on the horizontal and vertical axis up to +-…
Redesign service offered for mixed-signal, digital ASICs
Redesign service offered for mixed-signal, digital ASICs
Technology News |
Engineering services company MAZeT GmbH is offering to redesign mixed-signal and digital ICs as a means of protecting embedded systems developers against discontinued parts.
Fitness, sports monitor market stretches higher
Fitness, sports monitor market stretches higher
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The market for fitness and sports wearable equipment for monitoring was worth $1.25 billion in 2014, up 13 percent from 2013, according to market research and analysis company Silverblip Ltd.
Fitness, sports monitor market reaches higher
Fitness, sports monitor market reaches higher
Market news |
The market for fitness and sports wearable equipment for monitoring was worth $1.25 billion in 2014, up 13 percent from 2013, according to market research and analysis company Silverblip Ltd.
System-on-chip debug firm appoints former PicoChip exec as CEO
System-on-chip debug firm appoints former PicoChip exec as CEO
Feature articles |
UltraSoC Technologies, a Cambridge, UK company working to commercially implement new techniques of debugging and analytical technology for multiprocessor embedded systems, has appointed Rupert Baines as CEO.
Debug firm appoints former PicoChip exec as CEO
Debug firm appoints former PicoChip exec as CEO
Business news |
UltraSoC Technologies Ltd., a pioneer of debugging and analytical technology for multiprocessor embedded systems, has appointed Rupert Baines as CEO.
Intel, Samsung up, Qualcomm, Toshiba down in chip vendor ranking
Intel, Samsung up, Qualcomm, Toshiba down in chip vendor ranking
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Gartner Inc. has produced an updated top-ten chip vendor ranking for 2014 based on companies' final financial results.
Wafer-level packages eliminate “under-bump metallisation” for under 0.5 mm profile
Wafer-level packages eliminate “under-bump metallisation” for under 0.5 mm profile
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Altera and TSMC, for the former’s MAX 10 FPGA products, are extending their collaboration on embedded flash technology at 55 nm with what they are calling a “unique packaging innovation”…
Radiation-tolerant FPGAs for high-speed signal processing
Radiation-tolerant FPGAs for high-speed signal processing
Feature articles |
Microsemi’s RTG4 series is added to the company’s RT (radiaiton-tolerant) FPGAs, providing 150 k logic elements and 300 MHz performance.
Radiation-tolerant FPGAs run at up to 300MHz
Radiation-tolerant FPGAs run at up to 300MHz
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Microsemi's RTG4 high-speed signal processing radiation-tolerant FPGA family relies on reprogrammable flash technology to offer complete immunity to radiation-induced configuration upsets in the harshest radiation environments, requiring no configuration scrubbing,…
European chip market turns ‘schizophrenic’
European chip market turns ‘schizophrenic’
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Euro-dollar exchange rates affected European chip market figures significantly in February 2015 with the three-month average of European chip market showing growth when interpreted in euros and showing a decline…
IP for Xilinx programmables generates video over IP connectivity implementations
IP for Xilinx programmables generates video over IP connectivity implementations
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Xilinx’ latest generation of Video over IP connectivity solutions is intended to address the industry’s transition to all IP-based networks. These new connectivity solutions enable ‘any media over any network’…
FPGA cores support any media over any network
FPGA cores support any media over any network
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Xilinx' latest generation of Video over IP connectivity solutions address the industry’s transition to all IP-based networks. These connectivity solutions enable 'any media over any network’ transport capabilities to the…
Jobs, change and taxes
Jobs, change and taxes
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It's the end of the first quarter of 2015 and of the UK tax year. So how are we doing? We're doing pretty well, at least in northern Europe.
Analysts cool on Intel/Altera combo
Analysts cool on Intel/Altera combo
Business news |
Wall Street’s excitement on Friday over reports x86 giant Intel Corp. was in talks to acquire FPGA maker Altera has left some analysts cold on Monday morning.
Fastest 8051 IP core runs at 29x original 80C51 performance
Fastest 8051 IP core runs at 29x original 80C51 performance
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Polish IP company Digital Core Design’s DQ8051 IP, for FPGA or ASIC implementation, is an extremely-fast implementation of the 8051 MCU core that has a Dhrystone 2.1 performance rating of…
PMC module hosts high-density user-programmable FPGA
PMC module hosts high-density user-programmable FPGA
New Products |
TEWS Technologies (Halstenbek, Germany) has the TPMC634, a standard single-width 33 MHz 32-bit PMC module providing a user programmable FPGA with front-I/O and P14 rear-I/O. The TPMC634 is designed for…
All-programmable video platform allows ‘any to any’ video connectivity
All-programmable video platform allows ‘any to any’ video connectivity
New Products |
Xilinx has an offering for the professional video sector that it says enables any media, over any network; this generation of solutions for 4K/Ultra-HD and 8K/Super Hi Vision includes ‘any…
FPGA-based, single chip “intelligent vision” with embedded analytics
FPGA-based, single chip “intelligent vision” with embedded analytics
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Altera and IP provider Eutecus have collaborated to produce a single chip implementation of Eutecus’ ReCo Platform that provides embedded, multi-channel HD Video analytics for intelligent lighting, traffic monitoring and…


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