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Startup offers embedded memory IP
Startup offers embedded memory IP
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Memoir Systems Inc. is a 2009 startup company that has begun offering embedded memory intellectual property aimed at SoCs being…
Managing IP quality in the SoC era
Managing IP quality in the SoC era
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With the steady advancement of manufacturing process geometries enabling new levels of integration on a single chip, the use of…
ECC IP features configurable BCH
ECC IP features configurable BCH
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Arasan Chip Systems has added an ONFI 3.0 PHY to its Flash storage solution. Arasan's existing ONFI 3.0 NAND Flash…
Introducing the LT3070 Point-of-Load Regulator for FPGA & Server Backplanes
Introducing the LT3070 Point-of-Load Regulator for FPGA & Server Backplanes
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Modern FPGAs and servers operating at low voltages are sensitive to subtle supply drops. The droop may result from…

Embedded instrumentation for high-speed RAM access test
Embedded instrumentation for high-speed RAM access test
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Goepel electronic has developed a series of special ChipVORX model libraries for FPGA assisted test (FAT) of RAM devices. Structured as modular, intelligent IP and developed in close cooperation with…
Microchip adds PLD to PIC
Microchip adds PLD to PIC
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At the Embedded Systems Conference in Boston, Microchip introduced several new 8-bit PIC microcontrollers (MCUs) that feature configurable logic and a higher level of peripheral integration in 6- to 20-pin…
FPGA-controlled test inserts automate board debugging
FPGA-controlled test inserts automate board debugging
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Asset InterTech has unveiled the ScanWorks FPGA-controlled test (FCT) toolset, enabling users of the company's ScanWorks platform to simply select instruments they need, set their parameters and insert them into…
Gartner warns over semiconductor inventory levels
Gartner warns over semiconductor inventory levels
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Days of inventory of semiconductors are at “worrisome levels given current conditions,” according to market research firm, Gartner. The expectation is that an inventory correction is due in late 2011.
Jur-ASIC Parts program recreates obsolete and non-linear audio devices
Jur-ASIC Parts program recreates obsolete and non-linear audio devices
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JVD Inc, provider of analog and mixed-signal ASIC design, manufacturing and test services, announced its JurASIC Parts Program, a design service that focuses on bringing obsolete and non-linear audio (NLA)…
Fujitsu and Fraunhofer IIS join research efforts on nanometre chips
Fujitsu and Fraunhofer IIS join research efforts on nanometre chips
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In exchanging expertise and granting mutual access to their IP pools, Fujitsu Semiconductor Europe and the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits (IIS) are facilitating the development of future-proof nanometre chips…
File multiformat transcoding market grew 72% in 2010, says In-Stat
File multiformat transcoding market grew 72% in 2010, says In-Stat
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New devices and new formats will drive the number of profiles required to be generated by multiformat transcoders upward. While processor and product improvements will enable more from each transcoder,…
CICC talk: Graphene could succeed CMOS
CICC talk: Graphene could succeed CMOS
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CMOS semiconductor technology could run out of gas at about 7 nm in 2024, and graphene is the leading candidate to replace it, according to a keynote address to be…
Altera demos floating-point DSP flow with FPGAs
Altera demos floating-point DSP flow with FPGAs
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Claiming an industry first, programmable logic vendor Altera Corp. said Monday (Sept. 12) it demonstrated a new floating-point digital signal processing (DSP) design flow using FPGAs. According to Altera (San…
Xilinx FPGA shows 3-D IC progress
Xilinx FPGA shows 3-D IC progress
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Xilinx will sample this fall an FPGA that packs two million logic cells thanks to use of an emerging stacked silicon interconnect. The chip shows progress in so-called 2.5-generation silicon…
RF Engines offers FPGA performance gains with 52-Gsps Pipeline FFT cores
RF Engines offers FPGA performance gains with 52-Gsps Pipeline FFT cores
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RF Engines Limited (RFEL) has set what the company believes to be an unprecedented performance benchmark for commercially available Pipeline Fast Fourier Transform (PFFT) cores on FPGA. The HyperSpeed Plus…
Multi-core communications processors with unparalleled scalability to 640 NXCPUs
Multi-core communications processors with unparalleled scalability to 640 NXCPUs
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NetLogic Microsystems announced the XLP II family of multi-core processors, what the company claims to be the industry's most advanced and highest performance communications multicore-processors for next-generation LTE mobile infrastructure,…
USB 3.0-SATA3 bridge SoC supports high-speed UASP protocol
USB 3.0-SATA3 bridge SoC supports high-speed UASP protocol
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Renesas Electronics launched its SuperSpeed Universal Serial Bus (USB 3.0) SATA3 bridge system-on-chip (SoC), enabling data transfer between a USB3.0 host system and a Serial ATA (SATA) device in external…
The universal IP platform and European IP start-ups to watch
The universal IP platform and European IP start-ups to watch
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The Design Automation Conference (DAC) has evolved over the years, from something that was a major trade show prior to 2002 to a small focused conference today for the EDA…
Achieving Gen2 Serial RapidIO throughput with low cost, low power FPGAs
Achieving Gen2 Serial RapidIO throughput with low cost, low power FPGAs
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As bandwidth requirements for applications such as wireless, wireline and medical/imaging processing continue to expand, designers depend on tool sets that provide them with the real-time signal processing capabilities that…
28Gbit/s-enabled FPGAs aimed at next-generation 100G systems
28Gbit/s-enabled FPGAs aimed at next-generation 100G systems
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Altera has started shipping FPGAs featuring 28Gbit/s transceivers, claiming that its Stratix V GT devices are the industry's highest bandwidth and highest performance FPGAs available today. JDSU has been named…
Rochester Electronics reinstates manufacturing of AMCC’s standard products
Rochester Electronics reinstates manufacturing of AMCC’s standard products
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Manufacturer and distributor of end-of-life and mature semiconductors, Rochester Electronics is now providing continuing manufacturing services for more than 50 products from Applied Micro Circuits Corporation's standard semiconductor product portfolio.
‘Unbreakable’ security IP now on Flash-based cSoCs
‘Unbreakable’ security IP now on Flash-based cSoCs
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Microsemi is now offering Intrinsic-ID’s Quiddikey security intellectual property (IP) on its flash-based devices and development boards, which includes the company's patented physical unclonable function (PUF) technology, enabling an added…
Two industrial networking kits to win based on the Terasic DE2-115 FPGA board
Two industrial networking kits to win based on the Terasic DE2-115 FPGA board
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Altera has expanded its industrial networking partner program to include IP and Terasic's industrial networking kit (INK) featuring Altera's Cyclone IV E FPGA. The kit is a full-featured hardware platform…
Triad offers 1 million gates plus analog
Triad offers 1 million gates plus analog
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Triad Semiconductor Inc., whose via-configurable arrays offer programmable analog with a microcontroller, has announced the availability of its largest configurable array to date, the VCA-6, with more than one million…
New release of design software delivers more robust designs for low power, cost sensitive FPGA applications
New release of design software delivers more robust designs for low power, cost sensitive FPGA applications
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Lattice Semiconductor Corporation has release 1.3 of its Lattice Diamond design software, the flagship design environment for Lattice FPGA products. Users of Lattice Diamond 1.3 software will benefit from major…
Mobile FPGAs from 640 to 16K logic cells on 40 nm low-power standard CMOS process
Mobile FPGAs from 640 to 16K logic cells on 40 nm low-power standard CMOS process
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SiliconBlue launched “Los Angeles”, what the company describes as a Custom Mobile Device (CMD) platform. Designed for handheld applications, the fully functioning samples of the new iCE40 “Los Angeles” mobileFPGA…
Mobile FPGAs from 640 to 16K logic cells on 40nm low-power standard CMOS process
Mobile FPGAs from 640 to 16K logic cells on 40nm low-power standard CMOS process
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SiliconBlue launched “Los Angeles”, what the company describes as a Custom Mobile Device (CMD) platform. Designed for handheld applications, the fully functioning samples of the new iCE40 “Los Angeles” mobileFPGA…
Low cost FPGA now PCIe 2.0 compliant
Low cost FPGA now PCIe 2.0 compliant
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Latice Semiconductor has announced that its LatticECP3 family of low cost FPGAs can now meet PCI Express 2.0 compliance at 2.5Gbit/s using the company’s IP core. The FPGA/IP platform has…


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