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Archive for November 2007

Exsilicon Unveils PCI Express Endpoint Design IP Core

Posted by Ken Cheung in IP Cores on Friday, November 30, 2007

Exsilicon Technologies Pvt. Ltd, a global semiconductor company for design of IP core, announced the introduction of PCI express endpoint design IP Core for fast bandwidth applications. The design is based on PCIe 2.0 specifications and is suitable for high speed advanced systems due to its 32 bit and 8 channel architecture. The interfaces of the core are made flexible to configure and support any type of applications available in the present market. Advanced error reporting is available to improve the hit ratio for malformed TLP and for effective functioning of the core.

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Lambda Introduces HWS1000 1000W Industrial Power Supplies

Posted by Ken Cheung in Components on Friday, November 30, 2007

Lambda has extended its successful HWS family of single output industrial power supplies with the introduction of a powerful 1000W version. Coming with a five-year warranty, the new HWS1000 series is ideal for powering industrial equipment that demands very high reliability and long field-life.

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Nanoscience Announces Strategic Development, Distribution Alliance

Posted by Ken Cheung in Wireless on Friday, November 30, 2007

Nanoscience is pleased to announce that its wholly owned subsidiary, Toumaz Technology Limited (‘Toumaz’), has entered into a Strategic Development and Distribution Alliance (the ‘Alliance’) with a leading global medical devices business (the ‘Strategic Partner’). Through the Alliance it is intended that the two parties will develop agreed solutions, incorporating Toumaz’s Amx(TM) technology and its Sensium platform, that will be sold into global healthcare markets with the objective of becoming global leaders in handheld and body worn wireless diagnostic and monitoring products. It is envisaged that these next generation monitoring products will be disposable, non invasive and capable of providing real time critical vital sign information. From the inception of the Alliance Toumaz will receive funds from its Strategic Partner for further development work.

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SystemCrafter Releases Version 3.0 of SC SystemC Synthesis Tool

Posted by Ken Cheung in EDA Tools on Friday, November 30, 2007

SystemCrafter announced Version 3.0 of the award-winning SystemCrafter SC SystemC package. This new version of the tool has improved SystemC coverage, and now allows synthesis to Verilog as well as VHDL.

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SPIRIT DSP Creates HD-enabled Version of TeamSpirit Voice&Video Engine

Posted by Ken Cheung in Wireless on Friday, November 30, 2007

SPIRIT DSP, the world’s leading provider of voice and video software engines, announced the HD-enabled version of its flagship product TeamSpirit® Voice&Video Engine. The engine, available for both PC and mobile platforms, is now upgraded with new features to empower high definition video conferencing terminals and mobile devices with outstanding quality wideband voice and seamless video.

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PLDA Licenses PLDA EZ DMA IP Core to Great River

Posted by Ken Cheung in FPGAs,IP Cores on Friday, November 30, 2007

PLDA, the industry leader in the high-speed bus IP market, announced that Great River Technology has licensed PLDA’s EZ DMA IP core for Xilinx® 65nm Virtex(TM)-5 FPGAs. The PLDA core will be integrated into Great River Technology’s MATRIX PCIe4 high speed ARINC 818 video card for the avionics industry.

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CES Design Adopts Mentor Graphics Questa Verification Technology

Posted by Ken Cheung in EDA Tools on Friday, November 30, 2007

Mentor Graphics Corporation (Nasdaq:MENT) announced that the Chip Design team at Siemens IT Solutions and Services PSE, publicly known as CES Design Services, has adopted an advanced verification flow based on Mentor’s Questa® functional verification platform and the Questa Advanced Verification Methodology (AVM). The Questa platform and AVM allow CES Design Services to leverage the power of SystemVerilog to attain first pass silicon success.

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IR’s SupIRBuck DC-DC Regulators Simplify Embedded Power Designs

Posted by Ken Cheung in Components on Thursday, November 29, 2007

International Rectifier, IR® (NYSE:IRF), a world leader in power management technology, introduced the SupIRBuck(TM) family of versatile wide input, single output synchronous buck voltage regulators for high density, high performance data center applications.

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OKI Rolls Out ML8511 SOI-CMOS Technology-based UV Sensor ICs

Posted by Ken Cheung in Components on Thursday, November 29, 2007

Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd. (TOKYO:6703) announced it has started volume shipment of its ultraviolet (UV) sensor ICs, ML8511, starting this month. OKI plans to ship over 100 thousand chips to Hong Kong and the Chinese markets this year.

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Cadence, Micronas Improve Development Process with Verification Audit

Posted by Ken Cheung in EDA Tools on Thursday, November 29, 2007

Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CDNS), the leader in global electronic-design innovation, announced that Micronas has selected the Cadence® Incisive® Plan-to-Closure Methodology and Incisive Enterprise Manager for verification planning after a joint full functional verification audit helped discover and correct process flaws and areas of improvement for Micronas’ overall product development process. In addition, the audit helped bridge communications gaps and improve planning for various project development teams within differing times zones. As a result of the audit, Micronas chose Incisive Specman Elite® Testbench automation. Using Specman Elite’s automation capabilities supported Micronas’ wide efforts of reducing their design cycle times.

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