Agilent Introduces Six New W1314A Measurement Receivers
Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE:A) announced six new models for its W1314A measurement receiver platform that offer expanded band coverage. They are designed to simultaneously measure all wireless technologies in all RF bands in a given market using a single unit. The Agilent receivers enable network equipment manufacturers and wireless operators’ RF engineering teams to effectively deploy, optimize and troubleshoot all technologies in their own networks by quickly identifying coverage and interference problems. In addition, they offer the ability to assess how all competitive networks in the market compare from an overall coverage perspective, regardless of the technology they use.
TCMC, Ponte to Provide DFM Solutions to Toshiba Business Units
Ponte Solutions(tm) announced an agreement with the Corporate Manufacturing Engineering Center (TCMC), a center of Toshiba Corporation, to deliver advanced DFM solutions to Toshiba semiconductor business units. The first joint effort will provide Ponte’s via and contact etch modeling capability to Toshiba semiconductor manufacturing groups resulting in acceleration in delivery of advanced process technologies.
TI OMAP-DM510 Multimedia Coprocessor Improves Mobile Imaging, Video
A news-breaking event, a baby’s first steps, a winning goal in the final seconds of a game are all milestones that occur in the blink of an eye and shape peoples’ lives. In order to capture these important events spontaneously when they occur, consumers demand an ever-present device that delivers the vividness and accuracy they’ve come to expect from standalone cameras, and mobile phones are increasingly the answer. To address this demand, Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) (NYSE: TXN) has expanded its OMAP(TM) processor portfolio to include a line of coprocessors that boost the multimedia and imaging performance of mobile phones. The newest device in this family is the OMAP-DM510 coprocessor which improves the user experience of advanced handset capabilities with support for up to eight mega pixel still images and DVD-quality video capabilities.
Texas Instruments Announces NaviLink 6.0 GPS, Bluetooth, FM Solution
Addressing increasing consumer demand for GPS, Bluetooth wireless technology and FM radio in mobile handsets, Texas Instruments Incorporated (NYSE: TXN) (TI) announced its NaviLink 6.0(TM) (NL5500) solution, the industry’s first single chip that combines assisted global positioning satellite (A-GPS), Bluetooth 2.1 and ultra low power technologies, as well as FM receive/transmit capabilities. Built on TI’s DRP(TM) single-chip technology at 65 nanometer (nm), the highly-integrated and cost-effective solution enables manufacturers to introduce sleek, affordable and high-performance handsets with GPS capabilities to the large mid-tier market and drive increased usage of popular GPS-based applications such as 3-D mapping, location-based services and safety services. The mobile user experience is further enhanced by enabling consumers to enjoy simultaneous activities such as navigating, having a conversation using a Bluetooth headset, while also transmitting an MP3 file to the car radio using the FM transmit capability.
Ricor Cryogenic Acquires InnerSense, Smart Wafer Technology
Ricor Cryogenic & Vacuum Systems, a manufacturer of semiconductor manufacturing equipment, announced the acquisition of InnerSense Ltd. Ricor thus expands its activities from cryogenic equipment and purging solutions to diagnostic systems. InnerSense has developed the “Smart Wafer” technology that provides engineers the means to record the forces acting on a wafer as it is handled by wafer fabrication equipment. This approach delivers a significant yield boost as it provides a statistical monitoring method for abnormal mechanical events in IC manufacturing and can be used as a cornerstone of an intelligent maintenance program (High Precision Maintenance) by routinely measuring equipment wear in a non invasive approach.
Synopsys Introduces Design Compiler Graphical Synthesis Product
Synopsys, Inc. (NASDAQ: SNPS), a world leader in software and IP for semiconductor design and manufacturing, unveiled its new Design Compiler® Graphical synthesis product that shortens implementation time for system-on-chip (SoC) devices by helping RTL designers avoid wire-routing congestion problems that typically occur during detailed route. Design Compiler Graphical is the industry’s first synthesis solution that predicts circuit congestion “hot spots” early in the design flow, provides designers with visualization of the congested circuit regions and performs synthesis optimizations to minimize congestion in these areas. The ability to predict, visualize and alleviate routing problems prior to physical implementation substantially reduces iterations between synthesis and place-and-route, and can significantly lower project time, effort and cost.
Synopsys Star-RCXT Extraction Product Offers Dual-Core Support
Synopsys, Inc. (NASDAQ: SNPS), a world leader in software and IP for semiconductor design and manufacturing, announced that its Star-RCXT(TM) parasitic extraction product offers customers a near 2X performance boost over the previous release with dual-core support as part of the company’s comprehensive multi-core initiative. The Star-RCXT product works seamlessly with popular commercial grid computing management software maximizing efficiency across multi-core processors as well as multi-processor compute farms.
Virtutech Debuts Simics 4.0 Deterministic Multithreading VSD Platform
Virtutech, Inc., the leader in virtualized software development (VSD), announced Simics 4.0, the new release of the company’s flagship VSD platform. Simics 4.0 embraces a completely new approach to delivering performance and scalability improvements to simulation capabilities as well as additional APIs to support more use cases and a repository that leverages the thousands of models accrued since Simics’ first release. With Simics 4.0, Virtutech is leading the charge for widespread simulation adoption by delivering the speed and scalability necessary to enable software development not only well ahead of hardware availability but throughout the complete development cycle to realize quality, productivity and time-to-market advantages.
ABI Research Publishes Wi-Fi IC Market Share Analysis and Forecasts
New market data released by ABI Research shows that about 440 million Wi-Fi chipsets will be shipped over the course of 2008. This represents a tenfold increase over the number shipped in 2003; but over the same five-year period, the revenues they produced have multiplied by only five.
IAR Embedded Workbench Features ThreadX RTOS Support for ColdFire
Express Logic, Inc., the worldwide leader in royalty-free real-time operating systems (RTOS), and IAR Systems, the world-leading supplier of tools for 8-, 16-, and 32-bit microcontrollers, announced that IAR Embedded Workbench now supports Express Logic’s ThreadX RTOS. Developers using ThreadX now can elect to use IAR Embedded Workbench IDE for their ColdFire software development tools.
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