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Archive for November 2009

Aldec Debuts Riviera-PRO LV Low-cost Linux RTL and Gate-level Simulator

Posted by Ken Cheung in Models, Simulations on Monday, November 16, 2009

Aldec Corporation, a leader in RTL Simulation and Electronic Design Automation (EDA), announced a low-cost Linux RTL Simulator. Aldec unveils a new configuration that supports both Linux and Windows® mixed-language VHDL/Verilog® simulation. Riviera-PRO[TM] LV is a multi-platform RTL and gate-level simulator that supports IEEE VHDL, Verilog® and SystemVerilog (Design) IEEE standard, Xilinx SecureIP, and VHDL/Verilog IP encryption.

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Gemalto One-Time Password Service Directly on Mobile Devices

Posted by Ken Cheung in Wireless on Monday, November 16, 2009

Trusted Logic, the leader in Trusted Execution Environments, announces the availability of Gemalto’s One-Time Password (OTP) service directly on the mobile phone’s main processing unit. Thanks to Trusted Logic’s Trusted Foundations[TM], the OTP service runs securely on the device’s main processor. OTP allows the implementation of a two-factor authentication method, which is now required in many countries for home banking and e-commerce transactions.

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Cadence, Toshiba Target Next Generation Mobile, Consumer SoC Designs

Posted by Ken Cheung in EDA Tools on Monday, November 16, 2009

Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CDNS), the leader in global design innovation, announced that it has extended and expanded the scope of its recently announced relationship with Toshiba Corporation for COT (customer-owned tooling) and SoC design targeting the growing and increasingly complex mobile and consumer markets.

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RAVEN Visual Analyzer for IBM Rational Requirements Composer

Posted by Ken Cheung in Software on Monday, November 16, 2009

Ravenflow, the leader in visual requirements definition software, and Prolifics, the world’s largest end-to-end systems integrator specializing in IBM technologies, announced the immediate availability of RAVEN Visual Analyzer for IBM Rational Requirements Composer, a seamless embedded plug-in for IBM Rational Requirements Composer (RRC) that improves the way stakeholders elicit, specify, and validate business requirements. By visualizing and validating requirements before developing, organizations can dramatically cut implementation time and delivery cost.

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Samsung Electronics Bada Mobile OS

Posted by Ken Cheung in Research,RTOS,Wireless on Monday, November 16, 2009

Samsung Electronics will unveil its new open mobile platform, Bada, next month. Samsung seems to be following a trend of OSs that is “open” yet proprietary. The name “Bada” is Korean for “ocean.” The name was chosen “to convey the limitless variety of potential applications that can be created using the new platform,” according to the company’s statement. Market research firm In-Stat believes the name is ironically appropriate as it highlights the almost limitless variety of mobile OSs as Bada joins Symbian, Android, Maemo, LiMo, WebOS, Windows Mobile, RIM, OSX, and Moblin to name a few.

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AXIOMTEK Introduces iCON-32300 Industrial Ethernet Extenders

Posted by Ken Cheung in Industrial,Networking on Friday, November 13, 2009

The typical UTP cable cannot over 100 meters length per segment. To break the standard distance barriers, AXIOMTEK introduces iCON-32300 industrial Ethernet extenders which can extend Ethernet connectivity in existing facilities over existing copper telephone wire or coaxial cable without pulling extra cable. These reliable and rugged devices with advantages of wide operating temperature range and long MTBF are ideal for building automation, security surveillance, digital signage, factory automation, and ITS (Intelligent Transportation System).

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Crossware Becomes Member of ARM Connected Community

Posted by Ken Cheung in EDA Tools on Friday, November 13, 2009

Crossware, a leading embedded software tools developer, announced it is a new member in the ARM Connected Community, the industry’s largest ecosystem of ARM technology-based products and services. As part of the ARM Connected Community, Crossware will gain access to a full range of resources to help it market and deploy innovative solutions that will enable developers to get their ARM Powered products to market faster.

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Mentor Graphics Joins SOI Industry Consortium

Posted by Ken Cheung in EDA Tools on Friday, November 13, 2009

The SOI Industry Consortium, aimed at accelerating silicon-on-insulator (SOI) innovation into broad markets, announced that Mentor Graphics Corporation (Nasdaq: MENT) has joined the worldwide organization. Mentor is a global leader in electronic hardware and software design solutions. As an active member and a leader in design enablement, Mentor will expand EDA tool and methodology support for SOI technology. This engagement connects Mentor’s strengths in low-power solutions with the inherent energy-efficiency benefits of SOI technology.

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MIPS Alliance Program Welcomes Arphic Technology

Posted by Ken Cheung in IP Cores on Friday, November 13, 2009

MIPS Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: MIPS), a leading provider of industry-standard processor architectures and cores, announced that Arphic Technology Co., Ltd. has joined the MIPS® Alliance Program to provide professional font support for a variety of digital devices, including cell phones, netbooks, e-book readers, display panels, DTVs, set-top boxes, and more. A large number of MIPS Technologies’ licensees already use Arphic’s embedded font technology to reduce development time and bring competitive products to market faster.

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Intel and AMD Settle Antitrust and Legal Disputes

Posted by Ken Cheung in Microcontrollers on Thursday, November 12, 2009

Intel Corporation and Advanced Micro Devices (NYSE: AMD) announced a comprehensive agreement to end all outstanding legal disputes between the companies, including antitrust litigation and patent cross license disputes. In a joint statement the two companies commented, “While the relationship between the two companies has been difficult in the past, this agreement ends the legal disputes and enables the companies to focus all of our efforts on product innovation and development.”

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