CEVA Announces Functional Silicon for TeakLite-III DSP Core
CEVA, Inc. [(Nasdaq: CEVA); (LSE: CVA)], a leading licensor of silicon intellectual property (SIP) platform solutions and DSP cores, announced the availability of fully-functional silicon for the 32-bit CEVA-TeakLite-III DSP core. The first chips were produced on SMIC’s 90nm process and exceeded 600MHz. SoC developers can leverage the newly available silicon to dramatically reduce the risk, design effort, development cost and time-to-market associated with designing a wide range of wireless, consumer and portable products addressed by the CEVA-TeakLite-III DSP core.
APTX Targets High Definition Audio Video with apt-X Lossless
APTX, a leading developer of licensable intellectual-property for high-performance audio compression, states its intention to engage with the high-definition audio-video segment of the digital entertainment applications market with a radical, new design of “lossless” audio codec codenamed apt-X Lossless. Renowned in broadcast engineering and studio post production for its commercially successful series of low-latency apt-X audio codecs – Standard apt-X, Enhanced apt-X, and recently, apt-X Live – APTX today announces the imminent availability of a “lossless” audio compression solution, the product of a concentrated internal R&D program, targeted for applications in fast-growing consumer multimedia applications. apt-X Lossless, the latest addition to the apt-X series of audio compression solutions for consumer, professional and broadcast applications, offers up to 96 kHz sampling rates and sample resolutions up to 24 bits.
MIPS USB 2.0 High-Speed PHY IP Achieves TSMC9000, USB-IF Certification
MIPS Technologies, Inc. (NasdaqGS: MIPS), a leading provider of industry-standard architectures, processors and analog IP for digital consumer, home networking, wireless, communications and business applications, announced that its 40nm USB 2.0 High-Speed PHY IP achieved certification from the USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF) and met TSMC’s TSMC9000 standards in its 40nm LP process. MIPS Technologies has among the world’s highest number of USB IP certifications across numerous foundries and technology nodes, with the majority in TSMC processes.
GCT Semiconductor Selects MIPS Analog Front Ends
MIPS Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: MIPS), a leading provider of industry-standard architectures, processors and analog IP for digital consumer, home networking, wireless, communications and business applications, announced that GCT Semiconductor, Inc., a leading supplier of Mobile WiMAX(TM) solutions to the global market, is leveraging a range of its advanced Analog Front Ends (AFEs) to support highly-integrated single-chip and chipset solutions for Mobile WiMAX and WiFi connectivity. Several of the MIPS(R) AFEs for wireless broadband communications are integrated into products that are already shipping. Recently GCT added a new AFE from MIPS Technologies to its portfolio.
APT Licensing Expands Digital Audio Compression Licensing Business
APT Licensing Ltd. announced the further expansion of its digital audio compression licensing business using the substantial proceeds from the sale of its former broadcast hardware division to the Audemat group, a leading manufacturer of innovative digital communications equipment to the television and radio broadcast industry and telecommunications operators. APT Ltd., the former broadcast hardware division and subsidiary of parent holding company APT Licensing Ltd., now joins the Audemat group of broadcast equipment companies, and continues to design and manufacture the successful range of APT branded WorldNet and WorldCast series of hardware codecs and mulitplexers for use in professional audio. Other recent acquisitions by Audemat include broadcast equipment makers ECRESO and Nortek.
NXP, MIPS Team for First 45nm HDMI 1.3 Receiver IP Solution
MIPS Technologies, Inc. (NasdaqGS: MIPS), a leading provider of industry-standard architectures, processors and analog IP for digital consumer, home networking, wireless, communications and business applications, announced that its cooperation with NXP Semiconductors has resulted in the industry’s first 45nm HDMI 1.3 receiver IP solution. The companies announced one year ago that they were extending their strategic relationship to offer HDMI-based IP solutions for digital home applications, including high-definition DTVs and display units, A/V receivers and set-top boxes. Created through a combination of co-development and co-licensing, the HDMI receiver IP is integrated in NXP’s global digital TV solution: TV550 platform, and is available for license as IP from MIPS Technologies.
Renesas Logical- and Physical-layer IP Support PCI Express 2.0
Renesas Technology America, Inc. announced the development of a new logical- and physical-layer intellectual property (IP) conforming to PCI Express Base Specification Revision 2.0 (PCI Express 2.0 or PCIe 2.0), the latest version of the widely used serial interface standard. This IP allows data transfers at up to 5.0 gigabits per second (5Gbps) and supports the 65-nm semiconductor process node. Further, it was one of the first to receive Rev. 2.0 certification at Compliance Workshop #62 (September 8-12, 2008), sponsored by the standards body PCI-SIG®. Microcontrollers, microprocessors and system-on-chip (SoC) devices incorporating this IP can make easy connections to other devices that support the PCI Express 2.0 standard.
Plurality Announces SIP Solution for 64-Core HyperCore Processor
Plurality Ltd. announced the industry’s first complete silicon Intellectual Property (IP) solution for its HyperCore(TM) processor, the market’s most powerful, space-saving and energy-efficient 64-core shared-memory processing engine. Plurality, a developer of advanced manycore processor solutions, has made the HyperCore processor IP available to help developers rapidly integrate the general-purpose accelerator into system-on-chip (SoC) designs. The 32 GIPS, 8 GFLOPS 64-core processor acts as a performance extension to the industry’s most popular processor architectures (x86, PowerPC, and ARM). The IP version of the HyperCore processor, announced here at the IP ’08 IP-Based System Design Conference and Exhibition, represents a game-changing shift in the way VLSI architectures can be designed.
ARM, Chartered, IBM, Samsung Team on 32nm, 28nm Systems on Chip
IBM (NYSE: IBM), Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing Ltd. (Nasdaq: CHRT, SGX-ST: CHARTERED) Samsung Electronics, Co., Ltd., and ARM [(LSE: ARM); (Nasdaq: ARMH)] announced they will develop a comprehensive 32 nanometer (nm) and 28nm Systems-on-a-Chip (SoCs) design platform based on high-k metal-gate (HKMG) technology from the IBM-led joint-development alliance.
On2 Rolls Out Hantro 7280 Register Transfer Level Encoder
On2 Technologies (AMEX: ONT), the leader in video compression solutions, announced the availability of the Hantro 7280 encoder Register Transfer Level (RTL) design. Supporting MPEG-4, H.263 and H.264 video, along with 16MP JPEG, the encoder is targeted for chipsets intended for devices with very low-power requirements such as: portable video cameras, mobile phones, remote security cameras, laptops and webcams. With a maximum resolution of 1280×1024 at 30 fps, the Hantro 7280 introduces a new level of performance and functionality.
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