Design And Reuse SoC News Alert

February 8, 2005

Michael,
Welcome to issue of February 8, 2005 of D&R SoC News Alert, our email update to provide you with the latest news and information in the System-On-Chip Community.

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Ultra Low Power WMA Decoder with 10 Bands Equalizer ASIC/FPGA Core from Silicon Ocean

Lossless JPEG Decoder Core from CAST

Dual 10-bit 80 MSPS DAC in TSMC 0.18um from Nordic Semiconductor

MPEG-1 / MPEG-2 Layer 3 Decoder for Texas Instruments DSP from ATEME

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A comprehensive approach for verification of OCP-based SoCs

SoCs Let Designers Re-Architect Next-Gen Transport Equipment

NetComposer-II: High performance Structured ASIC Programmable NPU platform for layer 4-7 applications

Adapting Ethernet Controllers to Meet Embedded Networking Needs

Third-party IP: A shaky foundation for SOC design

IP/SOC PRODUCTS

STMicro debuts RISC-based configurable SoC

Impinj Announces Availability of AEFuse Memory √ World's First Multi-Time Programmable Fuse in Standard Logic CMOS

Synopsys Reduces Area and Power With Lowest Gate Count, Modular Hi-Speed USB On-The-Go Core

Athena introduces world's fastest video cross correlator

M2000 Intros Largest 90nm eFPGA

Arithmatica Develops Integrated Flow with Cadence Encounter RTL Compiler to Accelerate Design and Verification of Math-Critical Chip

Chipidea announces the USB-IF certification of a USB High Speed PHY in TSMC 90nm

Kilopass to Provide Tower Semiconductor Silicon-Proven Field-Programmable Non-Volatile Memory for 0.18-Micron CMOS Process

eInfochips Expands Verification IP Portfolio With Ultra-Wide-Band -- UWB -- and Serial Attached SCSI -- SAS -- Verification Components

DEALS

Imagination Technologies and Texas Instruments Extend Licensing Agreement

Cell Processor Uses Rambus High Speed Interface Solutions

Toshiba adopts SonicsMX for next generation handheld chips

BUSINESS

Freescale Strengthens 3G Leadership; Acquires Assets of PrairieComm, Inc.

Silicon Image Ships 100 millionth chip to ATI

Network-on-chip startup to receive $2 million from government

The LogicWorks to distribute PLD Applications IP products in Eastern US and Canada

LSI Logic Launches ZSP Foundry Program; Broadens Access to DSP Technology for Fabless Semiconductor Companies

FINANCIAL RESULTS

Aware, Inc. Reports 2004 Fourth Quarter and Annual Financial Results

CEVA Announces Record Fourth Quarter Revenue and Earnings

PEOPLE

Carmel Vernia to Step Down as Chairman and CEO of Tower Semiconductor Board Carmel Vernia to Step Down as Chairman and CEO of Tower Semiconductor Board

Brian Bailey joins Poseidon Design Systems technical advisory board

EMBEDDED SYSTEMS

Renesas Technology Releases SH-Mobile3A Application Processor for Mobile Phones with Support for Terrestrial Digital TV Broadcasts and 5-Megapixel Camera Modules

IBM, Sony, Toshiba tip 'Cell' processor at 90-nm

Patriot Scientific announces GNU-C/C++ compiler sofware for IGNITE-based embedded processor applications

UbiNetics unveils PUMA 3G modem platform to speed up availability of 3G handsets

ARC International's ARCsound Audio Subsystem Approved by Dolby Laboratories and Microsoft

Xilinx Delivers Industry's Fastest Microcontroller With New PowerPC-Based UltraController-II Reference Design

FOUNDRIES

SMIC Joins LSI Logic ZSP Foundry Program Expanding Access to DSP Technology

UMC Joins the ZSP Foundry Program; Adds the ZSP400 Core to Its Library of Intellectual Property

FPGA/CPLD

Xilinx Releases Production Virtex-4 FPGAs

Xilinx Platform FPGAs Enable Latest 160 Gbps Switch Fabric From TeraChip

EDA

Giga Scale IC Launches ChipEstimate.com, Offers Electronic Designers Free Chip Estimation Tool - InCyte uses IP from MOSAID, Virtual Silicon and others

OTHER

MOSAID Semiconductor IP Featured in InCyte EDA Tool

Spansion, ARM, NanoAmp, Smedia, Speadtrum and Toshiba form organization to streamline memory validation and test

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