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Microchip Speeds Human Interface Design with Complete Multimedia Development System for 32-bit Microcontrollers
Microchip announced two new development tools for adding advanced human interfaces to PIC32, 32-bit microcontroller-based designs. The Multimedia Expansion Board enables development of highly interactive, graphics-based interfaces with network connectivity. The enhanced mTouch Capacitive Touch Evaluation Kit adds a new board for implementing capacitive touch sensing with the PIC32.
Magma Set to Join Russell 3000 Index
Magma Design Automation (Nasdaq: LAVA), a provider of chip design software, today announced it is set to join the broad-market Russell 3000 Index when Russell Investments reconstitutes its comprehensive set of U.S. and global equity indexes on June 25, according to Russell’s preliminary list of additions published June 11.
Wolfson's audio hub selected for Samsung's latest Bada and Android smartphones
Wolfson Microelectronics plc has announced that its innovative ultra low power audio hub solution, the WM8994, has been selected by Samsung for inclusion in its breakthrough new smartphones, Wave and Galaxy S.
TSMC Selected EdXact Jivaro for 28nm Analog and Mixed-Signal Reference Flow
EdXact, post-layout verification specialist today announced that its netlist reduction software Jivaro™ has been included in TSMC’s Analog/Mixed-Signal (AMS) Reference Flow for 28nm analog and mixed-signal circuit design. Analog, mixed-signal, and RF design teams at leading semiconductor companies worldwide now can use Jivaro to efficiently reduce post layout netlist parasitics to speed up their overall simulation time for their 28nm AMS proj...
Lime Microsystems' RF transceiver IC selected by Global Wireless Technologies for Universal Access Point configurable femtocell
me Microsystems announces that its single-chip multi-band multi-standard RF transceiver has been selected by Global Wireless Technologies for the latest version of its Universal Access Point (UAP(TM)) femtocell, the UAP106/232. The UAP106/232 is a configurable platform for femtocells supporting WCDMA and CDMA2000 standards and is software upgradeable to support 4G LTE. The UAP106/232 uses the LMS6002DFN transceiver in the full range of frequencie...
National Semiconductor Reports Results for Fourth Quarter Fiscal 2010
National Semiconductor Corp. (NYSE:NSM) today reported sales of $398.5 million and net income of $79.2 million, or 33 cents per diluted share, for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2010, which ended May 30, 2010.
Samsung Electronics Achieves First-Pass 32nm Silicon Success Using Synopsys Galaxy Implementation Platform
Synopsys announced that Samsung Electronics' Foundry business (Samsung Foundry) has successfully taped out its first 32-nanometer (nm) system-on-chip (SoC) design using Synopsys' Galaxy™ Implementation Platform. Samsung Foundry selected the Galaxy Implementation Platform as one of its implementation solutions for its mobile application processor because the platform's seamless integration enabled them to meet timing while minimizing power consu...
picoChip passes million chip milestone, announces expansion plans and secures $20M equity funding
picoChip today announced that it has passed the milestone of one million chips sold and is on track to achieve over 50% quarter-on-quarter sequential revenue growth this calendar quarter. To support expansion plans and strengthen the company’s balance sheet during this period of exceptional growth the company has secured $20m of additional equity funding.
PrimeTime 2010 scales timing analysis beyond 500 million instances
Synopsys unveiled new PrimeTime HyperScale technology that enables static timing analysis (STA) to scale beyond 500 million instances. PrimeTime HyperScale technology provides design engineers the insight required to solve many of the timing integration and closure problems they face with today’s large system-on-chip (SoC) design flows while delivering a 5 to 10X boost in performance and capacity.
KIOSK EUROPE: DSM Computer presents flexible full HD solutions
For the KIOSK EUROPE EXPO 2010, DSM Computer GmbH has extended its comprehensive product portfolio of embedded computer systems for sophisticated kiosk and digital signage solutions with full HD functionality. In addition to a special embedded PC module for the integration in various displays, the high-performance NanoServer® E8-GM45, the robust BookSize and compact PicoBox PCs can be used as external monitor control computer.