Semiconductor IP Industry News
April, 2008

Fabless semiconductor company will use Freescale's V1 ColdFire® core in ASIC products



CAMPBELL, Calif. - April 29, 2008 - IPextreme®, Inc., the company bringing famous IP (intellectual property) to system-on-chip designers worldwide, today announced that ASPEED Technology Inc. in Hsinchu City, Taiwan has purchased Freescale's ColdFire® V1 through IPextreme's Core Store ...

New DesignWare PHY IP Provides Designers with Complete, Single Vendor IP Solution for the PCI Express 2.0 Interface ...

Highly integrated configurable subsystem for rapid design of CEVA-X DSP based System-on-Chips; Optimized for speed, power and die size requirements of next-generation communications and multimedia devices

SAN JOSE, Calif. - April 21, 2008 - CEVA, Inc. (NASDAQ: CEVA); (LSE: CVA), a leading licensor of silicon intellectual property (SIP) platform solutions and DSP ...

GISTEL, Belgium (April 21, 2008) - Sarnoff Europe, a leader in advanced semiconductor design solutions, today announced that Actel Corporation (Nasdaq: ACTL), the leading provider of low-power field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) and programmable system chips (PSCs), plans to implement Sarnoff's TakeCharge on-chip electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection solutions into their next-generation programmable products. By licensing Sarnoff's ...

XPM offers low-cost, secure, CMOS, embedded non-volatile memory for SOC design


Santa Clara, Calif. -- April 17, 2008 -- Kilopass Technology, Inc., a leading provider of semiconductor non-volatile memory (NVM) intellectual property (IP), today announced that its extra-permanent memory (XPM) technology is the first high density embedded NVM technology to complete ...

First validation tool to support 1.8V and 3.3V SD/SDIO card products


San Jose, California - April 16, 2008 - Arasan Chip Systems, Inc., "Arasan" a leader in Intellectual Property (IP) solutions - IP cores, Verification IP (VIP), Software drivers and stacks and Hardware solutions, today said it has expanded its SD/SDIO solution to include ...

XPM offers low-cost and secure, embedded non-volatile memory


Santa Clara, CA, April 14, 2008, Kilopass Technology, a leading provider of semiconductor non-volatile memory (NVM) intellectual property (IP), today announced that Zensys, the developer of the Z-Wave wireless home control standard, has selected the Kilopass XPM one-time programmable embedded memory technology for ...

Gothenburg, Sweden - April 11th, 2008
Gaisler Research AB, the leader in System on Chip (SoC) design, today announced that Mentor Graphics Nucleus® Operating System (OS) is now supported on the LEON3 processor. This off-the-shelf solution improves the design productivity and reduces the design cost of next generation embedded systems. A ...

PLDA FPGA IP Core is compliant with Revision 2.0 of the PCIe specification


SAN JOSE, Calif. (April 9, 2008) - PLDA, the industry leader in the high-speed bus IP market, today announced the immediate availability of their PCIe Gen 2 FPGA IP support for the Virtex®- 5 FXT platform, Xilinx's "ultimate system integration ...

Demonstrates 1394b Link with OHCI Interface for PC, PC peripherals and Storage applications; 1394b Link for Defense & Aerospace applications; 1394b Audio Visual Link (AVLink) and Software stacks for Consumer Electronics and Automotive applications.


April 7, 2008 - Wipro-NewLogic, the world leader in IEEE 1394 Property cores, demonstrates IEEE 1394b Link ...

Multi-time Programmable NVM in TSMC's 0.25 Micron/5V CMOS Process Gives Leading Analog Chip Provider Low Power, High Performance Embedded Memory Option


SEATTLE, Wash., April 3, 2008 - Leading logic nonvolatile memory (NVM) intellectual property (IP) supplier Impinj, Inc. today announced that the company's AEON® NVM cores have been licensed by Avago ...

NXP's innovative CoReUse design reuse methodology and tools now accessible for broad licensing by IPextreme


CAMPBELL, California and EINDHOVEN, The Netherlands - April 2, 2008 - IPextreme®, Inc., the company bringing famous IP (intellectual property) to system-on-chip designers worldwide, and NXP Semiconductors, the independent semiconductor company founded by Philips, today announced ...