Semiconductor IP Industry News
August, 2013

VICTORIA, British Columbia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Following a thorough review process, the University of Victoria, one of the top 20 universities in the world under the age of 50, has selected Blackboard Transact™ to provide ...

SAN JOSE, CA - Aug 29, 2013 - Cadence Design Systems, Inc., a leader in global electronic design innovation, today announced that Mellanox Technologies, a leading supplier of high-performance, end-to-end interconnect solutions for data center servers and storage systems, has selected the Cadence Palladium XP Verification Computing Platform for the ...

New SoCs to combine Imagination’s PowerVR GPUs and MIPS CPUs

Sunnyvale, CA - 28th August, 2013 - Imagination Technologies, a leading multimedia, processor, communications and cloud technologies company, and Ineda Systems, a developer of low-power system on chip (SoC) technology for use in both consumer and enterprise applications, are revealing details ...

Xsuite® to provide comprehensive privileged access control, monitoring, and audit for VMware® Private and Hybrid Cloud environments

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--VMworld® –– Xceedium®, Inc., the premier provider of privileged identity management ...

HENDERSON, Nev.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Active-HDL, Aldec’s all-in-one tightly integrated solution offering design creation, documentation, code coverage and simulation, was awarded the 2013 Excellence Award - FPGA Tools for the fourth consecutive year by Chinese ...

TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--THine Electronics, Inc. (JASDAQ:6769), the global leader in high-speed serial interface and provider of mixed-signal LSI, today announced that Mentor Graphics Corporation (NASDAQ:MENT), the world leader in electronic hardware and software ...

Contaminants are reduced to 1ppb or less

SANTA ROSA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Applied Chemical Laboratories, Inc., an innovator in high purity, eco-friendly electronic chemicals and specialized coatings ...

Delivers Nanometer SPICE Accuracy at Faster Simulation Speeds

SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Berkeley Design Automation, Inc., provider of the world’s fastest nanometer circuit verification, today announced that Spreadtrum Communications, Inc., ...

Market-Leading DRM FusionAgent Software Now Provides Hardware-Assisted Content Protection on TrustZone-Enabled Smart Connected Devices

AIX-EN-PROVENCE, France--(BUSINESS WIRE)--INSIDE Secure (NYSE Euronext INSD) today announced it has licensed ...

Eindhoven, Netherlands, August 19, 2013 – Electronic equipment manufacturers wanting to embed RFID technology in their products are now able to do so without needing deep UHF antenna design experience thanks to NXP Semiconductors’ (NASDAQ: NXPI) new online software tool. The RFID – PCB Antenna Designer tool helps implement antennas ...

August 16, 2013 - Building on its industry-leading position in automotive electronics and its commitment to ‘connecting the car’, NXP Semiconductors has introduced the NCK2983, a low power multi-channel two-way UHF transceiver with an embedded microcontroller system that can uniquely receive up to three channels in parallel rather than sequentially. ...

SAN JOSE, CA - Aug 15, 2013 - Cadence Design Systems, Inc., a leader in global electronic design innovation, today announced that Freescale Semiconductor used the latest release of Encounter Digital Implementation (EDI) System to tapeout its next generation QorIQ T4240 system on chip (SoC) running at 1.8 GHz. ...

Ideally suited for high-performance computing environments where server Size, Weight, and Power is severely limited

FREMONT, Calif. - August 14, 2013 - Themis Computer today announced the RES-NT2 High-Performance Computer (HPC) for graphics virtualization and high-performance signal and image processing. Combining the robust thermal and ...

Eindhoven, Netherlands, August 14, 2013 – NXP Semiconductors N.V. (NASDAQ: NXPI) today announced a new line of near field communication (NFC) tags, the NTAG21xF portfolio. Specifically designed for use in consumer electronics and mobile accessories such as headsets, sound bars and digital cameras; and wearable infotainment such as smart ...

Eindhoven, Netherlands and Hamburg, Germany, August 13, 2013 — Building on its industry-leading position in automotive electronics and its commitment to connecting the car, NXP Semiconductors N.V. (NASDAQ: NXPI) today introduced the NCK2983, a low power multi-channel two-way UHF transceiver with an embedded microcontroller system that can uniquely receive up ...

Designed to protect even the most sensitive high-speed differential interfaces, the IP4294CZ10 delivers a unique combination of strong system-level ESD protection with an extremely low (line-to-ground) capacitance, minimal crosstalk, and excellent capacitance matching.

• Industry’s best overall protection for USB 3.0 system chips
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ANDOVER, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Avery Design Systems Inc., a leader in verification IP (VIP), today announced availability of its SATA Express/AHCI verification IP targeting the PCIe-based SSD market. SATA-Xactor extends Avery’s portfolio of storage-related ...

Latest SATA Specification Includes SATA Express, New Form-Factors, Power Management Enhancements and Optimizations for Solid State Hybrid Drives

BEAVERTON, Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Serial ATA International ...

SAN MATEO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Actuate Corporation (NASDAQ: BIRT), The BIRT Company™ – delivering more insights to more people than all BI companies combined, today announced that the Company’s Chief Executive Officer, ...

Eindhoven, Netherlands and San Jose, California, August 6, 2013 – NXP Semiconductors N.V. (NASDAQ: NXPI) today announced the availability of the PCA9617A Fast-mode Plus (Fm+) I²C-bus buffer, designed for emerging server applications that use DDR4 SDRAM memory. This breakthrough voltage-translating bus buffer allows engineers to design next-generation server systems using ...

August 4, 2013 - Cadence Design Systems has announced that MStar Semiconductor has licensed the Tensilica Xtensa DPU for a new SOC design for the home entertainment and home networking market segments. MStar utilized the customization capabilities of the Xtensa DPU to add application-specific interfaces and instructions which optimized the ...

System emulation capability under real-world operating conditions allow early hardware/software co-verification

SAN JOSE, USA: Providing designers with an important tool to validate and verify their PCI Express (PCIe) designs, Cadence Design Systems Inc. announced a new SpeedBridge Adapter for PCIe 3.0.

This new adapter provides easy bring-up and fast debug of PCIe-based ...

ODROID-XU board with Samsung Exynos 5410 Octa processor features advanced graphics and GPU compute support using high-performance PowerVR GPU

London, UK – 2nd August 2013 – Imagination Technologies (IMG.L), a leading multimedia, processor, communications and cloud technologies company, announced today that Hardkernel, a hardware supplier specialized in affordable open development platforms, ...

SAN JOSE, Calif., Aug. 1, 2013 - Xilinx, Inc., gold level sponsor of NIWeek 2013, August 5-8, 2013, Austin Convention Center, today announced it will highlight the implementation of its All Programmable SoCs and FPGAs in National Instruments (NI) reconfigurable I/O (RIO) hardware at this year's conference. ...