Semiconductor IP Industry News
July, 2007

Analog/Mixed-Signal IP Leader Offers Semiconductor Industry's Most Comprehensive and Flexible Power Management Solutions


LISBON, Portugal - Chipidea, the world's leading provider of analog/mixed-signal subsystems and intellectual property, today announced the industry's most compact, silicon-proven step-down DC-DC converter IP core to support an external supply voltage up to 4.2V while using regular ...

Study Groups to Focus on VSIA's Quality IP Metric Standard and Encryption Activities


PISCATAWAY, N.J., USA, 25 July 2007 - The IEEE has formed two study groups to explore the creation of IEEE standards based on work done at the VSI Alliance (VSIA). The groups, which will evaluate VSIA's existing ...

For the first time, applications requiring high density logic NVM on advanced semiconductor processes have an embedded NVM solution


SANTA CLARA, California, July 24, 2007 -- Kilopass Technology Inc., the semiconductor industry's leading embedded non-volatile memory (NVM) intellectual property (IP) supplier and pioneer, today announced that their XPM (Extra Permanent Memory) ...

Innovative technology streamlines electronic system design for communication and consumer applications by leveraging the industry's largest analog IP portfolio


LISBON, Portugal - July 17, 2007 - Chipidea, the world's leading provider of analog/mixed-signal subsystems and intellectual property, today announced the industry's first Flexible Mixed-Signal IP Platform Architecture (FLEMIA), a highly innovative approach to ...

WASHINGTON ­ Synopsys Inc. said Monday (July 16) it has acquired Mosaid Technology Inc.'s semiconductor intellectual property assets for $15 million in cash.

Synopsys (Mountain View, Calif.) said it plans to integrate Mosaid's chip IP into it DesignWare IP portfolio. Key elements include Mosaid's DDR memory controller and PHY semiconductor ...

July 12, 2007 - Shanghai, China and Ottawa, Canada - Jetway Security Micro, a leading security products company based in China, and Elliptic which was recently ranked as the fastest growing supplier of security semiconductor IP by Gartner Research, have signed a license agreement for Elliptic's asymmetric security engines. The ...

Wipro-NewLogic's Bluetooth® 2.0 + EDR IP is upgradeable by software to next generation Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR and will enable a new range of applications such as high definition audio streaming and transfer of large files. It will significantly increase battery life for applications such as Bluetooth headsets

Lustenau, Austria - ...

Who
Kilopass Technology, a leading provider of semiconductor non-volatile memory (NVM) intellectual property (IP), is sponsoring, exhibiting and presenting at Memcon in Santa Clara, California on configurable, secure and low cost embedded, non-volatile memory (NVM) in SoCs designs.

What
Presentation: Soc Trends: Every Chip Needs Non-Violate Memory
Craig Rawlings, Director of Marketing, Kilopass
With ever ...

Low-cost, secure embedded non-volatile memory for SOC design

Santa Clara, Calif. -- July 9, 2007 -- Kilopass Technology, a leading provider of semiconductor non-volatile memory (NVM) intellectual property (IP), today announced that it is collaborating with TSMC in developing Kilopass' XPM NVM one-time programmable (OTP) IP, and it has successfully qualified ...

Wipro-NewLogic's Bluetooth® 2.0 + EDR IP is upgradeable by software to next generation Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR and will enable a new range of applications such as high definition audio streaming and transfer of large files. It will significantly increase battery life for applications such as Bluetooth headsets

Lustenau, Austria - ...