Semiconductor IP Industry News
March, 2011

We work with our semiconductor IP partners to bring you the latest and most up to date news and information in the chip design community.

Thursday March 31, 2011

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Outlook Positive for Office Imaging Industry in 2011

Growth expected in sales and service

MOBERLY, Mo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Office imaging veterans have a largely positive outlook for their industry in 2011, according to survey results released today by GE ...

Monogram Energy Inc./Marquis Tech Holdings Announces Comprehensive Plan to Begin Gold Mining Operations in Guyana

MoSys to Exhibit at 2011 GSA Memory Conference

congatec Achieves New Record of $64 Million in 2010

Wednesday March 30, 2011

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Alchimer Continues Asian Expansion Through Agreement with Kromax in Taiwan

Thomas Niehaus Joins Encore Health Resources as Executive Vice President for Client Services

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Tuesday March 29, 2011

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Broadband CPE Market Grows Slowly in 2010, While Residential Gateways Go Gangbusters, Says In-Stat

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Baltic Yachts Transforms Business with Dassault Systèmes PLM Solutions

Baltic Yachts Chooses CATIA to Streamline Development and Production

GOTHENBURG, Sweden--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dassault Syst¨mes (Paris:DSY) (Euronext Paris: #13065, DSY.PA), a world leader in 3D and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions, ...

NXP Releases World’s Smallest Logic Packages for Handheld Mobility

Zoran Corporation Announces Early Termination of Hart-Scott-Rodino Waiting Period for Proposed Merger With CSR plc

Mentor Graphics Teams with TSMC to Enrich Reference Flow 11 Low Power Verification Solutions

Sunday March 27, 2011

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NXP and Dover Provide an Update on the Timing of the Closing of the Sound Solutions Transaction

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Verigy Announces LTX-CREDENCE Merger Agreement Terminated

Friday March 25, 2011

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Zocalo Tech Demonstrates Stress-Free Assertion-Based Verification at Synopsys Users Group (SNUG) Designer Community Expo

Monday, March 28, 2011, Santa Clara Convention Center, California

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At the Synopsys Users Group (SNUG®) Designer Community Expo (DCE), Zocalo Tech, Inc., an Electronic Design Automation (EDA) company focused on Assertion-Based Verification (ABV) productivity software, will show Zazz™ alongside the world’s leading EDA verification companies.

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Zazz demonstrations will show how ABV can ...

ZuniDigital, Inc. Wins CEA's Mark of Excellence and CTIA E-Tech Awards

Docea Power to Exhibit at SNUG San Jose Designer Community Expo

Mentor Graphics Calibre xACT 3D Field Solver Extraction Tool Demonstrates High Accuracy and Performance in STARC Evaluation

Thursday March 24, 2011

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Assembly Alliance Electronics Launches a New Upgraded Website; Customers Can Now Order Electronic Components Online

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SMART Modular Technologies Reports Second Quarter Fiscal 2011 Results

QuickLogic to Present at the Globalpress Electronics Summit 2011 in Santa Cruz, CA

Vishay Intertechnology Releases Industry's First Green, RoHS-Compliant (Without Any Exemptions) Thick Film Rectangular Chip Resistor in 0603, 0805, and 1206 Case Sizes

Wednesday March 23, 2011

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AMD contrata Ronaldo Miranda para novo VP e Gerente Geral da América Latina

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AMD Hires Ronaldo Miranda as New VP and General Manager for Latin America

NXP Launches its First Data Sharing App for Android

AMD First Quarter 2011 Results to Be Announced on April 21

Tuesday March 22, 2011

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Cinterion Launches New Generation of MC55i M2M Module with Lower Power Consumption

ORLANDO, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Cinterion, the global leader in cellular machine-to-machine (M2M) communication modules and a Gemalto (Euronext NL0000400653 GTO) company, is launching the MC55i-W wireless M2M module. ...

Annual Market Value of US Broadcast Storage and News Production Systems to Reach $368 Million in 2015, Says In-Stat

NXP Releases LIN Transceiver With Integrated Voltage Regulator in Compact Package

ATopTech Place and Route Engine Included in TSMC’s EDA 28nm Routing Qualification Report

Monday March 21, 2011

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Cisco and NETGEAR Continue to Gain Share Atop the WLAN Market, Says In-Stat

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US Business Non-Handset Wireless Spending to Surpass $5 Billion by 2014, Says In-Stat

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NXP Semiconductors joined hands with COSHIP, announced first silicon tuner powered cable set-top box (STB) solution in China

Friday March 18, 2011

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Palomar Technologies to Exhibit at MEPTEC Thermal Symposium and Shares Article on AuSi/AuSn Eutectic Die Attach

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New SerDes from Analog Bits Reduces Footprint, Power & Cost: Saves up to 700 milliwatts on Flat Panel Display SOCs

Intel Declares Quarterly Cash Dividend

Digitimes Insight: Earthquake impacts two major Japan LCD stepper makers (DigiTimes)

Thursday March 17, 2011

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Synopsys University Program Receives the 1st ISQED Education Leadership Award

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IDT Power Metering IC Wins Electronic Engineering and Product World Magazine’s Green Power Product Award

Optibase to Introduce New MGES 6000 Release with Inputs for Analog, Digital and HDMI Signals

TransCore Successfully Completes Factory Acceptance Testing of RFID Multiprotocol Technology for North Carolina Turnpike Authority

Wednesday March 16, 2011

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SiTime Launches the Industry's Lowest Power Oscillator for High Frequency Applications

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ABI Research: Samsung Leading in Flat-Panel TVs and Nintendo for Gaming in Race for Connected Home Dominance

GainSpan Continues Global Sales Channel Expansion

Samsung Announces That Plasma is Now Bigger Than Ever with the Availability of 2011 Plasma TV Line and Introduction of Plasma+1 Design

Tuesday March 15, 2011

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Experience the Realism of Total War: Shogun(TM) 2 With AMD Radeon(TM) HD Graphics

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Rambus to Present Design Challenges for Mobile Applications at 2011 Design, Automation & Test Conference

Reference Circuits from Analog Devices Help Engineers Solve Common and Complex Design Challenges in Analog, RF and Mixed-Signal Systems

MoSys Presents On-Demand Webcast: “Meeting Chip to Chip I/O Demands of 100G and Beyond Line Cards”

Monday March 14, 2011

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AMD Fusion APUs and AMD Radeon(TM) Graphics Cards Accelerate Internet Explorer 9, Powering Immersive Next-Generation Web Experiences

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NXP Delivers Industry’s First 10 Gbps CMOS Multiplexer/Demultiplexer Switch

Virtensys Announces Webcast Series on I/O Virtualization for Server Administrators

Mentor Graphics Delivers First Multimedia Platform for Hardware Emulation of 3D TV Products

Friday March 11, 2011

Industry Headline

National Semiconductor Introduces Industry’s First Full-bridge PWM Controllers with Integrated MOSFET Gate Drivers

Primary Side Controllers Drive Higher Power Modules Into Smaller Form Factors

March 7, 2011 – National Semiconductor Corp. (NYSE:NSM) today introduced the industry’s first full-bridge pulse width modulation (PWM) controllers to integrate all four primary-side bridge MOSFET gate drivers. The LM5045 and LM5046 are well-suited for delivering higher efficiency and higher ...

Samsung Powers South by Southwest Interactive Through Blogger Lounge and Real-Time Trend Reporting

BIRD Owl, the new real-time debugging solution for the 16-bit microcontrollers, from Dolphin Integration

AEROFLEX GAISLER ANNOUNCES A FAULT TOLERANT DUAL CORE PROCESSOR FOR SPACE APPLICATIONS

Thursday March 10, 2011

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Insurance Companies Installing ECM Systems Need to Build on Strong Software Architecture, X by 2's Hussain Tells Insurance Network News

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Data I/O Announces New Sales Representative Partnership With LaPa Enterprise

POLYTEDA Announces New Executive Structure

OSI Systems Awarded Contract Worth Approximately $31 Million as the Official Security Solution Provider for 2012 Summer Games

Wednesday March 09, 2011

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ClariPhy CTO to Chair OFC/NFOEC Panel Discussing Data Transmission at 100Gbps and Beyond

Component vendor experts discuss progress and challenges addressing demands of ultra-high speed data transmission

IRVINE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ClariPhy Communications, a leader in ultra-high speed mixed signal integrated circuits, today announced ...

Docea Power Announces DATE Highlights: Architectural-Level Power Modeling Demonstrations, Testimonial About Using Aceplorer for Mobile Design

Current-sense Amplifier Combines Zero Drift and High Bandwidth

Tanner EDA to Demonstrate Full-flow Analog Design Suite, Present on PDKs for Analog IC Design at DATE 2011

Tuesday March 08, 2011

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MIPI CSI-2 Penetration to Surpass 70% in Computing and Consumer Electronic Devices With Image Sensors by 2016, Says In-Stat

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Zoran Comments on Results of Ramius Consent Solicitation

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AMD Extends Graphics Performance Lead, Launches World's Fastest Graphics Card... Again!

NXP Builds a Smarter Way to Energy Efficiency With World's Lowest Standby Power

SIGGRAPH 2011 Selects Cory Doctorow as Keynote Speaker

Sunday March 06, 2011

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NXP Announces $500 Million Covenant Light Term Loan Transaction

Eindhoven, the Netherlands, March 7, 2011 – NXP Semiconductors N.V. (NASDAQ: NXPI) ("NXP" announced today that its subsidiary, NXP B.V., together with NXP Funding LLC, has concluded a new US$500 million Senior Secured Term Loan Facility due in 2017. The transaction is scheduled to close within a month. The new ...

AMD Fusion APUs Accelerate More Than 50 Leading Software Applications

Apache Design Solutions to Host Technical Workshop Series at DATE 2011

Friday March 04, 2011

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Standard Cells reducing leakage 40 to 60 times at 90 and 65 nm from Dolphin Integration

Meylan, France - March 03, 2011. The SESAME BIV (Battery Interface Voltage) library of Standard Cells with its Flip-Flop patented for Low Voltage operation, is the winners' choice to in-house libraries for low-power applications.

SESAME BIV can be applied for two different and complementary purposes:

Direct Battery supply: using the ...

Thursday March 03, 2011

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TowerJazz Announces Availability of 0.18um Power Management EPI Platform Design Kit at APEC 2011

Meets strong noise isolation required by today's leading power management ICs

MIGDAL HAEMEK, Israel & NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. — (BUSINESS WIRE) — March 3, 2011 — TowerJazz, the global specialty ...

Khronos Group Releases Free COLLADA Conformance Test Suite

Vishay Intertechnology to Demonstrate Latest Power MOSFET, Diode, IC, and Passive Component Technologies at APEC(R) 2011

REMINDER: MEDIA ALERT: Kilopass CEO Charlie Cheng to Address CASPA 2011 Spring Symposium

Wednesday March 02, 2011

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Transim to Showcase Industry Leading Internet Design Verification and Support Solutions and Technologies at the Applied Power Electronics Conference

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NxGen Modular Sets New Standard for Data Center Power

INTEGRATED launches CHRONOS

Interoute Completes First European PIC-Based 100G Transmission on Subsea Network

Tuesday March 01, 2011

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Kingston Technology Releases Fastest Notebook Memory for New Intel Core Mobile Processor Family Codenamed ‘Huron River’

FOUNTAIN VALLEY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Kingston Technology Company, Inc., the independent world leader in memory products, today announced the release of new HyperX® 4GB and 8GB 1600MHz SO-DIMM kits. The dual-channel, plug and play CL9 ...

Custom circuit porting capability available with AgO’s AnXplorer 2011.02

SRI Showcases AMIMON's WHDI HD Wireless Video Technology at Embedded World

ASSET Launches Validation Tools for Mobile and Desktop Systems Designed for Future 22nm Based Intel® Core™ Processors