Semiconductor IP Industry News
March, 2013

March 31, 2013 - Texas Instruments has introduced lithium-ion battery charger ICs that reduce charge time by 50 percent in smartphones and tablets compared to other charger solutions.

The bq2419x family of 4.5-A output, 20-V input-rated switch-mode chargers with I2C interface and USB On-the-Go (OTG) support delivers faster and cooler charging ...

Suits high-current POL conversion on board-level applications, including motherboards, notebooks

San Jose, Ca, March 2013 - Advanced Power Electronics Corp., a leading Taiwanese manufacturer of MOS power semiconductors for DC-DC power conversion applications, has introduced the APE8968MP-HF3, a new series of 3A, ultra-low dropout linear regulators designed to provide simple POL ...

Presentation on MACsec security protocol and panel discussions on Ethernet Security

March 28, 2013 - Ottawa, Canada: Elliptic Technologies, a leading provider of complete embedded security and content protection solutions, today announced the company will present at the Ethernet Technology Summit 2013, April 2-4, in Santa Clara, California. The ...

Mar 27, 2013 - Vitesse Semiconductor, a provider of advanced IC solutions, has introduced Intellisec, its patent-pending, universal, lightweight security encryption technology for communications networks.

Intellisec enables IEEE 802.1AE MACsec encryption over any network, including multi-operator and cloud-based networks, independent of the network's awareness of security protocols. Delivering up to ...

$10 Million Project to Launch Development of the Nation’s First Open Smart Manufacturing Technology Platform for Collaborative Networked Information Industrial Applications

WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Smart Manufacturing Leadership Coalition (SMLC) today ...

Partnership Gives Access to Series of Four IT Certifications

MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Field Nation, a leading provider of independent field service technicians to the information technology (IT) industry, today announced access ...

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mentor Graphics Corporation (NASDAQ: MENT) today announced that Dr. Andras Poppe, associate professor at the Budapest University of Technology, Department of Electron Devices, has received the Harvey Rosten Award ...

TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Toshiba Corporation (TOKYO:6502) today announced that it has developed an innovative, low power operating system (OS) for many-core processors, targeting application in embedded systems, including automotive products ...

Eindhoven, Netherlands, March 14, 2013 — Building on its industry-leading position in In-Vehicle Networking, NXP Semiconductors N.V. (Nasdaq: NXPI) today introduced the TJA1052i, a high-speed Controller Area Network (CAN) transceiver with integrated galvanic isolation technology. The TJA1052i is the first ISO11898-2 compliant product of its kind to offer this level ...

Eindhoven, Netherlands and Long Beach, California, March 20, 2013 – While the line between “smartphones” and “tablets” becomes increasingly blurry, it’s clear that the charger for either device needs to be as small, lightweight and efficient as possible. At APEC 2013 today, NXP Semiconductors N.V. (NASDAQ: NXPI) introduced its new ...

New Purifiers Address Need for Luminosity and Cost Control

PORT WASHINGTON, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Pall Corporation (NYSE:PLL) has introduced Gaskleen® High-Bright purifiers to remove molecular contaminants from ammonia used in the ...

Eindhoven, Netherlands, March 18, 2013 – NXP Semiconductors N.V. (NASDAQ: NXPI) today introduced a groundbreaking family of programmable AISG transceivers for wireless base stations and antenna line devices (ALDs) such as tower-mounted amplifiers (TMAs) and remote electric tilt (RET) antennas. The new family includes the industry’s first fully integrated dual-modem ...

WILSONVILLE, Ore. - March 15, 2013 - Mentor Graphics Corporation today announced the Nucleus SmartFit product, a cost-effective, binary version of the Nucleus RTOS (real time operating system) optimized to fit the limited internal memory of 32-bit MCUs. The Nucleus SmartFit product also includes Sourcery CodeBench development tools and provides ...

semu Desktop Emulation Delivers Emulation Speeds at Simulation Prices

FRAMINGHAM, Mass. - Bluespec, Inc., the Synthesizable Modeling Company, today announced Semu, a software solution that delivers emulation speeds at simulation prices: affordable, easy-to-use desktop emulation ...

New Dual-Interface NFC Tags Offer Innovative Bridge for Connecting Smartphones to Medical, Communication, Entertainment and Other Devices

AIX-EN-PROVENCE, France--(BUSINESS WIRE)--INSIDE Secure (NYSE Euronext: INSD), a leader in embedded solutions for ...

Downloadable DRM Fusion Agent Speeds Delivery of HD Movies, TV and More on Latest Mobile Platform and Reduces App Development Time and Cost

AIX-EN-PROVENCE, France--(BUSINESS WIRE)--INSIDE Secure (NYSE Euronext: INSD) today announced the commercial ...

WARRENDALE, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mitsubishi Electric Power Products, Inc. and CoreSite will join forces at DatacenterDynamics Converged New York this week to present a case study entitled “CoreSite Reduces TCO for its Data Center.” The ...

Eindhoven, Netherlands and Hamburg, Germany, March 11, 2013 – NXP Semiconductors N.V. (NASDAQ: NXPI) today introduced the industry’s first double transistors with low saturation voltage in a 2-mm x 2-mm DFN (discrete flat no-leads) package. The 15 new types are available immediately in a leadless, low-profile DFN2020-6 (SOT1118) package, with ...

NATICK, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--MathWorks today announced Release 2013a (R2013a) of its MATLAB and Simulink product families. New in this release is the introduction of Fixed-Point Designer, which combines the functionality of Fixed-Point ...

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Eindhoven, Netherlands – March 8, 2013 – NXP Semiconductors N.V. ("NXP") (NASDAQ: NXPI) announced today the pricing of the previously announced secondary offering of 25,000,000 shares of its common stock to be sold by certain of its principal stockholders, including affiliates of funds managed or ...

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Ultratech, Inc. (Nasdaq: UTEK), a leading supplier of lithography and laser-processing systems used to manufacture semiconductor devices and high-brightness LEDs (HB-LEDs), today announced that it will present at the 25th Annual ...

Insights Presented at International Forum Can Help in the Development and Selection of New Chemical Mechanical Polishing Filtration Products

PORT WASHINGTON, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Building on earlier teamwork with Lewis University, Pall Corporation (NYSE:PLL) ...

Eindhoven, Netherlands and Manchester, UK, March 5, 2013 – NXP Semiconductors N.V. (NASDAQ: NXPI) today introduced 54 new automotive-qualified MOSFETs in an LFPAK56 package – the largest portfolio of Power-SO8 MOSFETs available on the market today. Delivering industry-leading performance and reliability, NXP’s LFPAK56 MOSFETs also save more than 55 percent ...

WILSONVILLE, Ore. - Mentor Graphics Corporation today announced their participation with STMicroelectronics and LETI in a technical session and luncheon during the DATE conference in Grenoble, France ...

March 1, 2013 - Enschede - Avant Technology Inc., a professional EDA tool & silicon IP provider based in Hsinchu, Taiwan, is now a representing partner of Recore Systems. Avant Technology will market and support Recore Systems’ versatile Xentium DSP IP core for their customers in Taiwan, China,Malaysia, Singapore, Japan and Korea.

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