| Class D audio IC simplifies digital TV design
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2006-12-11 |
| Cirrus Logic has claimed that its CS4525 is an innovative Class D audio IC that greatly simplifies system design for the global flat-panel digital TV market. The CS4525 is said to deliver up to 15W per channel into 8Ω speakers. |
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| Dialog Semi launches evaluation board for DA9034 chip
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2006-12-05 |
| Dialog Semiconductor Plc has launched an evaluation board for its recently introduced DA9034 IC that enables designers to quickly configure designs based on Marvell PXA3xx application processors. |
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| Dialog Semi launches evaluation board
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2006-12-04 |
| Dialog Semiconductor Plc has launched a new evaluation board for its recently introduced DA9034 IC that enables designers to quickly configure designs based on Marvell PXA3xx application processors. |
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| Freescale intros BLDC motor driver for office apps
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2006-11-27 |
| Freescale Semiconductor has introduced a three-phase brushless DC (BLDC) motor driver IC designed to help drive small motors reliably with reduced board space. |
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| AMI launches automotive-grade flash memory
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2006-11-23 |
| AMI Semiconductor has launched automotive-grade embedded flash memory for its 0.35µm Smart Power high-voltage mixed-signal SoC process technology. The company's HiMOS embedded memory IP and technology provide designers with the flexibility to configure the size of the on-board flash memory capacity from 2KB to 64KB |
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| IR announces sensor-less motor control platform
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2006-11-22 |
| International Rectifier has introduced a sensor-less sinusoidal motor control platform that delivers quieter operation and higher efficiency for variable-speed pump applications up to 300W. |
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| Signal conditioner IC includes advanced on-chip diagnostics
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2006-11-22 |
| ZMD AG has introduced the ZMD31150, a high-speed automotive signal conditioner IC with advanced on-chip diagnostics for use with all types of wheat stone bridge sensors. |
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| High-speed digital boards deliver 200MB/s throughput
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2006-11-16 |
| National Instruments has announced the first high-speed digital I/O instruments for PCI Express (PCIe) to deliver up to 200MB/s dedicated throughput per direction to and from the host processor. |
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| Actel rolls out FPGA system management for MicroTCA Market
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2006-10-25 |
| Actel Corp. has announced that it is the first silicon provider to embrace the MicroTCA standard with a comprehensive roadmap of free and tested reference platforms for system management utilising FPGA technology. |
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| Teridian enters industrial automation market
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2006-10-19 |
| Teridian Semiconductor Corp. has officially entered the industrial automation and control market with the introduction of 71M8100, a measurement controller designed for industrial applications including process instrumentation, temperature and pressure sensors, weigh scale, medical instrumentation, DAQ and programmable logic controller applications. |
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| Freescale announces its first PoE/PD controller
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2006-10-13 |
| Freescale has announced its first single-chip PoE controller which combines a powered device interface port supporting the IEEE 802.3af PoE standard and a pulse width modulator controller. |
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| Tektronix unveils 'fastest' arbitrary waveform generator
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2006-10-03 |
| Tektronix, Inc. has announced its latest AWG7000 Series of Arbitrary Waveform Generators designed to meet the test needs for high-speed serial data buses and wideband digital RF devices. |
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| Exar unveils new UARTs for battery-operated consumer apps
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2006-09-22 |
| Exar Corp. has added a family of high performance, low voltage Universal Asynchronous Receiver Transmitters (UARTs) to its serial communications product portfolio. |
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| AltaSens tapes out CMOS image sensor
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2006-09-15 |
| Magma Design Automation has announced that AltaSens has taped out a multimillion-gate, high-performance, mixed-signal image sensor using Magma's products Blast Create and Blast Fusion |
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| Lattice to launch 90nm FPGA, embedded IP core
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2006-09-13 |
| Lattice Semiconductor has decided to launch its 90nm LatticeECP2 FPGA combines an efficient FPGA fabric with dedicated high-performance DSP blocks on-chip for high-volume, low cost applications. |
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| Cadence rolls out new version of Virtuoso design platform
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2006-09-13 |
| Cadence Design Systems is rolling out a new version of its Virtuoso custom design platform which offers a constraint-driven design flow and is built on top of the OpenAccess database. |
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| Synopsys connectivity IP supports SMIC 130nm tech
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2006-09-07 |
| Synopsys Inc. has announced the expansion of its DesignWare MSIP portfolio with the release of connectivity IP for SMIC's 130nm technology. |
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| Tektronix offers DSOs with limited lifetime warranty
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2006-09-04 |
| The DSOs feature up to 200MHz bandwidth and 2GSps maximum sample rate per channel. Tektronix said the new oscilloscopes simplify configuration, testing and documentation for design and test. |
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| Tool analyses power rails, electromigration issues
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2006-08-30 |
| Sequence Design has combined its Columbus-AMS with components from CoolTime to allow diagnosis of electromigration and voltage drop issues in full-custom designs. |
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| NI unveils new RF analyser, IF digitizers
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2006-08-28 |
| National Instruments (NI) has announced an RF analyser and two IF digitizers that extend high-speed DAQ and data streaming into RF and communications applications. |
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| Development tool simplifies embedded design
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2006-08-25 |
| Cypress Semiconductor Corp. has introduced Version 2.1 of PSoC Express, its development tool for Programmable SoC (PSoC) mixed-signal arrays, which promises to simplify embedded design |
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| Dongbu Electronics, Cadence partner in semicon PDKs
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2006-08-16 |
| Dongbu Electronics, a Seoul-based pure-play semiconductor foundry has developed process design kits (PDKs) for high-voltage semiconductor devices. |
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| Free IDE developed for 32bit ARM7 MPU core
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2006-08-04 |
| Actel Corp. has released a free development environment for its CoreMP7, which is claimed to be the only soft 32bit ARM7 microprocessor core for FPGAs. |
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| ASIC improves sound quality of small speakers
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2006-07-31 |
| MaxxBass ASICs, the devices to be manufactured at Tower Semiconductor Ltd's fab, are touted as the solution when a bigger bass and richer sound are demanded from smaller speakers. |
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| ARM releases next-gen DDR memory solutions
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2006-07-28 |
| ARM has announced the expansion of its Velocity DDR memory interface products, part of its Artisan physical IP family, to support a number of application-specific SDRAM requirements. |
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| Wireless IP platform enables cost-effective Wi-Fi phones
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2006-07-24 |
| Atheros Communications Inc. has introduced its wireless Internet Protocol (IP) platform implements the most cost-effective and compact Wi-Fi phones on the market. |
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| Actel announces Libero IDE
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2006-07-19 |
| Actel Corp. has launched the latest version of its Libero Integrated Design Environment (IDE) with features intended to increase the flexibility, efficiency and performance of designs based on the company's FPGAs. |
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| Testing suite performs global check on 'difficult-to-find' design issues
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2006-07-12 |
| Sandwork has released the SpiceCheck, the latest product in the company's AVAD test suite for analogue and mixed-signal designers |
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| Cadence solution speeds design, manufacturing convergence
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2006-06-29 |
| The Cadence has introduced its Precision Router which speeds design and manufacturing convergence for advanced mixed-signal, analogue and custom digital designs |
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| Chipidea releases RF IP cores for DVB-H, GPS
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2006-06-22 |
| Chipidea has released two IP cores: a mobile tuner for DVB-H, DMB, and ISDB-T and a receiver for handheld GPS. |
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