Synopsys Acquires RSoft Design Group
Synopsys, Inc. today announced it has completed the acquisition of privately held RSoft Design Group, Inc., a leading provider of photonics design and simulation software headquartered in Ossining, New York. More...
Clearwire Expands LTE Choices in North America
Qualcomm Incorporated and Clearwire Corporation today announced that Qualcomm will add support for Clearwire's upcoming LTE TDD network to its line of multi-mode LTE chipsets with the inclusion of support for 3GPP's Band 41 (B41) radio frequency. More...
Microchip Technology and SMSC Announce the Acquisition of SMSC by Microchip Technology
Microchip Technology Incorporated today announced that Microchip has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Standard Microsystems Corporation for $37.00 per share in cash, which represents a total equity value of about $939 million, and a total enterprise value of about $766 million, after excluding SMSC’s cash and investments on its balance sheet of approximately $173 million. More...
Cadence OrCAD Capture Marketplace Now Available on Desktop Browsers
Cadence Design Systems, Inc. today announced the availability of its ground-breaking Cadence OrCAD Capture Marketplace to the entire OrCAD and Allegro PCB design community through a standard desktop browser, as well as the addition of several new apps and a trial period for paid apps. More...
Wireless Network Worst Case Scenario: 25 Trillion Signaling Events at Once!
There’s a potentially devastating wireless signaling storm brewing, and SEVEN Networks, a provider of innovative mobile solutions that reduce smartphone data traffic on wireless networks, has released a new infographic depicting the mounting problem that is plaguing wireless networks across the globe. More...
ST-Ericsson announces new strategic direction and partnership
ST-Ericsson announced today the guidelines of its new strategic direction, the signature of an agreement to transfer to STMicroelectronics its stand-alone application processor activities, and additional measures to accelerate time-to-market and lower the breakeven point. More...
Microchip Technology Acquires Roving Networks
Microchip Technology Inc. analog and Flash-IP solutions, today announced the acquisition of Roving Networks. Roving Networks is a privately held, fabless semiconductor developer of Wi-Fi certified transceivers and FCC certified Wi-Fi and Bluetooth modules. More...
4th Asia Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ASQED2012)
July 10-11 2012
Penang, Malaysia
http://www.asqed.com
PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE: April 23, 2012
The Asia Symposium on Quality Electronic Design, a leading international conference in electronic design, semiconductor, and manufacturing, is now accepting papers in the following areas More...
IAR Systems acquires Signum “More powerful processors and increasingly complex embedded systems are driving the need for more advanced tools for testing and debugging,” says Stefan Skarin, CEO, IAR Systems.
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Industry leaders predict a 'White Space economy' Cambridge Consultants has today released a report discussing the foremost business opportunities in wireless technologies enabled by White Space frequencies, predicting the development of the first White Space consumer devices in the next five years.
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Marvell Smart-Energy Platform Enables Smart-Energy Profile 2.0 Devices Marvell today announced that the company will be demonstrating its Smart-Energy Platform, which has been extended to support the Smart-Energy Profile 2.0 (SEP 2) Draft Standard, at the Wi-Fi Smart Energy Forum in Chicago, August 2-3, 2011.
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Calypto Joins ARM Connected Community Calypto Design Systems, Inc. today announced it is a new member in the ARM Connected Community, the industry’s largest ecosystem of ARM technology-based products and services.
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Cadence Acquires Azuro
Cadence Design Systems, Inc. today announced it has acquired Azuro, Inc., a company that has pioneered a paradigm shift in the digital implementation and optimization of next-generation SoCs.
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Xilinx Acquires Sarance Technologies
Xilinx, Inc. today announced its acquisition of Sarance Technologies, completing its industry-leading technology portfolio for addressing next generation line card applications by adding premier connectivity communications capabilities. More...
TI to acquire National Semiconductor
Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) and National Semiconductor today announced they have signed a definitive agreement under which TI will acquire National for $25 per share in an all-cash transaction of about $6.5 billion. More...
Express Logic's PrismX GUI Toolkit Brings Leading-Edge GUIs to STM32 Platform
Express Logic, Inc. and Blue Water Embedded today announced the availability of the PrismX graphics toolkit for the STMicroelectronics STM32processor family. PrismX delivers the eye-catching graphical capabilities and time-to-market edge needed for medical, industrial, office automation and consumer markets where user interfaces play an essential role in device design.More...
In-Wheel Electric Motors
In-wheel motors were popular in cars over 100 years ago because they did not intrude into passenger space. An example is shown below. However, they were expensive and they adversely affected the ride and steering. One motor seizing could sometimes lock a wheel. More...
Skyworks Powering Multiple LTE Platforms
Skyworks Solutions, Inc. today announced that its extensive LTE product portfolio continues to gain traction with leading handset OEMs and smart phone providers and is at the heart of several new, yet unreleased 4G devices slated for launch later this year.More...
VIA Technologies Adopts Mentor Graphics Calibre PERC for Critical ESD Checking
Mentor Graphics Corporation today announced that VIA Technologies, Inc. is adopting the CalibreR PERC electrical rule checking product to ensure that electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection meets established guidelines to help prevent circuit failures and design re-spins.More...
Accellera Approves New Version of Electronic Design System Modeling Standard
Accellera announced today that its Board of Directors approved a new version of Accellera's Standard Co-Emulation Modeling Interface (SCE-MI) specification as a new Accellera verification standard. Version 2.1 speeds up electronic design verification since it allows a model developed for simulation to run in an emulation environment and vice versa.More...
STARC and Cadence Develop In-Design DFM for 32/28-Nanometer Silicon Realization
Cadence Design Systems, Inc., a leader in global electronic design innovation, today announced that it has teamed with the Semiconductor Technology Academic Research Center (STARC), a Japanese design consortium, and created an innovative new Cadence-based 32/28-nanometer design-for-manufacturing (DFM) flow.More...
First Look At NXP’s Low Power Solutions for 2011
ARM Techcon – November 12, 2010 -- NXP has had great success in this area with the LPC 1100, which was announced at the end of 2009. Next year, the company plans to follow on this success with the LPC 1200, featuring a highly optimized Cortex M0 processor IP.More...
Flexible Techniques for Low-Power 32/28nm Standard Cell and Memory Design
ARM Techcon – November 11, 2010 -- Low-power design encompasses an expanding set of loosely defined and widely deployed techniques for making electronic components more power efficient. Those techniques were the subject of a presentation by Wolfgang Heifricht, platform manager at ARM during ARM TechCon this week.More...
The ARM Ecosystem is the Real Story
ARM Techcon – November 10, 2010 -- The ARM TechCon developer’s conference got underway Tuesday with an extensive lineup of presentations, keynotes and supporting cast members. Indeed, perhaps the most notable aspect of ARM TechCon is the supporting cast.More...
Energy-Efficient Architectures for 4G and LTE Design
ARM Techcon – November 9, 2010 -- Mobile devices have grown up. No longer just for talking and texting, mobile devices are now more powerful than a desktop PC was just one generation ago. That pushes the capabilities of every device in the data pipeline as well, from servers to transmitters and even modems. Still, at every point in the data transmission, there is a crying need for power efficiency.More...
Power ISA Advancement To Enable Full Hardware Virtualization For The Embedded Space
Power.org, the open collaborative organization that enables, develops and promotes Power Architecture technology, has finalized the Power ISA Version 2.06 Revision B, which allows multiple operating systems to run over multiple embedded cores providing the requisite isolation and protection while increasing performance through hardware virtualization. More...
Cadence Unveils Holistic Approach to Silicon Realization
Cadence Design Systems, Inc. today introduced a new holistic approach to Silicon Realization that moves chip development beyond a patchwork of point tools to a streamlined end-to-end path of integrated technology, tools, and methodology. More...
New CEO at Lynguent
Lynguent, Inc., a developer of simulation models of analog/mixed-signal (AMS) IC designs, has named Sam Young as its new president and CEO. More...
TI announced as the first licensee of the next generation ARM Cortex-A series processor core
Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) today confirmed that it was the first company to partner with ARM in the conception and definition of the next generation ARM Cortex-A series processor core (also known as “Eagle”) to be announced later this year. TI intends to use the new processor to further strengthen and extend its future OMAP platform offerings. More...
Cadence and ARM to Create an ARM-Optimized System Realization Solution
Cadence Design Systems, Inc. has announced a broadening of its existing collaboration with ARM to develop an optimized System Realization solution for ARM processors that will enable an end-to-end flow including a full set of interoperable tools, ARM processor and physical IP, services and methodology from embedded Linux to GDSII. More...
ARM and TSMC Sign Long-Term Strategic Agreement
ARM and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd. today jointly announced a long-term agreement that provides TSMC with access to a broad range of ARM processors and enables the development of ARM physical IP across TSMC technology nodes. More...
500,000 new 4G Subscriptions in 2010; but Increase is Regional, says In-Stat
4G technology deployments and subscriptions will begin to take root in 2010 but only in North America and Western Europe reports In-Stat (www.in-stat.com). The rest of the world won’t begin to embrace 4G Technology in any significant way until 2012. More...
EDA Consortium Reports Revenue Increase for Q1 2010
The EDA Consortium Market Statistics Service today (7/12/10) announced that the Electronic Design Automation (EDA) industry revenue for Q1 2010 was $1,247 million, a 4.6 percent increase compared to $1,192.1 million in Q1 2009. Sequential EDA revenue declined 1.2 percent, while over the last four quarters it declined 5.9 percent. More...
Embedded Insights Launches Embedded Processing Directory
Embedded Insights, Inc today launched its Embedded Processing Directory, a live online resource that allows embedded developers to evaluate and compare embedded processors from over 80 vendors based on processor size, processor type, instruction set, target applications, and vendor name. More...
Europe's 2009 Energy Growth Dominated by Renewables
The European Commission's Joint Research Centre released its annual "Renewable Energy Snapshots" report this week, and found that 62 percent of all new electricity generation installed in 2009 in the 27 EU member countries was from renewable sources. This represented an increase from 2008, when 57 percent of new electricity was renewable. More...
Bluetooth SIG Adopts Low-Energy Spec
The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) today announced the formal adoption of Bluetooth Core Specification Version 4.0, with the hallmark feature, low energy technology. This final step in the adoption process signals to Bluetooth SIG members that the Bluetooth SIG Qualification Program is now open for qualification of all Bluetooth product types to the Version 4.0 Specification. More...
Mentor @DAC Extended
If you missed DAC in June or regret having missed some tutorials, you can catch up in July. Mentor @ DAC Extended is an online presentation of 22 of Mentor's DAC 2010 suite sessions. More...
ARM, IBM, Samsung, GLOBALFOUNDRIES and Synopsys Announce Delivery of 32/28nm HKMG Vertically Optimized Design Platform
ARM, IBM, Samsung Electronics, Co., Ltd., GLOBALFOUNDRIES and Synopsys, Inc. today announced the delivery of the industry’s first complete vertically optimized 32/28 nanometer (nm) design platform. Demonstrating the strength of the collaboration established and announced at DAC a year ago, the companies are collectively providing a technology enablement solution for the design and manufacturing of advanced mobile and embedded devices. More...
ARM Accelerates Software Development on Hardware-Assisted Verification Systems with VSTREAM
ARM has announced the availability of the ARM VSTREAM virtual debug interface; a fast and flexible virtual link that connects software debuggers to hardware assisted verification systems. VSTREAM enables more efficient software development in the early stages of system design, improving the utilization of hardware resources and reducing project risk and time-to-market for new ARM processor-based devices. More...
ON Semiconductor Acquires Sound Design Technologies
ON Semiconductor Corporation today announced it has acquired privately held Sound Design Technologies, Ltd. (SDT) from an affiliate of Global Equity Capital, LLC, in an all cash transaction for initial consideration of approximately $22 million. More...
Cadence Announces Comprehensive SOI Design Hub
Cadence Design Systems, Inc. has introduced the Cadence SOI Design Hub, a new Web portal that lowers the barriers to adopting silicon-on-insulator (SOI) technology through comprehensive silicon-proven design enablement solutions and services. The SOI Design Hub is aimed at reducing SOI adoption start-up costs, cutting time to market for SOI intellectual property (IP), and improving design quality. More...
Mobile Data Traffic from PC Modems and Routers Will Increase Fourfold by 2014
Mobile data traffic from PC modems and routers is forecast to increase fourfold between 2010 and 2014, according to a new Research Brief from ABI Research. This year some 2,000 petabytes of data will be sent and received, a figure that will rise to about 8,000 petabytes in 2014. More...
2010 DesignVision Awards Announced
The International Engineering Consortium (IEC) today announced the winners of the 2010 DesignVision Awards program celebrating the premier design tools and products judged as the most unique and beneficial to the semiconductor industry. IEC Executive Vice President Roger Plummer presented the DesignVision Awards live before the Tuesday Keynote Address. More...
Over 1 Billion Global Broadband Subscribers by 2013
Consumer enthusiasm for broadband service continues unabated, reports In-Stat. During calendar year 2009, an average of 8.8 million new broadband subscribers worldwide signed up for service each month. By 2013, In-Stat forecasts that the number of global broadband subscribers will surpass 1 billion.More...
Call for Papers for nanoPower Forum
An Announcement and Call for Papers has been issued for the fourth-annual international nanoPower Forum (nPF ’10) to be held May 17-19 at the Doubletree Hotel, Santa Ana/Orange County Airport, California. This focused three-day international conference will serve an audience of decision makers who are interested in learning about and contributing to the latest practical advancements related to the emerging area of “ultra-low power” (ULP) systems.More...
802.11n To Feature in 87% of Wi-Fi-Enabled Smartphones in 2014
Although 802.11n Wi-Fi technology was found in less than 1% of Wi-Fi-enabled smartphones last year, in 2014 at least 87% of Wi-Fi-capable smartphones will feature this latest of the 802.11 protocols. However, users of these phones shouldn’t expect laptop-like performance, at least not initially.More...
One Billion People Will Own a Smartphone by 2013
Despite the increasing overlap between mobile phone functionality and other handheld devices, consumers are still purchasing standalone cameras, sat navs, personal media players and handheld gaming devices, according to a new convergence report from Futuresource Consulting.More...
LTE Drives the News but WCDMA Drives Base Station Deployments
Despite a poor worldwide economy, demand for smartphones, regular phones, and wireless broadband services continues to drive the base station market, according to In-Stat. The number of newly deployed macro cellular base stations will grow over 10% in 2009.More...
Mobile Device Shipments Will Nearly Double Before 2015
2009 will see a total of 1.2 billion mobile devices shipped, according to the latest data from ABI Research. That includes all categories of wireless devices including cellular handsets, MIDs (Mobile Internet Devices), netbooks, mobile consumer electronics products, and cellular modems.More...
MIPS and Tensilica Team to Accelerate SOC Design Activity on Android Platform
MIPS Technologies and Tensilica today announced they are working together to accelerate SOC (system-on-chip) design activity on the popular Android platform. Together, MIPS and Tensilica will help companies speed the design of new home entertainment and mobile consumer products based on Android.More...
Billion Dollar Market for Remote Radio Heads in 2014
The demands of cost reduction and greater efficiency in cellular base station design are leading to a rapidly growing market for remote radio heads. According to a new study from ABI Research, this market is on track to exceed a value of $1 billion in 2014.More...
Multi-Core Processors to Reach 88% of Mobile Processors Shipped in 2013
Although multi-core processors are common today in notebook PCs, they are only beginning to become common place in other mobile devices, according to In-Stat. In-Stat projects 2010 will be a key year for adoption of multi-core processors in netbooks and smartphones in 2010, while MIDs/UMPCs will see uptake in 2011, and CE devices will follow during 2012/2013.More...
Virage Logic Turns Over a High Card
Virage Logic announced today that it had completed its acquisition of NXP’s horizontal advanced CMOS semiconductor IP (SIP) technology. As part of the acquisition, approximately 150 former NXP employees and the assets associated with selected NXP advanced CMOS libraries, IP blocks and SoC infrastructure along with other classes of semiconductor IP, including approximately 25 associated patent families, are now part of Virage Logic. Virage and NXP also inked a $65 million strategic alliance that will give Virage cash flow and customers for many years. That’s part of the story, but Virage’s strategy going forward is the interesting part.More...
Bada Joins Android and Others in the Battle for Mobile OS Supremacy
Samsung Electronics will unveil its new open mobile platform, Bada, next month. Samsung seems to be following a trend of OSs that is “open” yet proprietary. The name "Bada" is Korean for "ocean." Market research firm In-Stat believes the name is ironically appropriate as it highlights the almost limitless variety of mobile OSs as Bada joins Symbian, Android, Maemo, LiMo, WebOS, Windows Mobile, RIM, OSX, and Moblin to name a few. More...
Smartphone Market Driven by Operating System Wars and Feature Migration
While iPhone shipments are growing quickly, smartphones based on the Symbian operating system remain dominant and will continue to grow over the next several years, reports In-Stat. However, Symbian will wane, resulting a drop in net handset shipments in 2014. More...
The Portable Consumer Electronics Market in Europe
Netbooks, pocket video cameras, digital SLRs, smartphones, mobile Internet devices and handheld games consoles are fuelling growth in the European portable electronics market this year, which in the face of economic challenges and convergence, grew 18% in 2008 to reach 155 million units and is forecast to grow a further 7% in 2009 to reach close to 170 million units. More...
Solar, Wind Power Enable ‘Green’ Cell Base Station Market
In the last few years, the number of worldwide cellular base stations has exploded from the hundreds of thousands to the many millions, creating greenhouse gases and pollution from the power required to run them, reports In-Stat. Base stations on an electric grid aren’t the real problem, but as cellular spreads to billions of people in emerging countries, off-grid base stations, which are usually powered by diesel generators running 24/7, proliferate. More...
Mobile VoIP Could Transform Mobile Landscape
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., Sept. 15, 2009 – Mobile VoIP is moving beyond its initial function as a new mechanism to get inexpensive international calls, reports In-Stat. While Mobile VoIP still poses a direct threat to operator voice revenue, it also represents a dynamic new capability that promises numerous applications. In-Stat projects that by 2013 Mobile VoIP applications will generate annual revenues of $32.2 billion, driven by over 278 million registered users worldwide. More...
One Billion Wi-Fi Chipsets to Ship in 2011 Alone
NEW YORK - August 18, 2009 - Wi-Fi seems to be all-pervasive, and in the year 2011 alone, Wi-Fi chipset vendors will ship one billion units, according to market data just released by ABI Research. By the end of the following year a cumulative five billion such chipsets will have shipped since the firm began tracking Wi-Fi chipsets in 2000. More...
Virage Logic Announces Intent to Acquire ARC International August 18, 2009 -- Virage Logic Corporation today announced its intent to acquire publicly held ARC International plc. The proposed acquisition would expand Virage Logic's ability to serve the global semiconductor market by complementing its existing portfolio of physical IP and standards-based advanced interface IP with ARC’s processor IP, a necessary component for complex System-on-Chip (SoC) integrated circuits. More...
Abilis Acquires Two Product Lines From Freescale Semiconductor
GENEVA, August 17-- Abilis Systems, a Kudelski Group company, (SWX:KUD) and a pioneer RF semiconductor company, announces the acquisition of Freescale Semiconductor CMOS Modulators and Silicon Tuner product lines. More...
IBM Scientists Use DNA Scaffolding To Build Tiny Circuit Boards
SAN JOSE, Calif., Aug. 17 -- Today scientists at IBM Research and the California Institute of Technology announced a scientific advancement that could be a major breakthrough in enabling the semiconductor industry to pack more power and speed into tiny computer chips, while making them more energy efficient and less expensive to manufacture. More...
Does Your Car Get 230 MPG?
WARREN, Mich. — General Motors said Tuesday that its Chevrolet Volt extended-range electric vehicle, scheduled for release in 2011, would achieve a fuel rating of 230 miles a gallon in city driving. More...
