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Updated: Mon, 01 Dec 2008 01:00:01 +0100

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1 2 German processor firm alleges Xilinx, Avnet infringe patents
Pact XPP, a developer of a reconfigurable highly parallel processor architecture, has filed a law suit against FPGA vendor Xilinx Inc. and distributor Avnet Inc. in the Eastern District court of Texas, claiming patent infringement.

2 7 MultiChoice Licenses onHandTV from S3
Silicon & Software Systems (S3) today announced that Pay-TV operator MultiChoice has licensed S3’s onHandTV Software Development Kit (SDK) for DVB-H to further develop their interactive Mobile Broadcast TV services.

3 1 Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd Licenses CAN Controller IP from Inicore Inc.
Inicore Inc. announced today that Surrey Satellite Technology Limited in Guildford, UK, has licensed its Controller Area Network Intellectual Property core CANmodule-IIx for their new SGR-05P range of space-borne GPS receivers.

4 4 Crocus Establishes Prototyping Environment for Next Generation MRAM Technology
Crocus Technologies today announced that it has qualified its complete manufacturing environment for the development and rapid prototyping of MRAM.

5 8 ChipX Adds More Than 60 Analog Functions to IP Portfolio
The ChipX analog building block catalog consists of many general purpose functions, available in 250nm, 180nm and 130nm processes. Building blocks include analog switches and multiplexers, charge pumps, comparators, self-calibrated termination, reference resistors, reference voltage and reference current generators, oscillator circuits, power-on-reset generators, operational amplifiers and various I/Os including HSTL, SSTL 1.5/1.8/2.5/3.3, LVPECL and LVDS.

6 11 POWERVR SGX520, the world’s smallest OpenGL ES 2.0 core achieves Khronos conformance
POWERVR SGX520 is the world’s smallest 3D graphics processor solution to achieve OpenGL ES 2.0 conformance - reinforcing POWERVR’s credentials as the leading mobile and embedded graphics acceleration solution. POWERVR SGX520 is less than 2.6mm2 in TSMC 65LP process.

7 5 Cavium Networks Signs Definitive Agreement to acquire Video Processor Specialist W&W Communications
Cavium Networks today announced that it is has signed a definitive agreement to acquire W&W Communications, Inc.. W&W Communications is a fabless semiconductor company head-quartered in Sunnyvale, CA with an offshore center in Beijing, China.

8 3 Imagination Technologies Reveals Extended PowerVR SGX Graphics & Video Core Family
PowerVR SGX is a comprehensive graphics solution which, along with an industry-leading 3D graphics feature set that exceeds Khronos’ OpenGL 2.0 shader and Microsoft Vertex and Pixel Shader Model 3 requirements, also supports a full range of key video codecs and OpenVG 2D vector graphics acceleration.

9 12 ARM Releases AAC, MP3, MPEG-4, H.264 and FFT OpenMAX DL Libraries, Highly Optimized for Cortex-A8/NEON and ARM11 Processors
These functions can be downloaded free-of-charge from the ARM website, and the license granted to these functions entitles the user to integrate them into their own products at no cost.

10 New!!! POWERVR SGX540 from Imagination Technologies now in silicon
POWERVR SGX540 typically delivers twice the performance of POWERVR SGX530 while consuming significantly less than double the silicon area or power consumption.

11 New!!! Shenzhen Integrated Circuit Design Industrial Center Licenses Low-Power Cores from MIPS Technologies
MIPS today announced that Shenzhen Integrated Circuit Design Industrial Center has licensed its low-power MIPS32® M4K® and MIPS32® 4Kc(TM) processor cores for next generation IC designs.

12 New!!! ARM Announces RealView Development Suite Professional Tools For Mobile Applications
RealView Development Suite 3.1 Professional is designed to support the latest high-performance ARM processors, such as the Cortex™-A8 processor, and includes vectorizing compilation for the NEON™ media processing engine which can increase the performance of multimedia applications by more than 200 percent from standard C code.

13 10 eMemory 0.13um OTP Used in LCD Driver Mass Production at TSMC
eMemory have entered the stage of mass production of 0.13um embedded NVM at tsmc, and of completeness in constructing TSMC 0.13um OTP 1.5V/6V/32V high-voltage platform and 0.13um OTP Fuse availability, providing application for high efficiency small panel LCD driver IC in terms of enhancement of customers’ competitiveness.

14 New!!! Imagination technologies shows ISDB-T full-seg on low-power multi-standard receiver IP platform
Imagination Technologies announced today that it is demonstrating ISDB-T full-seg demodulation on ENSIGMA UCCP230, part of Imagination’s licensable software programmable radio IP platform family.

15 New!!! GDA Technologies Ships Configurable USB 3.0 Controller
GDA Technologies announced plans today to ship “Pravega”--its USB 3.0 family of cores consisting of a highly configurable Superspeed device and host controllers that are interoperable with third party USB 3.0 PHY’s running at 5 Gbits/s maximum speeds.

16 New!!! Blue802 Technology from Silicon Wave and Intersil Licensed by Z-Com for Dual-Mode Bluetooth + Wi-Fi Wireless Solution
Blue802 Technology from Silicon Wave and Intersil Licensed by Z-Com for Dual-Mode Bluetooth + Wi-Fi Wireless Solution

17 New!!! TrendChip Technologies Licenses MIPS32 24KE and MIPS32 34K Cores for Cutting-Edge Broadband Access Solutions
MIPS Technologies today announced that TrendChip Technologies has licensed the MIPS32 24KE and multi-threaded MIPS32 34K processor cores for next-generation broadband access products.

18 New!!! Synopsys Unveils IP OEM Partner Program with Arrow Electronics, Global Unichip and Open-Silicon
Arrow Electronics, Inc and Global Unichip Corp. (GUC) join Open-Silicon, an early adopter of the program, as the first companies to sign multi-year agreements standardizing on Synopsys DesignWare® IP for their system-on-chip (SoC) designs.

19 New!!! Ultra-low power 16-bit microcontroller core consumes less than 40 uA per MIPS.
Tiempo today announces its new chip, fully operational at first run, that silicon-proves its 16-bit microcontroller core IP – TAM16 – on a CMOS 130 nm general-purpose process. The chip logic has been entirely designed in Tiempo’s innovative asynchronous and delay insensitive technology.

20 New!!! Imagination Technologies extends POWERVR I2P Interlace-to-Progressive scan converter IP core family
These latest versions of Imagination's broadcast quality interlace-to-progressive scan converter technology deliver substantially improved image quality, without silicon area penalty. Both cores are available for licensing from Imagination now and are already in design with Imagination's lead partners.