Analysis

MOSIS has partnered with Cambridge Consultants to offer customers royalty-free access to the XAP4 and XAP5 16-bit RISC processor cores - and - customers only have to pay 20% of the nominal license fee during prototype production, the balance of the fee not being due until devices go into volume production or are sold.

ARTiSAN Software Tools has announced that it has started shipping ARTiSAN Studio 6.1 which includes features and functionality in support of the new SysML standard. The shipping of ARTiSAN Studio 6.1 follows the announcement by The Object Management Group (OMG) that the SysML specification was formally adopted on 6th July 2006.

Avago Technologies today (July 20) announced that it has extended its agreement with TSMC to include the next two generations of its enhanced-performance image sensor products. Avago's 1.3-megapixel and newly introduced 2-megapixel sensors are already manufactured by TSMC and exhibit superior image quality and excellent uniformity. Avago Technologies will continue to work with TSMC to produce industry-leading multi-megapixel imaging products for...

STMicroelectronics has launched hard disk drive preamplifiers intended specifically for drives with less than 2.5in diameter platters. Named the Near Zero Power series because of their exceptionally low power consumption, the new devices are an open-market evolution of ST’s Ultra Low Power family.

Munich Trade Fairs International (MMI), the organiser behind the World’s largest and most successful trade fair for the global electronics industry, continues to develop the event’s focus on key applications areas with the news that electronica 2006 will headline the rapidly growing automotive electronics sector. electronica automotive presents an Automotive Conference organised to begin the day before electronica opens its doors as well as a...

Arteris and CoWare Inc, has announced a comprehensive agreement under which Arteris will output SystemC transaction level models (TLM) from its NoC tool suite for incorporation into TLM platforms developed in CoWare Platform Architect.

As part of the European Union’s 6th Framework Programme for funding technology and scientific projects designed to turn the EU economy into the most dynamic and competitive knowledge-based economy in the world, a new embedded systems initiative called SPEEDS (Speculative and Exploratory Design in Systems Engineering) has been established.

Integrated Device Technology, better known as IDT, announces that Acme Packet has chosen an IDT Network Search Engine for inclusion in its leading-edge family of Net-Net session border controllers (SBC). The IDT75K62213 NSE helps the Net-Net family provide critical service reach, service assurance and security requirements for the delivery of interactive voice, video and multimedia communications across IP network borders through its ability to ...

The results of its very first national survey of UK semiconductor design have been published by the National Microelectronics Institute. Entitled ‘Designed in the UK’, the Institute’s 55-page report reveals the scale and composition of the sector, its industry and application focus and the key challenges faced. The report concludes that the UK’s strength and success in semiconductor design is recognised at an international level and tha...

Strategic Test Corp has announced that free software updates and technical support will be provided on all future purchases of its UltraFast range of Digitizer, AWG, fast Digital I/O and Digital Pattern Generator cards. The decision also applies retrospectively to all UltraFast products supplied during the previous five years.