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Cadence Design Systems announced today that Renesas Micro Systems has adopted the Cadence Encounter RTL Compiler for synthesis, highlighting a utilization improvement of 15 percent, area reduction of 8.4 percent, quick turnaround time, and cost reduction for complex ASIC designs.

STMicroelectronics announced today its new strategic plan. The plan is the outcome of a strategic review started more than a year ago, as the company saw major changes in the dynamics of the wireless market. “Today we are announcing the new ST, aligned with the new market environment,” said Carlo Bozotti, President and CEO of ST.

An integrated Bluetooth Smart solution combining an ultra-low power radio transceiver with a flexible and fully Bluetooth Smart-qualified low power baseband controller, protocol stack and profiles consumes less than half the power of today's standard solutions, and is now available for licensing.

Altera Corporation today announced the release of its Quartus II software version 12.1, the industry’s number one design suite in performance and productivity for CPLD, FPGA, SoC FPGA and HardCopy ASIC designs.

EnSilica has relocated its global headquarters to larger premises in Wokingham to support the company’s continuing expansion and growth. EnSilica’s new headquarters, located at West Forest Gate in Wokingham (UK), were officially opened by local Member of Parliament, John Redwood MP, on Friday, 16th November 2012.

Broadcom today announced it has started sampling the NLA12000 Series, the industry's first heterogeneous KBPs manufactured in 28 nanometer. Designed to meet the scalability and efficiency demands of 3G/4G mobile infrastructure, data center and enterprise environments, Broadcom's new knowledge-based processors deliver up to 24x greater performance than competing solutions in the most demanding applications.

Microcontrollers are historically the workhorse of embedded systems and it’s not uncommon for a single system to feature multiple devices. But is this a good enough reason to adopt a multicore approach? And if it is, what architecture do you choose? ES Design Magazine Editor Philip Ling investigates one possible solution.

Xilinx today announced its strategy for its 20nm portfolio, including the next-generation 8 series All Programmable FPGAs and second generation of 3D ICs and SoCs. The 20nm portfolio builds upon the breakthroughs proven at 28nm to provide an extra generation of system performance, lower power and programmable system integration.

Renesas has developed the RAA20770X Series of mini-POL converters for ASICs and other large-scale logic circuits in a wide variety of application fields, including personal computers, servers, industrial, office automation and networking equipment. The RAA20770X Series devices achieve the industry's highest level of miniaturization and power density. Renesas is now releasing six products with different current supply ratings and functionality.

Advanced Power Electronics Corp today announced the APU3037-3 controller IC designed to be a low cost synchronous buck regulator for on-board dc to dc converter applications. Explains Ralph Waggitt, President/CEO, Advanced Power Electronics Corp. (USA): “Today’s ASIC products are migrating down to supply voltages of 1.8V and even lower.