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Micrel, Inc. today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire a controlling interest in PhaseLink Company Limited, a private company based in Taiwan and Silicon Valley. The acquisition is intended to complement Micrel’s high performance clock generation and distribution products for the communication market, as well as expand its offerings into the consumer and industrial markets.

NXP announced the release of the UJA107xA family, its next generation of CAN/LIN System Basis Chips (SBCs) for in-vehicle networks. Offering enhanced EMC (Electromagnetic Compatibility) performance, the chips meet the stringent requirements of global car OEMs such as Audi, BMW, Daimler, Ford, Porsche, Renault, Toyota and Volkswagen.

NXP Semiconductors, a leading supplier of chipsets for energy-efficient IC-based lighting solutions, today unveiled two new generations of compact fluorescent lighting (CFL) light bulb drivers and controllers, based on its GreenChip™ technology: the UBA2027 family which enables customers to develop CFL bulbs for energy saving lamps that provide smoother dimming capabilities to levels below 10 percent and the UBA221x family for non-dimming CFL b...

ARM, Samsung Electronics, Co., Ltd., GLOBALFOUNDRIES and Synopsys 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.

STMicroelectronics and ARM announced today that ST has adopted the ARM Cortex-A9 MPCore processor, in addition to the Mali®-400 graphics processor, for its upcoming set-top-box and digital TV system-on-chip (SoC) ICs.

Imagination Technologies, the multimedia chip technologies company, announces further details of the first POWERVR SGX graphics IP core with multi-processor (MP) core support. The technology, henceforth POWERVR SGX543MP, is being delivered to customers in SGXMP2 (two-core) to SGXMP16 (16-core) variants.

Imagination Technologies Group plc (LSE: IMG; Imagination), a leading multimedia and communications chip technologies company, has signed a license agreement with Silicon Integrated Systems Corp. (TSE:2363; SiS), a developer of leading-edge devices for the PC, communications and consumer multimedia embedded systems markets, for cores from Imagination's ENSIGMA UCC and POWERVR SGX families.

Users that do not have dual-display graphics card availability or a free VGA port can now obtain full graphics functionality by simply connecting GPEG’s 7 inch or 10.1 inch USB enabled monitors. These monitors use GPEG’s proprietary display board which incorporates the DisplayLink chipset to create a virtual graphics card via USB, which is fully compatible with Windows Extended Desk Top. A single mini-USB port provides both power and data t...

In a new whitepaper from ASSET InterTech, Al Couch, ASSET's chief technologist for core instrumentation and co-chairman of the IEEE P1687 IJTAG working group, explains how the standard will enable instruments that were originally embedded into chips for chip characterization and test can be re-used later in circuit board design validation, volume manufacturing test and field service troubleshooting. According to Crouch, the IEEE P1687 preliminary...

At the upcoming Embedded World Exhibition and Conference March 1-3 in Nuremberg, Germany, ASSET InterTech (Hall 9, Stand 277) will be offering hands-on demonstrations of non-intrusive board test (NBT) and validation strategies running on its ScanWorks platform for embedded instruments.