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The future of SoC verification: Enterprise computing? August 27, 2010
Perhaps the world of SoC verification gives the appearance of gradual and organized development. But the real story, as it emerges from an interview last week with Mentor Graphics DVT Division general manager John Lenyo, looks more like the modern view of evolution: sporadic change along many different ...
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LFoundry steers expansion course in competitive market
August 26, 2010
Two years after its inception by a management buy-out from former owner Renesas, semiconductor manufacturer Lfoundry is flexing its muscles. Within its expansion strategy, the company acquired Atmel's Rousset fab, tripling its manufacturing capacities. EE Times Europe asked Lfoundry CEO Michael Lehnert ...
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With a long-term strategy in a new market: Rohde & Schwarz
August 25, 2010
Recently, measurement systems vendor Rohde & Schwarz announced to bring its first oscilloscopes to market, entering a new market segment. EE Times Europe had the opportunity to discuss the implications of this step with one of the company's top managers, Roland Steffen, who oversees the measurement division. ...
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Multichannel, 16-bit DAC drives productivity, energy efficiency and reliability in industrial process control I/O systems
July 13, 2010
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Earlier this month Analog Devices, Inc., unveiled an innovative16-bit 4-channel control IC featuring Dynamic Power Control circuitry which claims to offer four times greater channel density, up to 80 percent power savings together with a 75 percent reduction in thermal rise.
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Analyst: Foundries gird for war at 28-nm
July 13, 2010
It's a great time to be a
fabless company with leading-edge designs, according to Dean Freeman, a
research vice president at Gartner Inc. That's because, as Freeman sees
it, the top foundry players are moving to ratchet up capacity at 40- and
28-nm, setting the stage for a market share battle and ...
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- Intel to purchase Infineon's Wireless Solutions Business in USD 1.4 billion cash transaction
- A4 chip drives AppleTV, iPod Touch
- AMD unveils two new x86 cores
- Apple iPad upgrade likely to get STMicro gyro
- ARM, in servers push, describes the Cortex-A15 CPU
- Decision time looms for hard drive makers
- Toshiba spins 2.5 Tbit hard disk
- IBM claims fastest MPU
- Russian chipmaker calls for import ban
- Marvell buys into broadband-over-power
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The Spartan-6 FPGA embedded kit offered by Xilinx in this month's reader offer is based on the company's Spartan-6 LX45T FPGA. It contains an extensible development board and the key tools and IP needed for embedded development.
The reference designs and software/hardware tutorials provided with this kit will give a jump-start to your development. The package worth 735 Euros includes a ROHS compliant SP605 base board including the XC6SLX45T-FGG484 -3 FPGA, the ISE Design Suite device-locked for the Spartan-6 LX45T FPGA and numerous other tools.
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This month, Xilinx is giving away one such kit, worth 735 Euros, for EETimes Europe's readers to win.
And the winners are...
In our previous reader offer, Cypress was giving away three PsoC3 development boards, worth USD 249 each.
Lucky winners include Mr. M. Casartelli from Italy, Mr J. Pirkin from Belgium and Mr. L. Vagasi from Hungary. All should be receiving their kits soon. Let's wish them some interesting findings with their projects.
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