#CHIPS: "Memristor-like RRAM Employs Silicon Oxide"

rcj@SpiritOne.com (R. Colin Johnson)

With a tip of their hat to James Tour's pioneering demonstration of a memristor-like resistive memory technology at Rice University in 2010 (see Rice's Silicon Memristor Aims to Beat HP) the University College London announced what its claims is the first room temperature resistive random access memory (ReRAM) technology. ReRAMs store information on nonvolatile dynamic resistors--called memristors by their inventor Leon Chua. — Read More

Tanner EDA and Aldec Deliver High-Performance A/MS Solution for Mixed-Signal IC Design and Verification

Seamless interface allows both analog and digital engineers to solve complex analog/mixed-signal verification problems MONROVIA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Tanner EDA, the catalyst for innovation in the design, layout and verification of analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits (ICs), and Aldec, Inc., an industry leader in mixed VHDL, Verilog and SystemVerilog simulation, have collaborated to deliver an integrated co-simulation solution for analog and mixed-signal (A/MS) design. — Read More

Alpha Data Releases New High-Performance Kintex-7 FPGA Based XMC Card

Alpha Data are proud to announce the launch of the ADM-XRC-7K1, the first in a range of new products based on 28nm Xilinx 7 series FPGA technology. The ADM-XRC-7K1 is a high performance reconfigurable XMC with PCI Express Gen2 interface, external memory and flexible front-panel IO options.The 7K1 is the latest in the highly successful line of PMC and XMC products from Alpha Data, an Alliance Program certified member with over a decade of experience with Xilinx. — Read More

Print’s role in Semiconductor IP Design

jblyler

May 18 2012 Print content continues its steady decline in our everyday lives. But what is the real impact on semiconductor IP designs? Few semiconductor IP designers use print exclusively for the development of their System-on-Chips (SoC). But print still plays some role a part in the creation of complex chips. But for how much longer? Maybe not much longer, according to a number of different perspectives that emerged this week: What role does print play in the design of your SoCs? — Read More

Feabhas now an ARM Approved Training Centre

ARM support a worldwide network of organisations, which provide ARM Training as part of the ARM Approved Training Centre Program. Feabhas is now licensed to deliver ARM software courses to the embedded software community, which includes training for ARM® Cortex™ processors. This partnership between ARM and Feabhas strengthens the successful relationship the two businesses have had for many years. ARM is one of Feabhas’ earliest clients and Feabhas ... — Read More

Mentor Graphics Hires Embedded Software Veteran to Lead RTOS, Middleware and User Interface Product Lines

Mentor Graphics Hires Embedded Software Veteran to Lead RTOS, Middleware and User Interface Product Lines NewswireToday - /newswire/ - Wilsonville, OR, United States, 05/18/2012 - Mentor Graphics Corporation today announced the appointment of Scot Morrison as the Mentor Embedded general manager of Embedded Runtime Solutions (NASDAQ: MENT) . Rank or share this free Newswire Press Release Distribution content. Join the network! — Read More

New development kit for Tabula’s ABAX 3D FPGAs

The folks at Tabula have just announced the immediate availability of a development kit to accelerate the creation of designs based on their ABAX family of 3PLDs (which I think of as 3D FPGAs). This comprehensive development system will aid FPGA and ASIC designers to implement and test a rich variety of parallel and serial interfaces such as DDR3 and PCI Express Gen2, as well as embedded systems based on the popular V1 ColdFire soft CPU. — Read More

GigOptix, Inc. Samples Linear Quad Driver for 400G Applications

GigOptix, Inc. (NYSE MKT: GIG), a leading fabless supplier of semiconductor and optical components that enable high speed information streaming, today announced that it has begun engineering sampling of its GX62472, a Surface Mounted Technology (SMT) Mach Zehnder Modulator (MZM) quad linear driver designed with integrated GPPO outputs for 400Gbps DWDM metro and long-haul optical transmitters. “We are very excited to announce the successful engineering ... — Read More

Intilop's Nano TOE performs Full TCP/IP Stack processing in yet another record breaking 76 ns!

Intilop, Inc. a pioneer and a recognized leader in providing complex networking IP building blocks and systems, today announced delivery of their new Ultra Low latency 4th Gen 10G Nano TOE. This extends their leadership of more than 3 years in providing full TOEs. Their mature, network proven series of TOE's have been deployed in hundreds of networks worldwide, including major world stock exchanges and financial institutions enabling trade executions in less than 1 us now! — Read More

NVIDIA’s Bill Dally Talks 3D Chips and More at GTC

Bill Dally, NVIDIA’s chief scientist, spent some time speaking with EE Times at this year’s GPU Technology Conference (GTC) in San Jose, California. The two discussed 3D integrated circuits, the rise of China as a technology player, the state of US R&D spending and a possible alternative to Ethernet. In the 3D chip realm, Dally sees a future where GPUs with several stacks of memory are integrated together. — Read More

EVE Unveils 10-Gigabit Ethernet Validation Platform

AT 49th DAC BOOTH #1926 -- EVE, the leader in hardware/software co-verification, today announced immediate availability of a 10-Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) validation platform for its ZeBu (Zero Bugs) family of system-on-chip (SoC) hardware-assisted verification platforms. The e-zTest 10GbE software is a transaction-based environment ... — Read More

Maxim offers free software to protect Spartan FPGAs

Maxim Integrated Products has a reference design to protect Xilinx Spartan-6 FPGAs. It comprises free security software from Maxim or Xilinx and the Maxim DS28E01-100, a 1-Wire secure memory device.  Operating over a single pin, the built-in challenge-and-response SHA-1 authentication scheme in the DS28E01-100 prevents unauthorised product builds and safeguards FPGA IP. It is possible to remotely turn on fee-based software-controlled ... — Read More

Supertex to Present at 13th Annual B. Riley & Co. Investor Conference

Supertex, Inc. (NASDAQ: SUPX), a recognized leader in high voltage analog and mixed signal integrated circuits, today announced that Vice President of Finance and CFO, Phil Kagel, will be presenting at the 13th Annual B. Riley & Co. Investor Conference. Mr. Kagel will be presenting at 10:30 a.m. on May 23, 2012, in the Pallisades D room of the Loews Santa Monica Beach Hotel, 1700 Ocean Avenue, Santa Monica, CA, 90401. — Read More

Professional Circuit Designs Ltd Standardizes on Mentor Graphics PCB Design-Through-Manufacturing Technologies for Design and Consulting Services

Professional Circuit Designs Ltd Standardizes on Mentor Graphics PCB Design-Through-Manufacturing Technologies for Design and Consulting Services NewswireToday - /newswire/ - Wilsonville, OR, United States, 05/16/2012 - Mentor Graphics Corporation announced that Professional Circuit Designs (PCD) Ltd, based in Winchester, UK has standardized on the Mentor Graphics® PCB design-through-manufacturing product flow, including the Valor® NPI tool. — Read More

Dynex Power Announces First Quarter Results for 2012

Strong Results Despite Tough Economic Conditions in Many Markets Listing: TSX Venture Exchange Symbol: DNX LINCOLN, England, May 16, 2012 /CNW/ - Dynex Power Inc., a leading, high power semiconductor company, today announced its financial results for the first quarter ended March 31st, 2012. Summary financial information for the three months ended ... — Read More

Top 4 NASDAQ Stocks In The Semiconductor-Integrated Circuits Industry With The Highest Revenue

Below are the top semiconductor-integrated circuits stocks on the NASDAQ in terms of revenue. The trailing-twelve-month revenue at Broadcom Corp (NASDAQ: BRCM) is $7.19 billion. BRCM's PEG ratio is 0.78. The trailing-twelve-month revenue at Marvell Technology Group Ltd (NASDAQ: MRVL) is $3.39 billion. MRVL's ROE for the same period is 11.68%. The trailing-twelve-month revenue at Analog Devices Inc (NASDAQ: ADI) is $2.91 billion. ADI had $3.67 billion in total cash for the recent quarter. — Read More

Vestel Electronics Launches Advanced Set-Top-Box Using Mentor Graphics Inflexion User Interface Technology

Mentor Graphics Corporation (NASDAQ:MENT) today announced that Vestel Electronics, one of Europe’s largest set-top-box (STB) manufacturers, developed its user interface (UI) for its new generation Android-based STB using the Mentor® Embedded Inflexion® UI product. With the Inflexion UI technology, Vestel quickly created a rich user interface that includes 3D perspectives, and mirrored like surfaces. — Read More

HiSilicon Extends Multi-License Deal with Vivante for Graphics IP

Vivante Corporation, a leading supplier of graphics and visualization technologies for mobile and consumer entertainment applications, announced today that HiSilicon, a leading supplier of SoC and ASIC solutions for mobile, communication networks and digital media, has expanded its ongoing technology partnership to include additional GC (Graphics and Compute) cores. HiSilicon will continue to integrate these key pieces of visual computing IP into SoC products for mobile and consumer products. — Read More

PLDA Introduces High-performance Linux and Windows PCI Express Device Drivers Optimized for Latency-sensitive Applications

The PLDA device drivers and APIs provide a robust and flexible software framework for FPGA-based PCI Express adapter cards SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- PLDA, the industry leader in interconnect IP, today announced the 3rd generation Linux and Windows device driver for its PCI Express intellectual property cores and FPGA design kits. Redesigned from the ground up with an architecture optimized ... — Read More

BEEcube will be Exhibiting at the Design Automation Conference (DAC)

BEEcube Inc. will be exhibiting at the Design Automation Conference 49 June 3 - 7. Visit us at booth 519 at the Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco, California. BEEcube Inc., a leading provider of advanced reconfigurable platforms and system-level FPGA prototyping systems will be at DAC 49 with the BEE4, the ultimate full speed FPGA prototyping platform. The BEE4 is integrated with four FMC slots to accommodate ... — Read More