February 26, 2008   
Lowering Overall Chip Costs
What role does IP play in helping manage and reduce the cost of an IC? ARM, Chartered, HP and Virage Logic executives joined Chip Estimate at DesignCon 2008 to discuss the impact IP, reuse, design methodologies and manufacturing decisions can have in increasing profitability of chip projects.
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Visit your CPU Superstore: C166, ColdFire, Power Architecture, CompactRisc more >>
TakeCharge ESD Design Solutions for LV and HV CMOS down to 65nm more >>
HDMI TX 2.25Gbps 1080p 12bits 2.5V IO / 1.2V CORE in CSM65nmLP
from Chipidea
HDMI 1.3 Receiver Controller
from Chipidea
Multi-mode baseband platform for Software Defined Radio
from Amethyst
LDO Regulator in TSMC 65nm
from Silicon & Software Systems (S3)
SMPTE 274M/296M Encoder with Ancillary Data insertion
from Video-Cores
CCD Camera Bayer Pattern De-mosaicing Processor
from Video-Cores
Ethernet MAC Core from Coreworks
SD memory, NAND Flash & AHB controller - full/high speed...
from Arasan Chip Systems
USB 1.1 Host Controller - Compliant to v1.1 with optional AHB, APB,...
from Arasan Chip Systems
Convolutional Decoder implementing Viterbi algorithm...
from Amethyst
533M, 50ps jitter from VeriSilicon
Digital Controlled Crystal Oscillator (DCXO) from VeriSilicon
AEON/MTP Parallel 88 bits w/ integrated HV from Impinj
AEON/MTP Parallel 88 bits w/ external HV from Impinj
RSA and EC Public Key Accelerator
from Elliptic
Configurable SHA-MD5 Engine
from Elliptic
Reed-Solomon Memory Protection Codec from Gaisler Research
Single-port 16/32/64-bit DDR266 Controller from Gaisler Research
On-Chip Memory Survey

 
In this study of on-board SRAM usage for Q4 2007, close to a third of design starts are reporting over 4 megabits of memory. Still, the bulk of designs fall under 1 megabit of memory, accounting for nearly half of design starts. Statistics gathered from the ChipEstimate.com user community.
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Mixed Signal IP - 90nm & 65nm
 
Processing Solutions


 
PHY for 10G Ethernet over the Backplane, XFI and Related...
from ARM
Multi-codec hardware IP - H264, MPEG4 and H263 codec - For...
from Thin Multimedia
IEEE 802.16 OFDM Demodulator and Modulator from Commsonic
ARMCortex-M3 processor core w/o cache from ARM
Smart Card Interface Device supporting ISO 7816-3
from IPextreme
Random number generator (RNG), full featured, standards...
from Certicom
4G Single Lane Multiprotocol low power SERDES from Analog Bits
AXI-PCI Express Bridge from PLDA
NoC IP Library provides all the components for building an...
from Arteris
 
XDR DRAM is the worlds fastest memory interface. At 6.4GHz, its perfectly designed for game consoles, HDTV, and computing applications, and its now in high-volume production. Speed up your design now! www.rambus.com
 
Sharp, Sony team for LCD panels
Sharp and Sony have partnered in the large-sized LCD panels and modules arena, announcing a deal that will see the two Japan-based companies form a joint venture...
OEM semiconductor demand out of sync with sales, Gartner says
The top 10 OEMs consumed semiconductors worth $91 billion in 2007, a 1% rise over 2006, but less than the semiconductor industry's 3% growth between 2006 and 2007,...
Nokia, Qualcomm consolidate legal action
While they are far from shaking hands and calling a truce, Nokia and Qualcomm appear to have consolidated their regional legal action to a Delaware court. Analysts say that...
Tela tackles growing lithography challenges without RDR
Instead of restrictive design rules, startup posits a pre-optimized, lithography-clean topology as a solution that even IC designers can love.
Synopsys makes low power push
The semiconductor design and manufacturing software company is rolling out its Eclypse low power product, which includes a set of software tools, IP, methodologies...
Motorola taps private equity realm for new CFO
Paul J. Liska, an executive known for his strength in cost-cutting measures, comes to Motorola during one of the companys most turbulent periods in recent history.
Credence sells diagnostics, characterization business
Credence Systems is continuing its focus on automated test equipment for the consumer semiconductor industry and, in doing so, has announced the sale of its...
Lehman: AMD near-term visibility limited, co. focusing on new products...
Lehman Brothers semiconductor equity research analyst Timothy Luke believes near term visibility for microprocessor maker AMDs Q1 sales targets remains limited but is...
Microsoft cracks open window on trade secrets, becomes more...
Microsoft makes significant changes to its business model, taking steps toward open-source initiatives and sharing some of its APIs and communications protocols free of...
KLA-Tencor to buy photovoltaic solar inspection specialist
Already a leading supplier of inspection and metrology systems, the $465.8 million acquisition of Belgium-based ICOS Vision Systems signals an expansion for...
Aragio Solutions is recognized worldwide as an IP provider of innovative I/O Library Solutions that demonstrate robust ESD protection and high latch-up immunity for many industry interfaces (including USB 2.0, Ethernet, LVDS, Mobile DDR and DDR), RF and Analog ESD protection circuitry. The I/O Library Solutions are now silicon verified for the 65-nm Common Platform bulk CMOS process node. more >>
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