Business Wire

  1. Suzhou IC Design & Engineering Test Center Adopts Verigy V93000 To Support Local Fabless Design Houses 8/25/2008
    Verigy, a leading semiconductor test company, today announced that Suzhou CAS (Chinese Academy of Science) Integrated Circuit Design Center (SZICC), a full-service IC design, test and training facility, has purchased a Verigy V93000 SoC tester
  2. BitWave Semiconductor Selects Berkeley Design Automation Analog FastSPICE And Noise Analysis Option For Programmable CMOS RF Transceiver Verification 8/22/2008
    Berkeley Design Automation Inc., today announced that BitWave Semiconductor, Inc., a fabless semiconductor company and innovator of programmable radio frequency integrated circuits (RFIC), has selected the company's Analog FastSPICE™ circuit simulator and Noise Analysis Option™ device noise analyzer for verification and noise analysis of their programmable CMOS RF transceiver.
  3. Semtech Expands ToPSync Platform With New IEEE1588v2 Slave Device 8/21/2008
    Semtech Corp., a leading supplier of analog and mixed-signal semiconductors, today announced the expansion of its ToPSync(TM) product platform with the availability of the ACS9593, an IEEE1588v2 precision time protocol (PTP) slave device that is a cost-effective, high-precision time synchronization solution for deployment in wireless base stations
  4. Fairchild Semiconductor Introduces A Voltage Translator For I2C Applications 8/19/2008
    Fairchild Semiconductor provides designers with an Inter-Integrated Circuit (I2C) voltage translator that operates over a wide voltage range (1.65V to 5.5V) to accommodate the needs of I2C and low-voltage applications
  5. Innovasic Semiconductor Announces Production Of Pin Compatible 80C186EB And 80C188EB Embedded Processors 8/14/2008
    Innovasic Semiconductor, a leader in extended life semiconductor solutions, today announced production units are shipping for the IA186EB and IA188EB
  6. Cost-Effective SoC From Freescale Promotes Adoption Of GPON 8/13/2008
    Freescale Semiconductor, an industry Gigabit Passive Optical Network (GPON) silicon volume leader, has introduced a cost-effective, highly integrated solution designed to help lower costs for carriers and spur adoption of GPON equipment in markets worldwide
  7. Mentor Graphics Eldo Adopted By TSMC For Cell Library Characterization Of 40 Nanometer Technology Node 8/12/2008
    Mentor Graphics Corporation today announced that Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Ltd. (TSMC) has selected Mentor’s Eldo® analog simulation tool to characterize cells in its 40 nanometer (nm) standard cell libraries
  8. Crocus Establishes Prototyping Environment For Next Generation MRAM Technology 8/12/2008
    Crocus Technologies, a premier developer of Magnetic Random Access Memory (MRAM), today announced that it has qualified its complete manufacturing environment for the development and rapid prototyping of MRAM
  9. Applied Materials Awarded Multi-Year Solar Service Contract From Green Energy Technology 8/11/2008
    Applied Materials, Inc. announced today that it has signed a five-year service contract with Green Energy Technology Inc. (GET) of Taiwan to support GET’s Applied SunFab™ Thin Film Line for solar module manufacturing
  10. Bel Power Selects Microchip Technology's MCP6291 Op Amp And 8-Bit PIC Microcontroller For DC-To-DC Power Supply 8/11/2008
    Microchip Technology Inc., a leading provider of microcontroller and analog semiconductors, today announced that Bel Power Inc. has selected its MCP6291 low-power, high-bandwidth operational amplifier (op amp) and PIC12F675 microcontroller (MCU) for its next-generation Power over Ethernet (PoE) half-brick DC-to-DC converter