FEATURE ARTICLES

The Countess, the Moon and a Barbecue
Ada Comes to Eclipse
by Dick Selwood
(December 18, 2007)

Billions and Billions
Actel Drives LCD Displays
(December 11, 2007)

Mobile Lockdown
Securing the Wireless World
(December 4, 2007)

NEWSLETTERS

December 18, 2007 :: volume IX, no. 12

December 11, 2007 :: volume IX, no. 11

December 4, 2007 :: volume IX, no. 10

December 21, 2007

Verigy Purchases Moore Microprocessor Patent™ Portfolio License

Cymbet Presents at the Semiconductor Research Council/National Science Foundation Forum on Nano-Morphic Systems

December 20, 2007

Ramtron Features Nonvolatile
F-RAM Memory Automotive Products At Consumer Telematics Seminar 2008

December 19, 2007

SANYO Leverages Altera Cyclone II FPGAs to Bring High-End Vehicle Camera Features to Broad Market

Global Leader in Digital Entertainment Solutions Licenses Power-efficient MIPS32(R) 24KEc(TM) Pro Core

QuickLogic’s Military-Temperature Configurable Technology Achieves Volume Production

ESI Receives Multiple System Order from ProMOS Technologies for 9830HDE Link Processing Tool

December 18, 2007

DISPLAYLINK Enables Windows Vista Aero On Multiple USB Displays

Pentek's New Dual Multiband Transceiver with FPGA Delivers 10 dB Improvement in A/D Performance

Dialogic Adds New IP Functionality to its Converged Services Platform

Altera Shipping Full Line of 65-nm Cyclone III FPGAs

December 17, 2007

Lattice Announces Production Release of Entire 90NM LatticeECP2M FPGA Family

Ericsson's surface mount sixteenth brick modules reduce manufacturing costs and increase reliability

Darnaw1 – Delivering old style PGA connection for a modern FPGA module!

Actel Delivers Battery-Powered Icicle Kit Based on Industry's Lowest Power FPGA

Sidense Broadens OTP Offering with Additional Process Nodes at SMIC

December 14, 2007

cPacket Complete Packet Inspection Chips to Be Widely Available Through AnchorPointe

Avnet Electronics Marketing Receives Platinum Recognition from NED

December 13, 2007

DVCon Announces 2008 Technical Program

picoChip scoops up three awards at Elektra European Electronics Industry Awards 2007

InterDigital Completes Successful Initial Evaluation Tests of Baseband ASIC

GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms Extends Range of VMEbus Gigabit Ethernet Switches With IPv6 capability

December 12, 2007

ITTIA Launches Lightweight SQL Engine for Embedded and Device Developers

Itron and Ember team up on ZigBee-enabled energy demand management

Lattice Devliers Industry's Fastest QDR II/II+ Memory Controller Support

VMware Co-Development Programs Grow to More Than 60 Partner Organizations

Intel and LSI Announce Expanded SAS/SATA RAID Agreement for Intel Server and Workstation Channel Products

Stratix III FPGAs Achieve 533-MHz DDR3 Interface Performance

Rabbit® Introduces the RCM4300 RabbitCore® Featuring Megabyte Code SupportTM

Z-RAM® Technological Breakthrough Enables World's Densest and Lowest Cost Memory Technology

Sourcefire® Announces Certified ClamAV™, Combines Open Source Innovation with Commercial Support

December 11, 2007

Xilinx XtremeDSP Solution Enables Dolby's LED-Backlit LCD Display Technology

Entropic Licenses MIPS32(R) 24Kc(TM) Core for Next-Generation Broadband and Residential Gateway Applications

Leading Industry Analyst Firm Names Nios II Processor as FPGA Industry's Number One Soft Processor Core

Synopsys, Altera and TSMC Collaboration Delivers Industry-Leading 45-Nanometer Extraction Accuracy

December 11, 2007 continued

Leading Security Researchers Find Secure64 SourceT Micro OS Immune to All Known Rootkits and Malware

Wind River Enhances On-Chip Debugging Solutions to Address Growing Complexities in Mobile and Handheld Device Development

Microchip Technology's 11th Annual Strategic Technical Exchange Conference Series Trains Nearly 3,000 Engineers in Seven Countries

GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms Announces 6U CompactPCI 24-port NETernity™ Gigabit Ethernet Switches

December 10, 2007

Altera Zeros Out Power With New MAX IIZ CPLDs for Portable Applications

Actel Drives Industry's Lowest Power FPGAs Into Portable Displays

Xilinx Powered SGI RC100 Reconfigurable Computing Platform Accelerates Bioinformatics Application Over 900X

ARM Announces Processor Licensing Agreement With PMC-Sierra for Cortex and Multicore Processors

OneSpin Solutions Delivers First Equivalence Checker Dedicated to FPGA Synthesis Verification

Tensilica Enhances Xtensa Configurable Processor Families With New Options, Bridges and Software Tools

New Cypress West Bridge™ Controller Delivers the Market’s Fastest Sideloading for PMPs, PNDs, Wireless Cards, and Other Embedded Applications

MontaVista Provides Real-Time Embedded Linux® for AMCC PowerPC 405EX and 405EXr Processors

AMCC Introduces Low-Cost Evaluation Kits for PowerPC 405EX and 405EXr Processors

ARM Announces Processor Licensing Agreement With PMC-Sierra for Cortex and Multicore Processors

December 6, 2007

Kadoink Launches Powerful Web Telephony Platform That Extends Internet Communications to Mobile

December 5, 2007

Webcast Showcases Solutions for FPGAs in Ultra Low-Power Applications

Real Intent Ships Next Generation of Ascent Automatic Verification Software, Finds Design Bugs Early

SkyeTek and Atmel Jointly Develop and Offer Market Leading Secure RFID Demonstration Kit

Microtronix Enhances 1080p Display Quality With Cyclone III FPGA-Based Development Kit

Virage Logic to Host Technical Lunchinar Addressing Yield Acceleration at Advanced Process Nodes

Ambric Releases aDesigner, the First Practical Software Development Tool Suite for Programming Massively Parallel Processors

December 4, 2007

RFID Device With 64-bit Embedded Cryptographic Engine

Atmel Offers a Feature-Rich UHF ASK/FSK Receiver/Transmitter Family for Industrial Applications

Xilinx Delivers Complete Virtex-5 FPGA Based Solutions for SPI-4.2 and SFI-4.1 Interfaces

ARM and Esterel to Deliver Software Development Tools for Safety-Critical Systems

Mistral announces the first 3U VPX SBC from Curtiss Wright for embedded defense/aerospace applications

VirtualLogix Secures Collaboration Agreement With Texas Instruments for Virtualization

Toshiba Information Systems (JAPAN) Corporation Adopts Catapult C Synthesis for Next-Generation ASIC Design

Columbitech Mobile VPN Achieves Motorola SymbolPLUS Validation

EqualLogic Expands PS Series Line of High-Performance iSCSI Storage Arrays

December 3, 2007

Kilopass and Certicom Give Technical Talk on Hardware Security Requirements for Embedded Encryption Key Storage

Open Kernel Labs OKL4 Now Supports ARMv6 Architecture

Sidense OTP Integrated in XMOS Programmable Semiconductor

RTI Teams with Northrop Grumman to Provide Standard Interface to Diverse U.S. Air Force and Navy Tactical Data Link Systems