| That Was The Week That Was | |
 If you caught that reference you're older (or more British) than I thought!
We're still planning on doing our more article-oriented and opinionated monthly email, but this is an experiment with more volatile weekly content, starting with a little catch-up since last week was quite busy. Catch up on news from last week's ARM Technology Conference in the Industry News section below.
Be sure to check out the links to our detailed database of all U.S.-based IEEE events for the next three months. This is the only place you can easily find all the information you need in one place without resorting to the extensive use of Google and pull-down menus. We'll update this shortly to cover the rest of next year.
Enjoy, and please let us know what you think. |
| Industry News | |
First Look At NXP's Low Power Solutions for 2011
ARM Techcon - November 12, 2010 -- NXP has had great success in this area with the LPC 1100, which was announced at the end of 2009. Next year, the company plans to follow on this success with the LPC 1200, featuring a highly optimized Cortex M0 processor IP.
Flexible Techniques for Low-Power 32/28nm Standard Cell and Memory Design
ARM Techcon - November 11, 2010 -- Low-power design encompasses an expanding set of loosely defined and widely deployed techniques for making electronic components more power efficient. Those techniques were the subject of a presentation by Wolfgang Heifricht, platform manager at ARM during ARM TechCon this week.
The ARM Ecosystem is the Real Story
ARM Techcon - November 10, 2010 -- The ARM TechCon developer's conference got underway Tuesday with an extensive lineup of presentations, keynotes and supporting cast members. Indeed, perhaps the most notable aspect of ARM TechCon is the supporting cast.
Energy-Efficient Architectures for 4G and LTE Design
ARM Techcon - November 9, 2010 -- Mobile devices have grown up. No longer just for talking and texting, mobile devices are now more powerful than a desktop PC was just one generation ago. That pushes the capabilities of every device in the data pipeline as well, from servers to transmitters and even modems. Still, at every point in the data transmission, there is a crying need for power efficiency.
M&A Season in Full Swing
The semiconductor market is up some 35% this year and a number of chip companies are sitting on piles of cash as they look for more meaningful (and dependable) direction from Washington and Wall Street. So, rather than commit to hiring lots of people for the jobs that have either disappeared or have gone overseas, they are committing their resources to mergers and acquisitions (M&As).
Power ISA Advancement To Enable Full Hardware Virtualization For The Embedded Space
Power.org, the open collaborative organization that enables, develops and promotes Power Architecture technology, has finalized the Power ISA Version 2.06 Revision B, which allows multiple operating systems to run over multiple embedded cores providing the requisite isolation and protection while increasing performance through hardware virtualization. |
| Product News | |
Actel/Microsemi Unveils 65-nm Embedded Flash Platform
Featuring a new, expandable 4-input LUT architecture, the company's low power, intelligent mixed signal and system critical series of SOCs will converge on state-of-the-art 65nm embedded flash process.
Mentor Graphics and ARM Join Forces on Memory Test and Repair
Mentor Graphics Corporation announced it has teamed up with ARM to provide an automated memory test and repair solution for ARM embedded memories and processor cores. The new capability provides full interoperability between Mentor's Tessent memory test and repair solution and ARM's family of cores and embedded memory IP.
NXP's New Dual-Core Cortex-M4 and M0 MCU Redefines Digital Signal Control
NXP Semiconductors N.V. has announced the LPC4000 family, the world's first asymmetrical dual-core digital signal controller architecture featuring ARM Cortex-M4 and Cortex-M0 processors.
RF Micro Devices Unveils Portfolio of Broadband 6-bit Digital Step Attenuators
RF Micro Devices, Inc. today announced the launch of its broadband 6-bit digital step attenuator product portfolio, with the availability of the RFSA2614 and the RFSA2624. |
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