Archive - Jun 2009

Professional videographers face continuous pressure to deliver high quality work under tight deadlines. To ease that burden and enable greater levels of creativity, NVIDIA announced the availability of GPU-accelerated plug-in solutions for Adobe Creative Suite 4 (CS4) users, optimized to run on a wide range of NVIDIA Quadro graphics solutions. NVIDIA is offering exclusive discounts of up to 50 percent on plug-ins from Elemental Technologies, Boris FX, Red Giant Software and proDAD when purchased at NVIDIA.com.

Micron Technology today announced mass production of new NAND flash memory products using its award-winning 34nm process technology. As consumers demand increased capacity to store more music, videos, photos, and applications in ever smaller portable electronic devices, manufacturers need a storage solution that delivers on capacity, performance, and size. Micron's new 16- and 32GB NAND chips pair large capacity with performance, providing a compelling solution for today's demanding portable storage requirements that are tailored to end-customer product dimensions.

Synopsys, Inc., a world leader in software and IP for semiconductor design, verification and manufacturing, announced that Aquantia, the leading innovator in 10GBASE-T networking, has deployed Synopsys' recently announced IC Validator, the newest addition to the Galaxy Implementation Platform, into production use at 40 nanometers (nm). IC Validator is an ideal add-on to IC Compiler for In-Design physical verification, enabling place and route engineers to accelerate time to tapeout and improve manufacturability by enabling physical verification within the implementation flow. Compared to the typical implement-then-verify flow, the In-Design flow is instrumental in avoiding late-stage surprises and enabling integrated circuit (IC) providers like Aquantia - which is in the process of delivering an advanced 40nm-based quad 10GBASE-T solution - to achieve a faster, robust hand-off to the foundry.

Lattice Semiconductor Corporation announced the immediate availability of a new 0.8-mm pitch 256-pin Chip-Array BGA (caBGA256) package for its popular MachXO PLD family that provides designers with a broader range of package options for implementing cost-sensitive, board space constrained designs. The Mach XO640, XO1200 and XO2280 devices are now available in the 14 x 14 mm, caBGA256 package with up to 211 user I/O. The new packages provide designers with 10% lower cost and 30% reduction in board area than previously available on 1.0-mm pitch 256-pin Fine-Pitch Thin BGA (ftBGA256) packages.

Connected, energy-efficient designs require high levels of peripheral integration, lower heat dissipation and longer battery life. To address this, Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) announced four new processors (TMS320C6742, TMS320C6746, TMS320C6748 and OMAP-L138) with unmatched connectivity options and fixed- and floating-point capabilities that are also the industry’s lowest power floating-point digital signal processors (DSPs).