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Attendees Will Experience Firsthand RTL Simulation-Level Visibility to Multi-FPGA Prototypes Eliminating Recompiles for Faster, More Efficient Debug BEAVERTON, Ore., May 13, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Tektronix, Inc., a leading worldwide provider of test, measurement and monitoring instrumentation, today announced it will showcase its recently introduced Certus 2.0 ASIC prototyping debug solution at the 2013 Design Automation Conference in Austin, TX, June 2-6, Booth 819. DAC is the...

TerraHash, a Silicon Valley based startup company, announced today that it will start selling ASIC based Bitcoin mining equipment based on BitSyncom's Avalon ASIC chip. (PRWEB) May 07, 2013 TerraHash (http://www.terrahash.com), a Silicon Valley based startup company, announced today that it will start selling ASIC based Bitcoin mining equipment in the near future. The company's equipment will be based on an ASIC chip developed and sold by another company called BitSyncom....

Secures Critical Data with DOD Grade U.S.-Developed Suite B Cryptography ALISO VIEJO, Calif., April 11, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --Microsemi Corporation (Nasdaq: MSCC), a leading provider of semiconductor solutions differentiated by power, security, reliability and performance, announced it has achieved National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) algorithmic certification on its U.S.-developed EnforcIT(TM) Cryptography Suite of National Security Agency (NSA) Suite B algorithms....

DesignWare MIPI IP Enables Silicon and Commercial Success of High-Performance, Low-Power Baseband Processor MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., April 9, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Highlights: Fujitsu Semiconductor achieved silicon success and compliance with the latest DigRFv4 standard using Synopsys' DesignWare(®) MIPI M-PHY IP DesignWare MIPI M-PHY's proven interoperability between DigRFv4 interface on the baseband side and Fujitsu Semiconductor's radio frequency integrated circuit (RFIC) helped...

GX Mining Ltd have just announced the launch of their GX-100, a 100 GH/s ASIC Bitcoin miner. The unit is extremely powerful, ultra compact and highly efficient. The GX-100 is in stock and ready to ship immediately. London, United Kingdom (PRWEB) April 07, 2013 The launch of the ASIC GX-100 Bitcoin miner from GX Mining will revolutionise the Bitcoin mining industry. At this moment in time the GX-100 will be the first ASIC Bitcoin miner to hit the market on any kind of scale as all other...

Combining SmartCORE IP and ARM processor-based smarts with All Programmable device portfolio SAN JOSE, Calif., March 4, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX) today announced solutions for significant and growing gaps in ASIC and ASSP offerings targeting next-generation smarter networks and data centers. In order to fill these gaps, Xilinx has been acquiring and developing a SmartCORE(TM) IP portfolio and a critical mass of application specialists and services that...

23-yr old Brooklyn native builds fastest “mining rig” in the world. New York, NY (PRWEB) February 01, 2013 After a year of speculation and rumor, the first application specific integrated circuits (ASICs) dedicated to Bitcoin mining have become a reality. Yifu Guo, 23, is now commercially shipping the fastest dedicated Bitcoin mining hardware in the world. The custom processing hardware dramatically increases the security of the Bitcoin network and professionalizes the Bitcoin mining...

SUNNYVALE, Calif., Jan. 22, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Chelsio Communications, Inc., a leading provider of Ethernet Unified Wire Adapters and ASICs, today announced Terminator 5, the fifth generation of its high performance Ethernet silicon technology. The Terminator 5 (T5) ASIC is built upon the latest iteration of Chelsio's protocol-rich high speed network processing architecture, and leverages an industry-proven design, which has been widely deployed with more than 200 OEM platform wins...

eASIC Corporation, a provider of NEW ASICs devices, and Proton Digital Systems, a provider of FLASH Memory Reliability IP Solutions, today announced the immediate availability of an LDPC (Low Density Parity Check) NAND FLASH read channel for enterprise storage applications. The combination of IP from Proton Digital Systems and eASIC’s NEW ASIC devices enables enterprise storage vendors to double the throughput performance at approximately half the power that can be achieved using...

MILPITAS, Calif., Nov. 27, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Open-Silicon, Inc., a leading semiconductor design and manufacturing company, announced today that Mohit Gupta, manager of IP integration for Open-Silicon, will present "Using 3(rd) Party IP in ASIC/SoC Design" at the Design & Reuse IP-SOC event in Grenoble, France. Mr. Gupta's presentation will leverage Open-Silicon's successes at IP selection, qualification, and integration to address how semiconductor companies are using more and...