Altera announced the immediate availability of an intellectual property core supporting the RapidIO 2.1 specification.

Following on from its acquisition of Pigeon Point Systems last year, Actel has announced IP core enhancements to its Fusion mixed-signal FPGAs that cater to platform management applications, particularly xTCA.

EDA vendor Magma Design Automation has introduced a software solution that is said to extend CAD navigation and circuit debug from ICs to PCBs and multichip modules.

Aim of the GHS Trusted Kernel and Hypervisor is to provide Security at reduced Production and Certification Cost

JTAG Technologies (Eindhoven, The Netherlands) is introducing a new approach to supplying tools for debugging boards with a mix of free and paid for products targeted at different aspects of the debugging process.

Programmable logic vendor Lattice Semiconductor Corp. (Hillsboro, Or.) has said it will collaborate with Beyond Semiconductor (Ljubljana, Slovenia) on the development of compiler tools for Lattice's soft processors.

Arteris Inc. (San Jose, Calif.), a supplier of networking-on-chip intellectual property, has introduced two on-chip interconnect products to address interconnect issues facing IC designers, including the design of ICs with lower power, higher performance and lower silicon area.

Latest enhancement to long-established tool from National Semiconductor lets users compare, balance performance, size, cost, and BOM for ICs and passive components

With the ZMS-08 StemCell processor, ZiiLABS delivers 1080p Blu-ray quality H.264 decode to low-power devices, in a 13x13-mm, 424-pin FBGA package.

EDA and IP company Dolphin Integration SA (Meylan, France) has introduced I-Stratus-LP cache controller that is said to be dynamically self-configured to minimize power consumption.