http://logic1.com Wed, 22 Oct 2008 22:24:49 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en At one time, MRAM technology was hot. But recently, MRAM has fallen out of favor in the market, because the technology has taken longer than expected to commercialize. And it's unclear if MRAMs will live up to their promises as a ''universal memory.'' As a result, Cypress Semiconductor Inc. exited the ... http://logic1.com/?p=9 Altera has announced the availability of a 10-gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) reference design targeting designers using the XAUI communications protocol. Line cards and system controllers used within network routers, enterprise and metro Ethernet switches, and storage switches can leverage Altera's Arria and Stratix series of FPGAs to connect reliably to 10GbE ... http://logic1.com/?p=8 Mentor Graphics Corporation (NASDAQ: MENT) today announced that its suite of advanced synthesis products support Virtex(R)-5 TXT field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), the newest platform from Xilinx(R) optimized for ultra high-bandwidth applications. The Mentor Graphics Precision(R) RTL and Precision RTL Plus products offer immediate availability of state-of-the-art synthesis support for ... http://logic1.com/?p=7 Geneva, Engineers at STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM) have revealed how to use domino logic, a very fast circuit design style utilized in the highest performance custom designs,in an automated framework. The approach, documented in the book High Performance ASIC Design: Using Synthesizable Domino Logic in An ASIC Flow written by Razak ... http://logic1.com/?p=6 IPextreme, a system-on-chip designers, unveiled what it claims is the electronics industry’s first synthesizable IP core. This core implements the upcoming IEEE 1149.7 standard, which will be ratified in early 2009. IEEE 1149.7 does not change or replace IEEE 1149.1, but rather provides a scalable set of extensions that ensure interoperability ... http://logic1.com/?p=5