OSGi Alliance Supporter Class
The OSGi(TM) Alliance recently announced a new, free participation level. The new supporter level is the alliance's third membership class. Each level offers a different set of benefits and value to members with different needs. OSGi Alliance members develop and facilitate the deployment of OSGi specifications, which serve as the platform for universal middleware in […]
Design For Manufacturability Coalition
The Design For Manufacturability Coalition (DFMC) was recently formed to build on previous efforts to ensure that ICs can be manufactured in accordance with the original design. Founding members include Cadence, Freescale Semiconductor, IBM, Ponte Solutions, Samsung, Sagantec, ST Microelectronics, and Texas Instruments.
As semiconductor features shrink in size and pitch, the challenge of manufacturing them […]
Happy Holidays from EDA Blog
IBM Acquires MRO Software
IBM will acquire MRO Software in an all-cash transaction at a price of approximately $740 million, or $25.80 per share. The acquisition is subject to MRO Software shareholder and regulatory reviews and other customary closing conditions. It is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2006.
MRO is the leading provider of asset and service […]
Outsourced Fabs and Process Technology
There was an interesting statement in the TI blog yesterday. It appears TI doesn't think too highly of outsourced fabs, especially the fabs in Taiwan and China. Here's a blurb from the post:
"The bottom line is that we (TI) are putting millions of transistors on the silicon, which would be worthless if we couldn't be […]
Week in Review - 2006.06.30
Here are some of the interesting articles I found this week:
Intel Ranks First in Latest Supercomputer Rankings
According to the supercomputer rankings released at the International Supercomputer Conference, a total of 301 systems on the latest list use Intel processors, down from 333 systems just six months ago. Intel's 64-bit x86 processors are being rapidly adopted […]
Week in Review - 2006.06.23
Here are a bunch of interesting articles I found this week, but didn't have time to post until now. Sorry, I'll do better next week.
A Data-Centric OS for MCUs Using a Real-Time Publisher-Subscriber-Mechanism: Part1
Dirk Braun of BST International outlines a data-centric method for simplifying the synchronization problems in multithreaded systems. He believes it is superior […]
Week in Review - 2006.06.16
The winners for this week's highlights are:
Optical CPU Claims Terabit/sec
As CPU performance continues its rapid climb, engineers everywhere face a similar challenge: How to speed signals from ever-faster central-processing units to peripheral large-scale integration chips. Fully expecting electrical transmission to max out eventually, Toshiba has responded with optoelectronics that can zip signals at a trillion […]
SD Times Selects Catalyst Systems for Award
Congratulations to Catalyst Systems for Winning the SD Times 100 Award for excellence and leadership in the Build Management category. The award recognizes leaders and innovators of the software development industry for 2005 in 10 separate industry segments. This was the first year that SD Times recognized build management as a distinct category.
Catalyst Systems is […]
Highlights of the Week - 2006.06.09
A glimpse inside the Cell processor
IBM, Toshiba, and Sony created Cell, an amazing new multiprocessor microprocessor chip that will debut later this year in Sony's PlayStation 3 video game console, Toshiba's high-end televisions, and IBM's blade servers. Cell is the beginning of a new family tree for all three companies, and it promises to branch into consumer, computer, and embedded systems for many years to come. The article takes explains how the hardware works and what makes it special.
Stevie Award Goes to Telelogic for Product Development Organization
Congratulations to Telelogic for winning an International Stevie Award for Best Product Development Organization in the third International Business Awards. The awards are nicknamed "the Stevies" for the Greek word "crowned." Recipients of the International Stevie Awards were selected from more than 700 nominations received from companies and individuals in more than 30 countries.
Highlights of the Week - 2006.06.02
There were quite a few interesting articles this past week. Take a look for yourself.
Researchers Lay Out Blueprint for "Real" Invisibility
Wow, this sounds so cool. The article compares the technology to Harry Potter. I'm thinking Star Trek. According to the article, three physicists have developed the blueprint for an "invisibility cloak," or fabric, to make […]
PortalPlayer Wins Innovation Award
Congratulations to PortalPlayer for winning the Frost & Sullivan Innovation Award. They received this award for the development and successful launch of the PrefaceTM platform.
Preface is a new technology platform that enables the development of a second user interface on notebook computers called a personal media display (PMD). The PMD works with the Microsoft Windows […]
Monk-e-Mail
Ha-ha. Career Builder, the site that powers our jobs section on Embedded Star, has this funny web-hosted monk-e-mail software that is cool and really funny. This isn't related to EDA, but its too cool not to blog about. The process is a simple five-step process.
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