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• Radical FPGA takes on packet processing 1/9/2006

  Start-up Cswitch Corp. this month introduced a novel configurable-logic chip targeting packet-processing applications in networking, wireless ....

  Quad-core DSP packs performance and features 1/9/2006

  The MSC8144 from Freescale packs four StarCore SC3400 DSP cores along with 10.5 Mbytes of internal memory, dual Gigabit Ethernet interfaces that support SGMII (serial gigabit media-independent ....

  FROM EDN EUROPE: Single-chip receiver for mobiles handles TV and radio 1/9/2006

  Mirics Semiconductor's MS1001 (diagram) is an RF tuner IC that the start-up company describes as a ''poly-band'' device for mobile digital broadcast reception. While several ....

  FROM EDN EUROPE: Big-chip synthesis tools move on 12/5/2005

  For designers of large system-on-chip ICs, Synopsys has introduced the latest evolutionary step in its synthesis tool sequence. From the original Design Compiler, the company moved to physical synthesis and now offers Galaxy IC Compiler. ....

  FROM EDN EUROPE: PHY chip defeats Cat5 wiring fumbles 12/5/2005

  Micrel's KS8001 is a physical medium (line driver) chip for 10/100 Ethernet applications, covering 10BASE-T, 100BASE-TX and 100BASE-FX formats. Described as a fifth-generation part, it includes a function called LinkMD (the ''MD'' being ....

  FROM EDN EUROPE: Differential op-amp improves data acquisition resolution 3/3/2005

  Using a complementary silicon-germanium and CMOS technology, Texas Instruments has built a fully-differential op-amp that is optimised for driving high-speed analogue-to-digital converters at up to 100 MHz. Its (small-signal) ....

  FROM EDN EUROPE: Home multimedia: Reach for the power drill? 7/8/2003

  In the last few days, I've sat through several pitches for world domination. Domination, that is, of the communications infrastructure that surrounds us in our lives as ''consumers.'' It started, as I wrote here last month, with the Bluetooth ....

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