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FPGA prototyping: It's about the software

SoC development teams are increasingly turning to FPGA-based prototypes as a solution to verifying and delivering products on time. Doug Amos looks at the benefits from using this approach.

Xilinx and Thales demo software radio design

Xilinx and Thales will demonstrate a partially reconfigurable FPGA-based single chip architecture for military radios at the Software Defined Radio Technical Conference

Imagination unveils META HTP multi-threaded processor IP cores

Imagination Technologies announces its new META HTP multi-threaded processor IP core family which the firm says improves the performance of its META2 architecture cores

Wi-LAN files patent suit against Apple, Dell, HP, Intel, 18 others

The communications IP licensing provider files two patent infringement law suits against 22 major technology players related to Wi-Fi and to power consumption in DSL products

Motorola trials femtocells with European operator

Motorola has completed end-to-end testing of its 3G femtocell basestation systems and has begun trialling basestations with a major European operator

Lithography market to hit $14.4B in 2012 - ASML

ASML projects that the global semiconductor lithography market could grow to more than $14.4 billion by 2012, doubling the market's size from 2006

Low cost HDMI silicon planned for consumer market

Gennum, the video and data communications semiconductor firm, is going fabless, and has embarked on a project to bring the high definition TV interface to the consumer

Microchip chooses MIPS for first 32-bit MCUs

Microchip has introduced a 32-bit microcontroller core, buying in an architecture for the first time. The firm has gone for the M4K core from MIPS Technologies

Mobile Linux: Your Electronics Weekly guide

With ever more functionality being added to smartphones and the use of 3G comms becoming more pervasive, the opportunities for handset manufacturers are increasing. An important part of this landscape is mobile Linux.

Google joins Qualcomm and Motorola to put Linux in mobiles

Google is leading a cross industry group proposing an open software platform based on Mobile Linux for mobile devices which also includes heavyweights such as Qualcomm and Motorola