| Signal-integrity issues plague multigigahertz era
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2007-03-16 |
| Engineers want a new bag of tricks to manage signal integrity as data rates soar into multigigahertz territory. |
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| Avnet launches promotion on Xilinx products
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2007-03-06 |
| Avnet Electronics Marketing launched a promotion on Xilinx products on the first day of the 12th annual IIC-China Conference and Exhibition in Shenzhen. Discounts up to 73 percent can be availed through April 15. |
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| Components take floor at 12th IIC-China
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2007-03-05 |
| With more than 200 exhibitors spreading an array of leading-edge technologies in over 900 booths, the 12th International IC China Conference and Exhibition (IIC-China) is clearly China's largest IC event. |
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| New PCIe architecture extends 'outside the box
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2007-02-13 |
| PCI-SIG, the Special Interest Group responsible for PCIe industry-standard I/O technology, released the PCIe external cabling 1.0 specification, which extends the PCIe interconnect architecture 'outside the box |
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| High-speed interconnects reshape board
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2007-02-01 |
| A handful of high-speed interconnects are driving changes in how designers handle fast signals. The Scalable System Packet Interface from the Optical Internetworking Forum aims to carry data at 6Gbps and up between chips or boards in a communications system. |
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| 802.11n chip touts extended range
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2007-02-01 |
| Ralink Technology Corp. is jumping into the 802.11n game with a Draft 2.0-compliant chipset it claims handily beats early movers in the market at extended ranges. |
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| PCIe 2.0 spec doubles transfer rate to 5GTps
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2007-01-18 |
| The PCI-SIG released the PCIe base 2.0 specification, which doubles the interconnect bit rate from 2.5GTp to 5GTps to support high-bandwidth applications |
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| SiCortex tips x86 ASIC for HPC clusters
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2007-01-16 |
| Startup SiCortex settled on a custom system chip that integrates six MIPS Technologies 64-bit 5Kf cores running at up to 500MHz as well as a proprietary fabric switch architecture, two DDR memory controllers, a PCIe controller and 1.2MBytes of Level 2 cache |
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| Fujitsu adopts ARM's standard cells for 65nm platform
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2006-12-13 |
| ARM's Velocity PHY for PCIe Gen-2 and the Advantage v2.0 standard cell library has been adopted by Fujitsu on its CS200 HP 65nm platform for advanced LSI development |
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| PCI Express initiative challenges AMD
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2006-10-03 |
| A broad group of companies led by Intel and IBM announced last week proposals for extending PCI Express aimed at using the interconnect to link host processors and accelerator chips. |
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| HDMI will boost data rate to 275MHz
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2006-08-01 |
| HDMI 1.3 will increase the copy-protected link's data rate from 165MHz to an expected 275MHz. |
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| PCI Express takes aim at 5Gbps
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2006-08-01 |
| The 2.5Gbps PCI Express interconnect will slowly shift gears into a 2.0 version by yearend. The new version will rev data rates to 5Gbps. |
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| PLDA, Rapid Bridge partner in ASIC solution
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2006-07-27 |
| PLDApplications and Rapid Bridge Systems announced an agreement to pool their PCIe proficiency to produce an ASIC solution |
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| Rival display interfaces face off in digital home
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2006-07-01 |
| Separate groups of engineers are finishing work on two incompatible display interfaces—DisplayPort and the Unified Display Interface—vying to become the standard for a secure digital link in consumer systems and computers. |
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| PCIe gets a version 2.0
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2006-06-13 |
| The 2.5Gbps PCI Express interconnect is slowly shifting gears into a 2.0 version expected by the end of the year to double data rates. |
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| Advantech, Congatec, Ampro partner to promote XTX standard
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2006-06-09 |
| Advantech, Congatec and Ampro Computers announced an alliance to help promote the XTX standard for computer on modules. |
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| 10Gb Ethernet gains with board, chip designs
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2006-05-01 |
| Expected to speed up the slow shift to 10GbE are NetXen's programmable dual-port 10Gbit server card and Broadcom's 20-port 10GbE chip for stackable switches. |
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| CE products to benefit from PCIe bus
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2006-03-10 |
| During the 11th Annual International IC-China Conference & Exhibition, Philips Semiconductor demonstrated a series of products based on PCIe, including a DVB-T TV receiver card and a 4-channel video server |
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| Firms partner on PCIe verification
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2006-03-03 |
| PLDApplications and EVE have forged a partnership whereby PLDA's x4 PCIe Xpress IP will be embedded in EVE's ZeBu hardware-assisted verification platform |
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| High def heads for masses
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2006-03-01 |
| Support for copy-protected high-definition video is poised to come to mainstream PCs and camcorders as early as 2007. |
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| Broadcom bares 3G RAID architecture at IDF
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2005-08-24 |
| Broadcom Corp. is demonstrating what it claims to be the first SAS/SATA RAID-on-Chip (RoC) device with integrated PCI Express (PCIe) host bus architecture support at the ongoing Intel Development Forum 2005 (IDF) in San Francisco |
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| Nvidia delays delivery of 20,000 processed uncut wafers
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2004-08-26 |
| Nvidia Corp. has delayed the delivery of about 20,000 processed uncut wafers of its GeForce FX5200 from Taiwan Semiconductor Mfg Co. Ltd (TSMC). |
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