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Reciva extends reach of Internet radio
Internet radio specialist Reciva Ltd (Cambridge, England) is extending the availability of its directory service to third party hardware platforms with its Reciva Connect service.
ARC offers multimedia codecs with upgraded licensing model
Configurable cores and IP specialist ARC International (St Albans, England) has started offering its multimedia codecs under a fixed price, all-you-can-use licensing model.
Silicon Labs buys Integration Associates
Silicon Laboratories Inc. has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Integration Associates Inc. for $80 million.
Home net chip does UWB, coax, Ethernet
Sigma Designs has developed a second-generation ultrawideband chip set called CoAir for home networks that can simultaneously run UWB over wireless and coax at rates up to 370 Mbits/second while maintaining a Gbit Ethernet link, aiming to serve set-top boxes, routers and gateway devices on home networks.
That old "analog shortage" deja vu, again
Here we go again: another purported but meaningless shortage claim. . . . Bill Schweber, Planet Analog Site Editor
Freescale bets heavy on embedded
At this week's Freescale Technology Forum, Rich Beyer laid out the corporate, business and technology plans he believes will push the company forward, including a strong emphasis on consumer electronics and embedded processing, pointed particularly at green, health and network-processing applications.
Slideshow: Freescale Technology Forum
Our intrepid contributing editor for advance technologies R. Colin Johnson is visiting the Freescale Technology Forum (FTF) Americas in Orlando, Fla. to view and interact with Freescale experts.
TI joins consortium to develop RF remote control
Texas Instruments joins RF4CE Consortium and will provide hardware and software solutions for new RF4CE protocol
Competition win highlights Russia's speech technology efforts
A Russian company won an international competition for its audio enhancement technology, highlighting the country's research efforts into speech technology.
It's crunch time for HDMI in the digital home
Analog and mixed signal chips are the foundations that determine many digital consumer systems' time to market. This theory is what Analog Devices Inc. is banking on after announcing recent design wins with Yamaha and Hitachi.
Analog Devices goes to Sweden to license mobile middleware
Factum Electronics AB (Stockholm, Sweden), a supplier of digital multimedia broadcasting systems, has said that it is teaming up with, and would license software to, integrated circuit vendor Analog Devices Inc. (Norwood, Mass.).
Wolfson combines analog and digital tricks to extend portable playback times
Wolfson Microelectronics has launched the first in the company's next generation of low power audio devices, an audio codec designed to extend playback time.
Tug of war in 60-GHz band
The first volleys will fly later this month in a battle over 60-GHz wireless networking when members of a next-generation Wi-Fi group meet with counterparts working on a personal area networking standard.
Mindtree rolls Bluetooth automotive kit
Mindtree Ltd., based here, unveiled a Bluetooth automotive software development
kit addressing the dual challenges of interoperability and dynamic specifications in automotive infotainment and personal navigation devices.
Tensilica and SPIRIT DSP form strategic partnership
SPIRIT DSP and Tensilica Inc. have formed a strategic partnership and can now deliver 18 optimized, high quality digital audio and voice software packages that run on Tensilica's HiFi 2 Audio Engine, an increasingly popular audio architecture for system-on-chip designs.
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