Sundance, a supplier of digital signal processing and reconfigurable FPGA systems, has partnered with Dillon Engineering, a provider of embedded DSP algorithms IP and services, to deliver a joint solution for fixed width and floating point FFT FPGA market. The solution makes available Dillon’s bench...

The german Association of the circuit board industry (Verband der Leiterplattenindustrie, VDL) and the ZVEI Fachverband Electronic Components and Systems reports that in August 2008 the sales of circuit boards in Germany declined by 8.1 percent compared to July and 10.7 percent in comparison to same...

BSQUARE has acquired assets of privately held TestQuest, a provider of test automation and management solutions for mobile and embedded devices and applications. With the addition BSQUARE will expand its customer base in the United States, China, Korea, Japan and Europe, plus add new customers build...

The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) released its annual forecast of global semiconductor sales, projecting the first decline in sales since 2001. The forecast projects 2008 sales of $261.2 billion, a 2.2 percent increase from 2007 sales of $255.6 billion. Sales in the current quarter, histo...

Semtech reported un-audited financial results for its third quarter of fiscal year 2009 that ended October 26, 2008. Net revenues were $79.7 million, up 1 percent from the third quarter of fiscal year 2008 and up 2 percent when compared to the second quarter of fiscal year 2009. Net income was $11.5...

Micrel and Zilog are working together on a technology partnership. The collaboration involves developing subsystem level module products targeted at motion sensor, TV remote and RF point-to-point cable replacement markets. Micrel is expected to provide the RF chips with Zilog supplying the microcont...

Synopsys announced the launch of its IP OEM partner program with leading fabless ASIC companies and supply channel partners. Arrow Electronics Global Unichip Corp. (GUC) and Open-Silicon are the first companies to sign multi-year agreements standardizing on Synopsys DesignWare IP for their system-on...