Sound Design's Hearing Instrument Platform Wins EDN Innovation Award
May 1, 2010. On April 26, 2010, the winners of the 20th Annual EDN Innovation Awards were announced. The award in the Multiprocessing category went to Sound Design Technologies for Wolverine, its new open platform for hearing instruments. This platform uses four instances of an application-specific DSP which was designed with Target's IP Designer tool-suite.
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GN ReSound Develops Wireless Protocol Stack for Next-Generation Hearing Instruments, using Target’s Optimizing C Compiler Technology
April 16, 2010. Target today announced that the wireless protocol stack of Range, GN ReSound’s new hearing instrument platform, was entirely developed using Target’s optimizing C compiler technology. The new platform, which incorporates GN ReSound’s next-generation ultra-low power digital signal processor called Coyote 4, offers vastly improved connectivity with the surrounding world. A key element is a wireless protocol stack that was developed entirely in C code and compiled onto the Coyote 4 DSP.
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Target signs Acetronix as its agent for Korea
March 31, 2010. Target and Acetronix, a leading South Korean supplier of semiconductor and software products, are pleased to announce that they have signed an exclusive agency agreement for the South Korean market. This agreement is the next step in the strategy of Target to establish local representations in regions with a high concentration of semiconductor design centers active in the development of advanced systems-on-chip (SoCs). Acetronix, headquartered in Seoul, will provide sales and marketing support for Target’s IP Designer and IP Programmer EDA tools.
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SiTel and Target partnership yields powerful VoIP DSP
March 8, 2010. SiTel Semiconductor today announced how its successful collaboration with Target led to the creation of customized audio DSPs for its SC14452 "Green VoIP Processor" chip, for Voice-over-IP communication in desktop and cordless (DECT, CAT-iq, DECT6.0, and K-DECT) phones. SC14452 is a 3-core chip, containing a microprocessor and two audio DSPs. The DSPs combine extreme energy efficiency with high processing performance, enabling industry-leading audio quality and power consumption.
The DSP architectures were designed and optimized using Target's IP Designer tool-suite. Low-power DSP hardware was created using IP Designer's register-transfer level (RTL) hardware generator. Audio and communication algorithms were mapped onto the DSPs in very short time using IP Designer's optimizing C compiler technology.
SiTel's Green VoIP Processor chip family won a 2009 Frost and Sullivan Green Excellence Award in recognition of its low power consumption, which is substantially below the ecodesign norms imposed by the European Commission. Last week, SiTel announced that D-Link's DPH150SE/C1 feature-richt VoIP desktop phones are based on the SC14452 chip.
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NXP Adopts IP Programmer Tool-Suite for Automotive RISC Processor
July 27, 2009. Target today announced a new design win from NXP Semiconductors. NXP engaged with Target as its supplier of software development kits for MRK III, NXP's latest 16-bit ultra-low power RISC processor for the automotive market. The announcement was made at the start of the 46th Design Automation Conference in San Francisco.
MRK III is intended for remote entry and security applications in the automotive industry, such as keyless access and immobilization. While previous-generation processors in the MRK family were typically programmed in low-level assembly code, C programmability was a key requirement for MRK III. Target's IP Programmer SDK with its optimizing C compiler will be used by MRK III software developers, both at NXP and at NXP’s customers.For more information, read today's press release.