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Say it ain't so AVG, say it ain't so: AVG LinkScanner = Badware?
Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:11:01 -0700
The Register covered a very interesting story about AVG.  Apparently AVG is spamming the Internet with traffic that looks to be coming from Internet Explorer.  AVG software pre-crawls search results to try to protect users, but uses a user agent that makes the software appear to be Internet Explorer.  This pre-crawling is flooding websites with...
Beaches and BBQs vs. Blackberrys: Holiday weekends of the IT set
Thu, 03 Jul 2008 12:48:48 -0700
"Weekend? What's a weekend?" While the rest of the country is escaping their offices for a leisurely weekend, many in IT could end up back at theirs at the beep of a Blackberry. by Deb Perelman
Airport security part 4: Attack of the body scanners!
Thu, 03 Jul 2008 10:52:00 -0700
If you read my blog postings semi-often, you know that I'm very, very critical of problems with airport security.  Nicole Wong of the Boston Globe reported that Boston's Logan International Airport will become the next airport to implement full-body scanners (thanks for the link from the LiquidMatrix guys!) that can see...
First look at Ubuntu 8.10 - Intrepid Ibex
Thu, 03 Jul 2008 10:01:09 -0700
On Saturday the first alpha release of Ubuntu 8.10 "Intrepid Ibex" was made available for download. So what's new on the horizon for Ubuntu users? by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
Getaway day: How to secure your laptop for holiday travel
Thu, 03 Jul 2008 07:24:20 -0700
It's getaway day and as we prepare to hit the road, trudge through airport security and snag that car rental, spare a thought for the valuable data that travels with you on that trusty old laptop. According to a recent study by the Ponemon Institute, more than...
Amid ugly job picture, tech related employment holds up
Thu, 03 Jul 2008 06:55:20 -0700
The U.S. economy lost 62,000 jobs in June for the sixth straight month of employment losses with an unemployment rate of 5.5 percent, but underneath the technology sector is holding up well, according to Labor Department statistics. What a difference a downturn makes. Last...

 

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Accel Technologies Limited - Offers design and development services in VLSI design and embedded systems.

Advanced Silicon SA. - Advanced Silicon is specialized in the development of CMOS high-voltage integrated circuits for flat panel LCD displays and motor drivers.
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500 Agio Systems - Develops and licenses advance silicon and software intellectual property (IP) for system-on-chip (SoC) targeting multimedia and communication devices.

Alpine IC Innovations - Custom analog, mixed-Signal, and RF IC design, layout and development services; IP modules for analog-front-ends AFE and transceiver modules for wireless, WLAN, ultrasound, imaging, sensor interface, and communications SoC and ASIC Chips.
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American Microsystems, Inc. - Mixed signal and digital ASIC design, manufacture, and fabrication. Also FPGA to ASIC translation, system on a chip, ASSP, and integrated circuit system.
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ASIC Design Services - Offers a consulting service for ASICs and FPGAs.
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500 Atelic Systems, Inc. - Develops, manufactures and markets high quality DSP and mixed signal integrated circuits for telecommunications and networking equipment manufacturers.
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Aura Communications - Develops programmable system-on-chip solutions for personal area networks.
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Barco Silex - Barco Silex is a micro-electronic design house with offices in Belgium in Ghent and Louvain-la-Neuve and a portfolio of design services in image and video processing, communications, consumer electronics and industrial electronics.
Meta Description: [ Barco is a world leader in business-to-business markets, in which it offers professional display and visualization solutions. Based upon in-depth market knowledge and leading-edge technology, Barco solutions help customers improve productivity and effectiveness. ]

BitSim - Services in circuit board design, chip design (ASICs, FPGAs), and hardware-oriented software.
Meta Description: [ BitSim is one of the largest micro electronics design service providers in Sweden with specialist competence in ASIC and FPGA development. ]

Bright Eyes Consulting - ASIC and FPGA consulting, specializing in verification and design.

C-Port Corporation - C-5 Network Processor, first generation of fully programmable, custom-architected processors.

CC Enterprises - Consulting services in the area of ASIC and FPGA development.
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CG-CoreEL Programmables - Provides FPGA and EDA design solutions.
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Chip Supply Inc. - Semiconductor die distributor and value-added die processor. Also, wafers for multichip modules, hybrids and other unencapsulated die applications. Custom packages for unique application, packaging capability includes traditional monolithic encapsulation as well as TAB and CSP.

Chips and Technologies of Intel Corporation - HiQColor algorithm provides enhanced color fidelity for a wide range of active and passive flat panel displays.

ChipX - Complete ASIC Time-to-Market Solution featuring flexible gate array production and a smooth migration from rapid prototyping to cost competitive high volume production. LPGA Laser Programmable Gate Array, CeLPGA System-on-Chip.
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Circuit Semantics - Developing Spice accurate characterization and static timing solutions for complex, system on chip and integrated circuit designs.

Clearspeed - A fabless semiconductor company focused on the design and development of microprocessors and related products that offer significant increases in the performance of computing systems.

Comport Data Inc. - Complete IC development services, based on mixed-signal and analog applications, as well as ASICs development using FPGAs, standard and custom cells architectures.
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Cygnus Communications - A privately held semiconductor company developing base station and mobile terminal ASIC products for WiMAX and the IEEE-802.16 Air Interface Standard.

Data I/O - Provides engineering and manufacturing device programmer equipment for programmable integrated circuits.
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Dspfactory Ltd. - Ultra-miniature, low power software-programmable DSP technology and ASIC design.
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eASIC - Developer of structured ASIC fabric for SoC and platform designs.
Meta Description: [ eASIC Corporation offers breakthrough Structured ASIC products including Configurable Logic IP, aimed at dramatically reducing the overall fabrication cost and time of customized high-performance semiconductor chips. Its patented architecture enables rapid and low-cost ASIC and SoC (System-on-Chi... ]

eInfochips - Electronic design services company providing ASIC/SoC design and verification, physical layout and implementation, firmware development, DSP hardware and algorithms, board design, software QA.
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EZchip Technologies - Networking equipment vendors employ EZchip processors to form the silicon core of next-generation switches for voice, video and data integration.
Meta Description: [ EZchip is a fabless semiconductor startup that designs network-specific processors for Gigabit and Terabit networks. ]

Forza Silicon - Specializes in mixed-signal IC design for analog processing and data converters.

Future Technology Devices International Ltd. - Designs and supplies USB semiconductor devices with Legacy support including royalty-free drivers.
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Helion Technology - Offers a range of data security silicon IP cores and provides DSP algorithm development and implementation.
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IC Mask Design - Provides physical design services, turnkey solutions, intellectual property and physical design training programs to the semiconductor industry.
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iCODING Technology Inc. - Designs and licenses turbo code decoders/encoders for ASIC and FPGA applications.
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IP Cores - Development of intellectual property cores for ASIC and FPGA designs. Cores for AES and 802.11i (WPA) encryption.
Meta Description: [ Development of intellectual property cores for ASIC and FPGA designs. Security IP cores for variety of AES modes, including GCM,XTS, CCM. Flow-through cores for a variety of communication standards: 802.11i, 802.16e (WiMAX), MACSec. ]

Jennic - Provider of intellectual property and silicon design services to the broadband communications market.
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JMicron Technology - A fabless IC company in Taiwan focused on Serial ATA.

Lateral Sands - Digital hardware design firm specializing in ASIC and FPGA design, chip or system level verification, IP cores, and systems modeling.
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Legend Silicon Corp. - Develops ASICs for broadband digital broadcasting over terrestrial and cable.

Leman Silicon Solutions - Design team offering services in VLSI digital design.
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Lightspeed Semiconductor - Company offers mask reconfigurable intellectual property, Multi-function I/Os, and embedded test for structured ASIC families.
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LSI - ASIC design and methodology, dsp solutions and Symbios logic.
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M2000 - M2000 produces the FlexEOS range of FPGA macros to implement re-programmable ASIC and SoC designs.
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Micronas Semiconductor Holding AG - A semiconductor company with headquarters in Zurich. ICs are used in consumer electronics (TV, video, radio equipment) and automotive electronics industries.

Mint Technology - An engineering and consulting company specializing in ASIC design, ASIC methodology, and device synthesis.
Meta Description: [ LSI is a leading designer and manufacturer of communications, consumer and storage semiconductors for applications that access, interconnect and store data, voice and video. The company also supplies storage network solutions for the enterprise. ]

Paxonet Communications Inc. - Offers a unique combination of ASICs and IP cores for network equipment manufacturers.

Perfisans Networks Corp. - Offers TCP/IP offload engine and iSCSI accelerator ASICs.

Personal Computer Chiplist 9.9.5 Part 1 of 5 - Contains the various CPUs and NPXs and their features, used in the IBM PC, IBM PC/XT, IBM PC/AT, IBM PS/2 and compatibles, and the differences between them. From Dec. 98.

404 Physicdesign, Inc - An integrated circuit design services company based in Austin, TX.
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404 Pulsar Electronics - Representative for semiconductor and related products.
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Rambus Inc - Develops and licenses chip-to-chip interface technology: XDR, DDR, RDRAM memories, PHY cells for PCI Express, backplane, and Ethernet applications.

RF Engines Limited - Specialises in advanced digital signal processing hardware designs for high quality signal filtering and conditioning.
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Rivermark Technology Group - RTG is a semiconductor IP company providing WLAN IP and design services to semiconductor manufacturers.
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Semiconductor Complex Limited - Offers design, wafer fabrication, testing, packaging, quality assurance, reliability testing, VLSI based system manufacturing and applications support.

Silicon and Software Systems - S3 provides IC design solutions and customizable IP.
Meta Description: [ S3 designs Integrated Circuits and Embedded Software Solutions for the world's leading technology companies. ]

Silicon Interfaces - IP cores development and design services with System Verilog/Verilog/VHDL for design, modeling and verification of SoC, ASIC and FPGAs.

Silicon Logic Engineering - ASIC and SoC design services.
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Siliconexion, Inc. - Provides a full suite of custom ASIC design services for digital, analog, and mixed-signal devices in CMOS and BiCMOS.

Sitronix Technology Corporation - Manufacturing LCD driver and LCD micro controller units.

Sonics, Inc. - Semiconductor IP company focused on SOC interconnect solutions.

StarGate Semiconductor - A group of consultants providing design expertise for ASIC, FPGA, hardware, software, and turnkey product design.

System to ASIC, Inc. - Develops and supplies analog/mixed signal ASICs to industrial, commercial and military markets.
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Vativ Technologies - DSP-based IC solutions for wired communications for LAN, WAN, SAN, and HD-Video transport applications.

VLSI - ASIC and FPGA development in India.

XON Design Consulting - Design, verification, and consulting services company, focused on digital ASICs for telecommunications. Located in Bucharest, Romania.
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ZMM Technologies - Designs and markets single-chip solutions for converging telephony, Internet and PCs through USB connectivity.
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