Thursday, July 28, 2011

Nintendo Joins the Long List of Apple Victims

Now Nintendo is joining Apple’s growing list of victims - Nokia, Research In Motion, pre-Android Motorola, Palm, and Cisco’s Flip-camera unit, after few months its 3DS announced.

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Android top mobile OS, Apple top maker in U.S.


According to Gartner, 452 million smartphones were sold in 2010, up 72% from the year before. And that growth accelerated in the first quarter of this year to 85%.

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Friday, July 22, 2011

H.264 Makes Encoding Easier

Speaking at a red carpet interview during the recent Streaming Media East conference in New York City, Jan Ozer, an expert on encoding for the web, see the rise of the H.264 codec on the fractured landscape of devices, formats, and codecs, offering video has gotten easier.

"Things have actually gotten better over the last year, because the H.264 standard has become the focal point of technologies that can actually take an H.264 stream and transmux it, which basically means put it in a different container format, for multiple targets," said Ozer. Wowza Media Server 2 was the first tool he saw that could do that, he added.

"If you're producing today, typically your high-level challenges are, number one, I need a desktop technology, and that can be Flash or Silverlight, and number two, I want to hit iDevices, and number three, then you'll start to look at the other mobile devices out there," said Ozer.

No longer having to encode separately for the desktop and Apple iOS devices has been a big time-saver.

For more from Ozer, watch the full interview below.

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http://www.streamingmedia.com/Articles/Editorial/Featured-Articles/Forget-the-Fractured-Landscape-H.264-Makes-Encoding-Easier-76705.aspx


Wednesday, July 13, 2011

Cadence acquires power specialist Azuro

Cadence Designs Systems Inc. has moved to strengthen design tools it provides to customers developing next-generation SoCs through the acquisition of power-focused Azuro Inc. According to Cadence press release, Azuro offers unique clock concurrent optimization technology, also known as ccopt, which delivers superior capabilities for designers faced with increasing performance, power and area challenges. Specifically, ccopt technology has delivered significant quality of silicon (QoS) on high-speed processor designs in the areas of:
  • Power (clock tree power reduction up to 30 percent and total power improvements of up to 10 percent),
  • Performance (improvements of up to 100 MHz for a GHz design), and
  • Area (clock tree area reduction up to 30 percent)
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Sunday, July 3, 2011

Bluespec June 2011 Release

Bluespec is an electronic system level (ESL) synthesis solution that addresses algorithms, control logic and complex datapaths. It includes compiler (BSC), simulator (BlueSim), development station (BDW), and emulation platform (emVM). The latest Bluespec version is 2011.04C (?).

It seems Sce-Mi has been improved in this version. Sce-Mi, the Standard Co-Emulation Modeling Interface, is an Accellera standard which was designed to aid in verification of hardware designs. The standard specifies a transaction-based modeling interface used to pass messages between an un-timed software test bench and a design under test (DUT) described in register transfer language (RTL). The DUT can be emulated on an FPGA to achieve better performance than software RTL simulators are capable of.

Core Technology

Bluespec Core Technology
ProductDescription
Bluespec Compiler (BSC)Compiles a high-level model, transactor, test bench or implementation into Verilog RTL or SystemC
Bluespec Simulator (Bluesim)Simulates Bluespec designs 5X-20X faster than RTL
Bluespec Development Workstation (BDW)Provides a high-level GUI-based development environment for the design, analysis and debug of Bluespec designs
emVMProvides debug, instrumentation & co-emulation for easy emulation of synthesizable models and legacy RTL with third-party FPGA boards/emulators

The following links in http://www.bluespec.com/forum/ provide the related documentations:

  • The Bluespec Reference Guide is a detailed language reference manual including full documentation for the library packages

reference-guide.pdf
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BSV Reference Guide (6/11)

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  • The BSV User Guide describes the mechanics of running the Bluespec tools, from either the development workstation or the command line, including complete descriptions of compiler flags and Bluesim documentation.
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  • This Bluespec example book teaches the BSV language through small, complete, executable BSV programs. While not an exhaustive reference manual of all BSV features, it describes many of the most commonly used features. A tar file containing all examples in machine-readable form is also provided.

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BSV by example document (6/11)

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bsv_by_example_appendix.tar.gz
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Appendix containing all example source code, including workstation files. The appendix is provided as a tar file. (6/11)

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  • This emVM Use Guide document describes Bluespec's emVM environment for implementing software-hardware co-emulation with FPGAs.

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emVM user guide (6/11)

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Friday, July 1, 2011

Google Inc. in preliminary talks to buy Hulu

According to LA Times, Google Inc. is in preliminary talks to buy online video pioneer Hulu. Hulu has begun meeting with potential buyers including Google, Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo Inc. to drum up interest in a sale, people familiar with the situation said.

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Apple's iPhone Grows Faster than Android's Phone

According to Dallas Bossiness Journal, Android operating system is still No. 1 among U.S. smartphone but stalls, iPhone is the fastest growing in market share.

About 27 percent of the smartphones sold in the country from March to May used the Android system. That number has remained flat this year. However, iPhone rose to 17 percent in the May quarter compared to 10 percent in the previous quarter.

In US Android is the most used among all smartphone owners with 38 percent of the market vs. 27 percent for Apple's device.

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