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Posted: April 6, 1998

Xilinx Inc. (San Jose, Calif.) has expanded its portfolio of AllianceCore products with six new cores targeted for the communications, industrial and embedded-control markets.

AllianceCore partner CoreEL Microsystems (Fremont, Calif.) now offers a 50-MHz Utopia Master interface that includes transmit and receive blocks that can be used individually or together to form a Utopia interface. Targeted for use in asynchronous-transfer-mode (ATM) and networking applications, it lists for $15,000. CoreEL offers the Master packaged along with the recently released Slave core for $25,000.

NMI Electronics Ltd. (Halesowen, England) is licensing a synchronous DRAM controller for use in the Xilinx XC4000 and XC9500 series of programmable-device families. The core can be tested in either family using NMI's microprocessor-based evaluation card. List price for the SDRAM controller starts at $3,500.

Another AllianceCore partner, SICAN Microelectronics (San Francisco), is licensing Xilinx's CAN Bus Interface core, which targets automotive and industrial applications. Pricing starts at $15,000.

Perigee L.L.C. (Liverpool, N.Y.) is offering a video color-space (YCrCb-to-RGB) converter with 8-bit accuracy. The function will be integrated into the Xilinx CORE Generator tool and is available from Perigee at no charge.

CAST Inc. (Pomona, N.Y.) is licensing its C8251 USART programmable communications interface, targeting communications and modem apps. The new core starts at $7,500. Visit www.cast-inc.com. Finally, Memec Design Services (Mesa, Ariz.) is offering a Reed-Solomon encoder. The company will customize the core to a user's target application. The core starts at $1,750.

According to Xilinx, the cores are available for licensing from the AllianceCore partners in Xilinx net-list format and, in most cases, as source code.

Innovative Semiconductors Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.) has announced that Samsung Electronics Co. has licensed its Analog FlexFire serial-bus cores. These 1394 RTL cores are designed for computer and consumer-peripheral products such as storage devices, scanners, DVDs and camcorders.

The core licensed to Samsung, the SL730-A IEEE-1394 PHY, can transfer data at up to 400 Mbits/s and be configured to support 16 ports. Innovative said that the FlexFire PHY architecture was designed to minimize sensitivity of the signal skews to routing delays and to simplify the synthesis task of the digital section at these high speeds.

Integrated Intellectual Property Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.) has announced a strategic alliance with Award Software (Mountain View) to develop a 1394 soft-core package compliant with Award's 1394 host and peripheral software, FireAccess. The end product will be a turnkey solution for 1394 device connectivity that will combine Integrated's 1394 PHY and LINK cores with FireAccess, a 1394 host and peripheral software package that designers can use to create products for computer peripherals, consumer electronics and embedded-design markets.