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Analog-defining the user experience In today’s digital world, it’s analog performance that helps create a great user experience. In
fact, as designs go more digital, engineers rely more on analog
functionality to bring their designs to life. And the most trusted company
for bringing analog technology everywhere is Analog Devices. From MP3 to
advanced TV, DSPs to AFEs, engineers have come to rely on Analog Devices for
innovative signal processing technologies that advance their designs.
MeritDirect is a leading full service direct marketing firm specializing in list management, list brokerage, customer list enhancement and optimization, marketing databases and interactive services. MeritDirect provides customer acquisition and retention expertise to catalogers and publishers. MeritDirect operates within a culture of continuous improvement, striving for leading-edge processes and technologies that ultimately guide clients to higher response rates and lower costs in less time.
Rambus is one of the world’s premier technology licensing companies specializing in the invention and design of high-speed memory architectures. Since its founding in 1990, the Company’s patented innovations, breakthrough technologies and renowned integration expertise have helped industry-leading chip and system companies bring superior products to market. Rambus’ technology and products solve customers’ most complex chip and system-level interface challenges enabling unprecedented performance in computing, communications and consumer electronics applications. Rambus licenses both its world-class patent portfolio as well as its family of leadership and industry-standard interface products.
Through its leadership products like the XDR memory architecture and programs like the Terabyte Bandwidth Initiative, the Rambus team helps some of the world’s largest companies bring amazing products to market that enrich the lives of consumers everywhere. Dramatically advancing the performance of electronic products is the mission at Rambus, your license to speed™.
Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX) is the worldwide leader in complete programmable logic solutions, with more than 50 percent market share and $1.84B in revenues for fiscal year 2007. Xilinx award-winning products – silicon, software, IP, development boards and starter kits – enable designers to drastically reduce time-to-market in a variety of end markets, including aerospace/defense, automotive, consumer, industrial, networking and telecommunications. For more information, visit www.xilinx.com.
The high-performance Virtex®-5 FPGA family is the fifth generation in the award-winning Virtex series. Built upon the industry’s most advanced 65nm triple-oxide technology, breakthrough new ExpressFabric™ technology and proven ASMBL™ architecture, the Virtex-5 family includes four domain-optimized platforms, including Virtex-5 LX, LXT, SXT and FXT. The company’s newly-announced Virtex-5 FXT is first platform to include PowerPC® 440 processor blocks, low power GTX transceivers, and XtremeDSP™ processing capabilities. Production devices are shipping now and may be purchased online or through Xilinx distributors. Visit www.xilinx.com/virtex5 for more information.
Spartan®-3 Generation FPGAs deliver the industry’s lowest total system cost for high-volume applications, offering designers a powerful combination of integrated on-chip features, system performance and flexible power management modes. Built upon production-proven 90nm technology, Spartan-3, 3E, 3A, 3AN and 3A DSP are available in a variety of densities and packages, including a small form factor package ideally suited to cost-sensitive consumer applications. Visit www.xilinx.com/spartan for more information.
Xilinx CPLDs are used in a broad range of portable applications including cellular handsets, portable MP3 players and PDAs. Xilinx CoolRunner™-II CPLDs provide the high performance and low cost advantages of a programmable logic device without the typical price premium normally associated with low power devices. Available in densities ranging from 32 to 512 macrocells, the CoolRunner-II family achieves system performance up to 385 MHz and pin-to-pin delays as fast as 3.0ns while providing a standby current as low as 12 microamps – an industry first.
Xilinx DSP and embedded processing solutions enable system architects and software engineers to take full advantage of the performance and flexibility of FPGAs for system-level design. The products include LogiCORE™ IP cores, MicroBlaze™ and PowerPC processors, and development tools such as System Generator for DSP, AccelDSP™ synthesis tool, Platform Studio and the Embedded Development Kit.
The company’s newly introduced ISE® Design Suite 10.1 consists of ISE Foundation™, Embedded Development Kit (EDK) with Platform Studio (XPS), System Generator for DSP, AccelDSP synthesis tool, ChipScope™ Pro analyzer and ChipScope Pro Serial I/O toolkit, PlanAhead™ design and analysis tool and ISE simulator. For more information, visit http://www.xilinx.com/ISE.
The best way to evaluate an FPGA solution is to try it out. Users can install domain-specific DSP, embedded and logic design products from either a DVD or electronic download. Full-featured 60-day evaluation versions of ISE Design Suite 10.1 can be downloaded at http://www.xilinx.com/ise_eval/index.htm.
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