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VeriSilicon’s New Silicon IP Solution for HD Audio By BDTI, 1/23/2008 VeriSilicon has released a licenseable DSP core, the ZSP800, and an associated development platform, VZ.AudioHD, optimized for “HD” audio applications. (More)

Catalytic Acquires Celoxica’s C-to-FPGA Tools By BDTI, 1/23/2008 Catalytic recently acquired Celoxica's ESL business. Catalytic already offers a MATLAB-to-C tool, and with the acquisition of Celoxica's C-to-FPGA tool, the company is poised to deliver seamless MATLAB-to-FPGA translation. (More)

Jeff Bier's Impulse Response: Moore’s Law Alive and Well—But Penalties Get Stiffer By Jeff Bier, 1/23/2008 The breathtaking advances in digital integrated circuits over the past 40 years—with current chips topping one billion transistors—have been possible in large part because designers and users have been able to ignore a number of “second-order” aspects of circuit behavior. (More)

Case Study: Multi-Tiered Software Optimization By BDTI, 1/23/2008 While nearly all signal processing applications require some degree of software optimization, some applications require a sophisticated, multi-tiered optimization approach in order to meet their performance goals. (More)