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• Yes, you can trademark a color
  
  Author: Margery Conner | Date: Nov 16, 2009
  Technical Editor Margery Conner's PowerSource streams the latest developments in electronic power design and related technologies. Follow Margery on Twitter at: http://twitter.com/margeryc.
• Intel to pay AMD $1.25B to end legal battle
  
  Author: By Suzanne Deffree, Managing Editor, News | Date: Nov 12, 2009
  Updated: Intel and AMD agree to end all outstanding legal disputes between the companies, including antitrust litigation and patent cross license disputes.The rivals also obtain patent rights from a new five-year cross-license agreement.
• ARM IP group wrestles complexity of 32-nm physical design
  
  Author: By Ron Wilson, Executive Editor | Date: Oct 27, 2009
  A presentation at the recent ARM Developers' Conference reveals the extent to which library developers will shield chip designers from the challenges of 32-nm lithography.
• Silicon Valley 'Spies Like Us': Trial begins for 2 engineers accused of economic espionage involving China
  
  Author: Suzanne Deffree | Date: Oct 23, 2009
  Offering news and business analysis for the design engineer, Managing News Editor Suzanne Deffree filters the electronics industry's developments and trends to explain how what's happening in the board room today can impact the tech innovation of tomorrow.
• E Ink, Freescale enter IP agreement for eBook silicon
  
  Author: By Ron Wilson, Executive Editor | Date: Oct 20, 2009
  Freescale will integrate E Ink’s Vizplex display controller IP onto Freescale’s ARM-based microcontroller SoCs.
• Three indicted for counterfeit IC sales to US Navy
  
  Author: By Suzanne Deffree, Managing Editor, News | Date: Oct 13, 2009
  Counterfeit ICs falsely bearing markings from the likes of Intel, ADI, and National Semiconductor were allegedly brought into the United States and sold by three family members in California, according to a US Attorney’s Office indictment.
• NXP, Virage deal sees IP exchange, employees transfer, R&D center development
  
  Author: By Suzanne Deffree, Managing Editor, News | Date: Oct 12, 2009
  At the multifaceted agreement's core is the transfer of a part of NXP’s CMOS IP rights and certain engineering talent and equipment to Virage Logic, a move that is expected to significantly reduce costs at NXP as the company continues its efforts to focus on high-performance mixed signal.
• IP quality lies beyond compliance testing
  
  Author: By Navraj Nandra, Synopsys Inc | Date: Oct 8, 2009
  Of course you want your standard-interface IP to pass compliance testing. But that accomplishment is just the beginning. Complete quality assurance for IP cores has far more challenges.
• MIPS inks Altera licensing deal
  
  Author: By Suzanne Deffree, Managing Editor, News | Date: Oct 6, 2009
  Art Swift, VP of marketing at MIPS, noted that the license has the potential to broaden MIPS' user base.
• ARM, GlobalFoundries partner on 28-nm HKMG for Cortex-A9
  
  Author: By Suzanne Deffree, Managing Editor, News | Date: Oct 6, 2009
  With the agreement, GlobalFoundries said it will be the first foundry to work with ARM to enable a 28-nm Cortex-A9 SOC solution.
• Review of Synopsys’ DesignWare minPower IP Webinar
  
  Author: Steve Leibson | Date: Oct 2, 2009
  Leibson's Law: It takes 10 years for any disruptive technology to become pervasive in the design community. This blog is about the disruptive technologies that either have or will win over electronic engineers, some that won't, and why. Please feel free to link to these blog entries! Written by
• In search of a better DRAM: evolving to floating bodies
  
  Author: By Serguei Okhonin, PhD, Innovative Silicon | Date: Sep 17, 2009
  Widely investigated floating-body memories appear to be compelling replacements for conventional DRAMs. A new floating-body memory uses the intrinsic bipolar transistor to store significantly greater charge.
• Virage Logic intends to acquire ARC International
  
  Author: By Ron Wilson, Executive Editor | Date: Aug 18, 2009
  The acquisition would add configurable CPU cores and the company's development environment, and perhaps more significantly, several powerful clusters of application-specific hardware and software IP to the Virage portfolio, complementing the company's strengths in foundation digital IP, memory IP,
• Start-up offers dynamically reconfigurable logic technology
  
  Author: By Graham Prophet, Europe Editor | Date: Aug 6, 2009
  Start-up Akya is offering IP (intellectual property) to allow IC designers to include reconfigurable logic on their ASSPs (application-specific standard products) or ASICs (application-specific integrated circuits). The company delivers both reconfigurable-logic fabric and IP blocks to execute
• What is the future for Intellectual Property?
  
  Author: Ron Wilson | Date: Jul 29, 2009
  EDN Executive Editor Ron Wilson explores how IC design teams really work: the struggle for power efficiency and performance, wrestling with semiconductor processes and design methodologies, the challenges of global design teams. How do we somehow herd architecture, IP, design and verification into
• EDAC reports easing in fall of EDA revenues in Q1
  
  Author: By Ron Wilson, Executive Editor | Date: Jul 15, 2009
  EDA revenue was down 10.7% year over year in Q1, but, according to EDA Consortium Chairman and Mentor Graphics CEO Walden Rhines, that may actually be moderately good news.
• High-level software for embedded-system design: doing your job?
  
  Author: By Rick Nelson, Editor-in-Chief | Date: Jul 9, 2009
  Domain experts are gaining more control of embedded-system design, but electronic- and code-design skills remain key to successful projects.
• Motorola joins Via Licensing joint licensing program for near field communications
  
  Date: Jul 1, 2009
  Via Licensing Corp has announced that Motorola Inc has joined its joint licensing program for patents related to the practice of near field communications (NFC) as a licensor.
• CoreEL named Virage Logic representative in India
  
  Date: Jul 1, 2009
  Virage Logic Corp has announced it has expanded its presence in India with the appointment of CoreEL as its sales representative.
• Tool bundles target FPGAs
  
  Author: By Graham Prophet, Europe Editor | Date: Jun 25, 2009
  Xilinx this year introduced two families of Virtex-6 and Spartan-6 FPGAs that enable targeted-design platforms. The company is now adding domain-specific-tool support to the targeted-platform concept. Xilinx’ ISE (integrated software environment) Design Suite 11.1 offers interoperable