2011

CAST NAND Flash Controller Supports Latest High-Speed Memories and is Ready for ONFI 3
 

Eli Geva, AST, +972-9-7744278 ext 311, elig@ast.co.il

AST has just undergone a facelift with launching its new website!

Along with a new look we have added new content, enhanced the different departments, and accessibility features.

AST is one of the pioneers in establishing a website in Israel and this is our third generation website.

“We’re very excited to launch our new website which really gives a new look and helps our customers to get the best service” said Eli Geva, AST VP of Operations.

Click here to participate and answer the questions

About AST
Advanced Semiconductor Technologies (AST) was established in 1986 as the first independent Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASIC) Design Center in Israel and has since become the Representative of major ASIC vendors as well as IP and EDA suppliers and Applications Specific Standard Product (ASSP) companies.
 
Our team of highly skilled Sales and Application Engineers combine over 200 years of experience. We provide Turn-Key services as well as on site support and consulting, in the areas of ASIC and FPGA Design, EDA IT, CAD and Design Management.  For more information please contact: www.ast.co.il.
 
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Contacts: 
Eli Geva, AST, +972-9-7744278 ext 311, elig@ast.co.il

Faraday and Advanced Semiconductor Technology Ltd. (AST) Reach Track Record Production of Over 18 Million Units

Hsinchu, Taiwan and Ra'anana, Israel – June 23, 2011
Faraday Technology, a leading ASIC provider and Advanced Semiconductor Technology Ltd. (AST), announced today reaching a track record production of over 18 million ASIC units for a single customer in Israel. Having reached this number and with future production still ahead, it is the largest production volume reached up to now in Europe.
This project was mutually developed by Faraday and AST for a customer located in Israel and has become since one of the most successful ASIC production projects ever recorded in Israel.
Faraday’s highly efficient production flow and manufacturing capabilities enables the customer to reach high volume production due to Faraday's cost effective solution.

“We are very proud to be part of the success of one of the leading ASIC projects ever done in Israel” said Eli Geva, VP of Operations, AST. “Faraday is a real partner who truly and deeply understands the genuine needs of our customers, the market requirements and is willing to offer cost effective ASIC solutions without negotiating its highest quality and reputation”.

“Our partnership with AST has led into one of the most successful ASIC volume productions in Faraday and we are very pleased about this. Moreover we are very excited and are looking forward to see the product reach its 20th million volume production soon.” said Rene Lee, Europe office General Manager, Faraday.

Customers are gaining from Faraday’s cost effective ASIC solutions offered through AST while enjoying local and highly professional technical support.
Significant cost reduction can be obtained while applying combined forces of AST's and Faraday's experience in ASIC implementation and production, Faraday's extensive IP and process technology portfolio. A combination of all of them ensures a very attractive cost effective ASIC volume production.
The Faraday - AST partnership has already led into several other successful ASIC volume production projects in Israel.

About AST
Advanced Semiconductor Technologies (AST) was established in 1986 as the first independent Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASIC) Design Center in Israel and has since become the Representative of major ASIC vendors as well as IP and EDA suppliers and Applications Specific Standard Product (ASSP) companies.
AST's highly skilled Sales and Application Engineers combine over 200 years of experience; Turn-Key services as well as on site support and consulting are provided, in the areas of ASIC and FPGA Design, EDA IT, CAD and Design Management.  For more information please visit: www.ast.co.il.

About Faraday Technology
Faraday Technology Corporation is a leading fables ASIC and silicon IP provider. The company's broad silicon IP portfolio includes I/O, Cell Library, Memory Compiler, ARM-compliant CPUs, DDRI/II/III, MPEG4, H.264, USB 2.0/3.0, 10/100 Ethernet, Serial ATA, and PCI Express, etc. Headquartered in Taiwan , Faraday has service and support offices around the world, including the U.S. , Japan , Europe, and China . Faraday is listed in Taipei Stock Exchange, ticker 3035. For more information, please visit: www.faraday-tech.com

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Contacts:     
Arielle Adler, AST, +972-9-7744278 ext 304, arielle_a@ast.co.il 
 

Aldec Demonstrates Increased Debugging Productivity at ChipEx

Ra'anana, Israel – June 16, 2011 Aldec Israel, a leader in mixed RTL simulation and hardware assisted verification, impressed a large audience at ChipEx 2011 which took place in May in Tel-Aviv.
Aldec’s technical demonstrations attracted an array of engineers and managers. Many visitors were interested to learn the benefits of Aldec's innovative solutions, for example that the entire verification process is controlled by the HDL simulator, acceleration is done using the same test bench as used with regular HDL simulator and the verification process is controlled from the HDL simulator. To learn more, please click here.

Additionally, Aldec Israel was given the honor to hold a presentation on the topic of Interoperable IP Delivery. This informative presentation is also available as webinar, click here to download.

Aldec Israel was represented by AST, distributor of Aldec's hardware based products (HES (hardware-assisted verification), DO-254 CTS, Microsemi (formerly Actel) prototyping boards and Sital Technologies, distributor of Aldec's software based verification products (Active-HDL, ALINT and Riviera-PRO).

“We were very satisfied with the overall organization and high standard presentations held at the tracks which contributed to the attracting of top class public visiting the event. This event was clearly of great significance to Aldec and to the high tech industry" said Uri Farkash, Aldec Israel country manager.

About Aldec
Aldec, Inc., is an industry-leader in Electronic Design Verification and offers a patented technology suite including: RTL Design, RTL Simulators, Hardware-Assisted Verification, Design Rule Checking, IP Cores, DO-254 Functional Verification and Military/Aerospace solutions. www.aldec.com

About ChipEx
ChipEx is the annual international event of the Israeli semiconductor industry, targeting all those involved with the semiconductor industry including engineers, R&D managers, senior executives, CEOs of fabless semiconductor companies, multinational design centers, consultants, experts, venture capital managers involved with the semiconductor industry as well as students & professors. www.chipex.co.il

 Aldec Israel Contact:
Uri Farkash          Mobile +972-52-3897111 Email urif@aldec.co.il

Press Contact:
Arielle Adler, AST  Phone +972-9-7744278 ext 304 Email arielle_a@ast.co.il

Contacts:    
Arielle Adler, AST, +972-9-7744278 ext 304, arielle_a@ast.co.il 

Carol Yang, Faraday, +886-3-5787888 ext. 4047, htyang@faraday-tech.com

CAST to Feature Video and Image IP Cores in AST Booth at ChipEx 2011, Israel

April 20, 2011, Woodcliff Lake, NJ — Semiconductor intellectual property (IP) provider CAST, Inc. will be demonstrating some of the best available IP for image and video processing in the ChipEx 2011 booth of Israeli sales partner Advanced Semiconductor Technology Ltd. (AST).

ChipEx runs May 3-4, 2011 at the Hilton Tel Aviv Convention Center in Tel Aviv, and is the leading international event of the Israeli semiconductor industry. AST’s booth is # 55-58.

CAST vice president Nikos Zervas will be on hand to demonstrate and discuss the company’s recently expanded Video and Image IP suite. Extremely high-quality H.264 video compression, versatile and powerful JPEG 2000, lossless image compression technologies, and a broad set of image manipulation and conversion functions make CAST’s IP attractive for the military and other high-end imaging applications Israeli developers are known for. Additional IP highlights include CAST’s highly-regarded 8051s, memory controllers, and other cores and platforms for building complete systems in ASICs or FPGAs.

“The Israeli electronics market is responding well to CAST’s product line,” said Uri Farkash, AST’s director of EDA & IP operations. “We’re excited to host them at ChipEx.”

Contact AST to learn more: call 972-9-7744278 ext: 316 or visiting http://www.ast.co.il/.

About CAST, Inc.
CAST, Inc. is a privately held company that enables quicker, less expensive electronic system on chip (SoC) realization through semiconductor IP products and supporting services. The company features advanced image/video processing and microcontroller IP families, plus the memory controllers, high-speed buses, peripherals, and other functions needed to build complete systems. CAST overall strives to give customers a better IP experience through proven IP products; rapid, effective support; and reduced risk due to 17 years in the IP industry. Learn more at http://www.cast-inc.com/.                  # # #
CAST is a trademark of CAST, Inc. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners. 
CAST, Inc., 11 Stonewall Court, Woodcliff Lake, NJ 07677  +1 201.391.8300

Media Contacts:  
Nikos Zervas, CAST, Inc., +1 201.894.5511, n.zervas@cast-inc.com
Paul Lindemann, Montage Marketing, paul@montmark.com, Twitter, Skype: @plindemann
 

Advanced Semiconductor Technology Ltd. (AST) has been chosen by Berkeley Design Automation (BDA) to be its distributor and technical representative in Israel.

Berkeley Design Automation, Inc. is the recognized leader in nanometer circuit verification. Analog, mixed-signal, RF, and custom digital circuitry is the biggest differentiator and the most difficult design challenge for nm integrated circuits. Running at GHz frequencies and fabricated in CMOS silicon processes, these circuits introduce a new class of verification problems that traditional SPICE, RF, and digital fastSPICE simulators cannot adequately solve.

Berkeley Design Automation combines the industry’s only unified verification platform,
Analog FastSPICE, with exceptional application expertise to uniquely address these challenges. Nearly 100 companies, including most of the world’s top 20 semiconductor suppliers, rely on Berkeley Design Automation to efficiently verify their nm-scale circuits. 
The AFS Platform is a single executable that seamlessly integrates into the industry’s leading design environment to deliver:
Foundry-certified nm SPICE accuracy on every run
5x-10x faster single-core performance than any other SPICE circuit simulator
Circuit characterization that scales near-linearly with the number of cores
>10M-element capacity for post-layout circuit verification
>120 dB transient dynamic range for high-precision analog/RF analysis
Full-spectrum device noise analysis proven within 1-2 dB of silicon
Verilog co-simulation for nm SPICE accurate mixed-signal verification
Founded in 2003, Berkeley Design Automation has received several industry awards in recognition of its technology leadership and impact on the electronics industry. The company is privately held and backed by Woodside Fund, Bessemer Venture Partners, Panasonic Corp., NTT Corp., IT-Farm, and MUFJ Capital.                                  

PLX is the first company to promote the Three-Lane PCI Express Gen2 Switch, Adds Four-Lane Device to Industry’s Broadest Portfolio

SUNNYVALE, Calif., April 18, 2011 – PLX Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: PLXT), the leader in connectivity solutions for the data center and the home, today announced the industry’s only three-lane PCI Express® (PCIe®) Gen2 switch, and a new four-lane PCIe Gen2 switch, both of which are in the market’s smallest 10x10mm QFN packaging.  With samples available in early July, the PLX® ExpressLane™ PEX8603 (3 lanes, 3 ports) and PEX8605 (4 lanes, 4 ports) switches offer very low power requirements, down to 0.6W typical, have exclusive optional x1 and x2 port configurations, along with unique debug diagnostic circuitry backed by powerful free software tools.
Targeting a rapidly emerging PCIe landscape ranging from the enterprise to the consumer, these new devices are ideal for energy-sensitive, form-factor-restrictive, cost-conscious markets including digital televisions, set-top boxes, home gateways, security systems, cable modems, DVRs, multi-function printers, digital media servers, video surveillance, and numerous other control-plane and embedded applications.
“As the industry’s first three-lane PCIe Gen2 switch, the PEX8603 gives designers an unprecedented new choice of high-speed yet highly efficient 5Gbps non-blocking interconnect performance,” said David Raun, PLX vice president of marketing and business development.  “PCI Express is now readily available on all the processors in the consumer market and customers need PLX switches to expand connectivity to various endpoints, such as WiFi modules and USB 3.0 devices.  Engineers can confidently bridge PCIe Gen1 and Gen3 designs knowing that the forward and backward compatibility of the standard will sustain their architectures.”
“Power and size efficiencies are driving development of a new generation of semiconductors targeted at emerging and fast-growth market segments, from consumer electronics to full enterprise systems,” said Rob Lineback, senior market research analyst at IC Insights. “PLX has factored this imperative into its expanding PCI Express switch lineup, with its lower-lane-count devices particularly suited for applications demanding such efficiencies.”
PLX ExpressLane PCIe silicon and supporting software provide the high-speed interconnect in server, storage, enterprise and consumer products from manufacturers worldwide.  This family of more than 50 highly configurable devices ranges from three to 96 lanes, three to 24 ports, the industry’s lowest latency (down to 110ns) and power (as low as 0.6W), as well as comprehensive PCIe bridge solutions.  In addition to having the industry’s largest family of PCIe Gen1 and Gen2 devices, PLX recently introduced the market’s first PCIe Gen3 (8Gbps) switches – six devices ranging from 12 to 48 lanes designed to optimize servers, communications systems, graphics, and other performance-demanding applications.
 
Pricing and Availability
Pricing for the new PEX8603 and PEX8605 devices ranges from $4.00 to $6.00 in volume.  The products will sample globally in July 2011 and will be in full production in Q3’11.