SUNNYVALE, California and AHMEDABAD, India, June 4 /PRNewswire/ — eInfochips, Inc., a leading design services company today announced the availability of a DDR2 SDRAM SystemVerilog Memory Model Generator. This HVL-based tool is an integrated solution to generate behavioral models for all leading memory vendors, such as Micron(R), Samsung(R), Hynix(R) & Elpida(R), thereby shortening verification time & maximizing memory coverage.

“eInfochips strives to market solutions that add value to the design process,” states Sribash Dey, VP, North America Sales at eInfochips. “By offering high-quality simulation models and verification environments, we believe the DDR2 SDRAM memory model generator tool will reduce overall verification time and reduce development cost.”

With eInfochips’ DDR2 SDRAM model generator, it is possible to configure parameters of DDR2 SDRAM memory such as memory size, data width, clock rate, cycle time, CAS latency and data rate.

Key Features of Memory Generator Tool

The DDR2 SDRAM memory generator is a TCL/TK-based tool that supports leading memory vendors and preserves a large library of part numbers for each supported memory vendor. The tool can be operated in 2 modes - Typical Mode or Custom Mode. In the Typical Mode, a user may choose vendors and part numbers to generate the memory model. In the Custom Mode, a user may create a customized behavioral model from scratch by configuring the parameters of DDR2 SDRAM through the configuration selection algorithm (CSA).

Key Features of Generated Behavioral Models

The behavioral models are compliant to JEDEC standard JESD79 - 2D and ready to be plugged into a verification environment. The models offer built-in coverage and can be configured to turn on/off initialization, enable/disable DDR2 interface checkers and coverage.

Deliverables

Deliverables include verified SystemVerilog DDR2 SDRAM generator encrypted code, a user guide and release notes.

For more information on this IP please visit: http://www.einfochips.com/services/asic/IP/ddr2-sdram-memorygenerator-systemv erilog.php

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Support & Availability

DDR2 SDRAM SystemVerilog memory generator tool is now available and comes with support. For pricing details write to us at sales@einfochips.com Currently the tool supports DDR2 but is expandable to support DDR, DDR3, NAND Flash, NOR Flash, QDR, XDR.

About eInfochips

eInfochips is a leading IP driven design services company with the range of services & solutions in ASIC/Chip/SoC, Embedded System and Software. eInfochips’ Chip/ASIC group has capabilities spanning from ASIC/Chip design, verification, physical design, FPGA design & prototyping and IP Cores development and integration. eInfochips has contributed to over 130+ designs in automotive, consumer, semiconductor, avionics, networking/communication, video and security/surveillance industries through its wide array of RTL to GDS II services and solutions. For more information, visit http://www.einfochips.com

Micron(R), Samsung(R), Hynix(R) & Elpida(R) are trademarks of Micron Technology, Samsung, Hynix Semiconductor Inc. and Elpida Memory Inc respectively. Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others.

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Gmail has a new feature in its labs section aimed at people with bad connections who still want to use the fancypants JavaScript-filled “new” version of the popular Web mail service. It shows a quick preview of the latest 10 messages while Gmail’s loading bar makes its slow march toward completion.

You can’t actually read these messages, but you can quickly see if you have new ones. Users on a fast connection will only see the preview for a mere second or two before the in-box opens up. But for those on the very thread of a cellular data line, or on some chuggy dial-up, Google is pitching this as a simple way to see if those latest messages are worth the loading wait.

While relatively useless to users with fast connections, this is still a nice alternative to switching over to the HTML version of Gmail, which survives for the sake of compatibility on older machines and browsers. The switch over to that version forgoes many niceties such as no page refreshing, and the use of Gmail labs features.

Weeks after leaving the media spotlight, the Conficker malware infection continues to spread, according to experts.

Researchers at security firm Symantec have reported that the botnet is still claiming victims at a rate of 50,000 a day. Infections are the highest in the US, Brazil, India, China, Mexico and Italy.
“Much of the media hype seems to have died down around Conficker/Downadup, but it is still out there spreading far and wide,” the researchers wrote in a blog post.

Conficker spread throughout the world during the early part of the year. When researchers discovered that the third variant was designed to dial a control server on 1 April, a media storm erupted.

The malware failed to perform any sort of significant attack, but continued to spread throughout April. Researchers discovered later in the month that a new variant was making the rounds.

Since the frenzy died down, Conficker has been eclipsed in the public eye by more prolific attacks, such as the recent Gumblar infection.

Yahoo has glued its social news site Buzz to Yahoo India homepage. India is the first lucky country to get the Buzz service outside the U.S. market. Yahoo! Buzz is Digg-like service that allows discovering, submitting, commenting on news stories and even voting for the most liked ones.

Yahoo! Buzz gets pumped with the content from 20,000 publishers worldwide. On the other hand, Yahoo! Buzz India currently features content from two dozen local publishers like The Times of India, NDTV, India Today Group, Zee, A2 Media and One India. Yahoo! Buzz can be accessed directly from http://in.buzz.yahoo.com/.

Yahoo! Terms Buzz as a “social news site” since users can submit, comment and vote on several stories. Also, web surfers get to know about variety of news. It is indeed an interesting way to put across popular and engaging news stories that are submitted by humans and not bots. At the moment, Yahoo! Buzz is available in English and Yahoo! does not have any immediate plans to launch it in local Indian languages.

Frazier Miller, head of audience at Yahoo India, said Yahoo may integrate advertisements into Buzz in order to generate revenue.

Yahoo! Buzz button would be visible on the websites
of participating Indian publishers.

Bharti Airtel has joined the nettop and cloud computing bandwagon with its new “http://www.airtel.in/applications/genericlead/netpc/netpc.html” Airtel Net PC. This cloud-based computer consists of a 15-inch LCD monitor, keyboard and mouse, while storage is offered on Cloud servers. Airtel is offering this new Airtel Net PC from Airtel outlets and NEXT Electronics Stores for Rs. 7,999 for Airtel broadband customers in Delhi, Gurgaon and Noida.

Airtel Net PC is a plug-and-play nettop that is power by Microsoft and Nivio Companion. This Net PC’s Windows XP customized by Nivio is connected to a backend Linux-based server for various applications
and storage through Nivio Companion. Net PC comes with 10GB of storage space in the clouds with 100 per cent data security.

Airtel is offering net PC in three entry packs - Home at Rs. 699 per month, Professional at Rs. 899 per month and Business at Rs. 1,199 per month.

The Home Pack gives 256kbps Airtel broadband connection with 3GB data transfer cap, online desktop service with 10GB storage and Microsoft Office standard. Professional pack offers Airtel broadband at same speed, data transfer cap, 10GB online storage and MS office standard with Admin rights.

While the Business pack offers again the same 256 kbps broadband connection with 3GB data transfer cap, 10GB online storage and MS Office Premium with Admin rights.

It’s not just the search engine team who are busy over at Google: the Gmail staffers are putting in the hours to add some snazzy new features as well.

As spotted by CNet yesterday, Gmail now supports – finally – the ability to easily import message and contacts from your existing webmail service, making it as easy as possible to give Google access to every e-mail you ever send or receive.

Users of the popular free web-based e-mail service may have spotted a change to the Settings function, which has changed the “Accounts” tab to read “Accounts and Import.” By filling in the relevant details in the new tab, users are able to import both messages and address book entries from a fairly impressive selection of mail providers.

The supported providers list reads like a roll-call of webmail services including Microsoft’s Hotmail, MSN, and Live.com services along with a selection of ISPs including Orange, Freeserve, and Tiscali. If your particular service isn’t included, Google will be adding to the list over the coming months as the service rolls out across all Gmail users.

The importation technology – which is powered by TrueSwitch from Esaya – even allows for a soft crossover period, whereby messages sent to the old account for the next thirty days will be automatically forwarded to your Gmail account. Google does mention, however, a 24-48 hour delay both for the initial import and any subsequent messages received – so you may want to ensure that the more important contacts change your e-mail address sooner rather than later.

The new functionality, which Google describes as “currently available to only a small subset of Gmail users” comes as the company starts to feel the competition from rival webmail services including Microsoft’s Hotmail. With other webmail services matching Gmail’s impressive storage offering byte-for-byte, it’s clear that Google needs to make life as easy as possible if they’re going to convince people it’s worth making the switch.

These days mobile phones are no longer used only for communication but they are devices which offer multiple multimedia functions as well. The latest music-centric phone called the Samsung Beat DJ M7600 is now available in the UK through Dialaphone.

Aimed at music lovers, this phone features a user friendly interface and enables users to create their own tracks. The Beat DJ feature allows users to scratch, filter and add sound effects and make adjustments to the customizations added to create an impressive music. It incorporates iPod-like controls which lets users manage music whereas the integration of Bang & Olufsen ensures listening to music in high sound quality.

Sporting a unique design, the Samsung M7600 features a 2.8 inch touchscreen display and a 3.2 megapixel camera. Moreover, it includes TouchWiz user interface which allows users to drag inactive widgets from side bar to home screen in order to activate them.

Additionally, this phone includes an accelerometer sensor for auto rotate and a MP3 player. It also features a built-in GPS receiver with A-GPS function and a document viewer to view Word, Excel, PowerPoint and PDF documents. Talking about connectivity, the Samsung Beat DJ phone supports Wi-Fi, HSDPA and Bluetooth. It supports memory storage expansion upto 16GB and packs in a 3.5mm headphone jack.

The Samsung Beat DJ M7600 is now available through dialaphone with a wide option of approximately 124 deals.

Microsoft has unveiled a toolkit for PHP developers building open-source applications that help fluff its planned Azure cloud.

PHPAzure is a software development kit (SDK) for programming to both Windows Azure and the underlying SQL-like Windows Azure Storage service’s blobs, tables, and queues. PHPAzure is an open-source project developed with RealDolmen and hosted on Microsoft’s CodePlex site.

The PHPAzure community technology preview (CTP) was unveiled by Microsoft India and is due for completion on August 21. Azure is itself currently in CTP and has been promised for delivery by the end of this year.
PHP is one of the web’s most popular programming languages, running more than 20 million sites. It’s also used in conjunction with Apache, Linux, and MySQL - a web server, operating system, and database combo that Microsoft is in competition with.

Microsoft’s recognized the importance of winning over PHP developers and has worked with Zend Technologies to fine-tune PHP to Windows until now. The risk was developers would otherwise build their PHP applications on Windows and deploy on Linux instead.
With PHP being a default web-programming environment, Microsoft has accepted it must embrace the language as a way to populate Azure with applications, moving it from a standing stop.

PHPAzure sounds like a framework for PHP programmers to build to Azure and its underlying storage system rather than a new language from Microsoft. Features include PHP classes for Windows Azure blobs, tables, and queues, for HTTP transport, AuthN/AuthZ, REST, and error management, and there is manageability, instrumentation, and logging support. You can read more on the architecture here.

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Sybase has announced plans for its server products to work in Amazon’s cloud. The company said it’ll make Amazon Machine Images (AMIs), developer guides, and developer software for its software freely available for development and testing. Sybase is also working with Amazon to devise “flexible utility computing models” of its software to enable pay-per-use billing on the Amazon cloud.

Once a database contender to Oracle, Sybase today has a diverse set of products covering mobile and business intelligence. But the announcement will likely only apply to its database and data integration and replication products. It will expand the number of database options available on Amazon and keep Sybase in the game - though it’s coming a little late. Amazon’s EC2 currently offers IBM’s DB2 and Informix, Oracle 11g, Microsoft’s SQL Server Standard Edition 2005, and MySQL Enterprise.

Sybase also said it’s working with Symantec and its Veritas Storage Foundation to optimize its Virtualized Resource Management framework from the company’s ASE Cluster Edition for use in cloud-based storage. ®

Sony
has announced the launch of the world’s thinnest LCD TV in the country along with dozens of other new models to strengthen their current crop of offerings in the mid to high end segment.

The highlight of the launch however was the announcement of the Bravia ZX1, which at 9.9mm happens to be the world’s thinnest 40″ LCD TV. And soon it will be on sale in India! Apart from being slim, this one is quite light as well, tipping the scales at just 15.5 kg. The slim form factor doesn’t mean that features have been compromised upon. In fact, this might just be one of the most feature-packed LCD TV’s out there.

The ZX1 features Bravia Engine2, Edge LED technology, Motionflow 100Hz and Image Blur reduction as image techniques to reproduce premium pictures with vivid and vibrant tonal range. As expected, the TV supports a Full HD display resolution of 1920 X 1080 pixels. For easy integration with compatible BRAVIA products, it comes with Theatre Sync and possesses outstanding audio enhancement features like a digital amplifier, S-Force Surround, voice zoom and Dolby digital plus.

For wireless freaks who wouldn’t want themselves caught fiddling with messy wires, say hello to Wireless HD that enables the users to enjoy Full HD quality images without any messy wires or cables. The TV comes packed with four independent HDMI inputs, a PC input, composite inputs, component inputs, USB connection, and a RGB compatible SCART input.
Apart from the ZX1, the company has also announced the addition of as many as fourteen new TV’s to the S, V, W and Z series. The new TV’s launched will be priced between the Rs. 16,000 and Rs. 2.99 lakh range and will range from 20″ entertainers to 50″ monsters. The price of the ZX1 is yet to be announced.

Sony has also announced that after its decision to cease the production of CRT’s back in December, it will now completely stop the sale of CRT’s and is awaiting the exhaustion of stocks at its dealers to concentrate on LCD’s and large screen TV’s. The company has also registered a considerable growth in the number of large screen TV sales over the past year.

BANGALORE: Samsung India on Thursday launched a new range of notebook and mini-notebook computers. Company Director (IT Business) Ranjit Singh Yadav said “we expect mini notebooks to form 40 to 45 per cent of our total sales this year.” The R-series of notebooks are priced at Rs. 33,637 and above and the mini-notebooks at Rs. 25,252 to Rs 30,089. — Special Correspondent