Apple today re-released its Texas Hold'em mini game to provide compatibility with the company's new third-generation iPod nano and revised iPod classic portable players. The game, which features seven tournaments starting from a modest $1,000 pot spanning through $2 million in potential winnings, features progressively difficult computer-controlled opponents who may or may not telegraph information about their hands. Players must learn to read each opponent's body language for signs of bluffing, and the game tracks a variety of statistics like the largest pots won and lost as well as the longest winning and losing streaks. The $5 title includes an in-depth tutorial that explains the Texas Hold'em poker variant for players who don't know the rules, and allows users to pause the game at any time or display all of the possible hands in poker in descending order. Apple is offering Texas Hold'em via its iTunes Store, requiring Mac OS X 10.3.9 or Microsoft Windows 2000 or later to play.
Tuesday October 9, 8:00 am ET
Solution Enables High Quality Production Test and System-Level Diagnostics
"We carefully looked at available solutions in the market place and chose LogicVision's ETSerdes because it provides a purely digital, scaleable, RTL- based solution with sub-picosecond accuracy for testing our high speed I/Os with lane counts of up to 48," said George Apostol, Vice President of Engineering at PLX. "ETSerdes allows us to run a comprehensive suite of tests and characterizations on existing automatic test equipment. Additionally, having the test functionality embedded in our devices allows us, and our end customers, to run tests and error injection in the host system environment for field-level debug and diagnostics."
High-speed data serialization/de-serialization I/O technologies, typically known as SerDes, are being rapidly adopted in data storage, telecommunications, and personal computer applications. Significant test challenges have emerged as multiple SerDes transceivers, with data rates of up to 10 gigabits per second (Gb/s), are being integrated into SoCs. As a result, IC manufacturers are finding it increasingly expensive and time-consuming to guarantee the critical signal-integrity parameters of these high-speed I/Os, especially while ramping-up yield.
LogicVision's ETSerdes, is the industry's only vendor-independent, RTL- synthesizable, parametric built-in self-test (BIST) for multi-gigahertz SerDes I/Os. It provides unique capabilities for testing ICs with any number of high- speed serial data channels operating at any frequency, from less than 1 Gbps to more than 10 Gbps. ETSerdes provides test accuracy comparable to that of the highest performance external equipment at a fraction of the cost and is compatible with any ATE platform. The ability of ETSerdes to diagnostically measure wave shape, jitter, and jitter tolerance parameters, each in millisecond test times, can drastically reduce test costs and improve quality.
ETSerdes includes an industry-standard Bit Error Rate Test (BERT) that can be controlled and monitored via a JTAG port or on-chip system signals. This embedded capability provides a typically mandatory, system-level function with system and test bus access, and includes automated test generation for quantifying signal path bit error rate (BER). All ETSerdes capabilities can be re-applied at system-level to quickly characterize entire signal paths.
"PLX Technology's selection of ETSerdes over bundled-in solutions is evidence of the unique value of our technology," said Farhad Hayat, VP of Marketing at LogicVision. "As high speed I/O speeds increase to 5 Gb/s and beyond, leading device manufacturers require cost-effective test solutions that scale with I/O performance and complexities. With ETSerdes our customers get access to a comprehensive test solution that provides highly accurate and fast manufacturing test that can be reused in the end-application."
About PLX
PLX Technology, Inc. (www.plxtech.com), based in Sunnyvale, Calif., USA, is the world's leading supplier of PCI Express and other standard I/O interconnect semiconductors to the communications, server, storage, embedded- control, and consumer markets. The company provides a competitive advantage through an integrated combination of experience, high-performance silicon, hardware and software design tools, and global partnerships. These innovative solutions enable our customers to develop equipment with industry-leading performance, scalability and reliability that allows them to bring designs to market faster.
About LogicVision Inc.
LogicVision (Nasdaq: LGVN - News) provides proprietary technologies for embedded test and yield learning that enable more efficient manufacturing test of complex semiconductors. LogicVision's embedded test solutions allow integrated circuit designers to embed test functionality into a semiconductor design that is used during semiconductor production test and throughout the useful life of the chip. The company's advanced Design for Test (DFT) product line, ETCreate(TM), works together with Silicon Insight(TM) and Yield Insight(TM) applications to improve profit margins by reducing device field returns and test costs, accelerating silicon bring-up times and shortening both time to market and time to yield. For more information on the company and its products, please visit the LogicVision website at www.logicvision.com
FORWARD LOOKING STATEMENTS:
Except for the historical information contained herein, the matters set forth in this press release, including statements as to the expected benefits of the combination of the Prover eCheck, and LogicVision's scalable hierarchical test technology and other expected benefits to mutual customers of the companies, are forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements are subject to risk and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially, including, but not limited to, the impact of competitive products and technological advances, and other risks detailed in LogicVision's Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2002, and from time to time in LogicVision's SEC reports. These forward-looking statements speak only as of the date hereof. LogicVision disclaims any obligation to update these forward-looking statements.
LogicVision, ETCreate, ScanBurst, ETMemory, ETSerdes, Silicon Insight, LVReady and LogicVision logos are trademarks or registered trademarks of LogicVision Inc. in the United States and other countries. All other company or product names are the registered trademarks or trademarks of their respective owners.
Source: LogicVision, Inc.
Monday October 8, 8:00 am ET
WHO: Solid Information Technology, the leading provider of fast,
always-on and affordable database solutions.
WHAT: Solid will attend and demonstrate at IBM Information on
Demand 2007. This premier information management event for
business and IT professionals will be held in Las Vegas,
October 14-19. Solid will exhibit the in-memory database
capabilities of solidDB 6, the company's next generation
database that breaks industry records for performance and
reliability.
Solid, an IBM Business Partner, together with IBM, recently
conducted a joint proof-of-concept (PoC) to show that the
in-memory database of solidDB 6 can be used together with
IBM DB2 to greatly accelerate access to data stored in DB2.
The PoC confirmed that IBM DB2 customers can improve
transaction rates by a factor of 40 when using solidDB 6,
over a configuration without solidDB 6. Stop by Solid's
booth # 204 to learn more about the PoC, or click here:
www.solidDB.com/IBMDB2.
WHERE: IBM Information on Demand 2007
Mandalay Bay Hotel & Resort
3950 Las Vegas Blvd. South
Las Vegas, NV 89119
Booth #204
WHEN: Sunday, October 14 - Friday, October 19, 2007
HOW: To make an appointment with a Solid representative, please
contact Michelle Gray at 415-512-0770 or
solidtech@schwartz-pr.com. For more information on Solid,
please visit http://www.solidDB.com.
About solidDB 6
solidDB 6 is a relational database designed for fast, always-on access to data under high throughput conditions, to satisfy the real-time demands of communications platforms and applications. It includes both in-memory and on-disk engines, accessed by a single SQL interface. solidDB 6 can be configured using a hot-standby architecture to achieve six 9's data availability (99.9999%) with no single point of failure. This two-node architecture can also be used for load-balancing, increasing throughput by up to 100 percent. solidDB 6 offers significantly lower license fees and total cost of ownership than other leading databases, as well as a "zero admin" capability. solidDB 6 deploys as a compact 3MB executable while delivering complete functionality that is very fast, always-on and affordable.
About Solid Information Technology
Solid Information Technology is the leading provider of fast, always-on and affordable database solutions. Solid serves both enterprise and embedded customers with a combination of open source and proprietary database products.
There are more than 3,000,000 deployments of Solid's database technology worldwide in telecommunications networks, enterprise applications, and embedded software and systems. Market leaders such as Alcatel, Avaya, Cisco, EMC2, Nokia and Siemens rely on Solid for their mission-critical applications.
Founded in 1992, Solid has worldwide headquarters in Cupertino, California, and regional offices in North America, Europe and Asia.
Contact:
Solid Information Technology
Michelle Gray, 415-512-0770
solidtech@schwartz-pr.comSource: Solid Information Technology
