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Magma SystemNav Tool Supports Signal Trace between ICs, Stacked Dies, PCBs, MCMs

Posted by Ken Cheung in EDA Tools on Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Magma Design Automation introduced their SystemNav tool. SystemNav extends CAD navigation and circuit debug from integrated circuits (ICs) to stacked die, printed circuit boards (PCBs) and multichip modules (MCMs). The next-generation tool offers comprehensive capabilities, including localizing and tracing faults to, from and through commonly used stacked dies. SystemNav reduces the time required for fault [...]

Avnet – Texas Instruments Data Converter SpeedWay Design Workshop

Posted by Ken Cheung in EDA Tools on Monday, November 14, 2011

Avnet Electronics Marketing Americas is offering a series of data converters seminars. The Data Converter SpeedWay Design Workshop will provide engineers with a methodology to navigate the entire data converter ecosystem and realize their full performance. Special attention is paid to understanding the factors needed to consider when selecting an appropriate converter for an application. [...]

TI Code Composer Studio Integrated Development Environment v5

Posted by Ken Cheung in EDA Tools on Wednesday, November 9, 2011

Texas Instruments launched version five of their Code Composer Studio integrated development environment. The Eclipse-based CCStudio IDE v5 features user interface improvements, 5x smaller installation package, faster setup, and support for Windows and Linux operating systems. Developers may purchase a Code Composer Studio IDE v5 license now for $79 when purchased with an XDS100 JTAG [...]

Sigrity High-Speed Seminars on High-Speed Electronic Design Challenges and Solutions

Posted by Ken Cheung in EDA Tools on Friday, November 4, 2011

Sigrity announce a series of seminars. The free multi-city seminars will discuss high-speed design challenges associated with power integrity, signal integrity, and EMI issues. The seminar series will address issues associated with simultaneous switching output (SSO) and assessing end-to-end high-speed serial links. The Sigrity seminars will take place in Boston, Austin, Dallas and Dana Point [...]

Texas Instruments StarterWare for TI Embedded Processors

Posted by Ken Cheung in EDA Tools on Thursday, October 27, 2011

Texas Instruments introduced their StarterWare software packages. The free StarterWare is a user-friendly, production-ready software for Sitara 32-bit ARM microprocessor (MPU), C6000 digital signal processor (DSP) and DSP + ARM developers. StarterWare for Texas Instruments AM18x ARM9 MPUs, OMAP-L138 DSP + ARM9 processor and TMS320C6748 DSP is available now. Packages for additional devices will be [...]

EnSilica eSi-RISC Development Suite, Version 2.5

Posted by Ken Cheung in EDA Tools on Tuesday, October 25, 2011

EnSilica rolled out version 2.5 of their eSi-RISC Development Suite. The eSi-RISC Development Suite v2.5 includes a host of new features and capabilities to enable their eSi-RISC processor family to be easily evaluated and quickly deployed. eSi-RISC Development Suite v2.5 features new capabilities for multicore support, improved compiler performance and ultra low-power applications support.

Veloce Emulation Solutions for Multi-Gigabit Ethernet SoC Verification

Posted by Ken Cheung in EDA Tools on Monday, October 24, 2011

Mentor Graphics and MoreThanIP teamed together on emulation solutions for the verification of Multi-Gigabit Ethernet Systems-on-Chips (SoCs). Their solution combines Mentor Veloce hardware emulation technology and the iSolve application solutions with MoreThanIP’s Ethernet 40G/100G MAC/PCS IP Cores. Mentor Graphics is a leader in advanced system verification solutions. MoreThanIP is a leader in delivery of IP [...]

Mentor Graphics Valor MSS Business Intelligence for PCB Production Lines

Posted by Ken Cheung in EDA Tools on Thursday, October 20, 2011

Mentor Graphics introduced their Valor MSS Business Intelligence (BI) PCB design-through-manufacturing product suite. The Mentor Valor MSS BI features reports and analysis of the quality, asset utilization and materials management of their production execution. The Business Intelligence tool helps engineer managers to make intelligence-based decisions, improve production line execution, and reduce excess inventories. The Valor [...]

SpringSoft Verdi Automated Debug System Integrates with Vennsa OnPoint Root Cause Analysis

Posted by Ken Cheung in EDA Tools on Wednesday, October 19, 2011

SpringSoft and Vennsa Technologies teamed together to integrate the SpringSoft Verdi Automated Debug System and Vennsa OnPoint Root Cause Analysis. The seamless interoperability between the two tools enables engineers to increase verification productivity and decrease the chip debug burden. The integrated Verdi and OnPoint platform is available now.

Cadence Library Characterizer Reference Kit for TSMC Cell Libraries

Posted by Ken Cheung in EDA Tools,Foundry on Monday, October 17, 2011

Cadence Design Systems and TSMC teamed together on a library characterization reference kit. The Cadence Library Characterizer (Altos Liberate) reference kit for TSMC’s standard cell libraries is now available to TSMC customers for download on TSMC-Online. As a result, TSMC customers can now leverage the same technology used in-house at TSMC with the same setup [...]

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