EDA News - 2008.05.15 Late Edition
Silicon Integration Initiative to Host Integrated Design Systems Workshop
The Silicon Integration Initiative (Si2) announced they will host the Integrated Design Systems Workshop at the Design Automation Conference (DAC) to be held at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, CA, from June 8-13, 2008. The "4th Integrated Design Systems Workshop - OpenAccess: A Platform for Continuous [...]
EDA News - 2008.05.15
Mentor Graphics Acquires Ponte Solutions Assets
Mentor Graphics Corporation (Nasdaq: MENT) announced it has acquired the assets of Ponte Solutions, Inc., a developer of model-based design for manufacturing (DFM) solutions that analyze, predict, and reduce the impact of process variability during the manufacture and design of semiconductors.
Synopsys Announces 30 New DesignWare System-Level Library Models
Synopsys, Inc. (NASDAQ: [...]
EDA News - 2008.05.14 Late Edition
Liberty Technical Advisory Board to Grow Under IEEE-ISTO
Synopsys, Inc. (NASDAQ: SNPS) announced that the Liberty[TM] Technical Advisory Board (TAB) is expanding under the auspices of the IEEE Industry Standards and Technology Organization (IEEE-ISTO). The move to IEEE-ISTO enables the expansion of Liberty TAB membership to include more participants.
Red Bend Software Becomes Associate Member of LiMo [...]
EDA News - 2008.05.14
Synopsys, TSMC Team on HSPICE Modeling for 40nm Processes
Synopsys, Inc. (NASDAQ: SNPS) announced the release of the TSMC Modeling Interface (TMI) methodology, which has been developed from Synopsys' production-proven protocol for integrating custom device models into HSPICE®, HSIM[tm] and NanoSim® transistor-level circuit simulators.
Jasper Design Automation Debuts JasperGold Verification System, Express v5
Jasper Design Automation announced a [...]
EDA News - 2008.05.13 Late Edition
TI Acquires Commergy Technologies, Power Supply Reference Designs
Texas Instruments (TI) Incorporated (NYSE: TXN) announced that it has acquired Ireland-based Commergy Technologies, Ltd., a power supply reference design provider that specializes in energy efficient and compact architectures.
Bluespec Announces Hands-On Bluespec Tutorial at DAC 2008
Bluespec Inc. will over a full day tutorial entitled: "Hands-on Introduction to BSV [...]
EDA News - 2008.05.13
OCP-IP Publishes Network on Chip Architectures Survey
OCP-IP announced the availability of a white paper discussing a survey of Network-on-chip (NoC) proposals. NoCs replace dedicated, design-specific wires with scalable, general purpose, multi-hop networks. The paper gives an overview of the state-of-the-art regarding network-on-chip proposals.
UMC, Mentor Graphics Team on Analog Mixed-signal, RF Foundry Design Kits
UMC (NYSE: UMC; [...]
EDA News - 2008.05.12 Late Edition
Synopsys Donates VMM Methodology for SystemVerilog to Accellera
Synopsys, Inc. (NASDAQ: SNPS) announced that it is donating its complete implementation of the proven VMM verification methodology for SystemVerilog, including the VMM Standard Library and VMM Applications, to Accellera to enable verification interoperability standardization.
VeriSilicon Joins Power Forward Initiative
VeriSilicon Holdings Co., Ltd. (VeriSilicon) has joined the Power Forward [...]
EDA News - 2008.05.12
Carbon Model Studio Shortens Time to Develop System Models
Carbon Design Systems[tm] released an enhanced version of Carbon Model Studio, the leading solution for the automatic generation, validation and implementation of hardware-accurate software models, to dramatically reduce the time it takes to develop and deploy new system models.
CoWare, Agility to Accelerate Simulation of Complex DSP Algorithms
CoWare, [...]
EDA News - 2008.05.11
ABI Research Publishes Report on GPS Enabled Mobile Devices
In the wake of personal navigation devices' success, cellular carriers have started to offer on-board and off-board navigation solutions, as well as a range of LBS (Location Based Services) such as friend finder and local search on GPS handsets.
eSOL PrUSB/Host Features Isochronous Transfer Mode, Audio Class Driver
eSOL [...]
EDA News - 2008.05.09
SemiSouth to Present Normally-off SiC JFET Paper at IMAPS HiTEC 2008
SemiSouth Laboratories Inc. will discuss the attributes of their Normally-off SiC JFET operating under high temperature conditions. SiC-based semiconductors can operate in hostile environments where their silicon-based counterparts cannot.
Electronics.ca Publishes Printed and Organic Electronics Forecasts
Electronics.ca Publications announces the availability of a report entitled "Printed & [...]
EDA News - 2008.05.08 Late Edition
NEC Electronics Announces High-speed Optocouplers
NEC Electronics has newly introduced the IGBT drive optocoupler PS9301 and the high-speed couplers PS8302, PS9303, PS9313 and PS9317 (Distribution: Gleichmann Electronics) in a 6-pin SDIP (Shrink Dual Inline Package) with pin pitch of 1.27 mm. The 6-pin SDIP occupies about 50% less mounting area on the PCB than a comparable [...]
EDA News - 2008.05.08
AABI Research Publishes Wi-Fi Equipment Market Share Analysis, Forecast
Many common assumptions held about the Wi-Fi industry in 2007 have been exposed as myths, according to a new Wi-Fi equipment market database released by ABI Research.
NextIO Adopts Synopsys VCS Functional Verification, VMM Methodology
Synopsys, Inc. (NASDAQ: SNPS) announced that NextIO has standardized on the VMM methodology, as [...]
EDA News - 2008.05.07 Late Edition
SEMATECH Announces EUV Source and Optical Lithography Workshops
SEMATECH will hold two workshops to guide critical thinking on extending the semiconductor lithography roadmap. The one-day technical workshops, "EUV Source Workshop" and "Approaching the Optical Limit: Workshop on Lithography at 22nm and 16nm," will be held in conjunction with the SEMATECH Litho Forum.
Mobile Linux Conference at LinuxWorld [...]
EDA News - 2008.05.07
Cypress Announces Online Solutions Library for PSoC Designs
Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (NYSE:CY) announced an online solutions library of intellectual property addressing a wide range of applications and functions. The new Cypress Solutions Library website is a free resource of user-generated IP that can be easily replicated.
NemeriX to Moderate Key GPS Panel at IET and GSA Semiconductor [...]
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