| Spreadtrum Communications Launches 3G Standard Chipset Using JEDA Technologies Verification Tool Set |
December 8, 2004 -- JEDA Technologies has announced the successful launch of Spreadtrum Communications' multi-mode TD-CDMA/GSM/GPRS chipset solution SC8800 for mobile terminal markets. Spreadtrum SC8800 is the world's first single baseband solu ... read more |
| eASIC Wins a Place in "Top 100 Most Innovative Companies" by Red Herring |
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December 7, 2004 – eASIC Corp. has been awarded "Top 100 Most Innovative Companies" by Red Herring, Inc. The top 100 innovators were selected after a long and rigorous process of evaluating more than 1,200 entries. The Red Herring editorial ... read more |
| QualCore Logic Adds Serial ATA, SerDes Cores to Product Portfolio |
December 7, 2004 --QualCore Logic has added two new intellectual property (IP) cores to its product portfolio. The first is a digital Serial ATA Host Controller with OCP Interface. The second is high-speed analog dual serializer/deserializer (S ... read more |
| Altera and Leading Power Management Vendors Provide Complete Power Solutions for Stratix II FPGAs |
December 7, 2004 -- Altera Corp., in conjunction with Bellnix, Linear Technology, National Semiconductor, Texas Instruments, and Volterra Semiconductor announced today the availability of a complete power management solution for customers using ... read more |
| CEVA and SRS Labs Sign Collaborating to Enable SRS Technologies for Wireless and Multimedia Markets |
December 7, 2004 -- SRS Labs, Inc. today announced that CEVA has signed a new strategic collaboration agreement with SRS Labs to market and deliver key SRS audio and voice technologies to CEVA's DSP licensees. The companies have just released SR ... read more |
| National Semiconductor Provides Optimized Power Management Solutions for Altera's FPGAs and CPLDs |
December 7, 2004 -- National Semiconductor Corp. has announced a set of comprehensive design tools that pairs National's high-performance power management solutions with FPGAs and CPLDs from Altera Corp.
A software tool, design guide and ... read more |
| Chartered Strengthens 0.13-Micron and 0.18-Micron Solutions with Enhanced Design Services Alliance Program |
December 6, 2004 -- Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing has added three new members to its Design Service Alliances Program: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd. (DNP) as a turnkey solutions provider from design to tested packaged chips; IBM Enginee ... read more |
| MIPS Technologies Licenses High-Performance MIPS32 24K Core Family to Micronas |
December 6, 2004 -- MIPS Technologies, Inc. today announced that Micronas, a leading supplier of semiconductors to the consumer electronics market, has licensed the MIPS32 24K family of processor cores.
Micronas has been a MIPS Technologi ... read more |
| Synopsys Announces First Fully Released Verification IP for the AMBA 3 AXI Standard Featured |
December 6, 2004 -- Synopsys, Inc. has announced the general availability of the industry's first verification intellectual property (VIP) suite for the AMBA 3 AXI protocol. The DesignWare VIP for the AMBA 3 AXI protocol, created thro ... read more |
| Altera's Quartus II Version 4.2 Delivers Increased FPGA and CPLD Performance |
December 6, 2004 -- Altera Corp. is shipping version 4.2 of its Quartus II design software. Quartus II software version 4.2 delivers an average of 39 percent higher performance on 90-nm Stratix II FPGAs when compared to Virtex-4, 60 percent on 9 ... read more |
| Actel Introduces Enhanced Low-Cost Starter Kit for Flash-Based FPGAs |
December 6, 2004 -- Actel Corp. has announced the availability of an enhanced low-cost starter kit for its family of flash-based, reprogrammable ProASIC Plus FPGAs. Without raising the cost of the starter kit, Actel now offers designers an evalu ... read more |
| DATE Receives Record Number of Submissions |
December 6, 2004 -- DATE, Europe's premier conference and exhibition for Electronic Design, Automation and Test, has received all-time record submissions to the conference program. For the 2005 event, which takes place in Munich at ICM, from Mar ... read more |
| Azul Implements High-Speed Chip with Cadence Encounter |
December 1, 2004 -- Cadence Design Systems, Inc. today announced that fabless design house Azul Systems has successfully implemented a high-density, high-speed design using the Cadence Encounter digital IC platform and RTL Compiler. With the Enc ... read more |
| Synopsys to Acquire Nassda Featured |
December 1, 2004 -- Synopsys, Inc. has signed agreements to acquire Nassda Corp. in an all-cash transaction and, subject to the closing of the acquisition, to settle all outstanding litigation by Synopsys against Nassda and certain Nassda office ... read more |
| Electronics Workbench Launches Multisim 8 Circuit Design and Simulation System |
December 1, 2004 -- The new, cost-effective and easy-to-use Multisim 8 takes advantage of today’s higher performing computers and modern software architecture. In Electronics Workbench’s benchmark studies, Multisim 8 provides an almost 50% times ... read more |
| 3Plus1 Technology, AccelChip Inc., Hantro Products, and Synfora Join Open Core Protocol International Partnership |
December 1, 2004 -- Open Core Protocol International Partnership (OCP-IP) today announced that four new members are joining the organization, including: 3Plus1 Technology, a fabless semiconductor company based in Saratoga, CA; AccelChip Inc., a ... read more |
| Cadence Joins with IBM to Launch Power.org |
December 1, 2004 -- Cadence Design Systems, Inc. is collaborating with IBM to launch Power.org, an open standards community that will help IC designers develop system-on-chips (SoCs) using the IBM PowerPC architecture. Power.org is de ... read more |
| Magma Delivers Third-Generation Routing Technology for Nanometer Designs |
November 30, 2004 -- Magma Design Automation, Inc. today announced that NEC Electronics America, Inc. has successfully verified a multimillion-instance nanometer design using Version 4.2 of the Blast Fusion physical design system that incorporat ... read more |
| Zuken Upgrades VISULA Enterprise PCB Design Suite |
November 30, 2004 -- Zuken has announced a major productivity upgrade to its VISULA enterprise-wide printed circuit board (PCB) design suite. In addition to ease-of-use enhancements, the updated tool suite, VISULA 7.0, now features an embedded P ... read more |
| Sasken Develops Reference Flow Based on Synopsys' Galaxy Design Platform |
November 30, 2004 -- Synopsys, Inc. today announced that Sasken* has used Synopsys' Galaxy Design Platform to develop a reference flow to enhance the implementation and signoff process for its complex designs.
"With Synopsys' Galaxy Desig ... read more |
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