| Procket Networks Standardizes on Cadence Encounter RTL Compiler for Its Synthesis Tool of Choice |
March 9, 2004 -- Procket Networks, a provider of high performance Internet Protocol (IP) routers, has successfully used the Cadence Encounter RTL Compiler synthesis tool to tape out six high-end networking chips. The networking processors contai ... read more |
| Xilinx Releases Free ISE WebPACK 6.2i |
March 9, 2004 -- Xilinx, Inc. has announced ISE WebPACK 6.2i -- the company's latest version of its free, web-downloadable development system. The new version of ISE WebPACK 6.2i boosts performance of Xilinx' ... read more |
| Agere Systems Uses Cadence Encounter RTL Compiler Synthesis for ASIC Customers |
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March 9, 2004 -- Cadence Design Systems, Inc. today announced that Agere Systems, Inc. now accepts netlists produced by Cadence Encounter RTL Compiler synthesis for implementation in its application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) design ... read more |
| Motorola Implements 90nm Wireless Signal Processor Using Cadence Encounter Digital IC Design Platform |
March 9, 2004 -- Cadence Design Systems, Inc. today announced that Motorola, Inc. has successfully completed a wireless baseband chip implemented in 90-nm silicon technology, using the Cadence Encounter digital IC design platform. Motorola used ... read more |
| Celoxica Introduces High-Performance Evaluation Boards |
March 9, 2004 -- Celoxica, Ltd. has announced the availability of two new FPGA-based evaluation and prototyping boards -- the RC300 and RC2000Pro. Both of these boards provide high performance FPGAs coupled with a wide range of features and op ... read more |
| Mentor Graphics Expands Higher Education Program in China to Help Cultivate IC Design Growth |
March 9, 2004 -- Mentor Graphics Corp. has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Ministry of Education (MOE) of the People's Republic of China to help the country boost its IC design engineering talent pool and overall industry gr ... read more |
| Tower Semiconductor's Authorized Design Center Program Achieves a New Silicon Migration Success |
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March 9, 2004 -- Tower Semiconductor, Ltd. has announced the new migration of a complex high-performance, custom integrated circuit device. The device was designed by Sycon Design Inc., a member of Tower Authorized Design Center program, fo ... read more |
| Xilinx Simplifies High-Speed DDR-I Memory Interfacing with New Turn-Key Design Kit |
March 9, 2004 -- Xilinx Inc. has announced the immediate availability of a programmable turn-key DDR400/PC3200 memory solution, a comprehensive, fully hardware characterized resource for system designers interfacing to 200MHz DDR-I SDRAM memory ... read more |
| Xilinx Expands Distribution Channel to India Through Nu Horizons Electronics |
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March 9, 2004 -- Xilinx, Inc. and Nu Horizons Electronics Corp., a distributor of high technology active components, have announced the expansion of their long-standing product service and market distribution agreement to extend beyond the A ... read more |
| AIL, Ltd. Adopts Magma's SiliconSmart CR for Characterization of Its Low-Power Data Path Libraries
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March 9, 2004 -- Magma Design Automation's Silicon Correlation Division today announced that AIL Co., Ltd. of Japan has adopted SiliconSmart CR for characterization and modeling of nanometer data path libraries. The implementation of SiliconS ... read more |
| Barco Taps Xilinx Virtex II-Pro for Air Traffic Control Component |
March 8, 2004 -- Xilinx Virtex-II Pro Platform FPGAs have been selected by Barco, a leader in imaging technology based in Belgium, for use in its Isona Display Station. The Barco Isona combines a high-resolution 2048 x 2048 LCD display with a h ... read more |
| New Cadence Allegro Platform Tackles High-Speed System Interconnect Design Featured |
March 8, 2004 -- Cadence Design Systems, Inc. has announced its new Allegro system interconnect design platform, bringing together all of the existing Cadence technologies for IC package and PCB design, including the Allegro PCB SI, an integrat ... read more |
| Altera's New MAX II CPLD Family Slashes Cost and Power Consumption Featured |
March 8, 2004 -- Altera Corp. today launched the new MAX II device family, which the company claims is the industry's lowest-cost CPLDs -- at half the cost and consuming only one-tenth the power of previous MAX generations. In addition, the new ... read more |
| Transmeta Captures TECO Design Win |
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March 8, 2004 -- Transmeta Corp. has announced that the company's Crusoe microprocessor has been selected by TECO Electric and Machinery Co., Ltd.* for the TECO Thin Client TR5670-XPe. The design win reinforces Transmeta's growth strategy in ... read more |
| Bitboys, Developer of Mobile Graphics Processors, Joins OCP-IP |
March 8, 2004 -- Open Core Protocol International Partnership (OCP-IP) ahas announced that Bitboys, a provider of mobile graphic solutions, has become the latest member of the organization. Joining OCP-IP allows Bitboys to enhance IP core reusa ... read more |
| Agere Systems and Ubicom Collaborate on Multimode Wi-FI Reference Designs |
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March 8, 2004 -- Agere Systems and Ubicom, Inc., a supplier of wireless network processor and software platforms, have announced a collaboration to develop high-performance access points, routers and network peripherals for 802.11a/b/g networ ... read more |
| Xilinx Acquires Triscend |
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March 8, 2004 -- Xilinx, Inc. has signed an agreement to acquire Triscend Corp., a pioneer of configurable embedded microcontroller technology, bolstering Xilinx's presence in the embedded market, bringing R&D talent and complementary techno ... read more |
| Project to Push Europe to Limits of CMOS Technology |
March 8, 2004 -- In a move to keep Europe at the forefront of semiconductor technology, the European Commission will seed-fund an Integrated Project called NANOCMOS. The project aims to pioneer the necessary changes in materials, processes, devi ... read more |
| eSilicon Joins TSMC Design Center Alliance |
March 8, 2004 -- eSilicon Corp. and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) today announced that eSilicon has joined TSMC's Design Center Alliance Program. eSilicon and TSMC have a relationship that has been in place since eSilicon wa ... read more |
| NetChip Technology, PLX Technology Sign Merger Agreement |
March 8, 2004 -- NetChip Technology, Inc. today announced a definitive agreement to be acquired by PLX Technology, Inc., a fabless semiconductor supplier of chips based on the Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) standard.
Under the te ... read more |
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