| Harman Kardon Wireless Music Browsing Controller Uses Cypress's PRoC LP Programmable Radio-on-a-Chip |
June 5, 2007 -- Cypress Semiconductor Corp. today announced that Harman Kardon has employed Cypress's PRoC LP programmable radio-system-on-a-chip in its ergonomic remote control for the Drive + Play 2 Mobile Media Manager. The PRoC LP int ... read more |
| Ansoft Announces HFSS v11 |
June 5, 2007 -- Ansoft Corp. has released HFSS v11 of its flagship product featuring new technology that delivers even greater accuracy, capacity and performance. HFSS v11 includes new higher-order hierarchical basis functions combined wi ... read more |
| Agilent Technologies Announces EDA Technology Expansion for Microwave/RF Design |
June 5, 2007 -- Agilent Technologies, Inc. has expanded the technologies in its Advanced Design System (ADS) and Genesys design platforms to provide a full spectrum of software tools for microwave and RF designers. The company is increasi ... read more |
| Cadence Speeds RF Printed-Circuit-Board Design Cycle with New Allegro PCB Technology |
June 4, 2007 -- Cadence Design Systems, Inc. has announced the addition of PCB (printed circuit board) RF technology and design methodology to the Cadence Allegro PCB Design XL and GXL offerings. These additional capabilities address the ... read more |
| ARM Unveils Adaptive Verification IP for On-Chip Communication |
June 4, 2007 -- ARM has announced the AMBA Adaptive Verification IP, a technology takes on the increasingly complex challenge of verifying entire on-chip communication systems. Adaptive Verification IP enhances existing SOC verification m ... read more |
| Atmel Introduces AVR32 Application Processor for Linux-based, Cost-constrained Embedded Designs |
June 4, 2007-- Atmel Corp. has announced the AT32AP7001, a member of the AVR32 AP7 family of Application Processors optimized for cost constrained, Linux-based embedded designs. The device is packaged in a 30x30-mm VQFP for easy integrati ... read more |
| Axiom Enhances MPSim Verification Solution to Support Interoperability with Magma's IC Implementation Software Through the UPF |
June 4, 2007 -- Axiom Design Automation has endorsed the Unified Power Format (UPF) for power-aware designs and fully supports it in its MPSim Verification Solution. The MPSim solution provides full support of the UPF format including pow ... read more |
| TSMC Announces Active Accuracy Assurance Initiative |
June 4, 2007 -- (TSMC) Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company has announced its Active Accuracy Assurance initiative, a comprehensive design-based program that will achieve new levels of accuracy for TSMC's advanced process technologi ... read more |
| PMC-Sierra Introduces Gigabit Fiber Access Gateway Solutions |
June 4, 2007 -- PMC-Sierra, Inc. has announced the availability of two fiber access gateway solutions, the MSP7150 EPON/GPON gateway SOC for Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) and the MSP7140 VDSL2 gateway SoC for Fiber-to-the-Node (FTTN). These SO ... read more |
| videantis and ProDesign Realize Real-time H.264/AVC Encoding on CHIPit Platinum System |
June 4, 2007 -- videantis GmbH and ProDesign GmbH have announced the integration of a real-time H.264/AVC baseline profile encoder on a CHIPit Platinum prototyping system. The H.264/AVC video encoder has successfully been realized ... read more |
| TSMC Unveils Reference Flow 8.0 to Address 45-nm Design Challenges |
June 4, 2007 -- TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company) has unveiled Reference Flow 8.0, the latest generation of the foundry's design methodology that increases yields, lowers risks and improves design margins. Reference Flow 8 ... read more |
| Synopsys Supports TSMC Reference Flow 8.0 to Address 45-nm Design Challenges |
June 4, 2007-- Synopsys, Inc. and TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company) today announced Synopsys support for TSMC's Reference Flow 8.0 and 45-nm process technologies. Synopsys is supporting Reference Flow 8.0 in its Gal ... read more |
| IBM, Chartered and Samsung Extend Integrated DFM Support for Common Platform Technology to 45nm |
June 4, 2007 -- IBM, Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing and Samsung Electronics, Co., Ltd. today announced the availability of design-for-manufacturing (DFM) technology models, data files and design kits from leading EDA and DFM companies, su ... read more |
| ClariPhy Leverages Helic's VeloceRF EDA Tool for First-Pass Success of CMOS 10G Mixed-Signal IC |
June 4, 2007 -- ClariPhy Communications, Inc. and Helic SA have announced details of their joint engineering collaboration over the past 12 months, which has been instrumental in the first-pass success of ClariPhy's single-chip, 10 ... read more |
| Sunplus Selects SonicsLX for Portable Media Player SOC |
June 4, 2007 -- Sonics, Inc. today announced that Sunplus Technology Co., Ltd. has selected the SonicsLX SMART Interconnect solution to develop its new portable media player SOC. SonicsLX contains a full set of data flow services t ... read more |
| UMC and ARM Partner to Deliver Comprehensive SOI Solutions for 65-nm Technology |
June 4, 2007 -- UMC (United Microelectronics Corp.) and ARM have announced that a test chip built with ARM SOI (silicon on insulator) libraries was taped-out successfully on UMC's 65-nm SOI process. The test chip consists of a set ... read more |
| CAST JPEG 2000 Encoder Core now Faster and More Capable |
June 4, 2007 -- CAST, Inc. has announced a new version of its JPEG 2000 Encoder Core. The new version is faster, requires no external processing, adds significant features, and is customizable and highly scalable.
First introduced i ... read more |
| Sagantec Announces a New DFM Solution Integrated with Mentor Graphics' Calibre LFD |
June 4, 2007 -- Sagantec, Inc. has developed a DFM solution for correcting lithography hot spots found in physical IC designs in collaboration with Mentor Graphics. The new DFM flow uses Mentor Graphics' Calibre LFD (litho friendly design ... read more |
| ProDesign Introduces the CHIPit Platinum V5 |
June 4, 2007 -- ProDesign GmbH has launched of CHIPit Platinum V5 featuring an enhanced system architecture based on the largest Xilinx Virtex-5 LX330 FPGAs, further enhanced debugging features and completely new software for an easier de ... read more |
| Open Modeling Coalition Advances Statistical Library Extensions in Si2's ECSM Standard Featured |
June 4, 2007 --The Silicon Integration Initiative, Inc.'s Open Modeling Coalition has finalized the Si2 Effective Current Source Modeling (ECSM) Statistical Extensions specification draft. The new specification will be released, after app ... read more |
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