| NEC Electronics Introduces 55-nanometer Cell-Based IC |
January 18, 2007 -- NEC Electronics has introduced CB-55L, a cell-based integrated circuit (CBIC) that utilizes the company's 55-nm UX7LS process technology. The latest addition to NEC Electronics' ASIC lineup has superior power consumpti ... read more |
| Mindspeed Achieves More than 20% Power Savings with Golden Gate's PowerGold |
January 18, 2007 -- Golden Gate Technology, Inc. today announced that Mindspeed Technologies, Inc. has adopted Golden Gate's PowerGold to reduce power consumption in Mindspeed's design flow. Using PowerGold, Mindspeed achieved more than 2 ... read more |
| Brion, TOOL Unveil Integrated IC Design Environment |
January 18, 2007 -- TOOL Corp. and Brion Technologies Inc. today announced the development of an integrated IC design environment that incorporates both TOOL's layout visualization platform, LAVIS, and Brion's OPC and RET/OPC verif ... read more |
| Scientists Build Inexpensive Super Computer Based On PLDApplications' Solution |
January 18, 2007 -- PLDApplications (PLDA) today announced that Atsushi Kawai, a professor with the Saitama Institute of Technology, and Toshiyuki Fukushige, a scientist with the K&F Computing Research Co., are finalists for the Gordon Be ... read more |
| Mentor Graphics Nucleus I2C Software Helps Integrate On-Board Devices |
January 18, 2007 -- Mentor Graphics Corp.'s Nucleus I2C software is now available for developing applications needing access to on-board peripherals connected via the I2C bus. Demand is increasing, particularly in convergent consumer ele ... read more |
| J-BERT Options Enable Fast and Accurate Characterization of High-Speed Computer Interfaces |
January 18, 2007 -- Agilent Technologies, Inc. has introduced the J-BERT N4903A 7 Gbps and 12.5 Gbps pattern generators with complete jitter injection capabilities. Design and test engineers can now quickly and accurately stimulate serial ... read more |
| Cswitch Partners with SoftJin to Establish Off-Shore Development Center in India |
January 18, 2007 -- SoftJin Technologies Pvt., Ltd. and Cswitch Corp. are setting up of an off-shore development center (ODC) in India to focus on developing customized EDA tools for customers and for in-house use of Cswitch. Under ... read more |
| Si2's Low Power Coalition Receives Common Power Format Parser Source Code |
January 17, 2007 -- In response to a Request for Technology issued last week, the Low Power Coalition (LPC) of the Silicon Integration Initiative (Si2) today announced that Cadence Design Systems has provided full source code for a Common ... read more |
| Clear Shape Partners with STARC to Develop Comprehensive DFM Flow |
January 17, 2007 -- Clear Shape Technologies, Inc. is partnering with the Semiconductor Technology Academic Research Center (STARC), Japan's leading semiconductor technology research organization, to jointly develop, validate and d ... read more |
| Newport Media Selects Arasan USB and SDIO IP |
January 17, 2007 -- Arasan Chip Systems, Inc. today announced that Newport Media, Inc. has licensed Arasan's IP, including USB and SDIO. Newport Media is a fabless semiconductor company that develops and sells highly integrated solutions ... read more |
| EDA Consortium Reports Continued Growth in Third Quarter 2006 Featured |
January 17, 2007 -- The EDA Consortium (EDAC)'s Market Statistics Service (MSS) reported today that the EDA industry revenue for Q3 of 2006 grew to $1,309 million compared to $1,122 million in Q3 2005. This increase reflects both the cont ... read more |
| QuickLogic Introduces Small Form Factor Packaging for Space Constrained Handheld Electronics |
January 17, 2007 -- QuickLogic Corp. today announced that devices in the PolarPro and Eclipse II FPGA families are now available in 6x6-mm and 8x8-mm small form factor packages. The advanced packaging meets the aggressive requirements of ... read more |
| Novatek Uses Synopsys NanoSim Simulator with HVMOS to Improve Design Yield |
January 16, 2007-- Synopsys, Inc. today announced that Novatek, a provider of flat panel thin-film transistor (TFT) liquid crystal display (LCD) driver ICs, successfully verified several designs using the Synopsys NanoSim FastSpice simula ... read more |
| CebaTech Joins HyperTransport Technology Consortium |
January 16, 2007 -- CebaTech, Inc. today announced that it has joined the HyperTransport Technology Consortium, a non-profit organization dedicated to developing, promoting and licensing the industry's lowest latency, highest bandwidth an ... read more |
| Altos Design Automation Releases Variety, a High Speed, Statistical Cell Library Characterizer |
January 16, 2007 -- Altos Design Automation, Inc. today announced Variety, an ultra-fast, general purpose statistical library characterizer for standard cells. The new tool generates variation-aware timing models for use with commercial s ... read more |
| Major Release of Xilinx ISE Software Reduces FPGA Design Cycle Featured |
January 16, 2007 -- Xilinx, Inc. has introduced version 9.1i of its Integrated Software Environment (ISE) design suite optimized to address today's timing closure, productivity and power challenges. In addition to 2.5X faster runtimes, IS ... read more |
| Faraday Launches Process-Customized IP Business for Foundry-Related IP |
January 16, 2007 -- Faraday Technology Corp. has formally launched its process-customized IP business for foundry related IPs. The customization services include special cell library design, special I/O design, special memory design, and ... read more |
| Silistix Raises Additional $6M in a Final Series A Closing |
January 16, 2007 -- Silistix, Ltd.,has raised approximately $6 million in a final closing of its Series A financing round. The Series A round was oversubscribed, validating the investment community's belief in the importance of Silistix s ... read more |
| Frontier Silicon Secures GBP 16 Million Funding Led by New Investor Mitsui Private Equity |
January 16, 2007 -- Frontier Silicon, Ltd. announced that it has secured a GBP 16million financing round led by new investor Mitsui Private Equity. Alongside additional new investors Cheyne Capital Management and Plutus Capital Management ... read more |
| Mitrion FPGA Supercomputing Platform Now Available with Xilinx Synthesis and Place-and-Route Software |
January 16, 2007 -- Mitrionics, Inc., developer of the Mitrion Virtual Processor and software-centric Mitrion-C programming language for FPGA supercomputing acceleration, today announced its new Mitrion SDK (software developer's kit) XL t ... read more |
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