| STARC to Deploy Synopsys IC Compiler's Zroute and Clock Mesh Technologies in STARCAD-CEL |
December 9, 2008 -- Synopsys, Inc. today announced that the Semiconductor Technology and Academic Research Center (STARC) successfully evaluated Zroute and Clock Mesh, two new technologies found in the latest release of IC Compiler, Synop ... read more |
| Altium Introduces Live Links to Supplier Databases |
December 9, 2008 -- Altium, Ltd. is introducing new live links from Altium Designer to the databases of component suppliers. The first live link will be to worldwide components supplier Digi-Key. Having these live links will let designers ... read more |
| Virage Logic Expands Global Sales Channel |
December 5, 2008 -- Virage Logic Corp. has announced the expansion of its global sales channel with the addition of five new representative firms to meet growing global customer demand for the company’s broadening product portfolio. The f ... read more |
| Altium Delivers New Release of Altium Designer |
December 5, 2008 -- Altium, Ltd. has launched the winter 09 release of its next-generation electronics design solution Altium Designer. Altium's real-time 3D PCB features have been extended with faster real-time 3D design performance. New ... read more |
| TI Introduces Widest Common Mode, 70V, Fault-Protected RS-485 Transceiver Family |
December 5, 2008 -- Texas Instruments, Inc. (TI) has introduced a family of ±70-V, fault-protected RS-485 transceivers that achieve overvoltage protection with no external termination needed. These low-power devices serve as drop-in upgr ... read more |
| Cadence Introduces Family of MIPI Standard-Compliant OVM Multi-Language Verification IP |
December 5, 2008 -- Cadence Design Systems, Inc. has introduced six additional verification IP (VIP) to its Incisive VIP portfolio, each designed to speed verification of designs based on the emerging Mobile Industry Processor Interface ( ... read more |
| Cadence Provides Open Source OVM Adoption Solution for VMM Users in Response to Industry Demand |
December 5, 2008 -- Cadence Design Systems, Inc. has announced the release of an open-source SystemVerilog solution to help users include Synopsys' Verification Methodology Manual verification IP (VMM VIP) as they adopt the advanced envir ... read more |
| Sibridge Technologies Becomes Tensilica Authorized Design Center |
December 5, 2008 -- Tensilica, Inc. announced that Sibridge Technologies has become an authorized Tensilica design center, supporting customers of both the Xtensa configurable processors and the Diamond Standard processor cores. Sibridge ... read more |
| TI's VLIB Software Library of More Than 40 Royalty-Free Kernels Accelerates Video Analytics Development and Increases Performance |
December 5, 2008 -- Developers of video or vision systems can accelerate their product development with Texas Instruments, Inc.'s (TI) new VLIB software library. VLIB is an extensible library of more than 40 software kernels that are ava ... read more |
| Mentor Delivers Solution for SystemVerilog Base Class Library Interoperability to Enable Reuse of Legacy VMM Code in an OVM Environment |
December 5, 2008 -- Mentor Graphics Corp. announced the availability of an open-source SystemVerilog solution for users adopting the Open Verification Methodology (OVM). The solution enables the easy and flexible reuse of legacy Verificat ... read more |
| OSCI Debuts Standard for SystemC Analog Mixed-Signal Extensions |
December 4, 2008 -- The Open SystemC Initiative (OSCI) has released the first draft standard of the SystemC Analog/Mixed-Signal (AMS) extensions. The AMS draft 1 standard proposes the first definitions for the design and modeling of embed ... read more |
| Cadence Announces Encounter Digital Implementation System with End-to-End Parallel Processing Flow |
December 4, 2008 -- Cadence Design Systems, Inc. has launched the Cadence Encounter Digital Implementation System, a configurable digital implementation platform delivering scalability with complete support for parallel processing across ... read more |
| CAST Unveils New AES Encryption IP |
December 4, 2008 -- CAST, Inc. has announced a new family of AES IP cores that make it easier for designers to include fast hardware encryption in security-sensitive electronic systems.
AES — the Advanced Encryption Standard & ... read more |
| STMicroelectronics' Combined Analog Switch and Audio Amplifier IC Provides Space- and Cost-Savings for Feature Phones and Media Players |
December 4, 2008 -- By consolidating an analog switch achieving -80dB isolation and a 1.6-W class-D amplifier in a single package, the TS4961T from STMicroelectronics simplifies board design and saves space in cell phones and personal med ... read more |
| ARC and Hellosoft Offer a VoIP Solution that Doubles the Channel Capacity of Comparable Embedded Solutions |
| December 4, 2008 -- Inc. that provides twice the voice channels of comparable IP cores. The ARC and Hellosoft hardware-software combination enables SOC developers to achieve double the voice channels in a smaller silicon area and at lower po ... read more |
| MVTS and Verigy Offer V93000 Port Scale RF Solutions |
December 4, 2008 -- Verigy has announced a customer support collaboration with MVTS Technologies LLC, a provider of value-added support and services for automated test equipment (ATE). In the interest of bringing industry leading wireless test s ... read more |
| Plurality's 64-Core Accelerator Delivers High Performance-to-Cost, -Power and -Size |
December 4, 2008 -- Plurality, Ltd. has announced the first complete silicon intellectual property (IP) solution for its HyperCore processor, a powerful, space-saving and energy-efficient 64-core shared-memory processing engine. Plurality ... read more |
| ASML and Brion Bring Computational Lithography to the Fab |
December 4, 2008 -- ASML and its subsidiary Inc. today announced LithoTuner, a new suite of products that integrates computational and wafer lithography to improve semiconductor manufacturability. LithoTuner Pattern Matcher and LithoTuner ... read more |
| Timesys and Swell Software Announce Partnership |
December 4, 2008 -- Timesys Corp. and Swell Software, Inc. a provider of graphical user interface (GUI) have announced a partnership to integrate Swell Software’s PEG graphics tools with Timesys’ LinuxLink embedded Linux developmen ... read more |
| CHiL Semiconductor Selects Virage Logic's Flexible AEON Non-Volatile Embedded Memory |
December 3, 2008 -- Virage Logic Corp. today announced that CHiL Semiconductor has licensed the company's AEON non-volatile memory (NVM) solution. Virage Logic's AEON product line, multiple-time programmable (MTP) NVM optimized for digita ... read more |
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