| POLYTEDA Releases PowerDRC/LVS Vversion 1.1 |
December 2, 2009 -- POLYTEDA Software Corp. has announced the general availability of PowerDRC/LVS version 1.1. PowerDRC is designed to process integrated circuit designs of any size, at any technology node, with run times which are fast ... read more |
| Novelics, Chips & Media, and Posedge Join IPextreme Constellations |
December 1, 2009 -- IPextreme, Inc. announced today that Novelics, Chips & Media, and Posedge have joined Constellations, a program by IPextreme designed to increase sales opportunities for leading semiconductor intellectual property (IP) ... read more |
| Agilent Technologies Completes Acquisition of Keithley Instruments' RF Product Line |
November 30, 2009 -- Agilent Technologies, Inc. and Keithley Instruments, Inc. today announced that the sale of substantially all of Keithley’s RF product line to Agilent is now complete. As Keithley previously announced, the parties had ... read more |
| Actel Extends Core8051s Processor Support to RTAX, Axcelerator and Igloo Families |
November 30, 2009 -- Actel Corp. today announced that it has extended Core8051s support for its line of high-reliability Axcelerator , radiation-tolerant RTAX and low-power Igloo FPGAs. By broadening Core8051s support, Actel enables desig ... read more |
| Atrenta SpyGlass-Constraints SDC Equivalence Verification Capability Adopted By STARC |
November 30, 2009 -- Atrenta, Inc. has announced the integration of the SpyGlass-Constraints SDC equivalence verification capability into the production flow from the Semiconductor Technology Academic Research Center (STARC).
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| AWR and AMPSA Partner to Bring Multimatch Amplifier Design Technology to Microwave Office |
November 30, 2009 -- AWR Corp. and AMPSA, a supplier of RF and microwave amplifier design software, today announced a relationship that enables AWR to incorporate AMPSA’s Multimatch amplifier design technology as an optional module into i ... read more |
| Spansion MirrorBit Flash Memory Now Available as Xilinx Spartan-6 FPGA Configuration Solution |
November 30, 2009 -- Spansion, Inc.'s MirrorBit Flash memory is now available as a verified configuration solution for the new Xilinx Spartan-6 FPGA family. Spansion is offering a MirrorBit Multi-I/O Flash add-on module that is compatible ... read more |
| STATS ChipPAC Ramps eWLB Technology to High-Volume Production |
November 30, 2009 -- STATS ChipPAC, Ltd. has ramped first-generation embedded Wafer-Level Ball Grid Array (eWLB) technology to high volume production. The eWLB technology provides solutions for semiconductor devices requiring a higher int ... read more |
| SpringSoft and Magma Validate Full Interoperability of Custom Chip Design Tools with TSMC 65-nm iPDK |
December 1, 2009 -- SpringSoft, Inc. and Magma Design Automation, Inc. have completed cross-tool validation using TSMC’s 65-nm interoperable process design kit (iPDK). The companies demonstrated full interoperability between the Sp ... read more |
| Esterel Technologies and Quantum3D Form Strategic Alliance to Offer One-Stop Solution for Embedded Graphics Display Development |
December 2, 2009 -- Esterel Technologies, Inc. and Quantum3D, Inc., a developer and manufacturer of commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS), open-architecture, real-time visual computing solutions have announced a strategic alliance to benefit de ... read more |
| Novocell Semiconductor Announces Development of a Multi-Time Programmable Antifuse Bit Cell |
December 2, 2009 -- Novocell Semiconductor, Inc. today announced the development of 2nTP, a new multi-time programmable (MTP) technology that allows the programming of its one-time programmable (OTP) antifuse bit cell up to eight times. ... read more |
| Synfora Adds Support for Xilinx Virtex-6 and Spartan-6 FPGA Devices to PICO Algorithmic Synthesis Tool |
December 1, 2009 -- Synfora, Inc. has announced a new version of its PICO Extreme FPGA C synthesis tool with support for the next-generation Xilinx Spartan-6 and Virtex-6 devices as well as seamless integration with the Xilinx Embedded De ... read more |
| Magma Announces Talus-Based RTL-to-GDSII Reference Flow for Imagination Technologies' PowerVR Graphics Accelerator |
December 2, 2009 -- Magma Design Automation, Inc. today announced the availability of an RTL-to-GDSII reference flow for system-on-chip (SOC) designs that incorporate PowerVR SGX graphics accelerator cores from Imagination Technologies, L ... read more |
| Sonics Offers Free Evaluation for Designers of Sonics Network for AMBA Protocol Solution Featured |
December 2, 2009 -- Sonics, Inc. has announced that its Sonics Network for AMBA Protocol (SNAP) will offer SOC designers, free-of-charge, tools and IP for capturing and analyzing bus designs with the release of its new Web-based SNAP eval ... read more |
| X-FAB and Plus Semi Agree on Sale of X-FAB UK |
December 1, 2009 -- X-FAB Silicon Foundries and Plus Semi have agreed on the sale of X-FAB’s wafer fabrication plant in Plymouth, UK, to Plus Semi. The agreement to transfer ownership of X-FAB UK to Plus Semi has been signed by bot ... read more |
| Altera's Stratix IV FPGAs to Power XtremeData's dbX Analytics Appliance |
December 2, 2009 -- Altera Corp. today announced its high-performance Stratix IV FPGAs have been designed into XtremeData, Inc.'s next-generation dbX family of database appliances designed specifically for the unconstrained analysis and e ... read more |
| Magma Announces Talus Design 1.1 and Talus RTL 1.1 Enhanced Synthesis Products |
December 2, 2009 -- Magma Design Automation, Inc. has announced the availability of Talus Design 1.1 and Talus RTL 1.1, Magma's full-chip synthesis products. Capabilities in these new versions include GlassBox abstraction technology; enha ... read more |
| Altium Releases Smart Prototyping Peripheral Board for NanoBoard Development Platforms |
December 1, 2009 -- Altium, Ltd. has released a new prototyping peripheral add-on board for its NanoBoard FPGA-based development boards. The new board works with both the fixed-FPGA NanoBoard 3000 and the fully-configurable NanoBoard NB2. ... read more |
| TI Introduces Lowest Power 250-MSPS, 14-bit ADC |
November 30, 2009 -- Texas Instruments, Inc. (TI) has introduced the first in a new class of high-speed analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) delivering ultra-low power consumption and excellent dynamic performance across wide signal bandwi ... read more |
| MoSys Announces Availability of Silicon-Proven 40-nm DDR3 and DDR3/2 Combo PHYs with Support for Datarates Up to 2133 Mbps |
November 30, 2009 -- MoSys, Inc. has announced the availability of its silicon-proven DDR3 and DDR3/2 combo PHYs. MoSys' fully-integrated solution complies with the latest DFI specification and provides the physical layer (PHY) interface ... read more |
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