| Olympus Selects Synfora Algorithmic Synthesis Design Tools for Advanced Image Processing IC Development |
April 7, 2009 -- Synfora, Inc. today announced that the Olympus Digital System Design Corp. (ODS), subsidiary of Olympus Corp. has selected PICO Extreme to develop advanced image processing SOCs. Use of the PICO Extreme algorithmic synth ... read more |
| Synopsys Unveils CustomSim Unified Circuit Simulation Solution |
April 7, 2009 -- Synopsys, Inc. has announced its new CustomSim circuit-simulation solution. The simulation technologies of NanoSim, HSIM and XA have been unified into a single circuit-simulation solution with added multicore capabilities ... read more |
| Blue Pearl Software Launches JumpStart Program for Startups |
April 7, 2009 -- Blue Pearl Software, Inc. has announced JumpStart, a program for pre-revenue startup companies that's aimed at helping them improve design productivity, close timing faster, and create higher performance designs. JumpStar ... read more |
| Mentor Graphics Unveils New Low-Power Features in Olympus-SoC Place-and-Route Platform |
April 7, 2009 -- Mentor Graphics Corp. has announced immediate availability of the Olympus-SoC platform with new features for low-power IC implementation. The low-power capabilities are targeted for advanced technology processes and take ... read more |
| Synopsys Boasts 2X Verification Speed-Up with VCS Multicore Technology |
April 7, 2009 -- Synopsys, Inc. has unveiled new multicore technology within the VCS functional verification solution, a key component of Synopsys' Discovery Verification Platform. According to Synopsys, VCS multicore technology delivers ... read more |
| RFMD Expands Portfolio of Integrated Configurable Components to Target Cellular Repeater and WLAN Markets |
April 7, 2009 -- RF Micro Devices, Inc. (RFMD) has extended its portfolio of integrated configurable components to include products for the cellular repeater and wireless local area network (WLAN) markets. The new integrated configurable ... read more |
| EDA Consortium Reports Industry Revenue Down in Fourth Quarter 2008 Featured |
April 7, 2009 -- The EDA Consortium (EDAC) Market Statistics Service (MSS) has announced that the electronic design automation (EDA) industry revenue for Q4 2008 declined 17.7% to $1318.7 million, compared to $1602.7 million in Q4 2007. T ... read more |
| Global Unichip Announces Greater Than 3X Schedule Reduction of Full-Chip Design Closure Using Cadence Encounter Tools |
April 2, 2009 -- Cadence Design Systems, Inc. announced today that Global Unichip Corporation (GUC) successfully taped out a 65-nm, high-performance networking switch processor that features 50 million gates and an operating speed of 400M ... read more |
| D2S Secures $9 Million In Series B Financing |
April 3, 2009 -- D2S announced the official close of its Series B financing, raising more than $9 million. The Series B financing will be used to further enhance and expand the market development for D2S’ design-for-e-beam (DFEB) technolo ... read more |
| IEEE Council on EDA Opens Nominations for Two New Awards |
April 3, 2009 -- Nominations are being accepted now through May 15 by the IEEE Council on Electronic Design Automation (CEDA) for two new awards to honor outstanding technical contributions within electronic design automation (EDA).
The fi ... read more |
| Solar Energy Research Institute of Singapore Adopts Synopsys' Sentaurus TCAD for Solar Cell Research |
April 3, 2009 -- The Solar Energy Research Institute of Singapore (SERIS) has adopted Synopsys, Inc.'s Sentaurus TCAD to support its solar cell research and development programs. SERIS is Singapore's national institute for applied solar e ... read more |
| JEDEC Announces Publication of LPDDR2 Standard for Low-Power Memory Devices Featured |
April 3, 2009 -- The JEDEC Solid State Technology Association has announced the publication of JESD209-2 LPDDR2 Low Power Memory Device Standard. Available for free download from JEDEC’s website, the new standard offers advanced power-man ... read more |
| Freescale Accelerates Multicore 45-nm Products to Market for Next-Generation Communications Systems |
April 2, 2009 -- Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. is accelerating availability of key communications products based on 45-nm process technology in response to strong demand from wireless infrastructure equipment manufacturers targeting advan ... read more |
| CoWare Releases Reference Library to Accelerate Design of Long Term Evolution (LTE) Wireless Systems |
April 2, 2009 -- CoWare, Inc. has announced the availability of a new reference library for the Long Term Evolution (LTE) wireless standard. The new library adds to CoWare’s already available suite of solutions that address the challenges ... read more |
| Altera's 40-nm Stratix IV GX FPGAs Achieve PCI-SIG Compliance for the PCI Express 2.0 Architecture |
April 2, 2009 -- Altera Corp. today announced its 40-nm Stratix IV GX FPGAs are compliant with version 2.0 of the PCI Express (PCIe) standard, providing users a comprehensive PCIe solution for high-bandwidth applications. The devices suc ... read more |
| Actel Now Shipping the Igloo Plus Starter Kit |
April 2, 2009 -- Actel Corp. has announced the availability of the low-cost Igloo Plus Starter Kit. The new kit features the Igloo Plus family of low-power field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), which offer the best power-, logic- and fe ... read more |
| Wavecom Accelerates Wireless Development with XJTAG |
April 2, 2009 -- Wavecom, a provider of embedded wireless technology for M2M (machine-to-machine) communication, has adopted the XJTAG IEEE Std. 1149.x boundary scan system as the platform for developing and testing its WMP100 Wireless Mi ... read more |
| RDA Microelectronics Leverages CEVA IP for a Low-Power, Single-Chip Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR Solution |
April 2, 2009 -- CEVA, Inc. and RDA Microelectronics, a China-based fabless IC design house today announced that RDA has licensed and deployed CEVA's Bluetooth baseband and protocol stack IP in a single-chip Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR IC optimiz ... read more |
| On2 Technologies Licenses VP7 Video Codec to Westec Interactive |
April 2, 2009 -- On2 Technologies, Inc. has licensed its proprietary On2 VP7 video compression technology to an innovator in the field of intelligent video surveillance. Westec will integrate the VP7 video codec to its digital video reco ... read more |
| Denali Software First to Ship PCI Express 3.0 Controller IP Cores |
March 31, 2009 -- Denali Software, Inc. has announced availability and first shipments of the latest Denali Databahn controller IP cores, based on the current preliminary version of the PCI Express (PCIe) 3.0 specification, for use in nex ... read more |
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