| UMC Qualifies Silicon Frontline's Parasitic Extraction Software for 40- and 65-nm Processes |
July 8, 2009 -- Silicon Frontline Technology, Inc. (SFT) announced today that its 3D extraction software for post-layout verification, F3D (Fast 3D), has been validated by United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC) for its 40- and 65-nm pr ... read more |
| STARC Integrates Litho-Aware 45-nm Design Flow Using Cadence Encounter |
July 8, 2009 -- Cadence Design Systems, Inc. announced today the Japanese semiconductor research consortium STARC (Semiconductor Technology Academic Research Center), has integrated the Cadence Encounter Digital Implementation Syst ... read more |
| STARC Integrates Cadence Encounter Solution for Complex, Large-Scale Designs |
July 8, 2009 -- Cadence Design Systems, Inc. announced today that the Japanese electronic design consortium STARC is implementing a Cadence flow for semiconductor designs larger than 20 million gates. The new STARCAD-CEL V3.0 metho ... read more |
| SMSC to Acquire Tallika |
July 9, 2009 -- SMSC has signed an agreement to acquire Tallika Corp., a team of approximately 50 highly skilled engineers located in design centers in Chennai, India and Phoenix, Arizona. This team will bring to SMSC a broad set o ... read more |
| NXP and TSMC Deliver Industry's First 45nm Single-Chip Digital TV Platform |
July 9, 2009 -- NXP Semiconductors and TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company) are cooperating to deliver the industry’s first single-chip 45-nm global LCD TV platform, TV550. With NXP already delivering the engineering s ... read more |
| Nextreme Raises $8 Million |
July 8, 2009 -- Nextreme, a provider of microscale thermal and power management products, today announced that the company has raised $8 million in additional Series B financing from undisclosed corporate investors. Nextreme has now raise ... read more |
| New Patents Filed by RFaxis Allow Simultaneous Operation of WLAN and Bluetooth in Handheld and Mobile Applications |
July 8, 2009 -- RFaxis, Inc. has filed three patents for its wireless semiconductor solutions internationally and with the United States Patent and Trademark Office. These solutions are intended to replace the existing front-end module te ... read more |
| Mentor Graphics Signs Ruihesoft as New Distributor in China |
July 9, 2009 -- Mentor Graphics Corp. today announced signing Beijing Ruihesoft Co., Ltd., previously a reseller of Altium’s products, as a distributor of Mentor’s printed circuit board (PCB) systems design products in China. The product ... read more |
| iSuppli Trims 2009 Chip and Electronics Forecasts—But Sees Second-Half Rebound Featured |
July 8, 2009 -- Amid lingering economic woes and continuing poor visibility into future demand trends, iSuppli Corp. is reducing its forecasts for global semiconductor and electronic equipment revenue in 2009.
Worldwide ... read more |
| Mentor Delivers Hardware-Assisted Solution for Accelerated Verification of Serial-ATA II Products |
July 7, 2009 -- Mentor Graphics Corp. has announced its hardware-assisted solution to accelerate the verification of Serial-ATA (SATA) II products, including hard disk drives (HDD) and optical CD/DVD drives.
This new solution lets d ... read more |
| Paradigm Works Releases Key Verification Productivity Software for the Open Verification Methodology |
July 7, 2009 -- Paradigm Works, Inc. has donated its advanced SystemVerilog FrameWorks OVM Template Generator for free use through the Open Verification Methodology (OVM) World community website. Functional verification engineers using th ... read more |
| Fujitsu Microelectronics Solutions Adopts Cadence Verification Technology for Toughest Mixed-Signal Designs |
July 7, 2009 -- Cadence Design Systems, Inc. today announced that Fujitsu Microelectronics Solutions, Ltd. (FMSL) has adopted the Cadence Virtuoso Multi-Mode Simulation suite of verification software for its most difficult mixed-signal de ... read more |
| 12 Electronic Engineering Students to Share $30,000 |
July 7, 2009-- Premier Farnell plc and its companies (Farnell, Newark, Premier Electronics, Farnell-Newark CPC, and MCM), have announced that scholarships applications are now being accepted from individual students worldwide who are regi ... read more |
| Atrenta Collaborates with Sonics and Denali on a 1Team-Genesis Reference Flow to Accelerate SOC Assembly |
July 7, 2009 -- Atrenta Inc. today announced a collaboration with Sonics, Inc., and Denali Software, Inc., to build a reference flow based on Atrenta’s 1Team-Genesis automated chip assembly product. The flow will facilitate a healthy eco- ... read more |
| DAC and EDAC Bring Back Free Monday |
July 7, 2009 -- The 46th Design Automation Conference (DAC) and the Electronic Design Automation Consortium (EDAC) are teaming up to bring back Free Monday to DAC. EDAC is sponsoring the popular Free Monday exhibit program at DAC t ... read more |
| Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency Adopts Cadence Virtuoso IC 6.1 and Spectre Simulator |
July 7, 2009 -- Cadence Design Systems, Inc. announced today that the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has adopted the Cadence Virtuoso IC 6.1 custom design platform and the Cadence Virtuoso Circuit Simulator. Building circuits t ... read more |
| MIPS Technologies and EE Solutions Bring MIPS Architecture to Semiconductor Companies Across China and Taiwan |
July 7, 2009 -- MIPS Technologies, Inc. and EE Solutions, Inc., a provider of ASIC and SOC design solutions, are teaming to provide semiconductor companies in China and Taiwan with easy access to MIPS' technology. EE Solutions lice ... read more |
| Si2 to Host Design-for-Manufacturability Workshop Featured |
July 7, 2009 --The Silicon Integration Initiative, Inc. (Si2) announced the Design for Manufacturability Workshop-DFM Challenges at Sub-45nm Design, at the Design Automation Conference (DAC), July 26-31, 2009. In consideration of today’s ... read more |
| MediaTek Licenses ARM Mali-400 MP Graphics Processing Unit |
July 7, 2009 -- ARM announced today that MediaTek, Inc., a fabless semiconductor company for wireless communications and digital multimedia solutions, has licensed the ARM Mali-400 MP multicore graphics processing unit (GPU) for its syst ... read more |
| ChipVision Enhances PowerOpt with Major Advancements in Power Optimization and C++/ SystemC Language Support |
July 7, 2009 -- ChipVision Design Systems AG has enhanced its PowerOpt solution with major advances in system-level power optimization, increased the synthesis speed to up to 10 times that of competitive tools, and broadened its language ... read more |
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