| Linley Group Sees Shifting Market Share in Mobile Semiconductor Market |
November 7, 2011 -- Predicting wide shifts in market share for mobile chip vendors, The Linley Group today released the "Mobile Semiconductor Market Share Forecast 2010-2015." The report forecasts mobile chip vendor market share and reven ... read more |
| Altera's Quartus II Software Version 11.1 Delivers Arria V and Cyclone V FPGA Support and Productivity Improvements |
November 7, 2011 -- Altera Corp. today announced the release of its Quartus II software version 11.1 for CPLD, FPGA and HardCopy ASIC designs. This latest software release features expanded support for Altera's 28-nm FPGAs, including comp ... read more |
| Aldec Releases Active-HDL 9.1 Supporting Simulation of the Newest FPGA Devices |
November 4, 2011 -- Aldec, Inc. has announced the immediate availability of Active-HDL version 9.1, an HDL-based FPGA design and simulation solution that supports the newest FPGA devices available from all leading FPGA vendors. ... read more |
| Mentor Graphics Completes STMicroelectronics 20-nm Test Chip Tape-Out Using Olympus-SoC Place-and-Route System |
November 4, 2011 -- Mentor Graphics Corp. today announced the successful tape-out of a 20-nm test chip in collaboration with STMicroelectronics. The test chip was implemented using the Olympus-SoC place-and-route system, and verified usin ... read more |
| ProPlus Introduces NanoYield IC Design Tool |
November 4, 2011 -- ProPlus Design Solutions, Inc. has introduced a new product called NanoYield, developed to enable highly-efficient integrated circuit yield analysis and design optimizations, and is based on patented technology license ... read more |
| Spreadtrum Selects Arteris High-Speed Interchip Communications IP for Mobile Phone Baseband Memory Sharing |
November 4, 2011 -- Arteris SA today announced that Spreadtrum Communications, Inc. has licensed IP for high-speed inter-chip communication between its mobile phone baseband chips and application processors.
"As the leade ... read more |
| OCP-IP Delivers Enhanced Transaction Generator Package |
November 2, 2011 -- OCP International Partnership (OCP-IP) today announced the availability of an enhanced version of its Transaction Generator (TG), which is a transaction-level (TL) SystemC simulator for benchmarking network-on-chips (N ... read more |
| Arasan Chip Systems Announces SD 4.0 Host Controller IP |
November 3, 2011 -- Arasan Chip Systems, Inc. announced today the availability of the SD 4.0 Host Controller IP Core. The Arasan SD 4.0 Host Controller IP is compliant with the latest SD specifications, Physical Layer v4.0 and Host Contro ... read more |
| DesignArt Networks Selects Elliptic Technologies Embedded Security Engine for DAN3000 LTE SOCs |
November 3, 2011 -- Elliptic Technologies, Inc. today announced that DesignArt Networks, Ltd. has licensed Elliptic's high-performance for use in its DAN3000 family of SOCs, targeting 3G and 4G base stations for the mobile HetNet i ... read more |
| Accellera Chair Shishpal Rawat Talks about Roadmap for IP and System Design Standards at IP-SOC 2011 |
November 3, 2011 -- Accellera invites designers to hear Accellera chair Shishpal Rawat's invited talk on "The Roadmap for IP and System Design Standards" at IP-SOC 2011, December 7, Grenolbe, France.
System, software and ... read more |
| Testbench Generation for Multi-Chip Modules and 3D Chips |
November 3, 2011 -- GOEPEL electronic GmbH has announced the availability of additional features in its TAPChecker EDA software for the generation of BSDL testbenches. The newly developed options extend the software's flexibility in terms ... read more |
| ASSET's New ScanWorks Ethernet Controller Tests Four Circuit Boards at Once |
November 3, 2011 -- The new Remote Instrumentation Controller 4000 (RIC-4000) for ASSET InterTech, Inc.'s ScanWorks platform for embedded instruments can connect over an Ethernet network and apply boundary scan (JTAG) tests on as many as ... read more |
| ICsense Adopts Berkeley Design Automation Analog FastSpice Platform |
November 1, 2011 -- Berkeley Design Automation, Inc. today announced that ICsense, a European analog IC-design house, has selected the company's AFS Platform for full-circuit verification, block-level characterization, and device n ... read more |
| Microchip Announces Wider Temperature-Range Qualification for 32-bit PIC32 Microcontrollers |
November 2, 2011 -- Microchip Technology, Inc. today announced that the 32-bit PIC32 microcontrollers (MCUs) now operate from -40°C to 105°C, enabling their use in a wide range of robust applications. Examples include applications in the ... read more |
| TowerJazz Reference Design Flow 2.0 Fully Qualifies Cadence Mixed-Signal Solution and Process Design Kit |
November 3, 2011 -- Cadence Design Systems, Inc. today announced that TowerJazz has qualified the Cadence mixed-signal solution for the TowerJazz Reference Design Flow 2.0. The new reference design flow features mixed-signal power- ... read more |
| Vector Fabrics Closes Series B Round Of Financing |
November 3, 2011 -- Vector Fabrics BV, a developer of programming tools for multicore embedded systems, today closed its B round of financing, led by new investor Newion Investments. Return investors TechnoStars and Point-One Starter Fund ... read more |
| Silicon-IP Adds Intel as Client |
November 3, 2011 -- Silicon-IP, Inc. announced today that Intel Corp. has joined its list of customers for a near term project. Silicon-IP provides independent advisory services for third-party IP to SOC design companies for the acquisiti ... read more |
| Scintera Networks and Helic Sign Multi-Year Agreement |
November 3, 2011 -- Helic SA and Scintera Networks, Inc. have announced a multi-year partnership, with the integration of Helic's VeloceRF and VeloceRaptor/X in Scintera's RFIC design flow.
VeloceRF features a com ... read more |
| Calxeda Launches the EnergyCore Processor |
November 3, 2011 -- Calxeda, Inc. has unveiled its ARM-based "EnergyCore" Server-on-a-Chip, which consumes as little as 1.5W.
The EnergyCore ARM-based SOC launched today will power a completely new breed of servers. Than ... read more |
| Fairchild Semiconductor's Web-Based Design and Simulation Tool Provides Complete Flyback Designs in Minutes |
November 2, 2011 -- Fairchild Semiconductor Corp. has launched Power Supply WebDesigner (PSW), an easy-to-use online simulation tool that lets designers throw their application notes away and "Auto Design," optimize or "Advance Design" li ... read more |
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