| Magma to Intensify Engagement with Infineon |
June 13, 2005 -- Magma Design Automation, Inc. will expand its relationship with Infineon Technologies AG to jointly develop a standardized flow based on Magma's software for Infineon's advanced 65nm designs. The companies will work closely toge ... read more |
| IBM, Intel and Synopsys Announce Mobile EDA Technology Initiative for Design Engineers Featured |
June 13, 2005 -- IBM, Intel Corp. and Synopsys, Inc. have announced a "mobile-aware" technology initiative to bring mobile design tools to the EDA market. Synopsys showcased its Discovery AMS solution, with NanoSim and VCS technology, ... read more |
| Open SystemC Initiative Releases the SystemC 2.1 Language Reference Manual for IEEE Standardization Featured |
June 13, 2005 -- The Open SystemC Initiative (OSCI) today announced that it has officially transferred the Language Reference Manual (LRM) for SystemC 2.1 to the IEEE for further standardization. The LRM is the definitive description of SystemC ... read more |
| Synopsys' Hercules Physical Verification Suite Delivers Near Linear Performance Increase on More than Fifty 64-Bit Xeon Processors |
June 13, 2005 -- Synopsys, Inc. has announced the availability of a new scalable distributed processing technology that delivers an order of magnitude speedup over current production physical verification solutions. Using parallel processing th ... read more |
| TDK and Ansoft Deliver New Component Library for Nexxim and Ansoft Designer |
June 13, 2005 -- TDK, Ltd. and Ansoft Corp. have released a new library for TDK's capacitor, inductor, common mode filter, and ferrite bead components for use in Nexxim and Ansoft Designer. The component library, free to Ansoft customers, will ... read more |
| Summit Design Ships Free Evaluation Copies of Vista IDE |
June 13, 2005 -- Summit Design, Inc. today announced that a 30-day free evaluation is available for the company's Vista Design Environment for SystemC. Vista is the first integrated design environment (IDE) to combine both hardware and software ... read more |
| SMIC Adopts Anchor Semiconductor's OPC Verification Solution |
June 13, 2005 -- Anchor Semiconductor, Inc. announced today that Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC) adopted its NanoScope-PRV solution in its advanced manufacturing flow. NanoScope-PRV detects design, OPC (Optical Proxi ... read more |
| CST Integrates Microwave Studio and Agilent Technologies' Advanced Design System |
June 14, 2005 -- Computer Simulation Technology (CST) today announced the integration of the CST Microwave Studio (CST MWS) simulation tool with Agilent Technologies' Advanced Design System (ADS) electronic design automation software. The automa ... read more |
| TeamEDA Launches Its Advanced Verification System |
June 13, 2005 -- TeamEDA, Inc.'s Advanced Verification System (AVS) is a tool that lets managers and verification engineers efficiently track and manage the myriad of activity, files, and test results of the verification flow regardless of verificati ... read more |
| Creo Uses CAST IP Coresin Advanced Leaf Aptus Digital Camera Backs |
June 13,2005 -- CAST, Inc. has revealed that the Leaf Aptus digital camera backs announced last month by Creo, Inc. employ CAST IP cores for image compression and decompression. Aimed at professional photographers, the new Leaf Aptus 22 and Leaf ... read more |
| CoWare and MIPS Technologies to Automate Application-Optimized Processor Creation |
June 13, 2005 -- CoWare, Inc. and MIPS Technologies, Inc. announced today that CoWare has created its first CoWare CORXpert Personality Kit for the MIPS32 24K Pro Series cores.
CoWare CORXpert is an automated technology that lets designe ... read more |
| Calypto SLEC Sequential Equivalence Checker Deployed by Freescale Semiconductor PowerPC Team |
June 10, 2005 -- Calypto Design Systems, Inc. has announced that it plans to provide The PowerPC core development team at Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. with its SLEC product family. Freescale is using the functional verification product for app ... read more |
| Avery Design Systems Spins Up ATA Verification IP Family |
June 10, 2005 -- Avery Design Systems, Inc. has announced SATA-Xactor verification solution
supporting the ATA protocol suite including SATA I and II, ATA/ATAPI-6, and
CE-ATA. SATA-Xactor is a complete verification solution consisting of Bus ... read more |
| Avery Design Systems Accelerates ATPG/BIST Pattern Validation |
June 10, 2005 -- Avery Design Systems, Inc. has announced improved support for simulation acceleration of ATPG/BIST pattern validation using its SimCluster parallel simulation solution with the release of automatic scan path partitioning and sup ... read more |
| Avery Design and ASIC Architect Team to Deliver PCI Express IP Solution |
June 10, 2005 -- Avery Design Systems, Inc. and ASIC Architect have announced a cooperative effort to deliver a comprehensive PCI Express design and verification IP solution. Under the terms of the agreement, ASIC Architect and Avery will jointl ... read more |
| ATI Technologies Signs Multi-Year Agreement with Apache Design Solutions |
June 10, 2005 -- Apache Design Solutions, Inc. today announced that ATI Technologies Inc., a leader in design and manufacturing of graphics processor solutions, expanded its world-wide adoption of Apache's complete dynamic power integrity suite ... read more |
| New, Unique Fractional Resampling Cores from RF Engines |
June 9, 2005 -- RF Engines, Ltd. (RFEL) has developed a new range of Fractional Resampling Architectures for FPGAs that can be used to perform up-sampling or down-sampling of high-speed digital signals. According to the company, the designs ar ... read more |
| Cadence Supports TSMC Reference Flow 6.0 to Accelerate 65-Nanometer Design |
June 9, 2005 -- Cadence Design Systems, Inc. and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company have integrated the Cadence Encounter digital IC design platform and Cadence Allegro system interconnect platform into TSMC's Reference Flow 6.0. This re ... read more |
| Cradle Enhances MPEG-4 IP Video Streamer Reference Design with Power-Over-Ethernet |
June 9, 2005 -- Cradle Technologies, Inc. has announced an enhanced version of Bluegill, an MPEG-4 IP video streamer reference design based on the company's CT3400 multi-processor digital signal processor (MDSP). The low-cost and small form fa ... read more |
| Atheros Communications Selects Denali Verification IP for PCI Express, USB, Ethernet Designs |
June 9, 2005 -- Denali Software, Inc. today announced that Atheros Communications, Inc., a leading developer of advanced wireless LAN (WLAN) chipsets, has selected Denali's PureSpec verification intellectual property (IP) products for its chip d ... read more |
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