| Synopsys to Distribute Tower Semiconductor's 0.18- and 0.13-Micron Silicon Libraries within DesignWare Library |
April 13, 2005 -- Synopsys, Inc. and Tower Semiconductor, Ltd. have announced that Tower's in-house set of 0.18-micron standard cells, I/Os and memory libraries are now available through Synopsys' DesignWare Library. As a result, more than 25,00 ... read more |
| SPIRIT Joins ARM Connected Community |
April, 12 2005 -- SPIRIT has become a member in the ARM Connected Community. As part of the ARM Connected Community, SPIRIT will gain access to a full range of resources to help it market and deploy innovative solutions that will enable develope ... read more |
| Newfield Technology Joins CoWare CoTeam Partner Program as a Service Provider |
| April 12, 2005 -- Newfield Technology, a China-based professional engineering group, announced it has joined the CoWare CoTeam partner program as a service provider. With extensive expertise in ESL design and verification environments and qualifica ... read more |
| VIA Technologies Extends Relationship with Incentia; Signs Multi-site License Agreement for Synthesis and Timing Software |
April 12, 2005 -- Incentia Design Systems, Inc. today announced that VIA Technologies has extended its relationship with Incentia for synthesis and timing software to include logic, DFT, low power, and physical synthesis, as well as timing analy ... read more |
| Magma's New Memory BIST Chosen by ARM for Improving Yield Through the ARM Memory Repair Capability |
April 11, 2005 -- Magma Design Automation, Inc. announced today that ARM has chosen Magma's Memory BIST (built-in self-test) solution within Blast DFT for the ARM Artisan memory products. Magma's Memory BIST features provide an automated BIST so ... read more |
| Celoxica Delivers ESL Design for Real-Time Security and Fraud Detection |
April 11, 2005 -- Celoxica, Ltd. the and Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST) have developed a high-speed digital watermarking detection system with real-time operation across the Internet. The joint research project used E ... read more |
| Magma Introduces Blast DFT Design-for-Test Solution |
April 11, 2005 -- Magma Design Automation, Inc. has announced the availability of Blast DFT, an important component of Magma's recently announced, next-generation Cobra development initiative providing a Physically Aware DFT solution integrated ... read more |
| ARM Announces Free Processor Access Via Web Distribution |
April 11, 2005 -- ARM introduces its DesignStart program to provide developers with access to the ARM7TDMI processor for the TSMC, UMC, SMIC and Chartered Semiconductor process technologies. This program will use the web channel developed for i ... read more |
| Dolphin Technology Endorses Magma's Advanced Memory BIST Solution within Blast DFT |
April 11, 2005 -- Magma Design Automation, Inc. and Dolphin Technology announced today that Dolphin is endorsing the MBIST (memory built-in self-test) solution within Magma's Blast DFT. MBIST's built-in repair analysis for Dolphin's multi-dimen ... read more |
| Actel ProASIC Plus FPGAs Chosen by Integen Technologies for In-Hotel Video-on-Demand and Internet Delivery System |
April 11, 2005 -- Actel Corp.' ProASIC Plus FPGAs have been chosen by Integen Technologies to implement the core of its cable modem design, which forms part of its Guest Room Integrated Delivery System (GRIDS) product used by several leading hot ... read more |
| Magima Licenses the MIPS32 4Kc Core for Its STB/DTV Products |
April 11, 2005 -- MIPS Technologies, Inc. and Magima Corp. a provider of embedded designs for the Chinese market, today announced that Magima has licensed the MIPS32 4Kc SMIC 0.18 hard core to develop its SoC solution for Set-Top-Box (STB) and d ... read more |
| Z Circuit Automation Debuts High-Throughput Cell Library Characterization System |
April 11, 2005 -- Z Circuit Automation, Inc. has unveiled ZChar, a tool for fast, automatic characterization of digital cell libraries.
"ZChar provides us with very fast turnaround time, "said Jim Thomas, vice president of product developm ... read more |
| GDA PCI Express Controller and Rambus PHY Combined Solution on PCI-SIG Integrators List |
April 11, 2005 -- GDA Technologies, Inc. has announced the successful completion of PCI-SIG compliance and interoperability testing of its PCI Express intellectual property (IP) GPEX core with the Rambus, Inc. PCI Express PHY, a complete serial ... read more |
| Freescale, Philips and STMicroelectronics Expand R&D Alliance |
April 11, 2005 --The Crolles2 Alliance partners -- STMicroelectronics, Philips and Freescale Semiconductor -- have reached a preliminary agreement to cooperate on the creation and validation of high-level system-on-chip (SoC) intellectual prope ... read more |
| Arrow Electronics to Offer New Stratix GX Evaluation Board for Transceiver Applications |
April 11, 2005 -- Arrow's North American Components (NAC) division of Arrow Electronics, Inc. and Altera Corp. have unveiled the Stratix GX Evaluation Board. Arrow and Altera co-designed the Board with SolStice EMT, an Altera-certified high-spee ... read more |
| UMC Expands X Architecture Support |
April 11, 2005 -- The X Initiative and UMC have announced that UMC is the first pure-play foundry to release qualified design rules for X Architecture-based chip designs at the 90nm process node. UMC is now ready to accept X Architecture design ... read more |
| Philips and Xilinx Deliver Low-Cost Programmable PCI Express Solution |
April 11, 2005 -- Royal Philips Electronics and Xilinx, Inc. have demonstrated a programmable PCI Express endpoint silicon solution offered at a much lower cost than traditional solutions. Leveraging expertise in third-generation PCI semiconduct ... read more |
| EDA Industry Reports 3% Revenue Growth |
April 7, 2005 -- According to the EDA Consortium (EDAC)’s Market Statistics Service (MSS), the electronic design automation industry revenue for Q4 of 2004 was $1,078 million, a 3% increase over Q4 2003. For the full year 2004, revenue totaled ... read more |
| Chipnuts Technology to Design Power-Efficient Mobile Phone Multimedia Chip Sets Based on ARM Processors |
April 7, 2005 -- Chipnuts Technology, Inc., a Chinese fabless IC design company, and ARM today announced that Chipnuts has licensed the ARM7TDMI processor and ARM926EJ-S processor through the ARM Foundry Program for its next-generation mobile m ... read more |
| Silicon Navigator Unveils Rocket Framework; a Native Framework for the OpenAccess Database |
April 6, 2005-- Silicon Navigator, Inc. has unveiled its Rocket Framework built on the OpenAccess database. The Framework extends services beyond the core database to include a Graphical User Interface, scripting, schematic and layout visualizat ... read more |
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