| Texas Instruments Makes $500,000 Donation to Aid Tsunami Relief Efforts |
December 31, 2004 -- Texas Instruments, Inc. announced today that it is making a $500,000 donation to the American Red Cross International Response Fund for immediate and emergency care for victims of South Asia's devastating tsunami. The compan ... read more |
| Silicon Canvas Releases Laker Version 3.1 with EDIF Support to Facilitate Schematic-Driven Full Custom Layout Flow |
December 29, 2004 -- Silicon Canvas, Inc. (SCI) has released Laker version 3.1. Highlights of this new release include EDIF 200 symbol and netlist support with topological placement, advanced features such as net router, pattern recognition for ... read more |
| TSMC Announces Nexsys 90nm Volume Production |
December 29, 2004 -- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) said today that its Nexsys 90nm process continues a volume production ramp that will accelerate dramatically throughout 2005. TSMC's Nexsys 90nm is the only foundry process a ... read more |
| Synopsys' ESP Full-Custom Memory Verification Enables Artisan to Achieve 5X Faster Time to Results |
December 21, 2004 -- Synopsys, Inc. announced today that Artisan Components, Inc. has standardized on Synopsys' ESP full-custom memory equivalency checker for its new low-power, high-density Metro Platform memories. ESP's symbolic simulation tec ... read more |
| Altera Stratix Devices Deliver High Performance for Maranti's CoreSTOR Network Storage Controller |
December 21, 2004 -- Altera Corp.'s Stratix FPGAs provide critical performance benefits for Maranti's CoreSTOR network storage controller products, both companies announced today. Maranti, a provider of intelligent storage infrastructure solutio ... read more |
| Mindready Solutions Joins the JTAG Technologies Third-Party Applications Program |
December 20, 2004 -- JTAG Technologies has announced the addition of Mindready Solutions to its Authorized Applications Provider (AAP) program. With the ever increasing number of users of boundary-scan, the demand for consulting services and so ... read more |
| Atmel Licenses Gigabit Ethernet Physical Layer Core from National Semiconductor |
December 20, 2004 -- Atmel Corp. has announced the completion of a licensing agreement with National Semiconductor Corp. for a Gigabit Ethernet Physical Layer Core that Atmel will use to design next generation server connectivity products and hi ... read more |
| Bluespec Adds SystemVerilog Assertion Support to ESL Solution |
December 20, 2004 – Bluespec Inc. has integrated SystemVerilog Assertion (SVA) support into its EDA toolset launched in June 2004, which the company claims makes it the first behavioral synthesis solution with verification assertion capabilities ... read more |
| Xilinx Announces $100M "Ecosystem" Venture Fund to Fuel Industry Innovation |
December 20, 2004 -- Xilinx, Inc. has launched a $100M corporate venture fund to fuel industry innovation within the company's growing ecosystem for programmable system design. Xilinx intends to strengthen, broaden and accelerate adoption of its ... read more |
| Oki Tapes Out with New Cadence Synthesis Low-Power Technology |
December 20, 2004 -- Cadence Design Systems, Inc. today announced that Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd. has successfully taped out a chip for Oki's uPLAT SoC design platform with the new low-power capability of Cadence Encounter RTL Compiler sy ... read more |
| Mentor Graphics Adds Advanced Design Capabilities for Flex and Rigid-Flex Boards |
December 20, 2004 -- Mentor Graphics Corp. has incorporated advanced design capabilities for flex and rigid-flex boards into its Expedition and Board Station RE PCB layout tools to meet the growing need of customers in the telecom and consumer e ... read more |
| UMC Enhances 90-nm Manufacturability Using Synopsys' Phase Shift Technology |
December 20, 2004 -- Synopsys, Inc. and UMC announced that UMC is using Synopsys' alternating aperture phase-shift mask (AA-PSM) technology to enhance manufacturability for its 90nm process. Manufacturability improvements are obtained through i ... read more |
| Carbon Enables CoWare to Bridge RTL Implementation and ESL Design Gap |
December 20, 2004 -- Through a recently completed agreement, CoWare's ESL Services group is using Carbon's SPEEDCompiler product on a global basis to integrate IP and full-chip RTL into its ConvergenSC SystemC offering.
"CoWare is a leadi ... read more |
| Lattice FPGA Devices Selected as "Ultimate Product" by EE Times Editors, Readers |
December 20, 2004 -- Lattice Semiconductor Corp. today announced that the editors and readers of EE Times have selected the LatticeECP and LatticeEC FPGA devices as an "ultimate product." Further, EE Times readers ranked these FPGAs first for t ... read more |
| Pirelli Selects Lattice Field Programmable System Chip For City8 Metro Access System |
December 17, 2004 -- Lattice Semiconductor Corp. today announced that the Photonics Products Division of Pirelli has selected its ORT42G5 Field Programmable System Chip (FPSC) for use in Pirelli's City8 Metro Access System Multiservice Platform. ... read more |
| Sundance Joins The MathWorks Connections Program Program |
December 17, 2004 -- Sundance, a supplier and manufacturer of signal processing and reconfigurable computing systems for an extensive range of embedded designs and applications, has become a member of The MathWorks Connections Program.
The ... read more |
| Eagleware Acquires Elanix, Expands System-Level Offering |
December 16, 2004 -- Eagleware Corp., a supplier of high-frequency design software for the RF and microwave industry, announced today that it has signed a definitive agreement to purchase Elanix, Inc., an electronic-system level (ESL) design too ... read more |
| Avnet Electronics Marketing Announces Immediate Availability of Xilinx ATCA Design Kit |
December 15, 2004 -- Avnet Electronics Marketing, an operating group of Avnet, Inc., and Xilinx Inc. have announced the immediate availability of the Xilinx FPGA-based PICMG ATCA 3.0 Design Kit. The kit, featuring a development board using a Xi ... read more |
| Nassda Granted Patent for Hybrid Circuit Timing Analysis |
December 15, 2004 -- Nassda Corp. has been issued a patent by the United States Patent and Trademark Office for its method of describing a hybrid system of static analysis and dynamic simulation for IC design verification. The patent, #6,820,243 ... read more |
| eASIC Granted 11th Patent for its Configurable Logic Technology |
December 15, 2004 -- eASIC Corp. today announced that the company was granted an additional patent for its technology. The patent entitled "Customizable and programmable cell array" (6,819,136), issued on November 16, 2004 by the United States ... read more |
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