| Cadence and ARM Tackle Signal Integrity Issues for Foundry Program Partners with New Views |
October 27, 2004 -- Cadence Design Systems, Inc. and ARM have announced the availability of signal integrity (SI) views from ARM for Foundry Program Partners. For designers incorporating hardened ARM processors into their designs, these views g ... read more |
| Nucleus RTOS Now Available for the Freescale i.MX21 Applications Processor |
October 27, 2004 -- Accelerated Technology has announced support for the i.MX family of applications processors from Freescale Semiconductor, Inc., beginning with the Nucleus real-time operating system (RTOS) support for the i.MX21 multimedia ... read more |
| Toshiba Implements Its Largest Semiconductor Design to Date with Cadence Digital IC Flow |
October 27, 2004 -- Cadence Design Systems, Inc. announced today that Toshiba Corp. and Toshiba Microelectronics Corp. successfully taped out a 24-million-gate chip using Cadence SoC Encounter. The chip, with an end application in digital cons ... read more |
| MoSys Teams with Amos Technology to Expand International Sales Presence |
October 26, 2004 -- MoSys, Inc. announced today the appointment of Amos Technology as its sale representative in Israel. Amos Technology is one of the leading representatives of IP design licenses, EDA design tools and IC design services in Is ... read more |
| Euphonix Chooses Altera's Cyclone FPGAs and Nios II Processor for Audio Mixing Consoles |
| October 26, 2004 -- Euphonix has chosen Altera Corp.'s Cyclone FPGAs and Nios II embedded processor to deliver higher integration, greater flexibility, and lower cost for its line of professional audio mixing console products, both companies announ ... read more |
| LG Electronics Launches High-Quality DVD Recorders Enabled by LSI Logic DiMeNsion Processor |
October 26, 2004 -- LSI Logic Corp. announced today that its DiMeNsion 8602 (DMN-8602) DVD recorder system processor is enabling LG Electronics' line of combination VCR/DVD recorder products, including the XBR446. The XBR446 is one in a family o ... read more |
| Synfora Announces New Release of PICO Express Application Engine Synthesis for Fast SOC Design Featured |
October 26, 2004 -- Synfora, Inc. has announced the new release of PICO Express for application engine synthesis (AES). PICO Express dramatically reduces the cost, time, and risks of system-on-chip design by enabling designers to automatically ... read more |
| NVIDIA Adopts Synopsys' Physically Aware Test Solution for Latest Processor Designs |
October 26, 2004 -- NVIDIA Corp. has adopted Synopsys' Galaxy 2004 physically aware test solution for its latest generation designs. On large deep sub-micron (DSM) devices -- where increasingly more silicon area is consumed by wires rather than ... read more |
| Synopsys Galaxy Test Reduces Test Data Volume and Application Time at STMicroelectronics |
October 26, 2004 -- Synopsys, Inc. announced today that its Galaxy Test flow has enabled STMicroelectronics to significantly increase its fault coverage and reduce tester time on its latest high-volume printer chipset. Using the DFT Compiler SoC ... read more |
| U-Chip Partners with Ansoft for High-Performance, Low-Power IC Design |
October 26, 2004 - Taiwanese semiconductor memory specialist U-Chip and Ansoft Corp. have jointly announced their partnership for IC design and simulation. Ansoft's Nexxim circuit simulator is essential for U-chip to predict transient behavior a ... read more |
| Xilinx Accelerates Virtex-4 Designs with Full-Featured Evaluation Platform at $495 |
October 26, 2004 -- Xilinx, Inc. has announced the immediate availability of its ML401 Evaluation Platform, a full-featured, low-cost hardware development system that provides instant access to the capabilities of the Xilinx Virtex-4 multi-platf ... read more |
| New Palladium II Extends Cadence's Position in Acceleration/Emulation Featured |
October 25, 2004 --Cadence Design Systems, Inc. has announced its next-generation Incisive Palladium II acceleration/emulation system that delivers up to twice the speed and capacity of the first-generation Palladium system. The Palladium II sys ... read more |
| Actel Lets Designers "Try Before They Buy" with Web-Based IP Core Evaluation Program |
October 25, 2004 -- Actel Corp. has unveiled its new Web-based intellectual property (IP) evaluation program, which lets designers access and download free evaluation versions of cores from Actel's IP portfolio, including cores from CompanionCor ... read more |
| New Line of Devices Strengthens Xilinx Position in Automotive Market |
October 18, 2004 -- Xilinx, Inc. has announced the immediate availability of the Xilinx Automotive (XA) family, a new line of FPGA and CPLD solutions designed specifically to meet the strict requirements set by the automotive industry. The new ... read more |
| Magma and Mentor Graphics Announce TestKompress Integration into RTL-to-GDSII Flow |
October 25, 2004 -- Magma Design Automation, Inc. and Mentor Graphics Corp. have announced an interoperability agreement to integrate the Mentor Graphics TestKompress embedded deterministic test (EDT) tool into Magma's RTL-to-GDSII design system ... read more |
| Texas Instruments Powers Aliph Jawbone Headset with Low Power DSP and High Performance Analog |
October 25, 2004 -- Texas Instruments, Inc. and Aliph, a developer of next- generation audio and speech technologies and products, announced today that Aliph is leveraging TI's TMS320C5405 digital signal processor and high-performance analog tec ... read more |
| Xilinx Teams with Ansoft for Faster and Easier High-Speed Printed Circuit Board and Backplane Design |
October 25, 2004 -- Xilinx, Inc. and Ansoft Corp. have announced a new Gigabit Interconnect Design Kit that lets designers perform extremely accurate "what if" analyses on high-speed printed circuit board (PCB) and backplane designs. Powered wit ... read more |
| Texas Instruments Qualifies 90-nm Process on 300-mm Wafers |
October 25, 2004 -- Texas Instruments, Inc. announced qualification of its advanced 90nm copper process on 300mm copper wafers in its DMOS6 facility. By expanding its 300mm manufacturing to include the proven 90nm CMOS process, TI gives customer ... read more |
| Xpedion Design Systems Releases GoldenGate 3.4 Further Increasing RFIC Designer Productivity |
October 25, 2004 -- Xpedion Design Systems, Inc. has announced the immediate availability of its GoldenGate Simulator version 3.4. GoldenGate 3.4 has an increased capacity of 50 percent over version 3.3, yielding convergence on circuits with ove ... read more |
| Xilinx and Howard Johnson Launch DVD Tutorials Easing High Speed Serial Signal Integrity Challenges |
October 25, 2004 -- Xilinx, Inc., in association with signal integrity authority Dr. Howard Johnson, today announced immediate availability of a new two-part DVD tutorial on signal integrity (SI) techniques for RocketIO transceivers. Targeted at ... read more |
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