| Cadence Encounter Global Synthesis Supported by STMicroelectronics for Its ASIC Customers |
April 25, 2006 -- Cadence Design Systems, Inc. today announced that STMicroelectronics will provide support for Cadence Encounter RTL Compiler synthesis in its ASIC design methodology and flow on 90- and 65-nm processes for its int ... read more |
| Vitesse's Low Cost Stackable Layer-2 Gigabit Ethernet Smart Switch Eliminates Need for Fast Ethernet Stackable Products |
April 25, 2006 -- Vitesse Semiconductor Corp. has announced the E-StaX-34 switch-on-a chip product, a low cost stackable Layer 2 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) Smart Switch designed to bring affordable Gigabit Ethernet to entry level application ... read more |
| AMI Semiconductor Adopts InCyte Chip Estimation System |
April 25, 2006 -- Giga Scale IC, Inc. announced today that AMI
Semiconductor (AMIS) has adopted the InCyte system to perform early chip design
estimations for its advanced digital product lines. Giga Scale IC's InCyte
enables ... read more |
| Virtex-4 PMC Expansion Card Accelerates Signal Processing Algorithms |
April 24, 2006 -- 4DSP, Inc. has released the FM480, a new PCI Mezzanine Card (PMC) based on the latest Virtex- 4 FPGA technology from Xilinx. The FM480 field trials have shown exceptional performances and robustness. The first applicatio ... read more |
| TI MCUs Address Emerging Requirements of Complex, Embedded Applications |
April 25, 2006 -- Texas Instruments, Inc. (TI) is now sampling the new MSP430FG461x series of ultra-low power MCUs with up to 120kBytes flash memory, and has announced the volume availability of the TMS470R1B1M ARM7-based MCUs with 1MByte ... read more |
| Mentor Graphics Verifies Clock-Domain Crossing Solution for Sun Microsystems UltraSPARC T1 Processor |
April 25, 2006 -- Mentor Graphics Corp. today announced its 0-In Clock-Domain Crossing (CDC) technology was used in the design of Sun Microsystems' UltraSPARC T1 processor, which Sun recently announced. The UltraSPARC T1 processor with pa ... read more |
| Magma's IC Implementation Flow for Wireless Designs Selected by Skyworks |
April 25, 2006 -- Magma Design Automation, Inc. today announced that Skyworks Solutions, Inc. has utilized Magma's netlist-to-GDSII IC-design solution for its next-generation baseband cellular handset solution with multimedia featu ... read more |
| True Circuits PLLs Selected by Icera |
April 25, 2006 -- True Circuits, Inc., a leading provider of analog and mixed-signal intellectual property (IP), today announced that multiple instances of its Phase-Locked Loop (PLL) hard macros have been used by fabless semiconductor co ... read more |
| Synopsys Qualifies Automotive Industry Standard VHDL-AMS Models for Use with Saber Simulator |
April 25, 2006 -- Synopsys, Inc. has qualified the VHDL-AMS models available through the FAT-AK30 working group of the German automotive organization Verband der Automobilindustrie (VDA)* to run in the Synopsys Saber simulator for use by ... read more |
| 43rd Design Automation Conference Previews Technical Program Highlights Featured |
April 24, 2006 -- The Design Automation Conference (DAC) has announced program highlights for the 43rd DAC, to be held July 24-28, 2006, at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. This year's technical program was selected from the record nu ... read more |
| NVIDIA Adopts Synopsys' Design Compiler Topographical Technology |
April 24, 2006 -- Synopsys, Inc. today announced that NVIDIA Corp. is deploying the "topographical technology" in Synopsys' Design Compiler Ultra to increase the competitiveness and accelerate time-to-market for its next-generation design ... read more |
| Actel Receives DSCC SMD Numbers |
April 24,2006 -- Actel Corp. today announced that the Defense Supplier Center Columbus (DSCC) has released Standard Microcircuit Drawing (SMD) numbers for Actel's high-reliability, radiation-tolerant RTAX2000S, RTAX1000S and RTAX250S devi ... read more |
| Lattice Adds Programmable Power Supply Trimming IC to Power Manager II Product Family |
April 24, 2006 -- Lattice Semiconductor Corp. has announced the ispPAC-POWR6AT6 device, the latest addition to its Power Manager II product family. The ispPAC-POWR6AT6 device provides margining, selectable output levels and voltage monito ... read more |
| Actel ProASIC3 FPGAs Selected for Miniature USB-Based Test and Measurement Equipment |
April 24, 2006 -- Actel Corp. today announced that its single-chip, flash-based ProASIC3 FPGAs have been selected for use within the USBscope50, part of Elan Digital Systems' portfolio of miniature USB-based test and measurement equipment ... read more |
| Celoxica Unveils FPGA Acceleration Solution for AMD Opteron Processor-Based Systems |
April 24, 2006 -- Celoxica, Ltd. and DRC Computer Corp. have announced the availability of a computing workstation that couples the AMD Opteron processor with a dynamically reconfigurable co-processor module manufactured by DRC and ... read more |
| Gradient Launches CircuitFire 3D Temperature Analysis for Analog/Mixed-Signal IC Designs |
April 24, 2006 -- Throughout the analog/mixed-signal IC design flow - from early design exploration to final sign-off - chip architects, circuit designers, and layout designers are feeling more pressure from the need for an accurate understandin ... read more |
| HyperTransport Consortium Maintains Interconnect Performance Leadership with New 3.0 Specification |
April 24, 2006 -- The HyperTransport Consortium has released version 3.0 of the HyperTransport specification. The new standard nearly doubles the bandwidth and speed of the previous HyperTransport 2.0 specification. In addition, HyperTran ... read more |
| Denali Announces Simulation Models for Spansion's MirrorBit ORNAND Flash Memory Products |
April 24, 2006 -- Denali Software, Inc. has announced the availability of simulation models for Spansion's MirrorBit ORNAND Flash memory products. Developed by Denali in cooperation with Spansion, the new simulation models enable s ... read more |
| Lattice Semiconductor Delivers Enhanced ispLEVER 6.0 Design Tools |
April 24, 2006 -- Lattice Semiconductor Corp. has announced the immediate availability of its ispLEVER 6.0 programmable logic design tool suite. Fully supporting the newest 90-nm LatticeECP2 and LatticeSC FPGA families, ispLEVER 6.0 boa ... read more |
| Magma's Quartz DRC Qualified on TSMC 90-nm and 65-nm Processes |
April 24, 2006 -- Magma Design Automation, Inc. today announced that Quartz DRC has been qualified for designs targeted to TSMC's (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company) 90- and 65-nm processes. Quartz DRC is architected to verify an ... read more |
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