| Avery Design and ASIC Architect Team to Deliver Serial ATA (SATA) IP Solution |
July 25, 2006 -- Avery Design Systems, Inc. and ASIC Architect, Inc. have announced a cooperative effort to deliver a comprehensive Serial ATA (SATA) design and verification IP solution. Under the terms of the agreement, ASIC Archi ... read more |
| ARC International Opens Taiwan Training Center Dedicated to Configurability |
July 25, 2006 -- ARC International has opened a comprehensive training center for configurable processor technology in Hsinchu (the capital of Taiwan's multi-billion dollar semiconductor industry). The training center features senior ins ... read more |
| ARM and ArchPro Verify 65-nm Multi-Voltage SOC Before Silicon |
July 24, 2006 -- ARM and ArchPro Design Automation, Inc. today announced success in a joint R&D project to validate advanced multi-voltage power management design techniques. Employing ARM Intelligent Energy Manager (IEM) technolog ... read more |
| Ramtron Launches VRS51L3074 Design Contest for Design With the First FRAM-Enhanced 8051 MCU |
July 28, 2006 -- Ramtron International Corp. has launched the VRS51L3074 Design Contest, introducing design engineers to the first 8051-based microcontroller with nonvolatile FRAM memory. Ramtron has added FRAM into its Versa 8051s for a ... read more |
| DesignAdvance Enters China PCB Design Market |
July 27, 2006 -- DesignAdvance Systems, Inc. has entered into the Chinese PCB design market with the appointment of Shenzhen EDA Technologies Co., Ltd. as a distribution partner. Shenzhen EDA Technologies, a dedicated professional enginee ... read more |
| Altera Ships Industry's Highest Density FPGA with Embedded Transceivers |
July 24, 2006 -- Altera Corp. has begun shipping the Stratix II GX family's EP2SGX130 device, the largest FPGA with embedded transceivers. The EP2SGX130 features more than 132,000 equivalent logic elements (LEs), giving designers ample logic res ... read more |
| Agilent Technologies to Acquire Xpedion Design Systems |
July 27, 2006 -- Agilent Technologies, Inc. and Xpedion Design Systems, Inc. have signed a definitive agreement for Agilent to acquire Xpedion, a privately held company that provides software for wireless and high-speed digital ci ... read more |
| Mentor Graphics Calibre nmDRC Delivers Superior Productivity on the Intel Dual-Core Xeon 5160 Processor |
July 27, 2006 -- Mentor Graphics Corp. has announced that Calibre nmDRC, Mentor's next generation physical verification tool, is fully supported and qualified on the new Intel Dual-Core Xeon 5160 Processor. Calibre nmDRC with Hyperscaling ... read more |
| Mentor Graphics Calibre nmDRC Supports the AMD Opteron Processor |
July 27, 2006 -- Mentor Graphics Corp. has announced that the Calibre nmDRC tool, Mentor's next generation physical verification technology, is fully supported and qualified on the AMD Opteron processor. Calibre nmDRC demonstrated dramati ... read more |
| Denali to Work with the SPIRIT Consortium on Effort to Address Control Registers Featured |
July 26, 2006 -- Denali Software, Inc. today announced its intent to work with the SPIRIT Consortium on further development of IP-XACT to ensure that the Consortium data model is aligned with SystemRDL, the system description langu ... read more |
| Wind River Debuts Multiprocessing Solutions for the Freescale MPC8641D Dual Core Processor |
July 28, 2006 -- Wind River Systems, Inc. has demonstrated a complete end-to-end multicore solution optimized for the Freescale MPC8641D Dual Core Processor at the Freescale Technology Forum (FTF) in Orlando, Florida. Wind River optimized ... read more |
| Vitesse Semiconductor Delivers New Capacity and Performance Benchmarks with New High Speed Crosspoint Switches |
July 28, 2006 -- Vitesse Semiconductor Corp. has unveiled its latest high-speed crosspoint switches featuring higher capacity and advanced signal integrity technology. Featuring a per-port speed of up to 6.5Gbps and low-latency switching ... read more |
| CoWare Announces Open Release of SystemC Modeling Library Source Code |
July 26, 2006 -- CoWare, Inc. marked a major milestone in the development of its platform-driven ESL design strategy with the release of SystemC Modeling Library (SCML) source code and reuse methodology guidelines. Designed to protect use ... read more |
| Synopsys Donates Library of Advanced SystemVerilog Assertion Checkers to Accellera Featured |
July 26, 2006 -- Synopsys, Inc. has donated a library of advanced SystemVerilog assertion checkers defined in the ARM-Synopsys Verification Methodology Manual (VMM) for SystemVerilog to Accellera. Provided as SystemVerilog sour ... read more |
| AVID Electronics Adopts ARC Video Subsystem for Digital Audio/Video Applications |
July 25, 2006 -- ARC International today announced that AVID Electronics Corp. has taken a license for the ARC Video Subsystem. AVID is a Taiwan-based fabless IC design company that provides next generation multimedia solutions for ... read more |
| Celoxica Agility Compiler Delivers Higher Levels of Design Abstraction |
July 26, 2006 -- Celoxica, Ltd. has enhanced C++ coding support in its Agility Compiler high level design tool, raising the level of design abstraction above SystemC for designers who need to boost productivity and for programmers less fa ... read more |
| Mentor Graphics Calibre nmDRC Adopted for Sign-Off by UMC |
July 28, 2006 -- Mentor Graphics Corp. today announced that UMC (United Microelectronics Corp.) has adopted the Calibre nmDRC for its next generation process technology. Calibre DRC has long been a standard sign-off tool for physic ... read more |
| Mentor Graphics and ARM Validate Physical IP for Robustness to Lithographic Variation Using Calibre LFD |
July 28, 2006 -- Mentor Graphics Corp. today announced that the Calibre LFD (litho-friendly design) tool has been used to analyze the layout robustness of ARM Metro products, part of its Artisan physical IP (intellectual property) family ... read more |
| The MathWorks Introduces Link for Code Composer Studio Development Tools 2 |
July 25, 2006 -- The MathWorks, Inc. has announced the release of Link for Code Composer Studio Development Tools 2, which now enables developers deploying embedded software on TI's digital signal processors (DSP) and microcontrollers (M ... read more |
| Synopsys' PrimeYield Delivers Fast Turn-Around Time on Intel Dual-Core Xeon 5160 Processor |
July 25, 2006 -- Synopsys, Inc. today announced that IC designers can achieve fast runtimes when using Synopsys' new PrimeYield LCC module on Intel Dual-Core Xeon 5160 Processors. Part of the new Synopsys PrimeYield design-yield analysis ... read more |
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