| Avery Design Systems Performs RTL At-Speed DFT Testability Analysis |
January 24, 2011 -- Avery Design Systems, Inc. has developed a new capability for its Insight formal analysis tool which performs RTL at-speed DFT coverage estimation and repair analysis. Insight targets several early RTL formal analysis ... read more |
| Microchip Expands 32-bit PIC Microcontroller Portfolio with Additional Memory Options |
January 24, 2011 -- Microchip Technology, Inc. today announced a new, six-member family of 32-bit PIC32MX5/6/7 microcontrollers that provides the same integrated Ethernet, CAN, USB and serial connectivity peripherals with new, more cost-e ... read more |
| Avery Design Systems Synthesizes Microarchitecture-Level Assertions and Coverage Properties |
January 24, 2011 -- Avery Design Systems, Inc. has developed a new capability for Insight formal analysis tool which automatically synthesizes assertions and coverage properties and automates assertion and coverage based verification meth ... read more |
| STARC Advances Test of Low-Power ICs Using Mentor Graphics Tessent TestKompress |
January 24, 2011 -- Mentor Graphics Corp. today announced that the Semiconductor Technology Academic Research Center, STARC, has successfully employed the Tessent TestKompress product to expand its low-power IC-test methodology for ICs us ... read more |
| NXP Semiconductors Launches Android Application |
January 24, 2011 -- NXP Semiconductors today introduced the NXP Android application, allowing easy and fast access to NXP's complete product portfolio. The free mobile application allows engineers to search, buy and share information on o ... read more |
| True Circuits PLLs Used by ARM in Verification of Cortex-A9 Microprocessor Cores |
January 24, 2011 -- True Circuits, Inc. (TCI) announced today that ARM is using clock generator PLL designs from TCI in a test chip for the ARM Cortex-A9 microprocessor core to validate it in TSMC's 40-nm general-purpose process technolog ... read more |
| NEC to Market CyberWorkBench VLSI Design Software Suite in North America |
January 24, 2011 -- NEC Corp. will market its CyberWorkBench (CWB) C and SystemC synthesis VLSI design suite in North America. NEC is partnering with EDATechForce, LLC for local distribution.
CWB is a complete VLSI devel ... read more |
| STARC and Cadence Develop In-Design DFM for 32/28-nm Silicon Realization |
January 24, 2011 -- Cadence Design Systems, Inc. has teamed with the Semiconductor Technology Academic Research Center (STARC) and created a new Cadence-based 32/28-nm design-for-manufacturing (DFM) flow. Using the Encounter Digita ... read more |
| Tilera Raises $45 Million |
January 24, 2011 -- Tilera Corp., developer of the TILE family of many-core processors for cloud computing and communications, today announced a round of financing, led by Artis Capital Management, that included investment from WestSummit ... read more |
| Xtreme Compute Technologies Announces New r-BriX Line of FPGA-Powered Solutions |
January 24, 2011 -- Xtreme Compute Technologies, LLC (XCT) has announced availability of its r-BriX line of FPGA-accelerated systems using advanced co-processing hardware from Stone Ridge Technology (SRT). The r-BriX line of FGPA-a ... read more |
| Avery Design Systems Enhances USB Solution for xHCI and UASP |
January 24, 2011 -- Avery Design Systems, Inc. has announced updates to the USB-Xactor verification solution supporting the xHCI 1.0 and USB Mass Storage Class protocols for USB Serial Attached SCSI (UASP) and Bulk Only Transfer (BOT). US ... read more |
| Spreadtrum Standardizes on Cadence Design Flow for Its First 40-nm Product |
January 20, 2011 -- Cadence Design Systems, Inc. today announced that Spreadtrum Communications Corp., a provider of baseband and RF processor solutions for the wireless communications, migrated to the Cadence Silicon Realization f ... read more |
| Elliptic Launches Security Processing Engine for 4G Wireless Markets |
January 20, 2011 -- Elliptic Technologies, Inc. is expanding its line of security protocol accelerators with the introduction of SPAcc-LTE, a highly efficient security-processing engine for the rapidly developing 4G mobile wireless market ... read more |
| S2C Opens Direct Office in Taiwan |
January 20, 2011 -- S2C, Inc. has opened a direct office in HsinChu, Taiwan. The office is located near the HsinChu Science Park and will provide direct sales, superior technical support and local hardware maintenance to S2C customers in ... read more |
| New Funding Enables Expansion of Presto's Integrated Test and Product Engineering Solutions |
January 21, 2011 -- Presto Engineering, Inc. has received $6 million in funding to support its expansion and future growth in servicing the worldwide semiconductor industry. This round of funding was led by CM-CIC Capital Prive and includ ... read more |
| CEA-Leti and Shinko Sign Common-Lab Agreement to Work on Advanced Packaging Technology |
January 21, 2011 -- CEA-Leti today announced it has signed a multiyear agreement with Shinko Electric Industries Co., Ltd. to develop advanced semiconductor packaging technology.
The work, which will be part of Le ... read more |
| NextOp Software Selects Verific Design Automation SystemVerilog |
January 20, 2011 -- Verific Design Automation, Inc. announced today that NextOp Software, Inc. has licensed its software for use with the NextOp assertion-based verification solutions that allow design and verification teams to unc ... read more |
| Azuro CTS Adopted by SiBEAM for Complex Multi-Mode SOC Design |
January 19, 2011 -- Azuro, Inc. today announced that SiBEAM, Inc. has adopted Azuro’s clock tree synthesis (CTS) solution.
"CTS has become one of the critical bottlenecks in physical design. It typically takes a l ... read more |
| AMD Delivers First APU for Embedded Systems |
January 19, 2011 -- Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD) today announced immediate availability of the new the first Accelerated Processing Unit (APU) for embedded systems. The AMD Embedded G-Series, based on AMD Fusion technology, delivers ... read more |
| Calypto Extends Power Optimization Capabilities with PowerPro 4.1 |
January 18, 2011 -- Calypto Design Systems, Inc. today announced the release of PowerPro 4.1, the latest version of the the company's advanced RTL power-optimization product family. 4.1 offers new power-optimization and enhanced-usability ... read more |
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