| Cadence and Dassault Systemes Expand Relationship for Greater Control and Management of Semiconductor Design Data |
September 20, 2011 -- Dassault Systemes has announced an expansion of its long-standing relationship with Cadence Design Systems, Inc. Designed to drive greater control and management of core product intellectual property (IP) duri ... read more |
| MStar Licenses Imagination Technologies' PowerVR Graphics IP Technologies |
September 20, 2011 -- Imagination Technologies, Ltd. has signed a multi-use license agreement with MStar Semiconductor, Inc. for IP from Imagination's PowerVR SGX Series5XT graphics family. MStar will deploy Imagination's technolog ... read more |
| Mentor Graphics and NuFlare Technology Extend Collaboration to Address Advanced Maskwriting Challenges |
September 20, 2011 -- Mentor Graphics Corp. and NuFlare Technology, Inc. today announced the extension of their collaboration on integrated hardware and software solutions for advanced IC mask generation. The companies' new joint marketin ... read more |
| Coherent Logix Announces Reference Designs for Image Processing and Sensor Markets Using the HyperX Reconfigurable 100-Core Processor |
September 19, 2011 -- Coherent Logix, Inc. has announced the release of reference designs for advanced signal-processing applications in imaging and sensor markets. These reference designs are suitable for a wide range of high-volume prod ... read more |
| Cosmic Circuits Announces Extensive 28-nm Roadmap |
September 19, 2011 -- Cosmic Circuits Pvt., Ltd. has announced its 28-nm roadmap. Cosmic Circuits has several IPs in various stages of development in 28-nm technology, including system-clocking PLLs, MIPI DPHY and MPHY, wireless AFE and m ... read more |
| Cortus Closes New Round of Investment to Fund Three-Year Development Plan |
September 19, 2011 -- Cortus SA has announced the closure of a funding round. The investment from financial partners Credit Agricole Entreprises and Banque Dupuy de Parseval and institutional partners OSEO and the Region of Languedoc-Rous ... read more |
| Atollic Unveils TrueStudio for ARM |
September 19, 2011 -- Atollic AB has announced a major extension of its offering for embedded systems development tools with the unveiling of Atollic TrueStudio for ARM. Engineers that are developing embedded systems on ARM processor-base ... read more |
| Synopsys Joins CEA-Leti's Imagine Program on Maskless Lithography |
September 19, 2011 -- CEA-Leti today announced that Synopsys, Inc. has joined the Imagine program designed to develop maskless lithography for IC manufacturing. Synopsys is the 10th industrial partner to join Imagine. CEA-Leti and ... read more |
| ARM and Mentor Graphics Define Comprehensive Test Methodology for Arm-Based Designs |
September 19, 2011 -- Mentor Graphics Corp. today announced a comprehensive solution, jointly developed by Mentor and ARM, for manufacturing test of ARM processor-based designs. The reference flow provides documentation, seamless i ... read more |
| Mentor Graphics Adds User Defined Fault Models and Cell-Aware ATPG to Improve IC Test Quality |
September 19, 2011 -- Mentor Graphics Corp. today announced new capabilities in the Tessent TestKompress and the Tessent FastScan tools that enable higher defect coverage and lower defect-per-million (DPM) levels for quality-critical appl ... read more |
| Methodics Expands Global Sales Organization |
September 19, 2011 -- Methodics LLC, a provider of integrated solutions used in managing design data and semiconductor intellectual property (IP), has expaned its global sales organization with the addition of two chip-industry veterans i ... read more |
| IDT Accelerates Verification Schedule Using NextOp Assertion Synthesis |
September 19, 2011 -- NextOp Software, Inc. today announced that IDT Corp. has signed a multi-year, multi-license agreement for NextOp's BugScope assertion synthesis technology. BugScope automatically generates assertions and functional c ... read more |
| Gartner Says Worldwide Semiconductor Sales Slowing Rapidly Featured |
September 19, 2011 -- Worldwide semiconductor revenue has slowed in 2011, and the market is on pace to have revenue total $299 billion, a decline of 0.1% from 2010, according to Gartner, Inc. This outlook is down from Gartner's previous p ... read more |
| S2C Brings Its Verification Module Technology to Xilinx Prototyping Systems |
September 19, 2011 – S2C, Inc. announced that its Verification Module Technology (patent pending) is now available for its Xilinx based FPGA prototyping systems. The V6 TAI Verification Module enables the high-speed transfer of massive da ... read more |
| Corelis Releases New CD Version 7.6 Boundary-Scan Tool Suite |
September 14, 2011 -- Inc. has announced the availability of the latest version of its ScanExpress Boundary-Scan Tool Suite. According to Corelis, the new Version 7.6 CD is the first test tool to include JTAG embedded test (JET) support f ... read more |
| SRS Labs Expands Portfolio of Audio Solutions Available for Tensilica HiFi DSP Cores |
September 14, 2011 -- SRS Labs, Inc. announced today that it has expanded its audio-processing IP portfolio offering for Inc. processors. Chip manufacturers who license Tensilica's HiFi 2 and HiFi EP DSP cores are now able to quick ... read more |
| Imagination and Orca Partner to Deliver Highly Integrated TV Receiver Solutions |
September 14, 2011 -- Imagination Technologies, Ltd. and Orca Systems, Inc. are developing new solutions for combined RF and baseband targeting future generations of digital and connected TVs.
Orca has licensed Ima ... read more |
| Cavium Selects Tensilica for Next-Generation Wireless Broadband Application |
September 14, 2011 -- Tensilica, Inc. today announced that Cavium Networks, Inc. has licensed Tensilica's IP for its next-generation wireless broadband products. The Tensilica products selected include Tensilica's popular Baseband IP spec ... read more |
| UMC Delivers Foundry Industry's Most Compact MTP IP Solution |
September 13, 2011 -- UMC (United Microelectronics Corp.) today announced the successful completion of a joint development project with Yield Microelectronics Corporation (YMC) to deliver the foundry industry's most compact multiple-time ... read more |
| NanGate Releases New 45-nm Open Cell Library Through Si2 |
September 13, 2011 -- The Silicon Integration Initiative, Inc. (Si2) announced today the availability of the new NanGate, Inc. open-source 45-nm standard-cell library, which is available for download from the Si2 website. The new r ... read more |
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