| Embedded FPGA targets 65nm
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2006-11-07 |
| Claiming to be already delivering the densest embedded FPGA (eFPGA) at the 90nm manufacturing node, M2000 SA is in the process of preparing FPGA IP targeting 65nm designs. |
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| Atrenta India shares design activity plans
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2006-10-30 |
| Sushil Chander Gupta, vice-president and managing director of Atrenta India, discussed with EE Times India the company's R&D operations at its Noida design centre, the enhancements planned for its product suite during the year, and the planned expansion of its design centre activity. |
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| Engineers publish book on IC verification
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2006-10-16 |
| Engineers Mike Mintz and Robert Ekendahl have partnered and published a book on IC verification with C++ and launched a website with free open-source tools that can help IC verification teams. |
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| CranesSci MEMS awarded provisional patent for sensing element design
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2006-10-16 |
| CranesSci MEMS Lab has been awarded a provisional patent for its design of a sensing element for a MEMS microphone and is waiting for the final approval of the patent. |
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| Industry players discuss standard for Open DFM
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2006-10-04 |
| Participants of the Open DFM Model Workshop have explored issues ranging from DFM flows to encryption and identified possible next steps. |
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| Self-healing chip detects, repairs defects
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2006-10-03 |
| Semiconductor Research Corp. and the National Science Foundation are funding a groundbreaking research effort into "self-healing" chips that can detect and repair defects in the field. The three-year research project will fund work by two principal investigators from the University of Michigan. |
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| Virage Logic adopts Synopsys' HSPICE simulator
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2006-09-25 |
| Synopsys Inc. has announced that Virage Logic Corp. has adopted Synopsys' HSPICE simulator as its sign-off simulator for library characterisation. |
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| Synopsys, Nikon to develop 45nm solutions
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2006-09-22 |
| Synopsys Inc. and Nikon Corp. have joined forces to develop and deliver advanced lithography software models and DFM-enabled lithography manufacturing solutions for 45nm and below. |
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| Agilent, Peregrine sign multi-year agreement on RFIC tools
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2006-09-20 |
| Agilent Technologies Inc. has announced a multi-year, multi-site agreement in which Peregrine Semiconductor has expanded its investment in Agilent's RFIC design tools, designed to boost productivity and production yields. |
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| NI declares 20th anniversary edition of LabVIEW
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2006-09-18 |
| National Instruments (NI) has recently launched LabVIEW 8.20, and has extended the popular graphical programming platform with communications design and simulation test tools for telecom design and test engineers |
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| CADES to invest Rs.69 crore for operation expansion
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2006-09-14 |
| CADES Digitech Ltd has planned to invest around Rs.69 crore in the next two years for expanding its operations in India and overseas. |
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| Agilent licenses 3D EM simulation tech from Remcon
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2006-09-14 |
| Agilent Technologies and privately held Remcom announced that Agilent has licensed 3D electro-magnetic simulation technology from Remcom |
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| Cadence, SMIC develop 90nm reference flow
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2006-09-08 |
| Cadence and China's SMIC have jointly developed the low-power digital reference flow to support SMIC's 90nm process technology. |
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| Cadence, Mentor battle over high-speed IC design
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2006-09-01 |
| Lack of standards for simulating chip interconnects as they scale up to 5Gbps and beyond has pitted Cadence and Mentor in fight for competing solutions. |
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| Haier IC adopts Mentor's Eldo simulator
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2006-08-25 |
| Haier IC has adopted Mentor Graphics Corp.'s Eldo simulator as its standard SPICE simulator for analogue circuit design. |
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| Synopsys acquires SIGMA-C for Rs.95.2 crore
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2006-08-21 |
| Synopsys Inc. has completed the acquisition of SIGMA-C Software AG in an all-cash transaction of Rs.95.20 crore ($20.5 million). |
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| Mentor paid Rs.24.61 crore for EverCad
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2006-08-16 |
| EverCad, the circuit simulation/analysis tool provider that Mentor Graphics quietly acquired in January, carried a price tag of Rs.24.61 crore ($5.3 million), according to a recent Mentor regulatory filing |
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| Sierra Design offers alternative to traditional P&R solutions
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2006-08-09 |
| Sierra Design Automation has recently that announced Olympus-SoC is positioned to offer physical IC designers an alternative to traditional P&R solutions. |
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| Mentor releases support package for ARM Cortex-M3 processor
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2006-08-09 |
| Mentor Graphics Corp. has announced the availability of the first Mentor processor support package for the ARM Cortex-M3 processor. |
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| Ansoft upgrades ePhysics
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2006-08-07 |
| Ansoft Corp. has released ePhysics v2 to provides dynamic-link co-simulation of thermal and stress analysis with HFSS and Maxwell 3D |
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| Celoxica compiler delivers high levels of design abstraction
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2006-07-31 |
| Celoxica has enhanced C++ coding support in its Agility Compiler high level design tool. |
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| PLDA, Rapid Bridge join hands to produce ASIC solution
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2006-07-27 |
| PLDApplications (PLDA) and Rapid Bridge Systems have announced an agreement to pool their PCIe proficiency to produce an ASIC solution. |
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| Agilent announces test platform for wireless systems
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2006-07-26 |
| Agilent Technologies Inc. has announced a test platform that enables easy and thorough system-level testing for wireless networking and cellular communications systems. |
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| Accellera approves new VHDL standard
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2006-07-26 |
| Accellera's members have approved a new VHDL standard, a VHDL Applications Programming Interface (API) known as VHPI on June 28. |
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| Mentor integrates fast-SPICE with ADMS
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2006-07-14 |
| Mentor Graphics Corp. has announced the integration of the fast-SPICE simulation technology with its mixed-signal simulation platform, ADMS |
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| Summit Design launches IP initiative
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2006-07-13 |
| Summit Design Inc. has launched its Intellectual Property (IP) Initiative, which aims to address IP interoperability issues at the system level. |
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| Ansoft simulation software accepted into Cadence Program
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2006-07-12 |
| Ansoft Corp. has announced that its Nexxim, the company's circuit simulation software for high-performance IC design and signal-integrity analysis, has been accepted into Cadence's Connections Program |
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| Aldec appoints Advinno as ASEAN distributor
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2006-07-06 |
| Aldec Inc. has announced its appointment of Advinno Technologies as their sole distributor for Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Philippines and Vietnam. |
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| RoboCup soccer kicked off in Germany
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2006-06-19 |
| While the rest of Europe stays glued to the World Cup matches, the 10th annual RoboCup soccer event for robots kicked off in Bremen, Germany. |
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| PCIe shifts gear into v2.0
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2006-06-13 |
| The 2.5Gbps PCI Express interconnect is slowly shifting gears into a 2.0 version. |
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