| Cadence, SMIC jointly develop RF design solution
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2007-08-06 |
| Cadence has joined hands with SMIC to develop RF design solution that will help chip designers in China to design and deliver high-quality RF devices. |
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| UK trade dept awards CDT to develop EDA for organic apps
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2007-07-19 |
| A consortium of CDT and Silvaco has been granted Rs.2.04 crore ($500,000) to extend the use of EDA software to organic semiconductor materials and accelerate the dvlt of low-cost fabrication techniques for organic displays |
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| Multicore shakes up EDA industry
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2007-07-16 |
| The EDA vendors accept that though multi-core platforms provide much-needed compute power as transistor counts soar at 65nm and below, but they can prove a cause of concern for legacy apps that could be difficult or even impossible to parallelise. |
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| SoftMEM's tools add MEMS to EDA software
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2007-07-03 |
| SoftMEM's toolsets, when integrated with existing EDA tool sets, enables EEs to co-design electronics-with-MEMS chips without having to have the deep MEMS knowledge of a guru. |
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| Agilent expands design platform tech
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2007-06-08 |
| Agilent Technologies is planning to increase investments in RF/microwave design and simulation technologies to provide a full spectrum of software tools to designers |
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| Chandran Nair explains NI's strategy for test
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2007-05-16 |
| Chandran Nair, managing director of NI Southeast Asia, talks about how the company has moved from the test and measurement domain to the embedded turf. |
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| Cell-mainframe hybrid to handle virtual world simulations
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2007-05-02 |
| IBM and Hoplon Infotainment collaborate to integrate the Cell Broadband Engine in mainframe to create a hybrid capable of handling a new generation of "virtual world" applications, such as the 3D Internet. |
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| Cell-mainframe hybrid handles 3D simulations
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2007-04-30 |
| IBM and Hoplon Infotainment collaborate to integrate the Cell Broadband Engine in mainframe to create a hybrid capable of handling a new generation of "virtual world" applications, such as the 3D Internet. |
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| FPGA use in HPCs faces bottleneck problems
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2007-04-02 |
| Current FPGA synthesis, placement and routing tools are written for hardware designers, not software programmers. A new generation of ESL C-language compilers is attempting to bridge the gap |
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| Agilent to set up R&D modelling centre
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2007-02-08 |
| Agilent Technologies Inc. has announced its plans to expand its investment in its IC-CAP device modelling software and establish a new R&D modelling centre in Asia |
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| Spansion joins Denali's software program
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2007-02-07 |
| To further leverage its position in the industry, Spansion has joined Denali Software's MVP. This provides chip designers with high-quality simulation models and other engineering resources to efficiently deploy Spansion flash devices into electronic designs |
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| Mentor, EVE settle patent infringement case
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2007-01-15 |
| Mentor Graphics Corp. and emulation provider EVE Corp. have settled a previously unpublicised patent infringement lawsuit, disclosed the two companies. The legal action was pending in the United States District Court of Oregon. |
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| Cadence incisive formal verifier selected for Ubicom's logic design team
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2007-01-08 |
| Cadence Design Systems Inc. has announced that Ubicom has incorporated the Cadence Incisive Formal Verifier solution into its overall design flow. |
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| Mentor to focus on R&D centres in India
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2006-12-21 |
| Mentor Graphics will strengthen its focus on building centres of excellence within its India R&D operations. Its R&D centres in India, located in Hyderabad and Noida, concentrate on developing technology as well as products, in distinct areas. |
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| Cadence CEO discusses emerging trends in semicon design
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2006-12-06 |
| Michael J. Fister, president and CEO, Cadence Design Systems Inc., says that's as design complexity across custom ICs, digital ICs, PCB and packaging increases, a holistic level of capabilities are now required from semiconductor design and EDA companies alike. |
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| Taiwan's CIC licenses ARM processors
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2006-12-05 |
| ARM has announced that the National Chip Implementation Centre (CIC), an organisation that promotes IC design and innovation in Taiwan, has licensed the ARM7TDMI and ARM926EJ-S processors. |
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| VLSI design conference to focus on nano-electronics
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2006-11-16 |
| The 20th international conference on VLSI design and the 6th international conference on embedded systems will be held from January 6-10, 2007 at the NIMHANS Convention Centre, Bangalore. |
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| ARM appoints Tata Elxsi as first approved design centre
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2006-11-13 |
| Tata Elxsi Ltd has been appointed as the first approved design centre of the UK-based ARM Embedded Technologies Ltd to develop software and embedded applications for silicon vendors |
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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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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