| Xilinx, EDA giants address 65nm FPGA verification
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2007-08-17 |
| Xilinx has collaborated with three major EDA companies to define and implement new verification flows to maximise productivity for ultrahigh-density designs targeting today's 65nm FPGAs |
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| 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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| IBM, HKSTP partner to leverage IBM's semi techs in APAC
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2007-07-18 |
| IBM and HKSTP have teamed to make IBM's foundry technologies and IP more accessible to regional tech start-ups, fabless companies and multinational chip design teams through MPW services and LVP. |
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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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| Synopsys, UMC collaborate on 65/90nm connectivity IP
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2007-07-05 |
| Synopsys has collaborated with UMC to port its DesignWare USB 2.0, PCI Express, SATA and XAUI PHY semiconductor IP to UMC's 90nm and 65nm technologies. |
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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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| Synopsys acquires ArchPro
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2007-06-20 |
| Synopsys has acquired ArchPro Design Automation to extend its leadership in low power design and verification |
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| BEL delivers spacecraft components to ISRO
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2007-06-19 |
| BEL has delivered two Flight Model Travelling Wave Tubes (TWTs) that are Space-Qualified Components used on board Communication Satellites to ISRO. |
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| Industry tackles approach to DFM, DFY issues
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2007-06-18 |
| Experts from chip, EDA and foundry companies ask whether it's better to deal with DFM and DFY issues at tape-out or minister to the design starting at the register transfer level. |
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| Advanced low-power modes stump IC designers
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2007-06-18 |
| While EDA vendors are still fighting over two low-power formats, a larger problem may have been obscured: Low-power techniques are so difficult that a rethinking of the entire IC design flow may be needed. |
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| Mentor rivals unfazed over Sierra Design acquisition
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2007-06-14 |
| Mentor Graphics' acquisition of Sierra cannot threaten the positions of the three dominating players in 65/45nm IC design market, believes Mentor's rivals Synopsys, Cadence and Magma Design. |
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| Mentor Graphics acquires Sierra Design
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2007-06-13 |
| Mentor Graphics acquisition of Sierra Design Automation provides the integration that customers need between physical design, and back-end verification and yield-enhancement |
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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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| Synplicity acquires Hardi Electronics
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2007-06-05 |
| Synplicity has acquired Hardi Electronics for Rs.102.29 crore ($24.2 million) to strengthen its ASIC verification strategy |
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| IC designers analyse DFM tools
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2007-06-01 |
| IC design experts believed that DFM is best addressed through design rules, preverified blocks and improved standard-cell libraries, said the experts. |
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| ESC chips capitalise on MEMS tech
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2007-06-01 |
| Freescale's ESC-capable combo MEMS sensor for vehicles uses a combination of low-G sensors and gyros to achieve angular momentum outputs in addition to acceleration. |
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| Low power challenges push for system-level EDA
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2007-06-01 |
| It is logical and imminent that the power format standard will evolve to address the current gaps in low-power design. However, how soon the CPF and UPF camps will find common ground for agreement is anyone's guess. |
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| Mentor, UMC address AMS needs
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2007-05-30 |
| Mentor Graphics and UMC have collaborated to develop a mixed-signal design flow that includes an integrated environment for design capture, data management and verification |
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| Fujitsu, Mentor to improve DFM capabilities
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2007-05-25 |
| Mentor Graphics announced that Fujitsu will use Mentor's Calibre LFD to allow its fabless customers to create designs and check them to ensure they are hot-spot free. |
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| Multi-core pushes RTOS, tool revisions
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2007-05-17 |
| RTOS and tool providers are improving model-driven design, virtual prototyping and C-language compilation to spur multi-core programming and debugging. |
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| Taiwan IC design houses provide system design services
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2007-05-17 |
| According to EE Times-Taiwan's "2007 Taiwan IC Design House Survey, the chipmakers are showing a strong trend towards designing for high-end CE applications. |
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| Cosmic backs Asia foray with IP integration support
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2007-05-16 |
| During the past six months, Cosmic Circuits Pvt. Ltd has been rapidly expanding its presence in key markets in Asia and the Middle East through its partner networks. |
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| Agilent, Mentor team to ease auto product verification
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2007-05-11 |
| Agilent and Mentor Graphics' collaboration complements Agilent's physical layer test tools with Mentor's vehicle protocol analysis and node emulation products |
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| Start-up aims to become "TSMC of design"
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2007-05-08 |
| Indian start-up LogicFab is working on 90nm and 65nm in a design services business and will take on analogue and mixed-signal work in addition to digital design, informed its creator Rahul Sud. |
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| Rift dims hope of power spec merger
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2007-05-02 |
| The disagreement among the backers of two available rival specification formats for low-power IC design, UPF and CPF, in terms of the method of occurrence of convergence, dims hope for their merger. |
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| RadioScape selects Blackfin for mobile TV receiver
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2007-05-02 |
| DAB software developer RadioScape will use ADI's Blackfin processor as its mobile-TV platform for developing mobile TV receivers. |
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| Commoditisation threatens ASIC business
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2007-05-02 |
| The tumultuous ASIC business is undergoing a shakeout amid soaring design, verification and mask costs, coupled with the economic realities in the market |
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| AVLSI Consortium reveals projects underway
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2007-04-26 |
| IIT-Kharagpur's AVLSI Consortium met in March to review the status of current projects. EE Times India reports on the areas of industry-academia collaboration under the aegis of the consortium. |
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| ARM appoints new MD, India ops
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2007-04-25 |
| ARM has announced the appointment of Anil Gupta as managing director, India operations. |
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| Atrenta appoints industry veterans to expand European operations
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2007-04-18 |
| Atrenta Inc. announced the appointment of Dieter Rudolf and Martin McIntyre to help expand the company's Central and Northern European business operations. |
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