| Automotive MCUs get flexible
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2008-06-17 |
| A flexible microcontroller is cost-effective and may be specified exactly to customer requirements. |
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| EDA still software challenged, says analyst.
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2008-06-16 |
| Founder and chief analyst for Gary Smith EDA said at DAC that software development is still the biggest challenge in SoC design. |
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| Implement an FPGA ASIC prototype
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2008-06-16 |
| ASIC designers think they can best meet their requirements by prototyping the functional equivalents of their designs as FPGAs. |
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| Can compute-farms solve the problem on parallel programming?
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2008-06-13 |
| Compute-farms raises a question on the probability on making progress on the general parallel programming problem. |
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| Synopsys define 'first' low-power verification methodology
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2008-06-05 |
| Synopsys has collaborated with ARM and Renesas Technology to define the industry's first low-power verification methodology |
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| TSMC introduces 40-nm design flow
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2008-06-05 |
| TSMC is set to roll out its latest design methodology for IC production at the 40-nanometer node. |
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| Planarity flow qualified for TSMC's IC manufacturing
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2008-06-03 |
| Mentor Graphics' calibre model-based planarity flow has qualified for TSMC's 65 and 40nm processes. |
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| Aeroflex, Innowireless team up for 3GPP LTE
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2008-05-30 |
| Aeroflex and Innowireless have formed a partnership to accelerate 3GPP LTE development. |
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| Agilent to show innovations in DAC
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2008-05-29 |
| Agilent will participate in the Design Automation Conference to showcase its latest signal integrity design and RFIC verification innovations |
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| Outsourced IC design starts grew by 20%
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2008-05-27 |
| Chip design outsourcing starts has grown by 20 per cent in 2007, reports Gartner Inc. |
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| VeriSilicon joins Power Forward Initiative
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2008-05-14 |
| VeriSilicon has joined the Power Forward Initiative and plans to offer CPF-based design solutions. |
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| GSA sees fabless future for chips industry
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2008-05-07 |
| GSA chairman predicts the dominance of the fabless model in the semiconductor industry. |
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| IP experts agree rules need to be modified
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2008-04-22 |
| Government needs to overhaul the overarching patent system and industry needs to hammer out new practices at silicon, software and system levels, according to speakers at the Intellectual Property Symposium. |
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| Photomask verification for 45nm logic masks
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2008-04-22 |
| Brion Technologies and DNP have successful demonstrated a model-based photomask verification on critical 45nm logic masks |
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| Indian firms eye tie-ups to drive business
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2008-04-04 |
| A number of Indian electronics companies are embracing the philosophy that they must find partners to help conceive and design new products as quickly as possible. |
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| Springsoft to acquire Novas shares
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2008-04-04 |
| Springsoft and Novas have signed an agreement for Springsoft to acquire all the outstanding shares of Novas that it does not already own. |
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| Synplicity announces acquisition by Synopsys
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2008-03-31 |
| Synplicity has announced it has signed a definitive agreement to be acquired by Synopsys. |
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| Real deal on Synopsys' Synplicity buyout
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2008-03-25 |
| Synopsys has inked an agreement to acquire Synplicity for Rs.315.83 ($8) cash per share. |
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| Synopsys qualifies its IC compiler
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2008-03-20 |
| Synopsys has announced the qualification of its IC Compiler that offers designers an assured path to design- rule-correct physical implementation |
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| Magma participates as technical member in SOI consortium
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2008-03-12 |
| Magma has joined the SOI Industry Consortium as a technical member, joining 20 other companies from across the electronics industry covering a spectrum of users, enablers, suppliers and manufacturers. |
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| PrimeYield LCC enables litho-clean tapeout
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2008-03-05 |
| Synopsys, Inc has announced that LGE has successfully discovered and fixed lithography hotspots in its HDTV application chipset using Synopsys' PrimeYield LCC. |
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| Synopsys collaborates with Fujitsu for virtual platform technology
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2008-03-04 |
| Synopsys has announced collaboration with Fujitsu to provide advanced virtual platform technology to customers as a Fujitsu Cedar- ESL services provider. |
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| VLSI trends: Scaling CMOS to its limit
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2008-02-16 |
| Over 1,000 technologists, researchers, experts and students converged in the city of Hyderabad on Jan. 5, 2008 to attend the VLSI Conference. Dipti Agarwal reports. |
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| EDA tools aid in drug design
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2008-02-12 |
| EDA industry veterans have said that techniques used for chip design can be adopted for new drug discovery and development. |
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| Rockwell Collins to set up design centre in Hyderabad
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2008-02-11 |
| US-based Rockwell Collins is opening its first engineering design centre outside of the US at Hyderabad in October this year, reports Times of India. |
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| ARC boosts mobile multimedia SoC design
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2008-02-01 |
| ARC International is refining a devt platform that claims to change the way mobile multimedia systems are designed. The company also announced an initiative that offers startups up to Rs.3.95 crore ($1 million) in seed funding. |
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| Toshiba deploys Cadence ultraslim simulator
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2008-01-31 |
| Cadence has announced that Toshiba has deployed its Virtuoso UltraSim full-chip simulator for reliability analysis at 65nm and below to help ensure high performance and improve yield and quality of devices. |
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| Trio offers UPF-based low-power EDA tools
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2008-01-24 |
| Magma, Mentor and Synopsys have developed Accellera?s UPF 1.0 standard-based EDA tools with enhanced key low-power capabilities. |
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| Xilinx CEO shares his plans, challenges
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2008-01-17 |
| Xilinx's new CEO sheds light on his plans in his first year in office, ponders on where the FPGA industry is heading and shares the best advise his predecessor have for him. |
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| EDA continues its gradual shift out of N. America
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2008-01-17 |
| The latest EDAC figures show that chip and electronic design industry is continuing its gradual shift out of N. America. However, most of the EDA revenue continues to come presumably from China and India. |
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