| 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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| Revised VHDL spec boosts IP security
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2006-11-16 |
| The Accellera standards organisation has approved a revised version of the VHDL specification, marking a huge step forward for the design language. Pending IEEE approval, the revision will bring Property Specification Language (PSL) assertions into VHDL and will add capabilities for IP encryption |
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| VDA VHDL-AMS models run in Synopsys' simulator
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2006-04-28 |
| Synopsys has announced that it has qualified the VHDL-AMS models to run in the Synopsys Saber simulator for use by automotive OEMs and suppliers |
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| Synopsys donates power management tech to EDA org
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2006-09-21 |
| Synopsys Inc. has donated power management technology to Accellera. The donation includes power management commands, SystemVerilog constructs, VHDL constructs and the Switching Activity Interchange Format |
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| Engineer designs tool to generate logic specs
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2006-02-03 |
| After working in labs designing fault-tolerant flight-control systems, Dave McFarland came to realise that there's no good way to specify logic and look at all the possible combinations. So he built a tool to handle the job. |
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| Sub-$200 tools power 'farms' for verification
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2005-09-01 |
| Stanley Hyduke sees a not-so-distant future for the semiconductor industry in which companies are running thousands of simultaneous simulations to cope with the verification bottleneck. |
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| Denali spreads new word in ESL mart
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2005-10-03 |
| With a missionary zeal to establish standards and design methodologies, Denali Software leaps into the ESL market. |
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| Semtech adopts MathWorks for RF receiver dev't
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2011-11-15 |
| Semtech selects MathWorks' MATLAB and Simulink model-based design tools for accelerating development time of digital receivers for wireless RF devices by 33 per cent. |
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| Bangalore-based software team to advance joint development
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2006-07-03 |
| Tharas Systems Inc. has formed a strategic alliance with Mirafra Technologies, a technology services company. |
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| Xilinx buys high-level synthesis tool vendor
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2011-02-02 |
| Xilinx enlarges its technology foundation and product portfolio with the acquisition of high-level synthesis tool vendor, AutoESL Design Technologies Inc. |
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| Electronics trends in India
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2012-01-20 |
| Electronics companies must design and market their products specifically with the Indian consumers in mind to ride the electronics trend in India, says MathWorks' Mulpur. |
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| Xilinx, IP supplier partner on single-FPGA H.264 video encoder
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2005-09-09 |
| Claiming an industry first, programmable logic supplier Xilinx Inc. and intellectual property (IP) core supplier 4i2i Communications Wednesday (Sept. 7) launched a high-definition H.264 video encoder in a single field-programmable gate array (FPGA). |
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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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| Industry likely to support both CPF, UPF
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2007-03-27 |
| EDA users may not like it, but when it comes to low-power design they will probably have to speak two languages: CPF and UPF. |
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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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| Re-synthesis solution offers area, speed, power benefits
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2007-05-28 |
| Nangate Inc. has claimed that its Design optimiser solution is capable of creating an optimised gate-level design with area, speed or power benefits. |
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| Survey finds verification tool use largely unchanged from 2004
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2005-10-27 |
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| Accellera launches UCI to define verification metrics
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2007-02-02 |
| Accellera standards organisation has launched the UCI to define standards that enable the sharing and analysis of coverage data by different tools during the verification process. |
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| Top-down approach to managing IP quality
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2011-09-21 |
| An SoC-oriented design data management system can dramatically improve IP quality resulting in significant improvements in designer productivity, development costs, and time to market. |
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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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| Mentor making automotive EDA push
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2005-10-10 |
| Looking to push its widely acknowledged lead in the automotive EDA space, Mentor Graphics Corp. Thursday (Oct. 6) announced a major new automotive design push. |
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| Synplicity, Actel extend OEM agreement
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2006-05-04 |
| Synplicity Inc. and Actel Corp. have expanded their OEM agreement to deliver 'exceptional value and a deep, on-going technology roadmap' for Actel customers. |
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| Vendors support SystemVerilog synthesis
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2006-04-19 |
| Synthesis vendors are strongly supportive of a proposed standard SystemVerilog synthesis subset. |
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| IEEE approves Cadence's 'e' language
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2006-06-01 |
| The IEEE has approved Cadence Design Systems Inc.'s "e" verification language, making it an open standard that anyone can use or support. |
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| Mathworks brings 'model-based design' to India
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2009-07-16 |
| To gain insight into application trends and challenges, Vivek Nanda at EE Times India interviewed managing director Kishore Rao of Mathworks India Pvt. Ltd in Bangalore and industry marketing manager Arun Mulpur in Natick, Massachusetts. |
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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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| SiliconBlue, Magma announce tech partnership
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2008-11-26 |
| The collaboration will provide an FPGA design environment for SiliconBlue's iCE65 FPGA product line. |
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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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| FSA keynoter eyes 'ambient intelligence'
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2005-10-10 |
| Rudy Lauwereins, vice president for design technology at the Belgian IMEC research institute, came to the Fabless Semiconductor Association (FSA) Expo here Thursday with a |
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| CircuitSutra gets entrepreneurship award
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2009-02-09 |
| CircuitSutra has received the "ISBA Entrepreneurship Award 2008" last January 31 at the ISBA 2009 International Conference on business incubation. |
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