| Faster EM simulator enhances verification
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2008-05-02 |
| Agilent announced the speed-up of its 3D EM simulator as part of its 2008 EDA software platform. |
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| SPICE tool addresses chip design bottleneck
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2008-04-25 |
| At its 2008 Technology Symposium here, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd (TSMC) moved to address a bottleneck in chip design: simulation |
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| Mentor releases platform for Atmel MCUs
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2008-04-24 |
| Mentor Graphics has released a software platform that provides developers with an out-of-the-box foundation upon which to more rapidly and cost-efficiently create, integrate and deliver innovative "smart" user interface applications. |
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| NI embedded module targets ARM MCUs
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2008-04-22 |
| An extension of a National Instruments graphical system design platform has been released, directly targeting ARM MCUs. |
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| Modules features ultrahigh-performance DSP
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2008-04-11 |
| Acromag has rolled the new PMC-VSX modules that provide large banks of DDR2 DRAM and dual-port SRAM for high-speed DMA transfer to the PCI bus. |
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| Dev't platform boosts performance and scalability
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2008-04-04 |
| Virtutech has launched the latest version of its virtualised software development platform that provides additional APIs to support more use cases and a repository that leverages thousands of models for processors and devices. |
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| Analogue FastSPICE breaks verification barrier
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2008-03-27 |
| Berkeley Design Automation has announced that the company's Analogue FastSPICE circuit simulator has delivered an industry first full-circuit PLL synthesiser performance simulation with true SPICE accuracy |
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| Xilinx introduces design tool suite
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2008-03-26 |
| Xilinx has introduced its ISE Design Suite 10.1,which delivers significantly faster implementations with an average of 2x faster runtimes, allowing designers to complete more turns per day. |
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| NI rolls multifunction USB DAQ devices
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2008-03-25 |
| National Instruments has rolled a new line of M Series USB DAQ devices which provides a 4x increase in resolution over traditional 16bit devices, equivalent to more than 5.5 digits of resolution for DC measurements. |
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| Ansoft tips Nexxim v4, Designer v4
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2008-03-20 |
| Ansoft has released new versions of Nexxim and Designer that allows engineers to rapidly simulate high-speed serial channel behavior. |
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| GmbH launches first PDES for fabrication process
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2008-03-17 |
| Dortmund based Process Relations GmbH launches XperiDesk, the first Process Development Execution System (PDES) for semiconductor based fabrication processes. |
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| Synopsys enhances HSPICE core engine tech
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2008-03-14 |
| Synopsys has unveiled improvements to its HSPICE core engine technology that boost performance for analog and mixed-signal designs. |
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| Mentor launches Calibre tools with Cell B.E. tech
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2008-03-07 |
| Mentor has released computational lithography tools accelerated with Cell/B.E. processor tech that have been qualified for production at IBM for 45nm and smaller process nodes. |
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| Alta Data releases 1-4 channel PCI interface card
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2008-03-04 |
| Alta Data Technologies has released a 1-4 channel MIL-STD-1553 PCI interface card that provides advance new features for communications (such as avionics, JTIDs, Link-16, SADL), test and simulation |
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| Magma's platform combines full-chip mixed-signal design
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2008-03-03 |
| Magma Design Automation has announced Titan, the first full-chip mixed-signal design, analysis and verification platform. |
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| LabVIEW 8.5 introduces new design features
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2008-02-26 |
| NI has extended its LabVIEW graphical system design platform with new design features such as analytical PID for improving system closed-loop stability and model predictive control to multi-variable systems. |
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| Tensilica processors support Avnet's Virtex-4 dev kit
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2008-02-21 |
| Tensilica's Xtensa configurable and Diamond Standard processor families will support Avnet's Xilinx Virtex-4 LX200 devt kit for high-speed hardware-based simulations. |
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| RF software offers multiple simulations from single license
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2008-01-28 |
| Agilent has announced what it claims as the industry's first capability for multiple, parallel circuit simulations from a single license in its GoldenGate RFIC simulation, analysis and verification software suite |
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| TBX eases co-verification for embedded systems
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2008-01-24 |
| Mentor has announced what it claims as the industry's only commercially proven RTL-accurate virtual emulation capability that eliminates the traditional barriers of adopting hardware in-circuit emulation for system-level integration. |
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| Opto hardware acceleration solution debuts
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2008-01-24 |
| Acceleware and Synopsys have developed a hardware solution that allows engineers to leverage the accuracy of the FDTD method in designing and optimising optoelectronic devices while shortening the product devt cycle. |
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| Tool supports PIL simulation
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2008-01-21 |
| The MathWorks and Green Hills Software have announced a tool that supports PIL simulation, allowing designers to use the Simulink model as a test harness for functional verification |
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| Agilent touts LTE UE devt test platform
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2008-01-14 |
| Agilent will introduce new solutions for 3GPP LTE including what it touts as the first-to-market LTE UE devt test platform with real-time protocol devt tools created in partnership with Anite at the 2008 Mobile World Congress.. |
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| Altera unveils zero-power CPLDs for portable apps
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2008-01-08 |
| Altera Corp. has announced zero-power MAX IIZ CPLD designed specifically to address the power, package and price constraints of the portable applications market. |
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| Aldec introduces multi-threaded VHDL compilation
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2007-12-24 |
| Aldec has announced the release of Active-HDL 7.3 that includes multi-threaded HDL compilation, new waveform viewer and expanded VHDL 2006 construct support. |
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| Power conversion solution for buck apps debuts
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2007-12-21 |
| IRF has introduced a fully optimised solution designed for two-phase single output applications up to 30A or dual independent outputs up to 15A. |
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| Agilent develops RFIC verification tool
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2007-12-18 |
| Agilent has introduced the GoldenGate Plus for RFIC simulation, analysis and verification that speeds the design of large-scale RFICs for wireless communication products |
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| OneSpin touts standalone FPGA equivalence checker
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2007-12-12 |
| EDA company OneSpin Solutions has announced what it claims as industry's first sequential stand-alone FPGA equivalence checker dedicated to—and priced for—the FPGA market. |
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| Software devt tool enables parallel processors design
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2007-12-10 |
| Ambric has released aDesigner, a software devt tool that enables easy creation, verification and real time execution of the objects that collectively form the complete design. |
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| Evaluation kit validates MicroSpeed connector compatibility
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2007-12-05 |
| ERNI Electronics is now offering a complete devt kit for analysing the signal integrity of the MicroSpeed connector family. |
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| Kontron unveils PICMG 1.3 SHB with Intel Q35 GMCH chipset
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2007-11-29 |
| Kontron has introduced the PICMG 1.3 SHB equipped with multi-core Intel Core 2 Duo processors up to 3.0GHz that provides high server performance combined with advanced mgmt features. |
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