Dec. 03, 2014 - TVS today announced that is has achieved an impressive 26th position in the Deloitte UK Technology Fast 50 awards 2014, one of the UK’s foremost business technology award programmes.

Nov. 19, 2014 - Open-Silicon today announced a comprehensive Hybrid Memory Cube (HMC) 2.0 controller solution as licensable Intellectual Property (IP) that will enable SoC designers to take immediate advantage of the performance gains afforded by the emerging memory standard.

Nov. 18, 2014 - TVS today announced that it is opening an office in Silicon Valley, USA. In a move that exemplifies and underpins its global expansion, TVS’ US based office will be staffed by technical experts able to offer the company’s range of products and services to customers in North America.

Nov. 13, 2014 - HDL Design House is organizing a free full day verification seminar in Switzerland, taking place at Boldern conference center on November 25th, 2014. The seminar will include presentations from HDL Design House, Cadence, Mentor Graphics and Sensirion verification experts, addressing topics related to ...

Nov. 04, 2014 - TVS, a leader in software test and hardware verification solutions, today announced that it has won a significant verification service project in China. TVS is working with its Chinese partner, TopBrain Design Systems, verifying a new avionics FPGA design in compliance with avionics standard DO-254.

Nov. 03, 2014 - ARM has been honored with the Partner Award from TSMC for the fifth consecutive year in recognition of outstanding partner performance. ARM received the award during the recent 2014 TSMC Open Innovation Platform® Ecosystem Forum for its foundation intellectual property (IP), including ARM® Artisan® ...

Oct. 27, 2014 - Synopsys today announced that SK Hynix, Inc. has addressed their debug challenges by adopting the Synopsys VC Apps open application programming interfaces (APIs) to directly link their internally developed test generation technology to the industry-leading Synopsys Verdi® debug solution and allow their ...

Oct. 23, 2014 - Cadence today announced the immediate availability of verification IP (VIP) supporting all popular 3D memory standards including Wide I/O 2, Hybrid Memory Cube (HMC), High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) and DDR4 3D Stacking (DDR4-3DS).

Oct. 21, 2014 - Sonics and Magillem today announced their partnership on SoC methodologies and design flows. The companies are collaborating to ease integration of Sonics IP into the SoC design flows for heterogeneous, multi-core devices. Sonics has incorporated Magillem’s IP-XACT Checker suite into the validation ...

Oct. 14, 2014 - The eInfochips CAN 2.0 VIP is a plug-and-play solution for robust and standards compliant devices (FPGA, ASIC and SoC implementation) on automotive and industrial applications. Combined with the reusable ISO/DIS 16845 compliance suite, the solution will accelerate test cycles by up to 80%, while improving ...

Oct. 08, 2014 - Synopsys today announced that TSMC is recognizing Synopsys with their "2014 Partner of the Year" award in the areas of: Interface IP and Joint Development of 16-nm FinFET Plus Design Infrastructure.

Oct. 08, 2014 - Xilinx today announced major advances in productivity for Zynq®-7000 All Programmable SoCs with the Vivado® Design Suite 2014.3, the programmable industry's only SoC-strength design suite, SDK, and new UltraFast™ Embedded Design Methodology Guide.

Oct. 02, 2014 - ARM® and TSMC today announced a new multi-year agreement that will deliver ARMv8-A processor IP optimised for TSMC 10FinFET process technology. Because of the success in scaling from 20SoC to 16FinFET, ARM and TSMC have decided to collaborate again for 10FinFET.

Oct. 01, 2014 - ARM® today announced the introduction of two new physical IP implementation solutions for its silicon partners to help simplify the path to implementation for their FinFET physical designs. ARM Artisan® Power Grid Architect will reduce overall design time by creating optimal SoC power grid layouts ...

Sep. 29, 2014 - ARM and Synopsys have signed a multi-year subscription agreement that expands Synopsys' access to a broad range of ARM intellectual property (IP) and related technologies to enable optimization of Synopsys tools and methodologies for ARM-based system-on-chips (SoCs).

Sep. 29, 2014 - TVS today announced that is presenting and exhibiting at the inaugural Design & Verification Conference and Exhibition Europe (DVCon Europe) to be held in Munich on 14-15 October 2014 at the Hilton City hotel.

Sep. 23, 2014 - TVS today announced that it has joined the MIPI Alliance. The move reflects the demand for TVS’ Verification IP, especially in the mobile application sector that is moving quickly and thus creating new opportunities for the company.

Sep. 19, 2014 - CoinTerra today announced their next generation Bitcoin Miner – the AIREMiner™. At an expected performance per watt of 5x the current generation miners, the 16nm ASIC based AIRE Miner is now available for limited time pre-order with expected delivery in Q1 2015.

Sep. 16, 2014 - IEEE today announced the formation of the IEEE P2415™ Unified Hardware Abstraction and Layer Working Group and IEEE P2416™ Power Modeling Meta-standard Working Group.

Sep. 16, 2014 - Open-Silicon today announced a 28Gbps Serializer/Deserializer (SerDes) evaluation platform for ASIC development that will enable the rapid deployment of chips and systems for 100G networks. The platform includes a full board with packaged 28nm test chip, software and characterization data.

Sep. 15, 2014 - Synopsys today announced that Elmos has selected Synopsys' comprehensive custom and digital tools to increase the engineering productivity of its mixed-signal design teams.

Sep. 15, 2014 - Xilinx announced its collaboration with China Mobile Research Institute for the development of virtualized 5G wireless networks

Sep. 10, 2014 - Synopsys today announced that Wipro Ltd. has adopted Synopsys' broad portfolio of native SystemVerilog UVM-based verification IP (VIP) for on-chip buses, interfaces and memories used on systems-on-chips (SoC) designs.

Aug. 11, 2014 - Open-Silicon today announced it has established a SerDes Technology Center of Excellence (TCoE) to ensure rapid, cost-effective design and production of ASICs integrating high-speed serial technologies. The SerDes TCoE will enable new ASIC products with capabilities such as PCI Express (PCIe Gen 1/2/3/4), ...

Aug. 04, 2014 - Moortec Semiconductor, provider of high accuracy on-chip temperature sensors for advanced-node CMOS technologies, announces its Voltage Transient Monitor (VTM) IP which is a part of its Moortec Embedded Die Sensor (MEDS) family. The VTM is a self-contained IP block specially designed to monitor dynamic ...

Jul. 15, 2014 - Cadence today announced Cadence® Quantus™ QRC Extraction Solution, its next-generation tool for RC extraction. With its massively parallel architecture, Quantus QRC Extraction Solution accelerates design signoff and sets a new standard for performance by delivering up to 5X faster runtime for single ...

Jun. 05, 2014 - Established by Brite and supported by SMIC and Brite, the key purpose of the platform is to build a professional network community in the semiconductor industry. SMIC-ASIC.com has multiple functions, ranging from the delivery of ASIC information, to supporting engineering, technical and business related ...

May. 29, 2014 - NanGate announced that it has released the first edition of a new 15nm open cell library (OCL). NanGate developed the library IP based on North Carolina State University’s FreePDK 15nm open-source, non-manufacturable process.

May. 15, 2014 - Cadence today announced the availability of the industry's first verification IP (VIP) supporting PCI Express® (PCIe®) 4.0 architecture. This VIP enables designers to quickly and thoroughly complete the functional verification for their system-on-chip (SoC) designs with less effort and greater assurance ...

May. 15, 2014 - IPextreme Inc. today welcomed Methods2Business, B.V. as the newest member of its Constellations™ initiative, which brings together like-minded companies to advance the state of the global semiconductor intellectual property (IP) ecosystem.

May. 07, 2014 - Synopsys today announced it has collaborated with longtime automotive silicon pioneer Freescale® Semiconductor to create a Center of Excellence program to speed development of automotive electronic system software.

Apr. 24, 2014 - Accellera Systems Initiative announces two new libraries have been released for the SystemC core language (SystemC 2.3.1) and SystemC verification (SCV 2.0). Ratified as IEEE Std. 1666-2011™ "Standard SystemC Language Reference Manual, “SystemC is a high-level language used in the design and development ...

Apr. 10, 2014 - From the leading edge of design to older process nodes, development costs are being contained much better than the initial reports would indicate. But not always for the obvious reasons.

Apr. 02, 2014 - Cortus, a technology leader in low power, silicon efficient, 32-bit processor IP, and CMOS image sensor solution company, Pyxalis, announce that Pyxalis has been using Cortus APS cores in multiple design projects.

Mar. 25, 2014 - Synopsys today unveiled a new initiative to accelerate the verification of mixed-signal system-on-chip (SoC) designs. Launched today are the initial components of the initiative, which include a SystemVerilog-based methodology, AMS Testbench, and the new VCS® AMS mixed-signal verification solution ...

Mar. 05, 2014 - Mentor Graphics today announced it has proposed that a new Accellera standards committee be formed to investigate the standardization of a graph-based test specification standard. To underscore this endeavor, Mentor will make a technical donation of its existing graph-based test specification format ...

Feb. 14, 2014 - CEA-Leti and STMicroelectronics have presented the successful demonstration of an ultra-wide-voltage range (UWVR) digital signal processor (DSP), based on 28nm ultra-thin body buried-oxide (UTBB) FD-SOI technology.

Feb. 11, 2014 - Sonics today announced the issue of patent 8,601,288 "Intelligent Power Controller" from the US Patent Office. Sonics' "Intelligent Power Controller" patent describes a hardware intellectual property (IP) that forms the foundation for the company's development of innovative power management solutions ...

Jan. 31, 2014 - CoinTerra™, the high performance and value leader in ASIC Bitcoin mining hardware announced today that they have started delivering their eagerly-anticipated TerraMiner™ IV professional Bitcoin miner – the first to market which breaks the one terahash barrier.

Jan. 30, 2014 - CircuitSutra Technologies, an ESL design IP & Services company, announced that it will showcase its synthesizable modeling IP for ARM® AMBA® AXI™ at the upcoming conference IESA Vision Summit, 3rd Feb in Bangalore.