Feb. 08, 2012 - Methodics today announced that its suite of SoC development tools supports the latest release of the Subversion® version control system. The integration provides development teams with an efficient way to manage the hardware and software aspects of large, complex ICs.

Feb. 06, 2012 - Working closely together, Cadence and Samsung Foundry have developed "in-design" and signoff DFM flows to tackle physical signoff and electrical variability optimization for 32-, 28- and 20-nanometer SoC designs.

Jan. 24, 2012 - Why must a programmer care for the hardware architecture when writing embedded applications for multi-core? Today at HiPEAC 2012, Prof. Nikolaos Voros explains how the ALMA Consortium intends to turn the 'MUST' into a 'MAY'. The ALMA Consortium proposes a tool chain that hides the complexity of hardware ...

Jan. 18, 2012 - Xilinx today released ISE® Design Suite 13.4, which provides public access to the MicroBlaze™ Micro Controller System (MCS), new RX Margin Analysis and debug capabilities for the 28nm 7 Series FPGAs and partial reconfiguration support for the Artix™-7 family and Virtex®-7 XT devices.

Jan. 10, 2012 - SpringSoft and Hua Hong NEC today announced that Hua Hong NEC has deployed the Laker™ custom IC design solutions for process design kit (PDK ) development and integrated the award-winning Verdi™ Automated Debug System into the foundry’s verification reference flow.

Jan. 10, 2012 - Aldec, Inc., in collaboration with SynthWorks Design Inc., today announces the availability of Open Source - VHDL Verification Methodology (OS-VVM™), underscoring the partnership’s commitment to provide continued support to the VHDL design community.

Jan. 04, 2012 - EnSilica has opened a new design centre in India (Bangalore), to complement its existing design facilities in the UK. The new design centre will be a centre of excellence for the advanced verification of complex semiconductor products and IP.

Jan. 04, 2012 - TVS today announces the opening of new offices in Germany to better provide hardware verification and software testing services to the electronics industry in the European Schengen visa region.

Dec. 21, 2011 - Test and Verification Solutions announced today that it has expanded its global presence in Asia Pacific region with the recent opening of its development centre in Chennai, India and signing with Sales representatives from China mainland and Taiwan.

Dec. 15, 2011 - Test and Verification Solutions (TVS) today announced that it has signed with HyperSilicon and Grand Technology Inc. (GTI) to promote their product and services portfolio in China mainland and Taiwan regions respectively

Dec. 13, 2011 - Xilinx today underscored its commitment to the high-growth China market at opening ceremonies for its new offices in Beijing. The company has expanded its footprint in the Asia Pacific region to include an R&D center, consolidating its local sales, marketing and application engineering operations into ...

Dec. 06, 2011 - Sibridge Technologies has announced its highly matured USB 3.0 Verification IP applicable for IP, SoC and System-Level Verification. The USB 3.0 VIP developed in native SystemVerilog, is compatible with OVM/VMM/UVM methodologies.

Nov. 15, 2011 - SpringSoft today announced that CM Engineering Co. Ltd. (CM Engineering) has adopted the Verdi™ Automated Debug System as its standard debug platform

Nov. 07, 2011 - Silicon-IP, Inc. an independent 3rd party IP advisory services company, announced today that Intel Corporation has joined its impressive and growing list of customers for a near term project.

Nov. 01, 2011 - Xilinx today announced the availability of ISE® Design Suite 13.3 featuring new capabilities for DSP designers to easily implement bit-accurate single, double and full custom precision floating-point math operations in their designs targeting wireless, medical, aerospace and defense, high-performance ...

Oct. 28, 2011 - Global Unichip today announced that it is refining its business and technology model, focusing its evolution into a full service, flexible, ASIC company

Oct. 26, 2011 - Xilinx and Cadence today announced that they have teamed to develop the industry's first virtual platform to enable system design, software development, and testing of Xilinx Zynq(TM)-7000 Extensible Processing Platform (EPP) based systems in advance of hardware availability.

Oct. 19, 2011 - SoCtronics today announced that it has successfully completed India's first 28nm design by a design service provider. The design project was contracted by a leading fabless semiconductor company from Silicon Valley. It is targeted for 28nm HPL process at the world's leading semiconductor foundry.

Sep. 28, 2011 - Paradigm Works today announced that its VerificationWorks™ verification productivity software suite is UVM 1.x compliant.

Sep. 27, 2011 - Synopsys today announced availability of the latest release of its Synplify Pro® and Synplify® Premier FPGA synthesis tools. The new Synplify tool release enables engineers to build higher reliability into their FPGA designs through a new feature that provides automated creation and preservation of ...

Sep. 26, 2011 - Cadence today announced new protocol and memory model verification IP (VIP) that will accelerate the adoption of the latest mobile standards. Through close collaboration with leading system and semiconductor companies, and standards bodies, Cadence is delivering VIP at a very early stage -- in many ...

Sep. 02, 2011 - With this acquisition, Synopsys is increasing its investment in VIP technology to address the growing verification challenges designers face as they create more and more complex systems on chips (SoCs) to serve the demand for 'smart' electronics.

Aug. 26, 2011 - The merger of two market-leading electronic system level (ESL) products, Catapult C Synthesis and Calypto SLEC System-HLS verification tool, will create a better integrated ESL hardware realization flow, and enhance the company’s partnership with Mentor Graphics, a leader in ESL technology.

Aug. 08, 2011 - Canalys today published its final worldwide country-level Q2 2011 smart phone market estimates, showing substantial market growth in all regions. Globally, the market grew 73% year-on-year, with in excess of 107.7 million units shipping in the second quarter of 2011.

Aug. 08, 2011 - Northwest Logic Inc., a leader in high-performance digital IP Cores, and Avery Design Systems, a leader in Verification IP (VIP) solutions, today announced Northwest Logic’s Expresso 3.0 solutions for PCI Express® (PCIe®) for Endpoint, Root Complex, and Switch have been fully verified and deployed ...

Aug. 03, 2011 - Xilinx today announced that National Instruments has expanded its NI Reconfigurable I/O (RIO) advanced control and monitoring product portfolio with the introduction of the highest performance and first multicore NI CompactRIO systems and smallest NI Single-Board RIO devices built using Xilinx flagship ...

Jul. 27, 2011 - ANSYS today announced that the U.S. Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission have issued early termination of the Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) waiting period for ANSYS’ proposed acquisition of Apache Design Solutions, Inc. ANSYS currently expects to close the acquisition in the third quarter ...

Jul. 12, 2011 - S2C Inc., a leading rapid SoC/ASIC prototyping solutions provider, announced today its plans to distribute the Gennum Corporation Snowbush IP in China.

Jul. 11, 2011 - Posedge announced the appointment of Richard Timpa as Vice President, Worldwide Sales. In this capacity, Mr. Timpa will oversee all sales activity worldwide.

Jul. 06, 2011 - Latest release also includes improvements for Virtex-7 Quality of Results, enhancements to PlanAhead and continues delivering on Plug-and-Play IP initiative

Jul. 04, 2011 - HDL Design House today announced that it has signed a strategic agreement with Cadence Design Systems

Jun. 30, 2011 - ANSYS and Apache Design Solutions announced today that they signed a definitive agreement whereby ANSYS will acquire Apache for a purchase price of approximately $310 million in cash, which includes an estimated $29 million in cash on Apache’s balance sheet.

Jun. 22, 2011 - Cadence showcases its integration-ready, proven PCI® Express 3.0 solutions at the 2011 PCI-SIG® Developers Conference.

Jun. 22, 2011 - PerfectVIPs today announced support for Universal Verification Methodology based (UVM) PCI Express ® (PCIe ®) 3.0 Verification IP (Genie-PCIe3).

Jun. 21, 2011 - Mentor Graphics today announced its support for Freescale Semiconductor's Advanced Multi-Processing (AMP) Series of QorIQ® multicore processors by providing its comprehensive Mentor® Embedded Linux platform, open source tools and services, to deliver a unified workflow for Freescale customers.

Jun. 21, 2011 - Brite Semiconductor and SMIC today announced that they have achieved first-pass silicon success with Brite's first 40nm chip, using SMIC's 40nm process technology.

Jun. 09, 2011 - Arteris today announced that its NoC interconnect IP and tools will be available to TSMC customers as part of TSMC Reference Flow 12.0, the foundry's latest design reference flow to enable its advanced 28nm process technology.

Jun. 07, 2011 - Open-Silicon, Inc. announced today it achieved a key milestone in demonstrating its low-power design capability on GLOBALFOUNDRIES’ 28nm super low-power (SLP) technology.

Jun. 06, 2011 - Atrenta today announced that Fujitsu Kyushu Network Technologies Limited has adopted its SpyGlass® AutoVerify for Advanced Lint analysis to achieve design quality of results (QoR) and design productivity improvements in their ASIC/FPGA flows.

Jun. 06, 2011 - ARM and Synopsys have signed an expanded multi-year agreement extending ARM's access to Synopsys' innovative EDA technology. ARM will also provide Synopsys with access to the ARM Cortex-A15 processor to maximize performance and energy efficiency of SoCs built by ARM's Partners using this advanced ARM ...