Feb. 21, 2011 - At the 2011 International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) here, Texas Instruments Inc. and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) will outline what could be a major breakthrough in the gap between performance demands and battery capacity in the mobile space.

Feb. 03, 2011 - Synopsys today announced the verification FastForward migration program. The program helps Cadence® Incisive® and Mentor Graphics® Questa® users to migrate to the VCS® functional verification solution and benefit from its superior technologies.

Feb. 03, 2011 - Cadence today announced results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year 2010. Cadence reported fourth quarter 2010 revenue of $249 million, compared to revenue of $220 million reported for the same period in 2009.

Jan. 31, 2011 - Cadence today advanced the design of giga-gate/gigahertz system on chips (SoCs) with a proven digital end-to-end flow at 28 nanometers that yields both performance and time-to-market advantages.

Jan. 31, 2011 - Xilinx today announced the acquisition of high level synthesis leader AutoESL Design Technologies, Inc.

Jan. 31, 2011 - Paradigm Works today announced that it has released VerificationWorks™, a verification productivity software suite that enables rapid project rampup for UVM, VMM, and OVM-compliant environments.

Jan. 28, 2011 - Accellera announced today that its Board of Directors approved a new version of Accellera's Standard Co-Emulation Modeling Interface (SCE-MI) specification as a new Accellera verification standard.

Jan. 24, 2011 - Avery Design Systems today announced it has developed a new capability for Insight formal analysis tool which automatically synthesizes assertions and coverage properties and automates assertion and coverage based verification methodologies.

Jan. 18, 2011 - Mentor Graphics today announced it has collaborated with the Common Platform Alliance (CPA) members, IBM, GLOBALFOUNDRIES and Samsung, to design a test chip using its netlist-to-GDSII solution for CPA 32nm and 28nm high-k metal gate (HKMG) IC manufacturing technologies.

Jan. 18, 2011 - Cadence today introduced a qualified 32/28-nanometer reference flow targeting Common Platform™ technology. Cadence® collaborated closely with members of the Common Platform alliance—IBM, GLOBALFOUNDRIES, and Samsung Electronics—to develop a flow from RTL synthesis to GDSII signoff for the advanced ...

Jan. 17, 2011 - Synopsys today announced it is delivering a low power, high-performance system-on-chip (SoC) design solution optimized for the Common Platform alliance (CPA) 28-nanometer(nm) high-k metal gate (HKMG) technology.

Jan. 13, 2011 - GLOBALFOUNDRIES today introduced the industry's first 28nm silicon-validated signoff-ready digital design flows to help chip designers deliver the next generation of power-sensitive mobile and consumer electronic devices.

Jan. 10, 2011 - S2C announced the addition of 7 new Prototype Ready accessories to its growing library of pre-engineered hardware and software components aimed at speeding the development of SoC prototypes.

Jan. 10, 2011 - Cadence today announced significant new advancements to help boost verification productivity for ASIC and FPGA designers.

Jan. 10, 2011 - EVE, the leader in hardware/software co-verification, closed out Calendar Year 2010 with more than 50 percent revenue growth, double-digit profitability and increased market share.

Jan. 10, 2011 - SpringSoft today announced that its Certitude™ Functional Qualification System has been successfully deployed by Fujitsu Semiconductor. The Certitude software enables engineers in the company’s Automotive Business Unit to raise the quality of verification environments and intellectual property (IP) ...

Jan. 06, 2011 - Xilinx today announced a new version of its Spartan(R)-6 FPGA Consumer Video Kit. Co-developed with and distributed by Tokyo Electron Device, the Consumer Video Kit supports the latest serial digital TV interfaces, including DisplayPort 1.1a, V-by-One(R) HS, HDMI(TM) 1.4a (now supporting 3DTV) and LVDS ...

Dec. 08, 2010 - Cadence today announced that Fujitsu Semiconductor Limited now supports the Cadence® C-to-Silicon Compiler for high-level synthesis in ASIC design flows.

Dec. 06, 2010 - Xilinx today announced the availability of three new development kits that further extend the ability of digital signal processing developers to easily adopt FPGAs in order to reach the highest levels of signal processing performance, optimize for cost and power and relieve system bottlenecks through ...

Dec. 04, 2010 - Cadence today announced that SMIC has adopted Cadence Silicon Realization products for the design-for-manufacturing (DFM) and low-power technology at the core of SMIC’s 65-nanometer Reference Flow 4.1.

Dec. 01, 2010 - Mentor Graphics today announced it has successfully supported Infineon to improve Infineon's verification productivity and effectiveness by assessing the status quo and by jointly establishing improved SystemVerilog (SV) methodologies.

Nov. 30, 2010 - Physware, a leading provider of scalable and parallel solutions for Signal Integrity (SI), Power Integrity (PI), Electromagnetic Interference (EMI) and Simultaneous Noise Integrity (SNI), today announced the appointment of Dr. Raul Camposano as Chief Executive Officer.

Nov. 24, 2010 - Easics and ICsense recently announced a partnership agreement. By joining their expertise, the two design houses can now offer their customers high-quality, best-of-class mixed-signal ASIC applications.

Nov. 15, 2010 - Cadence announced that Open-Silicon has successfully taped out a breakthrough high-performance processor at over 2.4GHz under typical conditions utilizing the Cadence® Silicon Realization product line.

Nov. 15, 2010 - S2C announced that S2C customers can now buy DDR2 and DDR3 Prototype Ready IP that work with S2C’s 4th generation S4 TAI logic module. The Prototype Ready IPs enable customers to have out-of-box 2GBytes of DDR2 SDRAM operating at up to 533Mbps or 2GBytes of DDR3 SDRAM operating at up to 800Mbps on ...

Nov. 09, 2010 - ARM today announced their newest optimization package for the ARM® Cortex™-A9 processor, targeting Samsung 32nm LP High-K Metal Gate (HKMG) process technology. This ARM Processor Optimization Pack (POP) provides a highly tuned foundation for implementing Cortex-A9 processors in low power, mobile ...

Nov. 01, 2010 - Synopsys today announced plans to expand test technology embedded in Synopsys' RTL synthesis to address the need for higher defect coverage, lower test cost and faster yield analysis while simultaneously minimizing the impact on design goals and project schedules.

Oct. 28, 2010 - Cadence today announced results for the third quarter of fiscal year 2010. Cadence reported third quarter 2010 revenue of $238 million, compared to revenue of $216 million reported for the same period in 2009.

Oct. 27, 2010 - Focusing on Unified Design Intent, Abstraction and Convergence, Cadence Moves Beyond Industry’s Traditional Patchwork Path to Silicon

Oct. 25, 2010 - Synopsys today announced that Himax Technologies has selected Synopsys' Galaxy™ Implementation and Discovery™ Verification Platforms for its video system-on-chip (SoC) products.

Oct. 22, 2010 - The streams of data coming-out of present-day simulation systems during design checking is overwhelming for developers of Virtual Components (ViC) as well as integrators of Systems-on-Chip (SoC) and system architects embedding them into complete systems. The new technology of "detectors" enables parallel ...

Oct. 22, 2010 - Atrenta disclosed details today of a collaboration with TSMC to enhance the quality of delivered synthesizable IP using Atrenta's SpyGlass ® platform.

Oct. 19, 2010 - Xilinx today announced three automotive Targeted Design Platforms that enable automotive system designers to use FPGA technology to meet the advanced performance and integration requirements of driver assistance, driver information and infotainment systems.

Oct. 19, 2010 - TI and YOGITECH have announced their collaboration to accelerate ISO26262 enablement of 65-nanometer TMS570 safety microcontrollers (MCUs). The collaboration will make future TMS570 devices suitable for use in systems conforming to the upcoming safety standard for the automotive industry.

Oct. 18, 2010 - Xilinx today announced it is transforming its ecosystem by opening the Xilinx platform and supporting key industry standards to establish an FPGA marketplace that extends the breadth and depth of its Alliance Program.

Oct. 18, 2010 - Evatronix SA, has announced today it will participate at the 2010 SSIP Seminar that will be held on October 20th in Shanghai, China, giving a keynote entitled “IP Verification - SuperSpeed USB as an example”.

Oct. 12, 2010 - S2C announced a partnership with Allegro DVT to distribute Allegro DVT’s products in China.

Oct. 12, 2010 - Altera today announced its Embedded Initiative. With this initiative, Altera is providing designers a single FPGA design flow based on its Quartus® II development software—including the new Qsys system-level integration tool, a common FPGA intellectual property (IP) library, and new ARM® Cortex™-A9 ...

Oct. 12, 2010 - Sonics today announced that Beijing Nufront, one of China's fastest growing and innovative systems and silicon providers, has selected Sonics' on-chip network IP solutions and performance analysis tools for its new line of advanced laptop and tablet computers.

Oct. 05, 2010 - Xilinx today announced the release of ISE(R) Design Suite 12.3, kicking-off the FPGA leader's roll-out of Intellectual Property (IP) cores that meet the AMBA(R) 4 AXI4(TM) specification for interconnecting functional blocks in System-on-Chip (SoC) design, as well as introducing productivity enhancements ...