Apr. 15, 2010 - Mentor Graphics today announced that STMicroelectronics' Home Entertainment and Display group (HED), a leader in the provision of digital consumer applications, has adopted the Veloce® platform for the system-level validation of its next-generation of digital Systems-on-Chip (SoC) for High-Definition ...

Apr. 13, 2010 - TSMC announced today at its 2010 Technology Symposium that it will skip the 22nm manufacturing process node and move directly to a 20nm technology. The move is value driven to make advanced technology a more viable alternative for its customers.

Apr. 12, 2010 - Global Unichip and ARM today announced that GUC has licensed a comprehensive ARM IP portfolio including all the available ARM(R) Cortex(TM) and Mali(TM) family processors, a wide range of ARM Physical IP, system design IP including CoreSight(TM) debug and trace technology and AMBA(R)-compliant peripherals. ...

Mar. 22, 2010 - Rapid Bridge announced today that it has made an asset purchase of QuantumThink Group, a San Diego-based, privately-held IC design services company with offices in San Jose and Bangalore, India. The acquisition will enable Rapid Bridge to offer its clients full front-to-back IC design services.

Mar. 16, 2010 - Mentor Graphics and STMicroelectronics today announced a broad-scoped collaboration to develop advanced design solutions at the 32-nm technology node and down to 20-nm node.

Mar. 08, 2010 - OSCI today released the SystemC Analog/Mixed-signal (AMS) extensions language standard, AMS 1.0. The AMS 1.0 standard is the first modeling language targeting system-level design and verification to describe analog/mixed-signal behavior as natural extension to existing SystemC-based design methodologies. ...

Mar. 03, 2010 - Xilinx introduced the Xilinx(R) Spartan(R)-6 FPGA Industrial Imaging Targeted Design Platform to accelerate development of high-performance video processing applications for low-cost, low-power industrial imaging systems. Industrial equipment OEMs can now rapidly build and evaluate reprogrammable imaging ...

Mar. 03, 2010 - Xilinx introduced the first market-specific Targeted Design Platform optimized for industrial automation system design with low-cost, low-power Xilinx(R) Spartan(R)-6 field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). The Xilinx Industrial Automation Targeted Design Platform accelerates development of real-time ...

Feb. 25, 2010 - nSys Design Systems announced their 100/ 40G Ethernet nVS (nSys Verification Suite), which has been successfully deployed by industry leaders across Ethernet applications.

Feb. 24, 2010 - ExpertIO today at DVCon, announced the general availability of the PCI Express™ System Verification Component (SVC), the latest addition to their VIP product portfolio.

Feb. 22, 2010 - Avery Design Systems Inc., an innovator in functional verification productivity solutions, today announced the AMBA-Xactor verification solution supporting the AMBA 3.0 AXI and AMBA 2.0 AHB specifications.

Feb. 22, 2010 - Reference Virtual Platform of ARM Model Running Linux Under SystemC/TLM-2.0 Released by Open Virtual Platforms (OVP)

Feb. 17, 2010 - The Open Virtual Platforms (OVP) initiative has released new models of MIPS Technologies, Inc. processor cores and continues its move to becoming the de facto source of fast models.

Feb. 17, 2010 - Atrenta and Arasan Chip Systems today announced that Arasan has joined Atrenta’s SpyLinks partner program. Arasan will also adopt Atrenta’s SpyGlass RTL platform for development and handoff of “SpyGlass Clean” IP.

Feb. 16, 2010 - CoWare today announced the availability of the high-speed model for Renesas Technology's (Renesas) SH-4A core model. The model is already in use at Renesas for the creation of high-speed virtual platforms targeted at Renesas customers in the automotive, consumer and wireless markets

Feb. 04, 2010 - Denali today announced that Marvell has signed an expanded business agreement that establishes Denali as an IP partner thus enabling a company-wide adoption of Denali's comprehensive line of verification IP (VIP) products to speed the design and verification of Marvell's future products for various ...

Feb. 04, 2010 - Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CDNS) today announced results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year 2009. Cadence reported fourth quarter 2009 revenue of $220 million, compared to revenue of $227 million reported for the same period in 2008.

Jan. 28, 2010 - Synopsys will be demonstrating its DesignWare® IP solutions for SuperSpeed USB 3.0, DDR and PCI Express® 3.0 at DesignCon 2010 in Santa Clara, California on February 2-3, 2010.

Jan. 26, 2010 - Cadence today announced that Renesas has upgraded to the latest version of Cadence® Virtuoso® technology at its global design centers.

Jan. 25, 2010 - Toshiba Information Systems (Japan) used Synopsys' voltage-aware VCS® functional verification solution with MVSIM and VMM-LP to deploy a uniform, structured and repeatable verification methodology across its low power design projects.

Jan. 25, 2010 - By deploying the Cadence OVM SystemVerilog module-based solution, Mitsubishi has been able to conduct more thorough verification on its chips while reducing costs.

Jan. 21, 2010 - The aim of DIAMOND is improving the productivity and reliability of semiconductor and electronic systems design in Europe by providing a systematic methodology and an integrated environment for the diagnosis and correction of errors.

Jan. 13, 2010 - The DesignWare USB 3.0 Protocol Analyzer simplifies debug for engineers verifying SuperSpeed USB 3.0 and USB 2.0 interfaces in their systems-on-chip (SoCs) by providing a graphical view of the protocol traffic.

Jan. 12, 2010 - Synopsys today announced the availability of SuperSpeed USB 3.0 transaction-level models (TLM) supporting the Open SystemC™ Initiative (OSCI) TLM-2.0 API specification.

Jan. 07, 2010 - Xilinx introduces the first market-specific Targeted Design Platform optimized for creating state-of-the-art digital television (DTV) solutions with the Spartan-6 FPGA family. The Xilinx Consumer DTV Targeted Design Platform streamlines development of advanced video algorithms with the latest video ...

Dec. 09, 2009 - Ubicom has selected Denali’s MMAV™ and PureSpec™ verification IP (VIP), which support high-speed communications and peripheral protocols, to aid in the design and verification of their media and network processors.

Dec. 09, 2009 - IPextreme has extended its partnership with Infineon Technologies AG to bring Infineon’s BlueMoon™ UniCellular Bluetooth® 2.1 solution featuring Enhanced Data Rate (EDR) functionality to the broad semiconductor market in the form of a complete licensable IP core.

Dec. 04, 2009 - As the promoter of innovative Virtual Components of Silicon IP and methodologies for the Microelectronics Design Industry, Dolphin Integration takes the responsibility of setting up a method enabling the assessment of design yield for any memory generator.

Dec. 01, 2009 - IPextreme announced today that Novelics®, Chips & Media®, and Posedge® have joined Constellations™, a program by IPextreme® designed to increase sales opportunities for leading semiconductor intellectual property (IP) companies.

Nov. 17, 2009 - Atrenta today announced that Fujitsu Kyushu Network Technologies, has adopted its SpyGlass®-CDC product. Fujitsu Kyushu Network Technologies will broadly deploy the tool to help reduce design risks associated with semiconductor IP integration.

Nov. 12, 2009 - Vice Chairman and CEO, K.C. Shih, of the world’s leading SoC Design Foundry service provider, Global Unichip announced his retirement and resigned from current post of Vice Chairman and CEO during the board meeting held today.

Nov. 02, 2009 - Mentor today outlined its strategy and roadmap to help customers address the growing test challenges they face in moving to smaller process nodes and more complex, low-power, mixed-signal systems-on-chip (SOCs). As part of this strategy, Mentor is uniting its award-winning embedded compression and automatic ...

Nov. 02, 2009 - Global Unichip announced today mass production of the world’s first surveillance SoC designs solutions capable of 4 channel concurrent encode/decode in real time D1 format.

Nov. 02, 2009 - Global Unichip Corporation today announced the mass-production of its leading-edge ARM7-based GP5080 series Solid Sate Disk (SSD) SoC platform solution, targeting the storage application for the booming market of Netbook/Smartbook, thin-NB, UMPC, MID and other portable consumer electronics.

Oct. 29, 2009 - Cadence today announced that it has delivered a comprehensive low-power design flow for engineers targeting the 65-nanometer process at SMIC.

Oct. 29, 2009 - Cadence today announced results for the third quarter 2009. Cadence reported third quarter 2009 revenue of $216 million, compared to revenue of $232 million reported for the same period in 2008.

Oct. 20, 2009 - Synopsys today announced that it has created an optimized reference implementation methodology for the ARM® Cortex™-A8 processor that achieves greater than 2GHz (4000 DMIPS) at 540mW.

Oct. 19, 2009 - Cadence and ARM today announced that the two companies have entered into a strategic collaboration to create a next-generation SoC design flow that will accelerate time to market and lower the cost of SoC integration and verification.

Oct. 19, 2009 - Cadence today announced that SMIC has adopted Cadence(R) Litho Physical Analyzer and Cadence Litho Electrical Analyzer to more accurately predict the impact of stress and lithographic variability on the performance of 65- and 45-nanometer semiconductor designs

Oct. 12, 2009 - Synopsys today introduced its Synphony HLS (High Level Synthesis) solution that integrates M-language and model-based synthesis to deliver up to 10X higher design and verification productivity than traditional RTL flows for communications and multimedia applications.