Apr. 11, 2008 - eASIC Attracts New Vice President to Lead Software Development for Next Generation Silicon Products

Apr. 09, 2008 - The aim of the project is the definition of a formal framework based on tight integration of design and verification through all refinement steps of an embedded platform design flow, from specifications to logic synthesis and software compilation.

Apr. 07, 2008 - The strategic, multi-year relationship covers a broad spectrum of ESL technologies from CoWare as well as a major services agreement to support the rapid deployment of these technologies across NXP's business units.

Apr. 07, 2008 - Virage Logic Corporation today announced the availability of memory compilers and logic libraries for TSMC’s 40-nanometer (nm) process.

Apr. 02, 2008 - IPextreme and NXP Semiconductors today announced the availability of NXP’s internally-developed CoReUse methodology and QCore™ tool for licensing to the entire semiconductor industry through IPextreme.

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Mar. 18, 2008 - Mentor Graphics today announced the immediate availability of a new version of Platform Express™ with full support for the IP-XACT 1.4 IP databook specification, new mixed-level RTL and ESL design capabilities, and a new portable generator format.

Mar. 10, 2008 - Virtutech, Inc., the leader in Virtualized Software Development (VSD), today announced an initiative to accelerate the creation of standards for the VSD industry and to drive mainstream acceptance of VSD throughout the electronic systems business.

Mar. 10, 2008 - IP-XACT Addresses Electronic System-Level Design and Portable Generators with Automated Design Processes

Mar. 05, 2008 - Certess, Inc. the provider of functional qualification tools for systems on a chip (SoCs) and intellectual property (IP) blocks, today announced that STMicroelectronics has expanded, through a two-year commitment, its corporate wide adoption of Certitude.

Mar. 04, 2008 - Interra Systems announced successful integration of Concorde, a Verilog, VHDL and mixed language parser, elaborator and synthesis front-end into the eX and eWizard design tools for the Nextreme 90nm family of structured ASICs from eASIC.

Mar. 04, 2008 - CoreCreator II features verification IP and command-line based tools for validating Open Core Protocol (OCP) implementations, reducing design time and risk, and enabling rapid time to market.

Feb. 28, 2008 - Mentor Graphics Corporation (NASDAQ: MENT) today announced fiscal 2008 fourth quarter revenue of $284.8 million, and annual revenue of $879.7 million. On a GAAP basis, fiscal 2008 fourth quarter earnings per share were $.39 and $.32 for the full year.

Mar. 03, 2008 - The donation, representing approximately $4 million worth of technology investment, includes modeling technology, Imperas’ existing library of models, and OVPSim, a proven reference simulator. Imperas will support and manage the OVP website, and will contribute much of its innovation to keep this ...

Feb. 27, 2008 - CoWare announced today its solution for the rapid design and development of chipsets, handsets and software applications built to support the Android™ Mobile Platform.

Feb. 27, 2008 - New reference designs accelerate time-to-market for video security, video conferencing, and broadcast video applications.

Feb. 25, 2008 - Synopsys today announced the Synopsys Eclypse™ Low Power Solution, the industry's most comprehensive suite of proven system-level, verification, implementation and signoff tools, intellectual property (IP), methodologies and services for low power chip development.

Feb. 19, 2008 - SoCVerify Kit covers a large number of standards and protocols such as I2C, HyperTransport, Serial Rapid IO, SATA, SAS, LPC, PCI, PCI-X, SPI4, SMBUS, PMBUS and each VIP constituting SoCVerify Kit library supports a wide set of verification methodologies such as: eRM, UVC, OVM.

Feb. 14, 2008 - Distributed under the standard open-source Apache™ 2.0 license, the OVM source code, usage examples, and documentation may be downloaded free of charge from OVM World.

Feb. 05, 2008 - Tiempo develops and markets asynchronous IPs (microcontrollers, crypto-processors, interfaces) and EDA tools that allow semi-conductor companies to design ultra-low power, ultra-low noise, robust and secured chips.

Jan. 29, 2008 - Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing Ltd., one of the world’s top dedicated foundries, announced that it has signed an agreement for a US$190 million term loan facility from Societe Generale.

Jan. 21, 2008 - EVE and CoWare today announced a strategic alliance to provide design teams with an integrated approach that ties hardware/software co-verification from EVE with SystemC virtual platforms developed with CoWare’s ESL 2.0 solutions.

Jan. 14, 2008 - Proven during trials at customer sites throughout the world and recently by STARC, the integrated flow is effective at synthesizing high-quality designs from pure ANSI C++ to RTL, and formally verifying that the resulting RTL design is functionally correct

Jan. 09, 2008 - UpZide Labs AB and Tensilica, Inc., today announced an expanded business relationship under which UpZide will take their reference Vectorized VDSL2 (second generation Very high-speed Digital Subscriber Line) design to market in a chipset using over 50 Xtensa LX2 configurable processors.

Jan. 09, 2008 - The OVM, based on IEEE Std. 1800(TM)-2005 SystemVerilog standard, is the first open, language interoperable, SystemVerilog verification methodology in the industry. The OVM provides a methodology and accompanying library that allow users to create modular, reusable verification environments in which ...

Jan. 02, 2008 - Derrick will assume overall responsibility for directing and growing the microprocessor and architecture business worldwide, reporting to John Bourgoin, MIPS Technologies' President and CEO.

Dec. 18, 2007 - ChipX today announced the introduction of Hybrid ASIC, the implementation of a structured ASIC as IP on a Standard Cell device. This development approach allows for rapid and economical product line development, saving companies an average of three-to-five hundred thousand dollars in non-recurring engineering ...

Dec. 07, 2007 - Nuvation’s Shanghai Design Center will augment the US and Canadian design centers with offshore capabilities, design localization for offshore manufacturing, dedicated Offshore Design Center (ODC) offerings, and access to the growing Chinese marketplace.

Dec. 03, 2007 - New Aspect-Oriented Generation Engine and Advanced Transaction-Based Acceleration; Supports Open Verification Methodology for SystemVerilog

Dec. 03, 2007 - The kits will be available for designers using UMC's logic/mixed-mode 65-nanometer standard performance (SP) process and logic/mixed mode RF 65-nanometer low-leakage (LL) process. The Cadence Virtuoso technology helps accelerate silicon-accurate design of analog, mixed-signal and RF devices.

Dec. 03, 2007 - Available as Silicon IP, DxO IPE solution leverages new generation DxO programmable and configurable SIMD RTL core optimized for on-the-fly image processing.

Nov. 26, 2007 - The Synplify DSP environment facilitates high-level modeling and hardware abstraction, constraint-driven algorithm synthesis into RTL and powerful system-wide optimizations for performance, area, and multi-channelization tradeoff exploration.

Nov. 19, 2007 - Horizon's Hz7120 HD-DVD/Blu-Ray SoC supports wide range of features and capabilities including conformance to leading video compression standards such as native high-definition 1080/60i & 1080/60p profiles of AVC/H.264, VC-1, MPEG-2 and DV/HDV, leading audio compression standards such as DTS-HD, Dolby ...

Nov. 14, 2007 - Purple Vision is a 150-person subsidiary of TES Electronic Solutions, providing differentiated services in the IC Design area. Founded in 2000, Purple Vision was acquired by TES in 2005. The company has achieved multiple, full-chip turnkey designs and has participated in over 150 silicon designs with ...

Nov. 14, 2007 - Freescale joins the original six steering committee members, ARM, Cadence, Mentor Graphics, NXP Semiconductors, ST Microelectronics, and Synopsys and together with LSI and Texas Instruments, completes the organization’s nine-member Board.

Nov. 13, 2007 - Altera Corporation and Synopsys today announced that Altera's popular Nios® II processor core will be available for licensing through Synopsys' DesignWare® Star IP Program.

Nov. 13, 2007 - Vivante and Global Unichip today announced that GUC has selected Vivante’s silicon proven scalable 2D and 3D graphics solutions for GUC's system-on-chip (SoC) designs.

Nov. 12, 2007 - Temento Systems ® SA announced today a Debug-on-Demand model available on its website in order to decrease the cost of debug tools for FPGA designs, while having access to advanced features.

Nov. 05, 2007 - New Release Greatly Simplifies the Adoption of ESL Technologies and Improves Design Efficiency Required to Deploy ESL and Accelerate Design Innovation

Oct. 29, 2007 - Recognition Underscores ARC's and Cadence's Ongoing Successes in Low-Power Product Development and International Joint Marketing