- Show Highlights
DAC innovations span digital DFM to RF test Design Automation Conference, July 24–28, San Francisco, CA, IEEE, EDA Consortium, and SIGDA, www.dac.com . Agilent Technologies ( www.agilent.com ) announced the Connected Solutions Workbench, a test platform that enables system-level testing for wireless networking and cellular communications systems. Advantest ( www.advantest.com ......
- CoWare Acquires LisaTek
CoWare Inc. today announced its acquisition of LisaTek Inc., creating what it claims is the world’s only system-level design house encompassing processor modeling, design and embedded software tool creation. Although financial details of the acquisition were not released, all LisaTek employees have joined CoWare, the companies said. CoWare is a ......
- x86 Microprocessors Challenge Semiconductor Manufacturing
For more than a decade, embedded processors have packed tens and sometimes hundreds of simple processor cores onto a single chip. By comparison, the x86 microprocessors used in mainstream PCs and servers seem distantly behind, but will be catching up quickly over the next few years. The two remaining x86 ......
- DFM tool providers forge closer 65-, 45-nm bonds with semiconductor foundries
To accelerate time to market and improve manufacturability of chips targeted for Hsinchu, Taiwan-based semiconductor foundry UMC http://www.umc.com ’s 65-nm process technology, San Jose-based chip design tool supplier Magma Design Automation Inc. http://www.magma-da.com has worked with UMC to jointly qualify Magma’s Quartz DRC, Quartz LVS and Quartz DFM. The collaboration ......
- In search of ASIC alternatives
Amulet Technologies LLC in Santa Clara had a problem. The fabless chip company had designed a graphics engine for an embedded system. It wasn't a high-volume application, but the company still expected to ship as many as 100,000 of the chips. Amulet had designed the original prototype as an FPGA, ......
- The drive for silicon
If there's a light at the end of the downturn's tunnel, it's mobile computing. Not necessarily wireless networking, mind you, but rather the proliferation of electronics in automobiles. Research firm Allied Business Intelligence predicts that the world automotive semiconductor market will grow to more than $17 billion a year by ......
- LSI LOGIC AND AXYS DESIGN ANNOUNCE INTEGRATION OF ZSP
DSP MODELS IN AXYS DESIGN'S MAXLIB COMPONENT
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LSI Logic (NYSE:LSI) and AXYS Design Automation, Inc. recently announced the integration of ZSP DSP models into MaxLib, AXYS Design's library of models for SoC components. AXYS Design will distribute the ZSP DSP MaxLib models to LSI Logic customers along with its MaxSim Developer Suite. The models can be combined ......