- The growing threat to EDA software
The financial future for electronic design automation (EDA) firms has seldom looked so bright. Now that the slump in semiconductor sales is finally over, chip designers are hot to tackle 65 nanometers and beyond, creating a demand for new EDA tools. Even so, there's a trend in semiconductor design that ......
- IBM, Cadence Team Up for 65nm ASIC
Semiconductor design tool market leader Cadence Design Systems Inc. http://www.cadence.com has inked an agreement with International Business Machines Corp. http://www.ibm.com (IBM) to incorporate Cadence's Encounter RTL compiler global synthesis and its Encounter test technologies into the IBM 65nm ASIC design kit. According to the companies, the new kit provides IBM's ASIC ......
- AMI SEMICONDUCTOR LICENSES ARM MICROPROCESSOR CORES
FOR ADVANCED FPGA-TO-ASIC DESIGNS.
ARM [(LSE: ARM); (Nasdaq: ARMHY)], aprovider of 16/32-bit embedded RISC processor solutions, has announced two licensing agreements with AMI Semiconductor (AMIS), the industry's leading FPGA-to-ASIC conversion provider. AMIS has licensed the ARM7TDMI microprocessor core and the ARM922T microprocessor core to support conversion of high-density FPGAs to AMIS ASICs as well ......
- Hammer quickly debugs ASICs
A hardware-assisted simulation accelerator called Hammer 100 from Tharas Systems Inc., Santa Clara, Calif., compiles Verilog, VHDL, or mixed-language ASIC designs at 20 to 50 million RTL gate equivalents per hour on a single workstation, said to be the industry's fastest compilation time. Up to 4 Gbytes of memory boosts ......
- Issues and strategies for the physical design of system-on-a-chip ASICs
HEADNOTE The density and performance of advanced silicon technologies have made system-on-achip ASICs possible. SoCs bring together a diverse set of functions and technology features on a single die of enormous complexity. The physical design of these complex ASICs requires a rich set of functional elements that integrate efficiently with ......
- Texas Instruments teams with Silicon Logic Engineering
to strengthen ASIC offering.
Texas Instruments Incorporated (NYSE:TXN) (TI) and Silicon Logic Engineering Inc. (SLE), have announced an agreement to jointly develop complex application specific integrated circuits (ASICs) for TI customers in the wireless and wireline infrastructure, and high performance computing markets. Under the agreement, SLE will provide semiconductor design services and intellectual property ......
- EDA Indigestion
The EDA industry is a true business anomaly. Usually, when an industry matures, it has two or three mainstay companies. In EDA, however, the constant evolution of semiconductor design has created three mainstay companies and a host of startups, with more launched every month. Rather than relying on in-house research ......