- 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 ......
- 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 ......
- Cadence Design System to purchase Simplex Solutions for 5.71 times revenue
The Deal: Cadence Design Systems Inc. has agreed to buy Simplex Solutions Inc. for $18.00 per share (about $274 million) in stock. The deal still requires regulatory and shareholder approval. The deal is expected to close in the third quarter of 2002. As a result of the acquisition, Simplex will ......
- ASSP, ASIC design starts down, but still plenty of opps, iSuppli says
The number of design win opportunities for application specific standard products (ASSPs) and application specific integrated circuits (ASICs) may be declining, but tens of billions of dollars of potential design wins still exist, according to El Segundo, CA-based market research firm iSuppli Corp. http://www.isuppli.com While new designs made in this ......
- Mentor revamps hardware-assisted verification offering
Aimed at providing a significant boost for SoC and embedded systems design verification, semiconductor design tool provider Mentor Graphics Corp. http://www.mentor.com announced today at the DATE Conference, being held in Nice, France, three new hardware-assisted verification platforms: Veloce Solo, Trio and Quattro. Based on a new “emulation-on-chip” architecture, the three ......
- SMIC, Cadence Aim to Streamline Wireless Design in China
To deliver a Radio-Frequency (RF) Design Methodology Kit to the China RF IC design market, Shanghai, China-based semiconductor foundry Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. (SMIC) http://www.smics.com is working with San Jose-based design tool market leader Cadence Design Systems Inc. http://www.cadence.com to develop process-design kits (PDKs). The kits will support the Cadence ......
- 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 ......