| Startup puts team to work on the data explosion
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2005-09-01 |
| Edxact SA comes out with a tool that accurately provides netlist reduction for parasitic netlist elements. |
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| Cutting RF power in W-CDMA phones
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2005-08-01 |
| Power dissipation problems in W-CDMA phones can be solved by adjusting power amplifier efficiency and voltage requirements |
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| Virtual system 'platform' rolls
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2005-08-01 |
| Carbon Design moves from point tools to integrated platforms with its new virtual system prototyping product. |
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| IMI, Sanyo Epson inaugurate LCD manufacturing plant
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2005-07-22 |
| Philippine EMS provider, Integrated Microelectronics Inc. (IMI) and Sanyo Epson Imaging Devices Philippines Inc. (SEPH) have inaugurated an LCD module processing facility at the Laguna Technopark in Laguna, Philippines. |
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| Innovation, cooperation key to overcoming DFM issues, says Synopsys exec
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2005-06-29 |
| Speaking to an audience of mostly photomask manufacturing executives at the Advanced Reticle Symposium Tuesday (June 28), Synopsys Inc.'s Michel Cote praised the way the EDA industry has responded to design-for-manufacturing (DFM) challenges with innovation and said continued industry cooperation is the key to overcoming them. |
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| TI, Ember team up in lowest power Zigbee chipset solution
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2005-06-23 |
| Texas Instruments Inc. (TI) has collaborated with Ember Corp. to unveil what they claim as the lowest power consuming ZigBee networking and microcontroller (MCU) platform. |
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| Cadence details enterprise verification strategy
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2005-06-15 |
| Cadence Design Systems Inc. outlined the company's strategy for "enterprise" verification process automation (VPA) at a breakfast for journalists and analysts Monday (June 13) kicking off the Design Automation Conference (DAC |
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| One of our own honored with DAC plaque
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2005-06-15 |
| Richard Goering, EE Times Editorial Director for Design Automation, was recognized Tuesday for 20 years of coverage of the EDA world at the Design Automation Conference (DAC |
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| Samsung exec predicts memory shortages
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2005-06-15 |
| Surging demand for flash memory driven by multimedia consumer devices could lead to future memory shortages, a Samsung Semiconductor executive warned Tuesday (June 14). |
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| Designs better be holistic, says DAC keynote speaker
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2005-06-15 |
| The electronics industry is in danger of stagnating unless innovators take a holistic approach to design in everything from systems architecture to corporate alliances, according to IBM fellow Bernard Meyerson. |
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| Emerging DFM, verification technologies most exciting, CTOs say
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2005-06-14 |
| Emerging technologies for design for manufacturing (DFM) and verification are the most exciting developments in the design realm, concluded a panel of chief technology officers convened here Monday (June 13) at the Design Automation Conference (DAC |
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| Three tout more nimble physical design
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2005-06-07 |
| Three tool vendors are pitching breakthroughs in IC physical design in advance of next week's Design Automation Conference |
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| Tackling RF, mixed-signal integration
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2005-05-16 |
| As mixed-signal and analog RF circuits are slowly integrated in today's chip designs, designers have to face many challenges |
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| Digitization of analog, RF circuits
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2005-05-16 |
| The migration of analog functions to the digital domain reduces cost per channel as the move to 3G progresses. |
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| SigmaTel displays MP3 solution at China tradeshow
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2005-04-13 |
| SigmaTel Semiconductor has introduced its MP3 solution, STMP3510/3520/3550/3560, at the recent IIC in Shenzhen, China. |
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| Migration path laid to low-cost 32bit MCUs
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2005-04-01 |
| Moving from 8bit architectures to 32bits entails several hurdles to overcome—one of them is cost. |
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| IC floorplanning moves ahead with Patoma
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2005-03-16 |
| A new approach to IC floorplanning is said to reduce wire length while running orders of magnitude faster than previous solutions. |
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| FPGA accelerates real-time app performance
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2005-03-01 |
| Designers are eyeing new FPGAs with faster and better performance in DSPs and real-time applications. Rodger Hosking and Richard Kuenzler of Pentek say why. |
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| ADI revs signal converters
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2005-02-16 |
| After launching 17 high-speed converters in 2004, ADI is back with two ADCs targeted at wireless infrastructure and communications test. |
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| Users laud C design in DAC 'trip report
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2005-02-15 |
| Engineers are warming to C language design tools, according to reviews in the Design Automation Conference (DAC) "e;trip report"e; released Friday (Feb. 11) by industry gadfly John Cooley |
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| VDSL-2 chipsets bow for central office, CPE
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2005-01-17 |
| Ikanos Communications rolled out VDSL-2 chipsets for central-office and customer-premises modems. |
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| Philips Semi pushes ARM outside MCU envelope
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2005-01-17 |
| Two trends are converging on the 32bit MCU segment, accelerating CPU power growth, memory size and I/O sophistication. |
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| Understanding sensor data acquisition
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2005-01-03 |
| Sensors are in widespread use, either as part of a microcontroller or separately in an embedded system. However, one of the more efficient circuit implementations combines a high-performance analog-to-digital (A/D) converter with an integrated MCU. |
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| Digitalizing analog circuits cuts chip area, increases performance
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2004-12-01 |
| By replacing analog functions with digital equivalents, you can achieve more predictable performance, simplify testing and reduce chip area. |
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| Deep-submicron CMOS aids RF design
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2004-12-01 |
| High-speed serial digital interfaces are being exploited to change the way systems are partitioned. |
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| Hearing, seeing the sound of change: From analog to digital audio amplifiers
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2004-12-01 |
| Digital amplifier systems keep audio signal in the digital domain virtually all the way to the speaker; analog-based systems convert the signal to analog early in the process. |
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| 41st DAC papers reveal vendors' R&D
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2004-09-01 |
| The 970-page DAC proceedings for 2004 offer insights into R&D work underway at design automation vendors |
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| Initiatives to manage power proliferate
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2004-08-16 |
| Here are some of the power-management initiatives aimed at efficiently converting power from the source to the load. |
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| Realtek to supply GbE, audio ICs for AMD RDK
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2004-08-03 |
| Realtek Semiconductor Corp. announced that AMD has chosen its RTL8110S-32 LAN on Motherboard 10/100/1000M Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) controller and ALC203 2 channel audio IC for the AMD Geode GX Thin Client reference design kit (RDK). |
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| Tera survey claims RTL handoff interest
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2004-07-06 |
| A survey of over 400 engineers, many of whom attended an RTL handoff symposium at the Design Automation Conference (DAC), reveals a considerable interest in the topic, according to Tera Systems |
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