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| 2007-7-2 |
EDA tools add MEMS capability
By integrating its tools with existing EDA tool sets, SoftMEMS claims to be uniquely positioned to enable EEs to co-design electronics-with-MEMS chips from the comfort of their familiar EDA platform. |
| 2007-6-14 |
PXI Express tools offer up to 400MBps data streaming
National Instruments releases the industry's first PXI Express high-speed instruments as well as the industry's first 18-slot PXI Express chassis. |
| 2007-5-16 |
Lack of tools, expertise stalls multicore progress
The tools needed to program and debug multicore ICs are in the "dark ages," according to Anant Agarwal. Solutions are emerging, but the dearth of parallel-programming tools and lack of expertise among embedded designers threaten to slow the progress of multicore architectures. |
| 2007-5-1 |
Develop, test handset apps with simulation tools
Simulation technology helps software developers write and test high-level application code on the desired OS, then run the application on a particular hardware platform even before the hardware is available. |
| 2007-3-16 |
New tools solve CDC-analysis troubles
CDCs have become a leading cause of design errors. Errors may even find their way into silicon, necessitating respins. |
| 2007-3-16 |
CPF-compliant tools aim for low power
Cadence Design Systems Inc. has added the Common Power Format to its existing logic design, verification and implementation tools. |
| 2007-3-5 |
Magma tools cut clock tree power draw by 25%
Magma Design Automation has introduced a pair of low-power IC implementation and analysis tools that the company claims have been shown to reduce power consumption in nanometer ICs by 25 percent. |
| 2007-3-2 |
Mentor, MathStar to develop FPOA design tools
Programmable logic vendor MathStar Inc. has teamed with EDA vendor Mentor Graphics Corp. to develop design tools for the MathStar's field programmable object array (FPOA) devices. |
| 2007-3-1 |
Asynchronous interconnects need innovative tools
Today's EDA tools lack the ability to describe the more complex constraints used by self-timed circuits. Instead, they remain slanted toward the simpler, synchronous circuits commonly used today. |
| 2007-1-17 |
Sigrity ports signal integrity tools to Linux platforms
Sigrity Inc. has ported its power and signal integrity tools to 64-bit Linux platforms, promising to speed signal-integrity analysis for chip, package and board applications. |
| 2006-10-31 |
Synopsys unveils DFM tools for 45nm, beyond
Synopsys has unveiled a new family of process-aware DFM products that analyze variability effects at the custom/analog design stage for 45nm and smaller designs. |
| 2006-10-26 |
Need for next-gen EDA tools grows, says report
The entire electronics industry depends on efficiency and innovation of EDA tools, which is becoming even more important with the continuing rise in reduction in ICs from micro-to nanoscale dimensions. |
| 2006-10-16 |
Design Trends and EDA Tools: Asia-Pacific
Over 300 system, IC and PCB design engineers across the Asia-Pacific, including China, Taiwan, South Korea, Singapore, Malaysia and India, participate in the annual survey to reveal the level of design activity and share development experience with EDA tools. |
| 2006-10-16 |
Open-source tools ease C++ verification
Two engineers published a book on IC verification with C++ and launched a website with free open-source tools that can help IC verification teams. |
| 2006-10-2 |
New tools, scalable methods facilitate SiP design
EDA-software providers must develop new tool functionality and present scalable design methods and flows in SiP. |
| 2006-9-20 |
Agilent, Peregrine expand agreement on RFIC design tools
Agilent Technologies Inc. announced a multi-year, multi-site agreement in which Peregrine Semiconductor has expanded its investment in Agilent's RFIC design tools. |
| 2006-9-6 |
AWR rolls out system-level RF simulation tools
Applied Wave Research has announced its RF Architect system-level simulation tool that provides an RF budget analysis as well as so-called frequency heritage inspection capabilities. |
| 2006-7-17 |
New tools, solutions at ESC, EDA&T-Taiwan
Cutting-edge technologies and solutions, including the latest embedded development and EDA tools, will take centerstage at the 6th Annual Embedded Systems Conference and the 14th Annual EDA & Test-Taiwan Conference and Exhibition to be held on August 17-18. |
| 2006-6-30 |
myPOWER tools speed DC/DC designs
International Rectifier's POWIR+ chipset reference designs simplify and accelerate the design of single-phase synchronous buck converters. |
| 2006-6-26 |
Integrated software development tools support Blackfin DSP
ADI unrolled the Blackfin Multimedia Starter Kit to help reduce time-to-market for embedded systems designs in next-generation digital radio, mobile TV and other media apps. |
| 2006-6-1 |
Tools help harness multicore power
The move toward multiple processors on a single chip, on a single board and in a single system to provide more features and speed at lower power may have solved certain embedded-hardware design problems. But for software developers and vendors, embedded multiprocessing presents a daunting set of challenges. |
| 2006-4-3 |
Easier OPC is tools' promise
Aprio Technologies and Brion Technologies recently launched optical proximity correction tools that promise greater accuracy and flexible user controllability. |
| 2006-3-16 |
Primitive tools slow analog/digital integration
With the right tools, the job of integrating high-performance A/D circuits on the same SoC could be easier. |
| 2006-3-16 |
ESL design tools come up short
ESL and DFM tools need to pack far more capabilities than they do today if they are to represent the EDA industry's best opportunities for growth. |
| 2006-1-18 |
Asynchronous EDA tools coming in Q2, says Silistix
Silistix, a spin-out company from an asynchronous logic research group at the University of Manchester in England, has announced further details of its asynchronous interconnect design tools. |
| 2005-12-16 |
Where are the tools for next node?
If you're an EDA tool provider, it would be hard to find a more demanding customer than STMicro's Philippe Magarshack. |
| 2005-10-3 |
Design Trends and EDA Tools: China & Taiwan
IC and PCB design engineers in China and Taiwan reveal the current level of design and share development experience with EDA tools |
| 2005-8-10 |
Magma to donate EDA tools to Chinese university
Magma Design Automation Inc. has said it plans to donate copies of its Blast series EDA software and provide technical support to Beijing University as part of the creation of an integrated circuit design laboratory. |
| 2005-8-1 |
RF IC tools still seeking paths to silicon
Complicated by multiple modulation schemes, RF tools have become proficient at simulating behavior on an architectural level. |
| 2005-7-18 |
New growth for EDA's in-house tools
Vertically integrated IC companies with large in-house EDA teams have given way to independent EDA companies offering full tool suites; conditions are changing to reverse this trend. |
| 2005-5-17 |
Samsung prepares in-house EDA tools to link design, process
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd has chosen to develop two diagnostic EDA tools in-house and it estimated their application would save the company $30 million in development costs each year. |
| 2005-4-12 |
Intel's Singer calls for 'platform-oriented' tools
Calling on the EDA industry to broaden its scope, Intel executive Gadi Singer cited the need for tools that support complete "platforms," including multiple chips and software, in a keynote speech at the Electronic Design Processes (EDP). |
| 2005-4-1 |
Turn your PDAs to customized measurement tools
The new CompactFlash DAQ device from National Instruments allows standard PDAs to be transformed into customized, portable measurement tools. |
| 2005-3-16 |
PC-based tools lower barrier to MEMS
Take a closer look at how low-cost PC-based tools can help hurdle the challenges in MEMS design. |
| 2005-3-16 |
Don't pay much for mixed-signal tools
Cost-effective analog tools work well with advanced digital tools. They will let you get better payback on your next SoC project and integrate into your design flow at just the right points. |
| 2005-3-10 |
IBM EDA tools emerge from Europe's Prosyd project
One year after the launch of the Prosyd collaborative research project between IBM Corp., Infineon Technologies AG and STMicroelectronics NV with about 4 million euros (about $5.3 million) of European tax payers' money, the project has helped IBM produce chip design verification tools. |
| 2005-2-11 |
Magma Design India, IIIT-Hyderabad team on EDA tools
Magma Design Automation India, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Magma Design Automation Inc. has partnered with the International Institute of Information Technology-Hyderabad (IIIT-Hyderabad) to drive adoption of Magma's IC implementation tools. |
| 2004-12-1 |
Tools alone don't make industry
The EDA industry is still struggling with flat revenues and declining bookings. What's going on? |
| 2004-11-18 |
Cadence plans EDA tools, VC money to curb China piracy
With the hope of curbing rampant piracy of EDA tools in China, Cadence Design Systems Inc. is considering ways to offer stripped down versions of its design suites in a move that mirrors similar efforts by Microsoft Corp. |
| 2004-10-7 |
2004 Design Trends and EDA Tools
Global Sources and Gartner announced the results of their annual joint study, which indicates growing use of finer process technologies in the design of standard ICs and ASICs in mainland China and Taiwan. |
| 2003-9-18 |
Design Trends and EDA Tools: China & Taiwan
This joint study by EE Times?sia and Gartner Dataquest conducted in the year 2003 reveals information on the latest design trends in China and Taiwan. The white paper is the result of a survey conducted by EE Times?sia on China- and Taiwan-based electronics design community across industries. |
| 2003-8-18 |
Interoperable tools ease equivalence checking
Without postponing the verification cycle and risk to design integrity, an automated setup allows users to solve new verification problems. |
| 2003-6-24 |
Integrating Tasking 8051 tools into the Cygnal IDE
This application note discusses how to integrate the Tasking 8051 tools into the Cygnal IDE (integrated development environment). |
| 2003-6-24 |
Integrating Dunfield 8051 tools into the Cygnal IDE
This application note describes how to integrate the Dunfield 8051 tools into the Cygnal IDE (integrated development environment). |
| 2003-6-24 |
Code banking using the Keil 8051 tools
This application note discusses software project management techniques and provides example applications that use code banking. |
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