Pong Pioneer: Modern Video Games 'Unadulterated Trash' Oct 24, 2007
"Video games today are a race to the bottom," Atari founder Nolan Bushnell tells Electronic Design magazine. "They are pure, unadulterated trash and I'm sad for that.". (Fox News)
Advisory/Synopsys EDA Interoperability Forum to Feature Michael Keating Keynote on Low Power Methodology Oct 20, 2007
Oct. 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: ), a world leader in software and IP for semiconductor design and manufacturing, announces that its 20th electronic design automation (EDA) Interoperability Developers' Forum will feature keynote speaker Michael Keating, Synopsys Fellow and lead author of the recently released "Low Power Methodology Manual" (LPMM) ... For more information, directions, and to register, visit: About Synopsys Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: ) is a world leader in... (PR Newswire)
Tektronix sale may lead to more spinouts Oct 17, 2007
The $860 million electronic design software company was started by several Tektronix employees, including software engineer Tom Bruggere, marketing executive Gerry Langeler, and operations analysis manager David Moffenbeier. Mentor was one of the first companies to entice venture capitalists from outside of Oregon to invest in the state. (The Business Journal of Portland, OR)
Altera and TRS-STAR Announce Automotive Industry's First Scalable Infotainment Platform Oct 10, 2007
At our disposal are five electronic design centers with more than 100 engineers to solve your technology needs. Furthermore, TRS-STAR makes use of the MSC logistic and programming centers located near Karlsruhe, Germany. (PR Newswire)
Line 6 and Freescale Empower Third-Party Audio Designers with New ToneCore(R) DSP Developer Kit Oct 6, 2007
The kit enables third-party audio DSP developers with little or no electronic design experience to quickly and easily program audio effects modules for Line 6 ToneCore guitar pedals. ADVERTISEMENT. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
ARM and Synopsys Feature Special Low Power Events at ARM Developers' Conference Sep 28, 2007
About Synopsys Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: ) is a world leader in electronic design automation (EDA) software for semiconductor design. The company delivers technology-leading system and semiconductor design and verification platforms, IC manufacturing and yield optimization solutions, semiconductor intellectual property and design services to the global electronics market. (PR Newswire)
Lars Kruse Joins ChipVision as Chief Architect Sep 27, 2007
--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ChipVision Design Systems, the low power specialist in electronic design automation (EDA), today announced that Dr.-Ing ... ChipVision Design Systems is the leading supplier of low power system-level electronic design automation (EDA) software tools and services. (BusinessWire)
D-BOX Provides Update from the 2007 CEDIA Sep 24, 2007
LONGUEUIL, QC, Sept. 24 /CNW/ - D-BOX Technologies Inc. (TSX-V: DBO.A) ("D-BOX" or the "Company"), a leading provider of motion technology for immersive home entertainment today provided an update following its participation at the 2007 Consumer Electronic Design and Installation Association ("CEDIA") Expo that was a success. At the event, D-BOX unveiled a new product version of the Universal Motion Platform, received two industry awards and previewed a soon to be released clip of a Blu-ray... (Canada Newswire)
Ciranova names Eric Filseth CEO Sep 20, 2007
an electronic design automation startup, on Wednesday named Eric Filseth chief executive. Santa Clara-based Ciranova said Filseth spent 17 years with San Jose-based (NASDAQ:CDNS), where he was most recently marketing vice president for digital implementation products. (San Jose Business Journal)
Xilinx expands, opens lab in Singapore Sep 15, 2007
Donations in silicon and electronic design automation software from the FPGA giant will enable professors and students to be trained in embedded system design and development for a variety of end applications, according to Xilinx. Xilinx has also expanded its Asia-Pacific regional headquarters in Singapore. (EETimes)
Xilinx Underscores Commitment To Asia Pacific Market At Official Opening Of New Regional Headquarters Building In Singapore Sep 14, 2007
Donations in silicon and electronic design automation software will enable professors and students to be trained in embedded system design and development for a variety of end applications (e. g., video and audio quality enhancement technologies for digital entertainment). (PR Newswire)
Intel Capital invests in Nascentric Sep 14, 2007
Venice, Florida Nascentric, Inc. an Electronic Design Automation (EDA) company focused on providing Fast-SPICE simulation and analysis tools, announced that it has closed a $7. 2 million Series C financing, including new investor Intel Capital. (EETimes)
Gary Smith to receive ACM Award Sep 13, 2007
SIGDA, Special Interest Group on Design Automation is ACM's professional development organization for the Electronic Design Automation (EDA) community ... Mr. Smith and his team have been instrumental in reporting on and identifying industry trends in Electronic System Level (ESL), Electronic Design Automation (EDA) and Embedded Systems industries ... While at Gartner Dataquest, Smith was the Managing Vice President and Chief Analyst of the Electronic Design Automation Service, Design eering... (EETimes)
HD VMD to Battle Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD Sep 9, 2007
At the Custom Electronic Design & Installation Association () trade show in Denver, a company promoting a new high-definition optical disc format demonstrated set-top players and high-definition movies that cost far less than ones that use the competing Blu-ray Disc or HD DVD formats. The only faux pas: Arriving late to a two-party format war that consumers are already reluctant to support. (PC World)
Xilinx and Barco Announce Single-Chip JPEG2000 Implementation Sep 7, 2007
As a custom electronic design house, Barco Silex can also provide integration design support as well as chip and board solutions. Availability The Barco Silex JPEG2000 hardware cores are immediately available for third party licensing. (PR Newswire)
Faster Wi-Fi in Works to Transfer Data Sep 3, 2007
Laskar and other scientists at the Georgia Electronic Design Center have turned to extremely high radio frequencies to transfer huge data files over short distances. The high frequencies which use the 60 gigahertz band have been a mostly untapped resource. (ABC News -- Wire)
Faster wireless in works for gadgets Sep 3, 2007
Sign up to receive our free Tech e-newsletter and get the top news of the day in your inbox. Get breaking news in your inbox as it happens. (USA Today -- Tech)
Watch movie DVDs on your mobile! Aug 27, 2007
Scientists at the Georgia Electronic Design Centre (GEDC) at the Georgia Institute of Technology are investigating the use of extremely high radio frequencies to achieve broad bandwidth and high data transmission rates over short distances. Within three years, this multi-gigabit wireless approach could result in a bevy of applications, including next generation wireless data connections able to transfer an entire DVD in seconds. (India Times, India)
Taiwan's Longest-Serving Technology Design Events Open Today in Taipei Aug 23, 2007
"For 15 years, Taiwan's design community has gathered at these important events to discover the very latest advancements in embedded systems, electronic design automation and test technologies," said President of Global Sources' Electronics Business Unit, Mark A. Saunderson ... " Other top technology providers participating include AMD, Ansoft, Avant Technology, CEVA, Faraday Technology, Marvell Technology, Oracle, Plurality, SanDisk, Tektronix and Trolltech among others. Atmel, Intel, Mentor... (PR Newswire)
Fairchild Semiconductor Celebrates 50th Anniversary in October Aug 20, 2007
In addition, its volume manufacturing and electronic design automation (EDA) efforts fueled the growth and development of these semiconductor market segments, and spawned hundreds of new companies in all aspects of the high-tech industry including Intel, AMD, National, LSI Logic, VLSI Technology, Intersil, Altera and Xilinx, to name a few. Several venture capital firms also were formed by Fairchild executives, including Sequoia Capital; and Kleiner Perkins, Caulfield & Byers which, in turn,... (BusinessWire)
Xilinx to work with EDA vendors on 65-nm FPGA verification Aug 15, 2007
14) it is collaborating with electronic design automation vendors to tackle FPGA design verification issues. Xilinx (San Jose, Calif. (EETimes)
Cost of hospital phone calls is slashed Aug 8, 2007
As an electronic design engineer I can also reassure people that no product so feeble that it would be effected by anything even 1000 times more powerful than a mobile would ever be approved for use in a critical situation such as a hospital or aircraft. - Bernard P, London. (This is Money)
8-year-old whiz kid designs with FPGAs Aug 8, 2007
Carson, who has had a penchant for science since he learned to talk, developed an interest in FPGAs by watching his father, Ray, an electronic design consultant who specializes in and LCDs and sometimes writes for FPGAs. Carson persuaded Ray to let him Actel's Libero integrated development environment (IDE) and begin tinkering with it. (EETimes)
EDA grows 10 percent in Q1 Aug 1, 2007
he EDA Consortium said that the electronic design automation (EDA) industry revenue for the first quarter grew 10 percent to $1. 345 billion, versus $1. (EETimes)
Report: EDA revenue up 10% in Q1 Aug 1, 2007
Electronic design automation industry revenue grew 10 percent in the first quarter to $1. 34 million, up from $1. (San Jose Business Journal, CA)
Calling all with a chip on the shoulder Jul 29, 2007
EDA (electronic design automation) companies into products and services form the starting block for the VLSI and hardware/ board design market. They are one of the most important links in the semiconductor value chain. (Hindustan Times)
Glucose sensor technology developed by chemist Bakthan Singaram was featured in a story in the Orange County Register. . . and more Jul 29, 2007
Research on the magnetic properties of disk drives led by physicist Joshua Deutsch was featured in EE Times, Electronic Design, the Inquirer (London), SlashDot. com, ITPro, ComputerWorld, TechWorld, and Science Daily. (US Santa Cruz Currents, CA)
Multi-gigabit Wireless Research Could Soon Make Wired Computers And Peripherals Obsolete Jul 20, 2007
Stephane Pinel, a research scientist with the Georgia Electronic Design Center, demonstrates gigabit-wireless technology at the group's Atlanta headquarters ... Scientists at the Georgia Electronic Design Center (GEDC) at Georgia Tech are investigating the use of extremely high radio frequencies (RF) to achieve broad bandwidth and high data transmission rates over short distances. (Science Daily)
'Expert' reports on DATE, DAC available to public Jul 12, 2007
MANHASSET, N.Y. -- The "edacentrum," an independent organization that promotes research and development in electronic design automation, is making its reports available to the general public. The "edaTrend" 2007 conference reports cover this year' two leading EDA conferences: Design, Automation, and Test in Europe (DATE) Conference 2007, held in Nice, France, and the Design Automation Conference (DAC) 2007 held in Diego, California. (EETimes)
edacentrum Announces General Availability of Its Prestigious ``edaTrend'' Reports Jul 11, 2007
HANNOVER, Germany--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Responding to overwhelming demand, edacentrum -- an independent institution that promotes research and development in electronic design automation (EDA) technology -- today announced first-time public availability of its prestigious edaTrend 2007 conference reports ... edacentrum is an independent organization dedicated to the promotion of research and development in the area of electronic design automation (EDA). (BusinessWire)
A Stock For Modeling Jul 3, 2007
For the record, Ansoft develops electronic design automation (EDA) software, which is used by product engineers to design electrical devices and systems such as wireless phones, Internet networking products, integrated circuits, sensors and motors. Its software solutions help customers define the architecture of their product, design circuits and components, evaluate the interaction of components and optimize performance under real-world conditions. (Forbes -- Business)
BT Taps 3Tera for Utility Computing Jun 20, 2007
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ArchPro Design Automation Inc. Jun 19, 2007
Both companies make electronic design automation software used in semiconductor design. Synopsys (NASDAQ: SNPS) is based in Mountain View and ArchPro is in Milpitas. (San Francisco Business Times, CA)
The sound of good design Jun 17, 2007
" And so DuCote became the eyes and Woods the ears for the careful conversion of an upstairs flat of typically small, 1910 Victorian rooms into a unique series of four showrooms designed to captivate the audiophile and home-theater buyer. Just as the Bay Area's four-star chefs mix flavor and presentation on a plate, the pair sought impeccable function within appealing form. That, it must be noted, is something of a departure from the current consumer goal in home audio and video. "Most of our... (San Francisco Chronicle)
Commentary: Running Intel's Numbers Jun 16, 2007
The process would go on until the silicon was fully patterned with the electronic design. I thought of my neighbor a few months ago when I visited one of Intel's finest "fabs" in Chandler, Ariz. (Forbes)
Mentor buys Sierra Design for $90 million Jun 12, 2007
Technology publications and analysts said the purchase of the 4-year-old Santa Clara company will give the No. 3 electronic design toolmaker an edge in the fastest-growing part of its market ... Sierra's annual revenue is somewhere between $10 million and $20 million, said Gary Smith, a longtime electronic design tools analyst with Gartner Inc. who now heads his own research firm in California ... Its significance lies in giving Mentor a complete range of electronic design tools, comparable to... (San Jose Business Journal, CA)
Virage names chief marketing officer Jun 9, 2007
He was formerly president, CEO and a director of , a venture capital-backed company focused on electronic design automation. Founded in 1996, Virage focuses on advanced embedded memory intellectual property for the design of complex integrated circuits. (East Bay Business Times, CA)
DAC should consider combining with Semicon: Magma CEO Jun 7, 2007
Rajeev Madhavan, in an interview with EE Times (below), said as parts of the electronic design automation (EDA) industry become more tightly coupled with back-end manufacturing, such an alliance with Semicon a trade show for semiconductor equipment vendors makes sense. "Given that design and manufacturing and all these things are coming together, it might be wise for something like to combine with or be next to Semicon West," he said. (EETimes)
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Cadence is a world leader in electronic design automation (EDA) technologies and engineering services, according to its Web site www. cadence. (Boulder Colorado Daily, CO)
Snowman ends four-decade association with SRC Jun 1, 2007
Thompson graduated from Spoon River College in 2006 with an associate of applied science degree in electronic design and is now enrolled in the motion graphics program at Video Symphony in Burbank, California. During her time at SRC, Thompson took Snowman s Introduction to Art and Ceramics courses. (Canton Daily Ledger, IL)
Commentary: EDA's future lies beyond electronics Jun 1, 2007
Looking at our field of electronic design automation, we might be tempted to think that we, as a discipline, have nothing to do with solving these important problems. After all, what do logic minimization, placement, routing, simulation and so on have to do with, say, clean water. (EETimes)
Synopsys, Zuken tie simulation to boards May 31, 2007
Promising an integrated for system-level electronic design, simulation, and verification, Synopsys Inc. and Zuken have announced a partnership to Synopsys' Saber mixed-signal simulator to Zuken's CR-5000 pc-board design environment. A bidirectional will let users run Saber from within Zuken's schematic capture environment. (EETimes)
OneSpin Joins EDA Design and Verification Standards Group Accellera May 30, 2007
--(BUSINESS WIRE)--OneSpin Solutions GmbH, an electronic design automation (EDA) company that provides award-winning, customer-proven formal verification solutions, today announced it has accepted an invitation from standards body Accellera to become a member and serve on the Unified Coverage Interoperability Standard (UCIS) Technical Subcommittee ... Electronic Design Automation (EDA) company OneSpin Solutions provides award-winning, customer-proven functional verification solutions for ASIC... (BusinessWire)
Nangate Announces Next Generation Physical Re-Synthesis May 22, 2007
MENLO PARK, CALIF., May 22 /CNW/ - Nangate Inc., a leading provider of electronic design automation (EDA) software, today announced Nangate Design Optimizer, the re-synthesis solution for next generation physical design flows. Based on a unique Nangate patented technique Nangate Design Optimizer is capable of creating an optimized gate-level design with area, speed or power benefits as a result. (Canada Newswire)
Akustica Selects DALSA as MEMS Foundry Partner for Single-Chip Digital Microphones May 22, 2007
Since Akustica microphones were introduced last year, the semiconductor industry has recognized Akustica's technology with accolades and honors, including an EDN Innovation award in the "Mixed-signal Application Specific Standard Product" category; an Electronics Products Magazine "Product of the Year" award; and most significant Leapfrog technology of the year from Electronic Design readers. Akustica digital-output microphones are now reaching the market in commercial volumes, helping to... (CCNMatthews Press Releases)
Photo Release -- Foundry Redefines the High-End Switching Market With the World's Most Powerful and Energy Efficient Routing Switch May 22, 2007
Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (NasdaqGS: - ) is the world's leading electronic design automation (EDA) technologies and engineering services company. Recently, Cadence's large-scale data center backbone has experienced a tremendous influx in IP traffic attributed to bandwidth intensive applications required to create and test the world's most advanced semiconductors and circuit boards used in consumer electronics, networking, telecommunications equipment and computer systems, amplifying their... (Primezone Releases)
OneSpin Solutions Establishes Operations in Japan May 21, 2007
--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Addressing growing customer demand in Japan for its award-winning formal verification solutions, Electronic Design Automation (EDA) company OneSpin Solutions GmbH today expanded its global operations with a new sales and field applications engineering office in Yokohama, Japan, known as OneSpin Solutions Japan KK. OneSpin also said it is hiring top Japanese talent for several sales and technical support positions at the new office ... Electronic Design Automation (EDA) company... (BusinessWire)
Buying a flat-screen TV is easy; installing it takes skill May 19, 2007
North County Times - North San Diego and Southwest Riverside County News. Editions of the North County Times Serving San Diego and Riverside Counties. (North County Times)
Denali Announces Availability of PCI Express I/O Virtualization Solutions May 17, 2007
May 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Denali Software, Inc., a world- leading provider of electronic design automation (EDA) software and intellectual property (IP), today announced the availability of design cores and verification IP which support the preliminary I/O virtualization (IOV) specifications from the PCI-SIG. IOV is a key technology that enables systems to simultaneously share PCI Express (PCIe) resources within multi-CPU systems, or across multiple operating systems ... About Denali Software... (PR Newswire)
IC verification startup takes graphical approach to test generation May 16, 2007
Gary Smith, chief analyst at Gary Smith EDA, said Breker is providing a "critical part" of the automated "intelligent testbench" technology that Smith thinks will be one of the next leaps forward in electronic design automation. Focused effort Hamid was a new graduate when he was asked to develop a verification environment for AMD's K5. (EETimes)
Magma Offers Royalty-Free License for Low-Power Patent May 16, 2007
(05/15/2007 8:43 AM EDT). This royalty-free, non-reciprocal license provides EDA developers and their end users with open access to fundamental low-power design technology. (EETimes)
Premier Farnell offers $100,000 prize for environmental design May 16, 2007
The support package, estimated to be worth an additional $50,000, will include the services of an electronic design consultancy that will develop the design to prototype stage, assistance with legal matters and IP registration, marketing and publicity, as well as Premier Farnell s help in securing investment funding. group will market the end product through their Web page, catalogue and direct marketing. (EETimes)
ChipVision Breakthrough ESL Technology Enables Interactive Creation of RTL Code Optimized for Low-Power Consumption May 14, 2007
--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ChipVision Design Systems, the low-power specialist in electronic design automation, today announced breakthrough, patented Electronic System Level (ESL) technology that lets RTL designers work interactively with system-level descriptions to generate power-optimized Register Transfer Level (RTL) code. It creates implementation trade-off options for RTL designers, and immediately and accurately implements their visualized choices. (BusinessWire)
OneSpin Enhanced 360 Module Verifier Delivers Industry's First Complete Multi-Configuration IP Verification Solution May 14, 2007
--(BUSINESS WIRE)--OneSpin Solutions GmbH, an electronic design automation (EDA) company that provides award-winning, customer-proven formal verification solutions, today announced the enhancement of its flagship OneSpin 360 Module Verifier (360MV) has led to the industry s first complete, one-shot verification solution for configurable Intellectual Property (IP) components ... Electronic Design Automation (EDA) company OneSpin Solutions provides award-winning, customer-proven functional... (BusinessWire)
Tools make EDA MEMS-capable May 9, 2007
The answer, according to Mary Ann Maher, is that the current crop of electronic design automation tools doesn't have built-in MEMS capabilities. The company she founded, SoftMEMS LLC (Los Gatos, Calif. (EETimes)
Low-power IC design techniques may perturb the entire flow May 8, 2007
Menager and other IC designers provided an inside look at the challenges at the recent Electronic Design Process (EDP) workshop in Monterey, Calif. EDA vendors acknowledge designers' dilemma. (EETimes)
Startup Simberian launches 3D simulation package May 2, 2007
strategy is to build easy-to-use electromagnetic software for high-frequency electronic design automation. "Current tools have a very steep learning curve and are prohibitively expensive," Shlepnev said. (EETimes)
Standard & Poor's Announces Changes to U.S. Index May 1, 2007
Ansoft develops electronic design automation (EDA) software used primarily in the technology industry. Headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA, the company will be added to the SlCap 600 GICS Application Software Sub-Industry index. (PR Newswire)
Chartered's Q1 down, outlook cloudy Apr 27, 2007
(04/26/2007 6:54 PM EDT). hartered Semiconductor Manufacturing Pte. (EETimes)
Design-for-manufacturing mantra: Simplify, simplify Apr 24, 2007
-- Current approaches to design-for-manufacturability (DFM) may be yielding too little for the amount of effort and cost involved, according to IC design experts at the recent Electronic Design Process (EDP) workshop here. Rather than throw complicated analysis tools at designers, said, DFM is best addressed through design rules, preverified blocks and improved standard-cell libraries. (EETimes)
Cadence's Jan Willis wins EDA award Apr 24, 2007
More specifically, Willis is the recipient of the Marie R. Pistilli Women in Electronic Design Automation Achievement Award, to be given at the 12th annual Workshop for Women in Design Automation (WWINDA) set for Monday, June 4 at the Both the workshop and award are attempts to increase the participation of women in EDA and electronic engineering. Willis has appeared in recent EE Times coverage as an advocate for the Cadence-originated Common Power Format (CPF), one of two low-power description... (EETimes)
Local firm pumps up the volume Apr 23, 2007
His innovation got him elected in 2001 to the presidency of the Indianapolis-based Custom Electronic Design llation Association. "He was a pioneer," said competitor Greg Blair of Community TV in Palm Beach Gardens. (The Palm Beach Post)
* A driveless drive-in with outdoor home theater Apr 21, 2007
" Maureen Jenson, editor of Home Theater magazine, also sees what she calls "a huge trend" in outdoor viewing, particularly in the area of weather-resistant equipment, which is designed to be left outdoors. And that outdoor equipment is getting bigger. SunBrite will introduce a 46-inch set next month, with a manufacturer's suggested price of US$5,000. Global Outdoor Concepts, which manufactures MirageVision outdoor sets, has added a 42-inch set to its line and is planning to bring out a 47-inch... (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
SCHEDULED CONVENTIONS Apr 15, 2007
Custom Electronic Design llation Assn.. Sands Expo Center. (Las Vegas Review-Journal -- Business)
Blog Main Page Apr 14, 2007
I didn't realize how difficult low-power IC design is until I attended some user sessions at the Electronic Design Process (EDP) workshop Thursday ... A group of major semiconductor manufacturers are mulling over a potential design for manufacturability (DFM) specification standard, according to a comment made at the Electronic Design Process (EDP) workshop Thursday (April 12). (EETimes)