Open SystemC Initiative adds members Mar 15, 2008
Beside CoWare, and now Virtutech, the corporate members are ARM Ltd. Cadence Design Systems, Inc, Forte Design Systems, Intel Corporation, Mentor Graphics Corporation, NXP Semiconductors, STMicroelectronics and Synopsys, Inc.. With the addition of TI and Maple Design Automation, OSCI's associate corporate members number more than 25 companies. (EETimes)
Open SystemC Initiative Adds Texas Instruments, Maple Design, Virtutech to Member Roster Mar 10, 2008
Virtutech enters the organization as the tenth Corporate Member, joining ARM Ltd.; Cadence Design Systems, Inc.; CoWare, Inc.; Forte Design Systems; Intel Corporation; Mentor Graphics Corporation; NXP Semiconductors; STMicroelectronics; and Synopsys, Inc. With the addition of TI and Maple Design Automation, OSCI s Associate Corporate Members number more than 25 companies. For a complete listing of OSCI members visit. (BusinessWire)
Imperas donation forms open-source virtual platform initiative Mar 4, 2008
The company has also been pitching its approach around the semiconductor and EDA industries and an initial list of about 20 supporters includes Carbon Design Systems Inc., CriticalBlue Ltd., Denali Software Inc., MIPS Technologies Inc. and Tensilica Inc.. OVP is offering models for some ARM and MIPS processor cores and the OpenRISC 1000 royalty-free processor core. (EETimes)
Art Landro Named Executive Vice President of Worldwide Field Operations for MontaVista Software Feb 25, 2008
Before joining MontaVista, Landro held executive positions with EMC, Documentum, Cadence Design Systems, and General DataComm ... Landro was vice president, Asia-Pacific for Cadence Design Systems from 1998 to 2000, and regional director of Asia for General DataComm from 1994 to 1997. (BusinessWire)
Hardware design using ESL Feb 12, 2008
Mitch Dale () is director of product marketing at Calypto Design Systems. Prior to joining Calypto, he was director of verification solutions with Mentor Graphics. (EETimes)
Big grant, big task for UA's scientists Jan 31, 2008
The money is earmarked to design systems that can analyze vast quantities of scientific data and tackle global issues such as climate change and renewable energy. The idea is to think big and give scientists the computing power they need to answer important questions, said Richard Jorgensen, a UA professor who will lead the research team. (AZCentral -- News)
Read more... Jan 30, 2008
Design systems to improve stability of electrical grids operating with variable generating sources, such as wind power plants on the Big Island and Maui. Integrate renewable energy, including solar, wind, energy storage and advanced vehicle technologies, into existing systems to meet the islands' energy needs. (Honolulu Star-Bulletin)
1/25: Agent.TBH Worm May be Downloaded Unknowingly Jan 27, 2008
It is also reported to arrive via Advanced Design Systems digital photo frames. It disables Automatic Windows Update. (eSecurityPlanet)
Malware's new infection route: photo frames Jan 27, 2008
Sam's Club's supplier, Advanced Design Systems in Tuscaloosa, Ala. has found no infected frames at Sam's Club or its manufacturer in China, said Vice President Tommy Randolph. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Cadence's RTL Compiler wins synthesis poll Jan 24, 2008
LONDON RTL Compiler from Cadence Design Systems Inc. (San Jose, Calif ... Magma Design Automation Inc. and Incentia Design Systems Inc., both of Santa Clara, California. (EETimes)
Carbon Design raises $6 million Jan 10, 2008
EDA tool supplier Carbon Design Systems said Wednesday (Jan. 9) it has raised $6 million in a recently closed funding round. (EETimes)
City officials strive for ‘green' justice center, library Jan 3, 2008
You have to design systems so they are as efficient as possible, he said. Ainsworth described the review process for achieving LEED standards as lengthy and can significantly increase the cost of the project. (Lebanon Express, OR)
Faces of Business 2007: Vinod Khosla, venture capitalist Jan 1, 2008
While at Stanford, he started writing the business plan for Daisy Systems, a company that would create computer-assisted design systems for electrical engineers. Daisy opened soon after he graduated from Stanford in 1980. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Technology)
Imperas to focus first on multiprocessor simulation, debug Dec 19, 2007
Prior to his appointment to Lapides served as vice president of sales at Averant and Calypto Design Systems. Prior to this, Lapides worked for Verisity and SureFire Verification. (EETimes)
Parker Investor Day Reveals Technologies for Growing Markets Dec 7, 2007
Parker Innovation engineers use electronic design systems to facilitate collaborative work. Each engineer brings specific technology expertise to the group to determine concept feasibility before allocating in-depth design and development work. (PR Newswire)
SAP lifts the skirts on its 'industrialized' software Dec 7, 2007
SAP's ability to show its model-based development approach and drill down to the links between process blocks in those "Visio-on-steroids flow charts," Shepherd said, represents another step toward applying the approaches that mechanical engineers take when using modern computer-aided design systems ... SAP's ability to show its model-based development approach and drill down to the links between process blocks in those "Visio-on-steroids flow charts," Shepherd said, represents another step... (SearchCIO.com)
Leveraging system models for RTL functional verification Dec 4, 2007
Jerome Bortolami () is senior field applications engineer at Calypto Design Systems Inc. He has nine years of experience in formal verification, co-design and co-simulation. He holds an MSc in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Grenoble, France. (EETimes)
City leaders help rebuild New Orleans park Nov 30, 2007
"The Joe Brown Park where the newly constructed playground is located serves mainly black residents in a low-income community in East New Orleans.It took the NLC volunteers six hours to transform the park, which had been closed since June 2005, from a large, empty space to one filled with slides, swings, game tables, rock climbing walls, sliding boards and other playground equipment. The volunteers also planted 25 trees at the park.The equipment the two Laurel council members helped to assemble... (Laurel Leader, MD)
DRAM market gears up for DDR3 Nov 8, 2007
8 V for DDR2) and larger memory densities than DDR2, DDR3 technology allows OEMs and ODMs to design systems with higher performance and larger overall memory capacities. In addition to faster transfer rates and lower power consumption, DDR3 has improved pinout for better power and ground referencing, as well as enhanced write signaling via dynamic on-die termination and module layout to support higher speeds. (EETimes)
For the record, hit a fast-forward button for data with destiny Oct 23, 2007
There are people called database architects (DBAs), whose job it is to design systems efficiently and to improve the effectiveness - and speed - of them. Applications evolve and it is a never-ending task. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Technology)
Transcript of Civil Society Organizations Town Hall Meeting with IMF Managing Director Rodrigo de Rato and World Bank President Robert B. Zoellick Oct 21, 2007
So we are a support as part of a network, but nevertheless, if we have those capabilities, they may turn to us, and help with ideas about how you might design systems, because I'll close where I started one is not going to get at this challenge unless you really integrate the developing countries. You aren't going to do this by ordering them. (IMF News)
Will global warming mean higher sewer bills? Oct 3, 2007
If sewer authorities and municipalities design systems to handle those bigger, more frequent storms, the increased costs will be reflected in ratepayers' bills. In March, a little-publicized EPA draft report predicted that because of surging storm severity in the Great Lakes region, the design and construction of sewer systems could cost at least 10 percent more. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
EDA startup ChipVision names Lars Kruse Chief Architect Sep 28, 2007
MUNICH, Germany ChipVision Design Systems (Oldenburg, Germany) has announced that Lars Kruse has joined the company as Chief Architect. With the move, the originator of the company's core product returns to his roots. (EETimes)
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 ... About ChipVision Design Systems ... ChipVision Design Systems is the leading supplier of low power system-level electronic design automation (EDA) software tools and services. (BusinessWire)
Kaufman award honors Brayton Sep 27, 2007
11"14, Austin, Texas) where he will address these issues in his talk entitled, The EDA Consortium and the Council on EDA will formally present the Kaufman award to Brayton two weeks earlier, on Nov. 1, at the 14th annual Phil Kaufman Award ceremony in Santa Clara, Calif. The award was established in 1994 by the EDA Consortium and the IEEE Council on EDA to honor Phil Kaufmane late president of Quickturn Design Systems Inc., which merged with Cadence Design Systems Inc. in 1999. Other design... (EETimes)
Taiwan's Longest-Serving Technology Design Events Open Today in Taipei Aug 23, 2007
" 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 Graphics, NXP Semiconductors to Lead Technical Seminars A panel of industry executives is scheduled to discuss the latest design solutions and application breakthroughs at the event's technology summits. Topics include: -- "Powering Down" -- Speakers include executives from... (PR Newswire)
Exponent Appoints Dr. John B. Shoven to Board of Directors Aug 23, 2007
He is also Chairman of the Board of Cadence Design Systems and a member of the Board of American Century Funds. About Exponent Exponent is an engineering and scientific consulting firm providing solutions to complex problems. (PR Newswire)
Cadence to acquire Clear Shape Aug 17, 2007
adence Design Systems Inc. has acquired Clear Shape Technologies Inc., a design-for-manufacturing (DFM) technology company. The move expands Cadence's efforts in DFM. Traditional DFM-enabled lithography analysis products take days or weeks to run, according to Cadence. (EETimes)
Cadence, Mentor team on SystemVerilog verification Aug 17, 2007
LONDON Two EDA companies, Cadence Design Systems Inc. and Mentor Graphics Corp., have joined forces to promote a common approach to the verification of design files based on the SystemVerilog language. The two companies have called it the "Open Verification Methodology" or OVM to emphasize that it is an open-source and freely available approach. (EETimes)
County supervisors settle on septic rules Aug 16, 2007
The Environmental Health Department will now contract with a civil engineer or engineering geologist to assist with determining soil quality, soil depth and other measures on applications for special design systems. Special design systems can be used where standard systems won't work ... Many drafts sought to allow special design systems in more cases, lowering the two-foot minimum, allowing a higher percentage of rock in soils needed to meet depth requirements and dispersing wastewater over a... (The Union Democrat)
Xilinx to work with EDA vendors on 65-nm FPGA verification Aug 15, 2007
said in a statement that its engineers will work with counterparts at Cadence Design Systems Inc., Mentor Graphics Corp. and Synopsys Inc. "to define and implement new verification flows to maximize productivity and quality of results for ultra high-density designs targeting today's 65-nm FPGAs.". Xilinx said it expects tools and methodologies developed over the next several months to be released in the first half of 2008. (EETimes)
New ARC(R) VRaptor(TM)-Based Video Subsystems Receive Strong Industry Support Aug 13, 2007
They include ARC partners such as Cadence Design Systems, CoWare, Green Hills Software, Magma Design Automation, and Virage Logic ... Cadence Design Systems ... Cadence Design Systems, Inc., MS 8. (BusinessWire)
Ensuring projects are beneficial 'a priority' Aug 13, 2007
"We need their expertise, the transfer of knowledge, and their project design systems. It's not just about the money.". Many other countries had adopted similar debt strategies for the sake of development, Lukita said, saying that even China was still taking up project loans, considering them a relatively more convenient and cheaper way of ensuring technology transfer. (Jakarta Post, Indonesia -- Business)
Complex proposed Aug 8, 2007
"It's the same proposal. The delay is due to clarifying who the project players were and making preparations, she said. While Bardwell has minimal experience in development, he has the backing of several partners who do, according to the company. One backer is George Gervin, who grew up in Detroit and was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame as a player. Timothy Wadhams, chief executive officer of Masco Corp. in Taylor, was listed as partner in press releases. According to other news... (The News-Herald)
The ghosts in the voting machines Aug 8, 2007
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Carbon offers free tenison migration program Aug 4, 2007
Venice, Florida July 30, 2007 Following the acquisition of Tenison by ARC International, Carbon Design Systems has announced a program to offer customers of Tenison Design Automation's VTOC products an easy migration path to Carbon's family of model generation solutions. The Tenison Migration Program is a limited-time offer that includes free use of Carbon's tools, custom integration software, and tailored services to speed the migration in exchange for signing on with Carbon. (EETimes)
ARC International plc Announces Unaudited Preliminary Results For the Six Months Ended June 30, 2007 Aug 1, 2007
The effort is being undertaken with the help of companies such as Cadence Design Systems, Magma Design Automation, and Virage Logic. and complements ongoing R&D initiatives between ARC and advanced computing departments at leading universities. (BusinessWire)
Draft spec helps high-speed designs fly Jul 20, 2007
Engineers at Cadence Design Systems spearheaded the work on the current API which takes its name from the longstanding practice in IBIS of listing. Some of those documents date back to the early 1990s. (EETimes)
Cadence acquires lithography specialist Invarium Jul 13, 2007
Cadence Design Systems Inc. said Thursday (July 12) it has acquired lithography-modeling specialist Invarium Inc.. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. (EETimes)
Cadence, Starc cooperate on 65-nm design Jul 11, 2007
MANHASSET, N.Y. Cadence Design Systems, Inc. will provide its IC design flow to the Japan's Starc research consortium. The flow is optimized for 65-nm design on the Cadence Encounter digital IC design platform and, according to Cadence, provides with integrated design-for-manufacturing (DFM) and design-for-yield capabilities. (EETimes)
'DVD Jon' cracks iPhone activation Jul 10, 2007
DVD Jon' cracks iPhone activation - vnunet. DVD Jon claims to have unlocked part of the activation process on Apple's iPhone R E L A T E D C O N T E N T Similar articles. (VNUNet.com)
Barclaycard unveils smartcard details Jul 10, 2007
Barclaycard is to combine payments and travel in one card R E L A T E D C O N T E N T Similar articles. Credit card provider will offer cashless payments with Oyster travel card. (VNUNet.com)
Floorplanning, RTL synthesis link for chip-level interconnect Jul 10, 2007
Claiming a new "design with physical" approach that helps solve problems with chip-level interconnect, Cadence Design Systems this week plans to announce a new component of its Cadence Logic Design Team Solution. It integrates the Encounter RTL Compiler synthesis tool with the First Encounter floorplanning tool so that synthesis can get timing estimates from physical floorplanning data. (EETimes)
Microsoft fighting to prevent GPLv3 contamination Jul 7, 2007
Microsoft fights to prevent GPLv3 contamination - vnunet. R E L A T E D C O N T E N T Similar articles. (VNUNet.com)
O2 denies iPhone deal is done Jul 7, 2007
O2 claims that an iPhone deal with Apple is 'just rumour' R E L A T E D C O N T E N T Similar articles. Operator refuses to comment on exclusive UK deal. (VNUNet.com)
European EDA market to grow 11% in 2007, says report Jul 4, 2007
It is dominated, as is the global market, by Cadence Design Systems, Mentor Graphics Inc., and Synopsys Inc. However, unlike its third position in the worldwide ranking, Mentor Graphics ranked second in Europe, where it generated 28 percent of its global business. The United-States is host to most worldwide EDA vendors. (EETimes)
Synopsys reaffirms support for Vera Jun 29, 2007
He did not address reports in John Cooley's that point to a decline in the use of Vera, as well as Cadence Design Systems' "e," another specialized verification language. According to that report, use of Vera declined from 27 percent in 2005 to 20. (EETimes)
Septic issue stalls again Jun 28, 2007
Special design systems, used where standard systems won't work, can have as little as two feet of soil, since the effluent is pretreated. In some areas of the county, the soil is too shallow and rocky to meet the requirements. (The Union Democrat)
Startup seeks litho-friendly 'route' to success Jun 27, 2007
He founded Lizotech in 2005 with Min-Chen Zhao, vice president of engineering, who was formerly an engineer at Cadence Design Systems, Mentor Graphics and Actel ... Lien said Lizotech has tried LithoRoute in Cadence Design Systems and Synopsys flows, although not yet with Magma Design Automation's flow. (EETimes)
Report gives thumbs down to e-voting Jun 23, 2007
Published: 22 Jun 2007 09:16 BST. The Open Rights Group on Wednesday that includes scathing criticisms of the way e-voting and e-counting proceeded at a number of sites during the local government elections last month. (ZDNet UK)
The world's biggest planes Jun 14, 2007
New technologies, including composite airframes, lighter engines and advanced avionics and design systems, are bringing a huge new generation of giants to life. Also on this story. (MSNBC -- Travel)
Tech appeal lures private equity to ponder big deals Jun 13, 2007
What's more, cash-stuffed funds appear to be trolling for some sizable fish; speculation has circulated that EDA giant Cadence Design Systems Inc., for example, is on firms' radar. Indeed, in today's exuberant market, it's not unthinkable--though it's certainly still unlikely--that a deep-pocketed investor group might be so bold as to make a play for Intel Corp.. (EETimes)
President Bush Participates in Joint Press Availability with President Parvanov of Bulgaria Jun 12, 2007
And I would hope that the Russians would see the meetings as beneficial and our meetings -- realize our true intent, and hopefully design systems that protect us all. PRESIDENT PARVANOV: I would like to begin by saying that we welcome the strategic dialogue, and it was described as a strategic dialogue by both leaders, both by President Bush and by Putin, a dialogue which started within the framework of G8. (White House News Releases)
Septic setbacks made consistent again Jun 12, 2007
"It eliminated so much ground from these small lots that septic engineers weren't able to design systems for them," said Mike Borean, president of the Calaveras County Builders Association. In discussing the issue, committee members concluded that differing interpretations of the codes was at the root of the problem. (The Union Democrat)
IBM Bids SK5.2 Billion in Cash for Sweden's Telelogic (Update4) Jun 12, 2007
2 billion kronor ($743 million), adding software design systems used by DaimlerChrysler AG and ABB Ltd.. IBM offered 21 kronor in cash for each Telelogic share, about 21 percent more than the closing share price on May 31, before speculation about a takeover started, the Malmoe, Sweden- based company said today in a statement. (Bloomberg)
Wally Rhines vs. the 'incumbent gorillas' Jun 12, 2007
While it offers some promising technology, and has gotten a good reception, Sierra's Olympus-SoC currently holds a distant number four market position compared to Synopsys, Cadence Design Systems, and Magma Design Automation ... The Mentor/Sierra acquisition is a wake-up call to the incumbents that they've got to provide fully capable 65/45 nm design systems as soon as possible. (EETimes)
Competitors disdain Mentor's Sierra acquisition Jun 12, 2007
Synopsys, Cadence Design Systems, and Magma Design Automation all seem to regard Mentor's Sierra acquisition as a minimal threat, and their own positions in 65/45 nm IC design as strong ... Eric Filseth, vice president of Encounter and DFM marketing at Cadence Design Systems, said that Sierra's toolset has so far been used as "a fast multicorner optimizer, a specialty tool which was plugged into their customers' main flows after routing but before metal fill. They have a lot of work ahead to... (EETimes)
Mentor buys Sierra Design for $90 million Jun 12, 2007
Its significance lies in giving Mentor a complete range of electronic design tools, comparable to its leading competitors, Cadence Design Systems Inc. and Synopsys Inc.. Arguably, Sierra Design puts Mentor in even a better position than its rivals. (San Jose Business Journal, CA)
Bidding for top spot in IC design, Mentor buys Sierra Jun 11, 2007
Mentor has instead developed a reputation for providing just about everything else, leaving a big "doughnut hole" for IC implementation that's filled by Cadence Design Systems, Synopsys and Magma Design Automation. Mentor, which has long declared its intention only to enter markets where it can become the No. 1 provider, thinks it can leapfrog all of them. (EETimes)
OEMs go direct to foundry as chip market slows Jun 8, 2007
Companies are working a variety of strategies ranging from mergers such as the combination of LSI Logic and Agere Systems to private equity deals struck by Freescale and NXP. However, Lewis poured cold water on rumors that private equity firms would buy up and combine Cadence Design Systems and Mentor Graphics. "That would be biting off much more than anyone could handle," he said. (EETimes)
Synopsys awards competitors for low power effort Jun 7, 2007
Another effort called the is backed by Cadence Design Systems. At DAC, Cadence announced that Realtek Semiconductor Corp. has completed an aggressive low-power design using the Cadence Logic Design Team Solution that includes CPF, now under the aegis of the. (EETimes)
Cadence private: good or bad for customers? Jun 6, 2007
Reports in the New York Times that Cadence Design Systems Inc. is in discussions with equity firms Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and The Blackstone Group to go private. This caused a run-up in Cadence's stock price Monday. (EETimes)
DAC special: Video interview with Cadence's Ted Vucurevich Jun 6, 2007
SAN DIEGO chief technology officer at Cadence Design Systems, discussed automotive design with EE Times software editor Richard Goering during the Design Automation Conference. eeProductCenter Launches SpecSearch, New Parametric Parts Search Engine In our continuing effort to enhance our site, eeProductCenter introduces SpecSearch powered by GlobalSpec. (EETimes)
Cadence in talks to go private, says report Jun 6, 2007
SAN DIEGO DA giant Cadence Design Systems Inc. is in discussions with equity firms to go private, according to a report from the New York Times. Cadence has been in talks with Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and The Blackstone Group, according to the report. (EETimes)
Palm backer cites software prowess Jun 5, 2007
"We're incredibly well positioned to pursue that opportunity," said Ed Colligan, Palm president and CEO. "We have a broad range of software efforts underway here. Software is the battleground of the future." Palm continues to design systems infrastructure, applications, and services, which it's extending into different form factors, including its new , he added. Once the deal closes, McNamee is set to join Palm's board of directors along with his colleague at Elevation, Fred Anderson, Apple's... (InfoWorld)
