Design
MOST150 Includes Coaxial Cable
The MOST Cooperation - the standardization organization for the leading automotive multimedia network Media Oriented Systems Transport (MOST) - has released the MOST150 Electrical Physical Layer Sub-Specification Rev. 1.0 based on coaxial cable.
Lattice Reference Design Enables Image Signal Processors (ISP) To Interface With Aptina HiSPi CMOS Sensors
Lattice Semiconductor announced full support for Aptina’s High-Speed Serial Pixel Interface (HiSPi) using LatticeXP2TM FPGAs. The LatticeXP2 HiSPi bridge reference design allows any Image Signal Processor (ISP) with a traditional CMOS parallel bus to interface with an Aptina HiSPi CMOS sensor.
Freescale introduces KwikStik development tool for Kinetis microcontrollers
Cost-effective tool combines low-power MCU with integrated debugger and development and run-time software bundle for rapid development
AWR Announces AWR Design Forum and Call for Papers
AWR Corporation, the innovation leader in high-frequency EDA, announced today the dates, Asia Pacific venues and call for papers of its July 2011 AWR Design Forum. The AWR Design Forum is an open event at which designers of microwave and RF circuit and systems such as MMIC, RF PCB and LTE communication systems can network and share useful information and resources pertinent to high-frequency design, discuss AWR products and technologies, and coll...
HDL Design House Adopts Magma’s Full Suite of Software to Accelerate SoC and IP Development
Magma Design Automation Inc. (Nasdaq: LAVA), a provider of chip design software, and HDL Design House, creators of re-usable IP cores, verification components and behavioral simulation models, today announced that HDL Design House has adopted the full suite of Magma chip design software, including the Talus digital IC implementation system and the Titan™ mixed-signal design platform.
Cadence Releases Industry’s First Wide I/O Memory Controller IP Solution
Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CDNS), a leader in global electronic design innovation, today announced that it is first to market with a licensable, wide I/O memory controller core, along with an integration environment, that brings PC-like performance to mobile applications like smartphones and tablets.
Magma’s New Excalibur-Litho is First System to Efficiently Integrate Real-Time Data from Semiconductor Manufacturing Floor with CAD Information, Speeding Yield Ramp at Advanced Nodes
Magma® Design Automation Inc. (Nasdaq: LAVA), a provider of chip design software, today announced Excalibur-Litho™, a complete fab analysis framework that supports the development and monitoring of advanced lithography solutions. Excalibur-Litho is the first system to efficiently integrate design and real-time data from the semiconductor manufacturing floor, including defectivity, metrology and tool history, enabling an unmatched level of data...
Synopsys - DesignWare PHY and Embedded Memory IP for TSMC Advanced 28-nanometer Technologies
Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS), a world leader in software and IP for semiconductor design, verification and manufacturing, today announced that it has worked with TSMC to develop a broad portfolio of DesignWare® interface PHY IP including SuperSpeed USB 3.0, USB 2.0, HDMI, PCI Express®, DDR and SATA as well as embedded memories for TSMC's 28-nanometer (nm) process technology.
VisSim version 8 expands tool chain with new UML graphical state chart module
The next generation of VisSim from Visual Solutions Incorporated (VSI) (Westford, Massachusetts) is now available from Adept Scientific. VisSim version 8 is the much anticipated product upgrade and introduces exciting new concepts including VisSim/State Charts, a new UML graphical state chart editor, as well as many other product enhancements.
Tensilica IP Cores Targeted to Dataplane and Signal Processing Functions Such as Imaging, Communications and Networking, Boost Data Bandwidth 4X
Tensilica announced that it is extending its leadership in IP (intellectual property) cores for compute-intensive dataplane and DSP (digital signal processor) functions such as imaging, video, networking and baseband wired/wireless communications.