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Low Cost Breakout Boards Accelerate PLD Design And Hardware Evaluation
Lattice Semiconductor announced the immediate availability of three new low-cost I/O Breakout Boards: the MachXO 2280 Breakout Board, the ispMACH® 4256ZE Breakout Board and the Power Manager II POWR1014A Breakout Board.
Lattice -Helion Compression IP Core
Lattice Semiconductor and Helion Technology today announced a portfolio of Compression and Encryption IP cores, available now, for the LatticeECP3 FPGA family. The portfolio features a Payload Compression System core that enables improved utilization of constrained channel bandwidth, making it ideal for use in Microwave Backhaul applications, Broadband Wireless Access for 802.16e (WiMAX), and, potentially, other Multi-Link Multi-In Multi-Out (MIM...
Synopsys Unveils DC Explorer for Early RTL Exploration
Synopsys today introduced DC Explorer, the latest addition to the Galaxy Implementation platform, to significantly speed up development of high-quality design data. To meet aggressive schedules for today's massively integrated, multimillion-instance, Gigascale designs, engineers need an RTL exploration solution that enables them to quickly and efficiently perform what/if analyses of various design configurations – even before the design data is...
Mentor Graphics Teams with TSMC to Enrich Reference Flow 11 Low Power Verification Solutions
Mentor Graphics announced it has expanded the use of low power verification capabilities in TSMC’s Reference Flow 11 to address today’s complex integrated circuit (IC) low power functional verification requirements. The Mentor® low power verification tool suite includes the Questa® functional verification platform, the 0-In® CDC (Clock Domain Crossing) and the 0-In Formal tools and the FormalPro™ equivalence checking tool.
iWatt Selects Magma’s Titan to Automate Analog Design of Power Supply Control ICs
Magma Design Automation Inc. (Nasdaq: LAVA), a provider of chip design software, today announced iWatt has adopted the Titan platform to improve analog design and layout productivity, and to automate difficult routing tasks including analog cell layouts and chip-level assembly. iWatt, a developer of energy-efficient digital power supply control integrated circuits (ICs) used in leading-edge power supplies, adopted Titan based on results of an ext...
Mentor Graphics Calibre xACT 3D Field Solver Extraction Tool Demonstrates High Accuracy and Performance in STARC Evaluation
Mentor Graphics announced the results of an extensive evaluation by the Tokyo-based Semiconductor Technology Academic Research Center (STARC) that showed the Calibre® xACT 3D extraction product delivers both reference level accuracy and high performance, enabling very high quality extraction for large IPs.
Mentor Graphics Delivers Next-Generation Emulation Solutions for the Verification of High-Speed Ethernet Products
Mentor Graphics Corp. (NASDAQ: MENT), a leader in high-performance system verification solutions, today announced its next-generation platform to accelerate the verification of 100-Gigabit Ethernet products.
Freescale Licenses Synopsys' DesignWare IP Portfolio to Accelerate SoC Designs
Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS), a world leader in software and IP for semiconductor design, verification and manufacturing, today announced that Freescale Semiconductor, a global leader in the design and manufacture of semiconductors for the automotive, consumer, industrial and networking markets, has licensed Synopsys' DesignWare® IP for Freescale's system-on-chip (SoC) designs.
Wilocity Tapes-Out Multi-Gigabit Wireless Communication SoC Using Synopsys DesignWare IP
Synopsys announced that Wilocity has successfully taped-out its multi-gigabit Wireless Gigabit Alliance-compliant system-on-chip (SoC) utilizing Synopsys' broad portfolio of high-quality DesignWare® IP and assistance from Synopsys Professional Services. The DesignWare IP used in the SoC included PCI Express, embedded memories and logic libraries. Wilocity's SoC is based on the Wireless Gigabit Alliance (WiGig) and IEEE802.11ad draft specificatio...
ITTIA DB SQL and Express Logic’s ThreadX and FileX Present a United Embedded Solution
ITTIA, announces the availability of ITTIA DB SQL for ThreadX, an advanced lightweight real-time operating system (RTOS) from Express Logic, Inc., of San Diego, CA. ITTIA DB SQL is a relational embedded database for special-purpose systems that require self-contained data management software. With ITTIA's relational data management capabilities and the advanced features and rich set of system services available with ThreadX, the combination is ea...