Design

dSPACE and NAVTEQ have been working together to create an integrated development platform for digital map-enhanced advanced driver assistance systems. In order to create an optimally aligned tool chain for the efficient development of map-based advanced driver assistance systems, dSPACE is providing tools for ECU software development alongside NAVTEQ’s development platform for map-based advanced driver assistance systems.

AgO Inc, a technology leader in analog and RF circuit optimization, launches AnXplorer – a new tool for optimizing analog and RF circuits. Starting with an unsized SPICE netlist, variables for device dimensions and a set of design objectives and constraints, AnXplorer optimizes device sizes by rigorously exploring the design space. By centering the design across all specified, process, temperature and voltage corners, AnXplorer achieves a robus...

Corelis, Inc., a leading supplier of high-performance boundary-scan test and measurement tools, announced the availability of the latest version of its powerful ScanExpress Boundary-Scan Tool Suite.

Forte Design Systems, a leading provider of SystemC high-level synthesis, datapath synthesis and intellectual property (IP), announced it is shipping the latest version of CellMath Designer™ datapath synthesis and Cellmath IP software. The CellMath family allows register transfer level (RTL) designers to reduce area, improve performance and lower power consumption for their existing datapath-intensive design blocks.

Synopsys announced that it has enhanced its Galaxy Custom Designer solution with the addition of SmartDRD, an innovative design-rules-driven technology. SmartDRD technology enables layout engineers to more quickly achieve design-rule-check (DRC) clean designs with significantly reduced effort for analogue and custom designs. SmartDRD automates many DRC repair tasks, reducing hours of manual effort to mere seconds.

Simplifying design through the expansion of its software and tool offering, Texas Instruments Incorporated announced that its Stellaris ARM Cortex-M3 MCUs are fully supported by the Code Composer Studio (CCStudio) v4 integrated development environment, and eight new Stellaris MCU evaluation kits featuring CCStudio v4 are immediately available in standard distribution.

Tanner EDA, the catalyst for innovation for the design, layout and verification of analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits (ICs) and IC Mask Design, an industry leader in the provision of physical design services to the global semiconductor industry, are collaborating on the development of a toolset to accelerate analog layout design. By exclusively licensing IC Mask Design's patented layout acceleration technology and integrating it into Tan...

Imec and Altos Design Automation, Inc. today announce that they have entered into an agreement to set up a library re-characterization service based on Altos ultra-fast characterization tools. With this collaboration, imec will extend its ASIC (application-specific integrated circuit) prototyping and volume fabrication service with library re-characterization which is essential when designing in 65nm and 40nm nodes.

Carbon Design Systems, the leading supplier of tools for the automatic creation, validation and deployment of system-level models, announced today immediate availability of virtual models for ARM Mali Graphic Processor Units (GPUs).

dSPACE has given its real-time systems a new heart. The new quad-core DS1006 Processor Board has an AMD Opteron™ 2.8 GHz processor to boost the power of HIL simulation. Large models can be distributed easily across the four cores of the quad-core processor and executed synchronously. So numerous models that formerly required a system of several processor boards can now run on a single DS1006. On every core, the performance and processor-interna...