MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., June 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Synopsys, Inc. (NASDAQ:SNPS) , a world leader in software and IP for semiconductor design, verification and manufacturing, today announced it has acquired technology, engineering resources and other assets of Synfora, Inc., a provider of C/C++ high-level synthesis tools used to design complex systems-on-chips (SoCs) and FPGAs. The asset acquisition strengthens Synopsys’ position in system-level design and verification and enhances the company’s FPGA-based prototyping solutions.

Synfora’s technology enables designers to quickly create … Read More → "Synopsys Acquires High-level Synthesis Technology from Synfora, Inc."

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., June 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Synopsys, Inc. (NASDAQ:SNPS) , a world leader in software and IP for semiconductor design, verification and manufacturing, today announced it has acquired technology, engineering resources and other assets of Synfora, Inc., a provider of C/C++ high-level synthesis tools used to design complex systems-on-chips (SoCs) and FPGAs. The asset acquisition strengthens Synopsys’ position in system-level design and verification and enhances the company’s FPGA-based prototyping solutions.

Synfora’s technology enables designers to quickly create … Read More → "Synopsys Acquires High-level Synthesis Technology from Synfora, Inc."

WILSONVILLE, Ore., June 11, 2010—Mentor Graphics Corporation (NASDAQ: MENT) today announced that the low-power 32nm Hi-K Metal Gate (HKMG) offering from Samsung Electronics  Foundry business (Samsung Foundry) includes Mentor Graphics Calibre® design-to-silicon solutions as critical components for both design and manufacturing. Mentor Calibre OPC and Calibre Mask Data Prep products are used in the manufacturing flow, while Calibre Physical Verification and DFM products are part of Samsung Foundry’s supported design flow.

“Mentor and Samsung have been collaborating for years on the development and successful deployment of Calibre platform capabilities for both design … Read More → "Mentor Graphics Design-to-Silicon Solutions Implemented as Part of Samsung Electronics’ New 32nm High-K Metal Gate Offering"

Campbell, CA – June 10, 2010 – Silicon Frontline Technology, Inc. (SFT), the silicon-proven, full- chip, field-solver company, announced today that its F3D (Fast 3D)</ … Read More → "TSMC 28nm Analog and Mixed-Signal Referenced Flow Includes Silicon Frontline’s F3D Parasitic Extraction Software"

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., June 10, 2010 – Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS), a world leader in software and IP for semiconductor design, verification and manufacturing, today announced that Samsung Electronics’ foundry business (Samsung Foundry) has successfully taped out its first 32 nanometer (nm) system-on-chip (SoC) design using Synopsys’ Galaxy(tm) Implementation Platform. Samsung Foundry selected the Galaxy Implementation Platform as one of its implementation solutions for its mobile application processor because the platform’s seamless integration enabled them to meet timing while minimising power consumption and adhering to the tighter design and manufacturing constraints imposed by a 32nm process. In … Read More → "Samsung Electronics achieves first-pass 32nm silicon success using Synopsys Galaxy Implementation Platform"

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., June 10, 2010 – Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS), a world leader in software and IP for semiconductor design, verification and manufacturing, today announced that Samsung Electronics’ foundry business (Samsung Foundry) has successfully taped out its first 32 nanometer (nm) system-on-chip (SoC) design using Synopsys’ Galaxy(tm) Implementation Platform. Samsung Foundry selected the Galaxy Implementation Platform as one of its implementation solutions for its mobile application processor because the platform’s seamless integration enabled them to meet timing while minimising power consumption and adhering to the tighter design and manufacturing constraints imposed by a 32nm process. In … Read More → "Samsung Electronics achieves first-pass 32nm silicon success using Synopsys Galaxy Implementation Platform"

Eindhoven, the Netherlands, June 2010,  – JTAG Technologies is introducing at DAC show in Anaheim a new approach to supplying tools for debugging boards with a mix of free and paid for products targeted at different aspects of the debugging process.

JTAG Live is for electronics engineers and technicians to use in checking PCBs for basic continuity and correct operation. The family consists of three products, Buzz, Clip, and Script.

And to keep start-up costs down, to connect to the board, JTAG Live is compatible with the popular JTAG programming … Read More → "JTAG Technologies to Present New Approaches to Boundary-Scan at DAC Show, Anaheim, booth 254, June 15th to 17th."

Tokyo, Japan – June 11, 2010 – TOOL Corporation (headquarters in Tokyo Japan, president Hideaki Hontao) announced the release of LAVIS Version 10.0, their layout visualization platform software. In this version, the new “Route Trace function” has been incorporated that makes it possible to display timing information and easily and visually check the clock tree and other elements. The node tracing function, which allows wire width, inter-node spacing, and other rule checks to be made on a traced node, has been improved as well. These and other enhancements make LAVIS even more useful in reducing design& … Read More → "TOOL Corp. Announces New Release to Layout Visualization Platform, LAVIS"

Released six weeks ago, Embedded Workbench STM8 provides a commercial-grade suite of development and debug tools which can now be used for the first time to create applications incorporating a real time operating system.

Atomthreads broke new ground in February when it became the first free RTOS available for the new STM8 CPU architecture, and is keeping up the momentum by adding support for other STM8 compiler toolchains. It  … Read More → "Atomthreads RTOS Supports IAR Embedded Workbench STM8 UK, June 2010"

Paris, France and Grenoble-Moirans, France – June 8, 2010 – CoFluent Design and Read More → "CoFluent Design and Docea Power Collaborate to Accelerate Power Exploration for Electronic Systems Optimization"