MILPITAS, CA – June 9, 2010 – Linear Technology Corporation announces the LT3958, a high input voltage DC/DC converter for boost, flyback, SEPIC and inverting power supply applications. This device operates over an input voltage range from 5V to 80V, has an onboard 84V/3.5A power switch, and can achieve efficiencies up to 96%, making it well suited for industrial, automotive, medical and telecom applications.

The LT3958 is capable of generating either a positive or negative regulated output voltage with its two voltage feedback error amplifiers and reference voltages. One set is … Read More → "80V DC/DC Converter Makes Positive or Negative Regulated Voltages"

SANTA CLARA, CALIF. –– June 8, 2010 –– Oasys Design Systems today announced its multi-year strategic licensing agreement with Xilinx for Oasys’ revolutionary Chip Synthesis™ technology.

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SANTA CLARA, CALIF. –– June 8, 2010 –– Oasys Design Systems today announced its multi-year strategic licensing agreement with Xilinx for Oasys’ revolutionary Chip Synthesis™ technology.

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SUNNYVALE, CALIFORNIA and Unterpremstaetten, Austria – June 9, 2010 – Nangate, the leading supplier of digital cell library development and design optimization solutions, and austriamicrosystems (SIX: AMS) today announced that austriamicrosystems has successfully implemented the Nangate Library Creator^TM Platform to improve the productivity and cost effectiveness of its digital cell library intellectual property (IP) development. austriamicrosystems is a leading global designer and manufacturer of high-performance analog … Read More → "austriamicrosystems adopts Nangate’s Library CreatorTM for digital cell library IP development"

SANTA CLARA, Calif., June 8, 2010 — Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today introduced Read More → "Agilent Technologies Announces Curriculum-Based Engineering Solutions to Assist University Educators"

THAME, United Kingdom, June 8, 2010 – Imperas, which through the Open Virtual Platforms (OVP) initiative (www.OVPworld.org) has become the de facto source for instruction accurate processor modeling and simulation, today announced the release of fast models of PowerPC processors.  These models work with the OVP simulator, OVPsim, where they have shown exceptionally fast performance reaching over one thousand million instructions per second (MIPS).  The models are free and available as open source from the OVP website.

The addition of the … Read More → "Imperas Releases Fast Models of PowerPC Processors Through Open Virtual Platforms (OVP) Initiative"

Who/What

Silicon Frontline Technology, Inc. (SFT), an Electronic Design Automation (EDA) company in the post-layout verification space, will attend the 47</ … Read More → "Silicon Frontline Promotes Guaranteed Accurate, Post-Layout, Silicon-Proven Verification Software, Customer Acceptance, Foundry Collaboration at 47th Design Automation Conference"

SANTA CLARA, Calif., June 4, 2010 — Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced that United Microelectronics Corporation (NYSE: UMC, TSE 2303) has certified Agilent’s GoldenGate RFIC simulator</ … Read More → "Agilent Technologies Announces United Microelectronics Corporation Certification of GoldenGate Software"

Fremont, Calif. – June 9, 2010 – Visit Sapient Systems at DAC June 13-18 to see why the EDA industry’s leading analyst, Gary Smith, named them one of this year’s “What To See @ DAC” companies (http://www.garysmitheda.com/paper/What2SeeDAC2010.pdf).  To register for a Sapient demo:  sales@sapient-inc.com.

WHO:  Sapient Systems’ powerful software for IC decision makers enables … Read More → "Sapient Named Gary Smith EDA “What To See @ DAC” Company, Booth 375: Powerful New Software For IC Decision Makers"

MONTPELLIER, France, June 9, 2010 — Menta SAS and LIRMM, an embedded programmable logic provider Read More → "Menta and LIRMM Launch Manufacturing of World’s First MRAM-based FPGA"