MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – May 5, 2010 – Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS), a world leader in software and IP for semiconductor design, verification and manufacturing, today announced the availability of IC Compiler 2010.03, a physical implementation solution delivering up to 2.5X faster performance on multicorner/multimode (MCMM) designs, and enhanced In-Design technology for faster design closure. IC Compiler’s In-Design technology helps prevent late-stage surprises by enabling signoff-accurate static timing analysis, rail analysis and physical verification during design. The new software release has production support for all known 28/32nm design rules for major foundries, with several customer tapeouts underway.

“We … Read More → "Latest Synopsys IC Compiler release delivers more than 2X speed-up, enhanced In-Design technology and production support for 28/32nm"

SUNNYVALE, CALIF. and ACTON, MASS. –– May 4, 2010 –– Vivante Corporation, an embedded graphics technology leader, and Read More → "Vivante Adopts Carbon Design Systems’ System-Level Modeling, IP Deployment Tools"

Eindhoven, The Netherlands, May 4th, 2010  – Vector Fabrics announces vfAnalyst, a cloud-based tool for parallelizing sequential C code. The first in a planned family of cloud computing tools, vfAnalyst enables software engineers to easily identify the most promising parallelization opportunities so that they can create an effective multicore implementation much more quickly than is possible today. vfAnalyst is hosted on the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) – a well-proven, secure server facility accessed through a standard web browser. The tool is paid for on a pay-as-you-go basis – a business model that minimizes up-front costs and eliminates software and hardware maintenance … Read More → "Vector Fabrics cloud tools to automate sequential C code analysis for multi-threading"

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., May 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — On Thursday, May 6, Microsoft Research will provide a glimpse inside its Silicon Valley research facility at its Mountain View campus to invited guests from government, academia and the technology industry. Rick Rashid, senior vice president of Microsoft Research, kicks off the event with a keynote speech highlighting ways in which Microsoft Research is pushing forward the state of the art in computer science. Event attendees then will have an opportunity to tour interactive demonstrations showcasing research in the areas of datacenter services for data-intensive computing, privacy, Web search, cloud services and natural user interfaces. … Read More → "Microsoft Research to Show off New Research Projects at Silicon Valley TechFair Event"

Sea, Air & Space, National Harbor, Maryland – May 3, 2010 — Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing (CWCEC), a business group of Curtiss-Wright Controls and a leading designer and manufacturer of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) VME, VPX, VXS and CompactPCI products for the rugged deployed defense and aerospace market, has announced a new partnership for software joint development with Gedae, Inc. The partnership will bring support for Gedae, Inc.’s software development environment (also named Gedae) to CWCEC’s next-generation of CHAMP VPX DSP engines. Gedae provides … Read More → "Curtiss-Wright Controls Announces Software Development Partnership with Gedae Software: Demo System to be Displayed at Sea, Air, Space 2010"

Taipei, Taiwan,  May 4, 2010 – VIA Technologies, Inc, a leading innovator of power efficient x86 processor platforms, today announced the new VIA EPIA-M830 Mini-ITX board.  Designed specifically to meet the needs of next generation kiosk, POI and POS applications, the VIA EPIA-M830 places the latest 64-bit, high performance VIA Nano E-Series processor in a streamlined, application specific Mini-ITX form factor board.

Kiosk and POS systems will soon support an incredible array of increasingly complex human-machine interactions that reach beyond traditional ticketing or retail scenarios. The VIA EPIA-M830 is designed to take the kiosk … Read More → "VIA Launches VIA EPIA-M830, First VIA Nano E-Series Mini-ITX Board"

HOUSTON, TX (May 4, 2010) – Bringing the intelligence and precision of real-time digital control to expanding LED applications, Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) (NYSE: TXN) today announced its new TMS320C2000™ Piccolo microcontroller (MCU) DC/DC LED Developer’s Kit. The new LED controller kit enables developers to leverage the performance of low-cost Piccolo MCUs to differentiate LED designs with advanced features such as dimming, color tone adjustment, power line communication and fault detection. Additionally, developers can reduce system cost through the integrated control of LED and power stages using a single Piccolo MCU. The … Read More → "Design intelligence and advanced features into cost-efficient lighting applications with new digital DC/DC LED Developer’s Kit based on TI’s Piccolo™ MCU"

SAN JOSE, Calif., May 3, 2010 – Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (Nasdaq: CY) today introduced a new online community for designers to share design tips, ask questions and find in-depth information on a wide range of Cypress products, including the PSoC® programmable system-on-chip. The new Cypress Developer Community™ website, now available at www.cypress.com/go/communityRead More → "Cypress Launches Online Design Community for PSoC® Platform And Other Leading Technologies"