Dallas, TX – May 5, 2010 – Speeding the development of low-cost security access control systems and other applications that require a high-speed interface to external processing units, Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) (NYSE: TXN) today launched the new Stellaris FPGA Expansion Board for the DK-LM3S9B96 development kit. The new board enables developers to easily evaluate the high bandwidth machine-to-machine (M2M) parallel interface capability of Stellaris microcontroller’s (MCU) flexible External Peripheral Interface (EPI). With data widths of up to 32 bits and data rates of up … Read More → "Developers can easily experience and harness the high-speed machine-to-machine interface capability of Stellaris® MCUs with TI’s new FPGA Expansion Board"

San Jose, California – May 4, 2010 – More than a dozen silicon IP and SoC design technology related companies will exhibit and give talks at the third annual SoCIP event aiming at brining the latest SoC design technologies to China.  SoCIP 2010 symposium will be held in Shanghai at Parkyard Hotel Pudong on June 1^st and in Beijing … Read More → "Third Annual SoCIP 2010 Symposium in China"

San Jose, California – May 4, 2010 – More than a dozen silicon IP and SoC design technology related companies will exhibit and give talks at the third annual SoCIP event aiming at brining the latest SoC design technologies to China.  SoCIP 2010 symposium will be held in Shanghai at Parkyard Hotel Pudong on June 1^st and in Beijing … Read More → "Third Annual SoCIP 2010 Symposium in China"

SANTA CLARA, Calif., May 4, 2010 — Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) announced it will demonstrate the latest LTE test application solutions at the LTE World Summit 2010, May 17 – 19, in Amsterdam, at the Hotel Okura, Booth 30. Agilent will showcase design-automation tools and flexible instrumentation solutions used in the early LTE R&D design of components, base-station equipment and mobile devices.

Agilent will showcase:

• System-level design and verification products. Used for 3GPP LTE physical layer (PHY) design, these products provide predictive and algorithmic references for the SystemVue platform and are consistent with the LTE v.8.9.0 (December 2009) standard. These … Read More → "Agilent Technologies to Showcase LTE Test Solutions at LTE World Summit 2010"

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"

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"