Eindhoven, The Netherlands, March 2010 – JTAG Technologies announces today an interim update to it’s renowned ProVision boundary-scan development tools-suite. Service Pack One for CD release 15 (CD15-SP1) is now available for download for licensed users with a current support contract from www.jtag.com and includes the new free continuity test module ‘Buzz’.

JTAG ProVision first released in 2006 uses a unique project database structure, automatically analysing the boundary-scan and non-boundary-scan elements of a design to create rapidly a full set of … Read More → "JTAG ProVisionT – Now With Added ‘Buzz’"

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., March 9, 2010 – Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS), a world leader in software and IP for semiconductor design, verification and manufacturing, today announced that it has enhanced its Galaxy Custom Designer(TM) 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.

Driven by the need to manage increasing design complexity and ever-growing design rule counts and their interrelationships, SmartDRD … Read More → "Synopsys Galaxy Custom Designer Accelerates Analog/Mixed-Signal Engineering Productivity with Built-in DRC Visualization and Correction"

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – March 9, 2010 – Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS), a world leader in software and IP for semiconductor design, verification and manufacturing, and the Belgian nanoelectronics research center, imec, today announced they have entered into a collaboration to use Synopsys TCAD (Technology Computer-Aided Design) finite-element method tools for characterising and optimising the reliability and electrical performance of through-silicon vias (TSVs). The collaboration will accelerate the development of 3D stacked IC technologies.

While considered an emerging technology, 3D stacked IC complements conventional transistor scaling and allows multiple chips to be stacked and integrated into a single package. … Read More → "Imec and Synopsys collaborate on 3D stacked IC development"

• Great level of freedom for designers to dynamically optimize energy management
• New 3E products able to write and read data via the power management bus
• OEM product design very much simplified reducing time-to-market

In a major product update, Ericsson Power Modules’ BMR450 and BMR451 point-of-load voltage regulators are now able to write as well as read data via the power management bus; PMBus. Customers buying these revision 2A products will have access to the internal memory of Ericsson’s 3E* point-of-load voltage regulators, providing high flexibility to program functional parameters to … Read More → "Ericsson adds Full PMBus Read And Write Capability to Voltage Regulators"

• Great level of freedom for designers to dynamically optimize energy management
• New 3E products able to write and read data via the power management bus
• OEM product design very much simplified reducing time-to-market

In a major product update, Ericsson Power Modules’ BMR450 and BMR451 point-of-load voltage regulators are now able to write as well as read data via the power management bus; PMBus. Customers buying these revision 2A products will have access to the internal memory of Ericsson’s 3E* point-of-load voltage regulators, providing high flexibility to program functional parameters to … Read More → "Ericsson adds Full PMBus Read And Write Capability to Voltage Regulators"

Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands, and Dresden, Germany, 8 March 2010 – SiTel Semiconductor today announced how its successful collaboration with Target Compiler Technologies led to the creation of customized audio DSPs for its SC14452 Green VoIP processor. The DSPs combine extreme energy efficiency with high processing performance, enabling industry-leading audio quality and power consumption. Key components of the SC14452 that won a 2009 Frost and Sullivan Green Excellence Award, … Read More → "SiTel and Target partnership yields powerful VoIP DSP"

San Diego, USA and Cheltenham, UK – 8^th March 2010.Read More → "Atego’s real-time Ada development system now available to military and aerospace developers"

Leuven, Belgium and San Jose, California, US – March 8, 2010 – 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.

Imec and Altos will collaborate to offer re-characterization of standard foundry or library vendor libraries including core and IO cells at different process, temperatures and/or voltages. The library re-characterization … Read More → "Imec and Altos collaborate on chip design and prototyping service"