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Altera Reveals Stratix 10 Innovations Enabling the Industry’s Fastest and Highest Capacity FPGAs and SoCs

June 8, 2015

News Highlights:

HyperFlex architectural innovations in Stratix 10 FPGAs and SoCs, built on Intel 14 nm Tri-Gate, deliver 2X performance gains and breakthrough power efficiencies.
New era of heterogeneous 3D SiP (system-in-package) integration enables scalability, flexibility and fast time-to-market for next-generation transceiver-based solutions.
Industry’s most comprehensive high-performance FPGA security capabilities enabled through an innovative Secure Device Manager.

San Jose, Calif., June 8, 2015 – Altera Corporation (Nasdaq: ALTR) today revealed architectural and product details of its Stratix^® 10 FPGAs and SoCs, the next generation of high-end programmable logic devices delivering … Read More → "Altera Reveals Stratix 10 Innovations Enabling the Industry’s Fastest and Highest Capacity FPGAs and SoCs"

Improved EM9301 offers even lower power and Bluetooth® 4.1 support

June 8, 2015

Marin, Switzerland, 8 June 2015 – EM Microelectronic, the semiconductor company of the Swatch Group, announced the release of the latest version of the EM9301 ultra-low power Bluetooth Smart Controller. The EM9301 now supports Bluetooth 4.1, and is the ideal solution for implementing Bluetooth Smart with any microcontroller, ASIC or electronic system. Optimized for different ultra-low power modes, the new chip consumes only 9µA in BLE idle state, and < 0.5 µA in OFF mode.

Ideally suited for ultra-low power wireless sensing, remote control and monitoring applications, the EM9301 operates on as … Read More → "Improved EM9301 offers even lower power and Bluetooth® 4.1 support"

Synopsys Accelerates Automotive SoC Development with Broad Portfolio of Silicon-Proven IP

June 8, 2015

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., June 8, 2015 /PRNewswire/ —

Highlights:

DesignWare IP portfolio for automotive applications includes Ethernet AVB, LPDDR4, MIPI CSI-2 and DSI, HDMI, PCI Express, USB, Mobile Storage, Logic Libraries, Embedded Memories, NVM, Data Converters, ARC EM processors, EV vision processors and the Sensor and Control IP Subsystem
ISO 26262 ASIL B Ready IP accelerates functional safety assessments to help designers reach target ASIL levels
AEC-Q100 testing of IP reduces risk and development time for AEC-Q100 qualification of SoCs</ … Read More → "Synopsys Accelerates Automotive SoC Development with Broad Portfolio of Silicon-Proven IP"

Pasternack Introduces an Expanded Line of Solid State High Power Amplifiers

June 8, 2015

Irvine, CA – Pasternack, a leading manufacturer and supplier of RF, microwave and millimeter wave products, has introduced a new portfolio of solid state, high power amplifiers. These coaxial packaged RF amplifiers cover UHF, VHF, L, S and C frequency bands and are widely employed in applications such as electronic warfare, instrumentation, military communications, radar, SATCOM, telecom, data links, medical devices and many others.

Pasternack’s latest release of high performance RF amplifiers … Read More → "Pasternack Introduces an Expanded Line of Solid State High Power Amplifiers"

Synopsys and TSMC Collaborate to Develop Integrated IoT Platform for TSMC 40-nm Ultra-Low-Power Process

June 8, 2015

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., June 8, 2015 /PRNewswire/ —

Highlights:

Platform includes pre-verified sensor and control IP subsystem with ARC EM5D processor as well as logic libraries, memory compilers, NVM, MIPI, USB and ADC
Thick-oxide logic libraries and low voltage memories minimize leakage current
Hardware accelerators and bus-less processor architecture reduces area and cycle count for always-on functions such as sensor fusion and voice recognition
embARC Open Software Platform provides online access to free and open source … Read More → "Synopsys and TSMC Collaborate to Develop Integrated IoT Platform for TSMC 40-nm Ultra-Low-Power Process"

Cadence Announces Next-Generation JasperGold Formal Verification Platform

June 8, 2015

HIGHLIGHTS:

? Unified Cadence Incisive and JasperGold formal verification platform delivers up to 15X performance gain versus previous solutions
? JasperGold platform, now integrated within the System Development Suite, finds bugs typically three months earlier than existing verification methods
? JasperGold solution’s powerful formal analysis engines are now integrated with Indago debug platform, automating root-cause analysis and on-the-fly what-if exploration

SAN JOSE, Calif., June 8, 2015? Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CDNS) today announced the next-generation Cadence® JasperGold® formal verification platform. This new formal verification solution integrates Cadence Incisive® formal technology and JasperGold … Read More → "Cadence Announces Next-Generation JasperGold Formal Verification Platform"

Blue Pearl Software Announces Release 9.1 Featuring New RTL Debugging Environment Including Formal Technology for Clock Domain Crossing (CDC)

June 7, 2015

SANTA CLARA, California – June 7, 2015 – Blue Pearl Software, Inc., the provider of EDA software that accelerates IP and FPGA verification, announces release 9.1 of its software suite for Windows® and Linux® operating systems. It introduces a new RTL debugging environment that includes formal technology for improved clock domain crossing (CDC) analysis.

“Blue Pearl Software is focused on delivering innovation for design analysis, CDC checking and timing constraints generation,” said Ellis Smith, Chairman and CEO, Blue Pearl Software. “By expanding our debugging capability and adding formal verification based technology, we help customers spend less time writing PERL scripts and more … Read More → "Blue Pearl Software Announces Release 9.1 Featuring New RTL Debugging Environment Including Formal Technology for Clock Domain Crossing (CDC)"

Nationz Accelerates Design Closure with PrimeRail Signoff Solution

June 5, 2015

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., June 3, 2015 /PRNewswire/ —

Highlights:

Dynamic analysis results correlated to silicon measurements
Automatic vector generation enabled dynamic voltage drop analysis in the early design phases
In-Design analysis accelerated creation of robust power network and shortened physical implementation by two weeks

Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq:SNPS) today announced that Nationz, a Chinese provider of chips for security processors, smart cards, mobile communications, digital TV, trusted computing and mobile payment solutions, has successfully deployed Synopsys’ PrimeRail tool as the standard power and rail analysis solution … Read More → "Nationz Accelerates Design Closure with PrimeRail Signoff Solution"

Optimized Complementary MOSFETs from Diodes Incorporated Enhance Buck Converter Power Density

June 5, 2015

Plano, Texas – June 3rd, 2015 – Aimed at increasing the power density of DC-DC converters, the DMC1028UFDB complementary MOSFET pair introduced by Diodes Incorporated integrates an N-channel MOSFET and a P-channel MOSFET in a single DFN2020 package. The design is customized for point-of-load (POL) converters that step down from 3.3V to 1V for core voltage supply to ASICs. Target applications are Ethernet network controllers and processors used in such equipment as routers, network interface controllers (NICs), switches, digital subscriber line (DSL) adaptors, servers, and set-top boxes (STBs).

Buck converters implemented using a separate PWM controller … Read More → "Optimized Complementary MOSFETs from Diodes Incorporated Enhance Buck Converter Power Density"

Intel Custom Foundry Certifies ANSYS Electromigration and Dynamic Voltage Drop Tools for 14nm Design Platform

June 5, 2015

PITTSBURGH – June 4, 2015 – ANSYS, Inc. (NASDAQ: ANSS) and Intel are collaborating to enable the delivery of large, robust and high-performance systems on a chip (SoC) for Intel Custom Foundry customers. Delivered as part of the collaboration are electromigration (EM) and power (IR) reference flow for Intel’s 14-nanometer (nm) process family and the certification of ANSYS^?RedHawk™ and ANSYS^? Read More → "Intel Custom Foundry Certifies ANSYS Electromigration and Dynamic Voltage Drop Tools for 14nm Design Platform"

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