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Synopsys’ SpyGlass Solution Delivers Critical Technology to Enable Compliance with DO-254 Aviation Safety Standard

June 2, 2016

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., June 2, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq:SNPS) today announced the availability of key technology required by airborne electronic hardware (AEH) system-on-chip (SoC) teams for compliance with the DO-254 standard. The DO-254 standard is used to ensure the highest level of safety in AEH designs for airborne applications. Built upon the industry’s leading Synopsys SpyGlass® RTL Signoff solution, Synopsys’ key technology includes a comprehensive set of necessary register transfer level (RTL) and clock-domain crossing (CDC) checks, related methodologies and documentation to accelerate RTL signoff of aviation-related electronic … Read More → "Synopsys’ SpyGlass Solution Delivers Critical Technology to Enable Compliance with DO-254 Aviation Safety Standard"

MOU to promote adoption of printable, flexible electronics in key industry verticals

June 2, 2016

OTTAWA— June 02, 2016—The Canadian Printable Electronics Industry Association (www.cpeia-acei.ca) and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Incorporated (IEEE), have entered into a strategic partnership with the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between the CPEIA and the IEEE Ottawa Section (Read More → "MOU to promote adoption of printable, flexible electronics in key industry verticals"

Mentor Graphics Catapult Platform Cuts Overall Time from Design Start to Verification Closure by 50 Percent

June 2, 2016

WILSONVILLE, Ore., June 2, 2016 – Mentor Graphics Corporation (NASDAQ: MENT) today announced the latest release of the Catapult® Platform that decreases the hardware design time from the design start to register transfer level (RTL) verification closure by 50 percent compared to traditional hand-coded RTL. Existing High-Level Synthesis (HLS) methodologies improve design and verification productivity up to 10X; however, the time required to close verification on the resulting RTL can potentially wipe out these gains. This release of the Catapult Platform unifies HLS with a proven verification methodology and new … Read More → "Mentor Graphics Catapult Platform Cuts Overall Time from Design Start to Verification Closure by 50 Percent"

IAR Systems strengthens tools offering for developers working with Renesas RL78

June 2, 2016

Uppsala, Sweden—June 2, 2016—IAR Systems® introduces an updated version of the compiler and debugger toolchain IAR Embedded Workbench® for Renesas RL78. The new version extends code quality control possibilities through enhanced static analysis as well as support for the latest RL78 devices.

The enhanced static analysis functionality offers new checks within the add-on tool C-STAT®. C-STAT performs advanced analysis on the source code level. The new version adds approximately 150 new checks to the existing wide range of checks, including 90 new MISRA C:2012 checks and two new packages … Read More → "IAR Systems strengthens tools offering for developers working with Renesas RL78"

Hitachi Adopts Cadence AMS Model-Based Methodology and Tools for Mixed-Signal Design Verification

June 2, 2016

SAN JOSE, Calif., June 2, 2016—Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CDNS) today announced that Hitachi, Ltd. (TSE:6501) has adopted a Cadence® Analog Mixed-Signal (AMS) model-based methodology and tools to shorten the verification cycle for one of its largest mixed-signal design projects. By upgrading its previous transistor-level methodology to a model-based methodology, Hitachi successfully accelerated mixed-signal verification for this project by 160X and reduced full-chip simulation time to 30 minutes. The results were achieved by comparing the transistor-level and the model-based methodology on the same four CPUs. The significant … Read More → "Hitachi Adopts Cadence AMS Model-Based Methodology and Tools for Mixed-Signal Design Verification"

Cadence Next-Generation Virtuoso Platform Deployed by STMicroelectronics for SmartPower Technologies

June 1, 2016

Highlights:

Next-generation Virtuoso platform substantially improved routing quality and performance and reduced block-planning and pin-optimization time
Mixed-signal design interoperability between Virtuoso platform and Innovus Implementation System reduced turnaround time

San Jose, Calif., June 1, 2016—Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CDNS) today announced that STMicroelectronics, a global semiconductor leader serving customers across the spectrum of electronics applications, has qualified and actively deployed the next-generation Cadence® Virtuoso® platform for its SmartPower technologies. The latest Virtuoso platform successfully enabled ST … Read More → "Cadence Next-Generation Virtuoso Platform Deployed by STMicroelectronics for SmartPower Technologies"

TI introduces industry’s highest current 40-A, 16-VIN converter

June 1, 2016

DALLAS (May 31, 2016) – Texas Instruments (TI) (NASDAQ: TXN) today introduced the industry’s first 40-A, 16-V_IN synchronous step-down DC/DC converter with true differential remote-voltage sensing. The SWIFT TPS548D22 buck converter features a small PowerStack^™ package and integrated MOSFETs to drive application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) and digital signal processors (DSPs) in space-constrained applications. When used with TI’s WEBENCH^® Power Designer tool, the TPS548D22 enables engineers to get their power-dense wired and wireless communications; enterprise and cloud computing; and data-storage systems designs to market faster. For more information, samples and an … Read More → "TI introduces industry’s highest current 40-A, 16-VIN converter"

Synopsys’ Next-Generation Embedded Vision Processors Boost Performance up to 100X

June 1, 2016

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., June 1, 2016 /PRNewswire/ —

Highlights:

New DesignWare EV6x processors deliver up to 100X higher performance on common vision processing tasks than the previous generation EV5x vision processors to address high throughput applications such as ADAS, video surveillance and virtual/augmented reality
New scalable vector DSP architecture supports full range of vision algorithms for 1080p to 4K resolutions to meet high definition requirements
Programmable convolutional neural network provides up to 800 MACs/cycle for fast … Read More → "Synopsys’ Next-Generation Embedded Vision Processors Boost Performance up to 100X"

STMicroelectronics and SAG Cooperate to Deliver High-Performance, Tiny NFC Tags for IoT Applications

June 1, 2016

Geneva, Switzerland and Taipei, Taiwan; June 1, 2016 — STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM), a global semiconductor leader serving customers across the spectrum of electronics applications, and Securitag Assembly Group (SAG), a leading supplier of RFID transponders today announced a tiny NFC Ferrite Tag that uses STMicroelectronics’ ST25 NFC tag IC for IoT (Internet of Things) data-transmission applications.

Small, light, and thin, the NFC Ferrite Tag can be surface-mounted during production through the metal pad that can be directly soldered to the PCB surface. In addition, the NFC Ferrite tag can function when placed on metal products because of its anti-metallic interference … Read More → "STMicroelectronics and SAG Cooperate to Deliver High-Performance, Tiny NFC Tags for IoT Applications"

Keysight Technologies Introduces the Industry’s Only 10 GS/s, DC Coupled, 10-bit PCIe® High-Speed Digitizer

June 1, 2016

Highlights:

New 10 GS/s high-speed digitizer
10-bit resolution, DC up to 2.5 GHz bandwidth, very small form factor
Ideal for applications requiring a high sampling rate and a large bandwidth, such as medical research, MS-TOF, LiDAR, NDT and DSTS

SANTA ROSA, Calif., May 31, 2016 – Keysight Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: KEYS) today launched the Read More → "Keysight Technologies Introduces the Industry’s Only 10 GS/s, DC Coupled, 10-bit PCIe® High-Speed Digitizer"

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