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Integration of Tanner EDA and Incentia Tools Increases Capabilities and Productivity for Analog and Mixed-signal IC Designers

February 12, 2013

MONROVIA, California – February 12, 2013 – Tanner EDA, the catalyst for innovation for the design, layout and verification of analog and mixed-signal (A/MS) integrated circuits (ICs), has integrated the DesignCraft™ and TimeCraft™ digital design tools from Incentia Design Systems into Tanner EDA’s HiPer Silicon AMS solution. DesignCraft is Incentia’s complete logic synthesis tool with integrated capability to synthesize and optimize for area, power, timing, and design-for-testability (DFT). Read More → "Integration of Tanner EDA and Incentia Tools Increases Capabilities and Productivity for Analog and Mixed-signal IC Designers"

I&C Technology Selects Berkeley Design Automation Analog FastSPICE™ Platform for Mobile TV SoCs

February 12, 2013

SANTA CLARA, CA, — February 12, 2013— Berkeley Design Automation, Inc., provider of the world’s fastest nanometer circuit verification, today announced that I&C Technology Co., Ltd. a developer of mobile TV SoCs, has selected the Analog FastSPICE (AFS) Platform for analog, RF, and mixed-signal circuit verification.

“I&C Technology’s multi-mode, multi-band mobile TV SoCs operate on multiple standards and have stringent performance and power verification requirements,” saidSangyoub Lee, Ph.D., Vice President, RF/Analog R&D Center at I&C Technology. “We selected the Analog FastSPICE Platform because it delivers nanometer SPICE accuracy 5 … Read More → "I&C Technology Selects Berkeley Design Automation Analog FastSPICE™ Platform for Mobile TV SoCs"

Pure Turns to Mentor Graphics to Develop an Innovative User Interface for its Pure Avalon 300R HD Digital TV Recorder

February 12, 2013

WILSONVILLE, Ore., February 12, 2012—Mentor Graphics Corporation (NASDAQ: MENT) today announced that Pure, part of Imagination Technologies, has used Mentor Graphics® UI technology and services to create the Pure Avalon 300R Connect Freeview+ HD Digital TV Recorder 3D user interface (UI). Pure has succeeded in developing a 3D graphical UI for the Avalon 300R that has received top industry product reviews.

“Mentor’s UI expertise and UI technology combined with Imagination’s PowerVR graphics processor has created a truly amazing 3D UI which offers Pure Avalon customers 3D menus, smooth transitions, and even a 3D … Read More → "Pure Turns to Mentor Graphics to Develop an Innovative User Interface for its Pure Avalon 300R HD Digital TV Recorder"

Forte Design Systems Becomes First High-Level Synthesis Software Provider to Support IEEE 1666-2011 SystemC

February 12, 2013

SAN JOSE, CALIF. –– February 12, 2012 –– Forte Design Systems™ (www.ForteDS.com), the #1 provider of software products that enable design at a higher level of abstraction and improve design results, today announced its Cynthesizer™ high-level synthesis (HLS) is the first HLS software to support IEEE 1666™-2011 SystemC.

“Today’s design teams need every advantage to beat market pressures,” says Mike Meredith, Forte’s vice … Read More → "Forte Design Systems Becomes First High-Level Synthesis Software Provider to Support IEEE 1666-2011 SystemC"

Touchstone Semiconductor Introduces its TS7001, the Industry’s Most Power-Efficient, Least-Expensive, 2-Channel, 12-Bit SAR ADC

February 12, 2013

MILPITAS, Calif. – Feb. 12, 2013 – Touchstone Semiconductor, a developer of high-performance, low power analog integrated circuit solutions,today announced the immediate availability of the TS7001, its newest 12-bit 187.5-ksps analog-to-digital converter (ADC) that can be used as a 1.5x faster/50% lower INL drop-in upgrade to the Analog Devices AD7887A. The TS7001 is a 50% smaller footprint and is also 1.5x faster versus the high-grade AD7887B in an SOIC-8.

Priced at $1.15 in 1,000 piece quantities, the new Touchstone TS7001 is $3 less expensive than the Analog Devices’ AD7887B and $2 less expensive … Read More → "Touchstone Semiconductor Introduces its TS7001, the Industry’s Most Power-Efficient, Least-Expensive, 2-Channel, 12-Bit SAR ADC"

Tiny, Surface Mount, Hermetic Voltage References Offer Outstanding Stability

February 12, 2013

MILPITAS, CA – February 12, 2013 – Linear Technology announces the LS8 reference family, a series of hermetic precision voltage references packaged in a 5mm x 5mm surface mount, low stress ceramic package. These precision voltage references offer outstanding long term stability and consistent predictable behavior, over time and operating conditions. For instrumentation that demands the best possible performance over years or decades of operation, the … Read More → "Tiny, Surface Mount, Hermetic Voltage References Offer Outstanding Stability"

Atmel Launches Unique Two-Channel LED Drivers for High CRI Professional and Consumer Lamps

February 12, 2013

Strategies in Light, Santa Clara, CA, February 12, 2013 – Atmel^®Corporation (NASDAQ: ATML), a leader in microcontroller (MCU) and touch solutions, today announced three new two-channel solid state lighting (SSL) LED drivers that provide accurate color control for two-color LED light engines. In addition, the LED drivers deliver the most efficient power management, with the lowest component count, for high CRI LED lamps.

Ideal for applications including general lighting, residential and commercial lighting, architectural lighting, and mood lighting, the LED drivers consist of the AtmelMSL2021</ … Read More → "Atmel Launches Unique Two-Channel LED Drivers for High CRI Professional and Consumer Lamps"

Xilinx Accelerates Design Productivity for High Volume Applications

February 12, 2013

SAN JOSE, Calif., Feb. 12, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX) today announced the availability of the Artix™-7 FPGA AC701 Evaluation Kit for developing high-performance systems that target applications requiring both low cost and low power. Equipped with an All Programmable Artix-7 200T device, the new evaluation kit has the tools, IP and reference designs needed for designers to jump start their design cycle while leveraging the industry’s leading system performance per watt FPGA.

All Programmable … Read More → "Xilinx Accelerates Design Productivity for High Volume Applications"

Dual Channel PC/104 CAN Module Provides 1000V Isolation for Automotive and Industrial Applications

February 12, 2013

February 12, 2013, Arlington, TX – WinSystems introduces their PCM-CAN-2-ISO, a PC/104-compliant, dual channel, isolated Controller Area Network (CAN) module with Windows and Linux drivers available. The board employs high-speed isolated data couplers and power supplies to provide 1000V protection between the two NXP SJA1000 CAN controllers and the network interface. This makes the module ideal for operation in high-voltage … Read More → "Dual Channel PC/104 CAN Module Provides 1000V Isolation for Automotive and Industrial Applications"

OneSpin Solutions Adds RTL-to-RTL Equivalence Checking to Product Family

February 11, 2013

MUNICH, GERMANY –– February 11, 2013 –– OneSpin Solutions™ (www.onespin-solutions.com), provider of innovative formal assertion-based verification (ABV) solutions, announced immediate availability of 360™ EC-RTL, equivalence checking software that compares revisions of register transfer level (RTL) code.

360 EC-RTL is part of the OneSpin 360 EC Product Family. An RTL-to-RTL equivalence checker used to exhaustively compare two revisions of synthesizable RTL code, it features robust register, sequential and power optimization … Read More → "OneSpin Solutions Adds RTL-to-RTL Equivalence Checking to Product Family"

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