Costa Mesa, California, April 3, 2013 – Micro Digital is pleased to announce smx++ v4.1. First released 20 years ago, smx++ has received a facelift to make it simpler and easier for first-time C++ users, as well as more useful for experienced C++ users. The new smx++ is a thin layer over smx; it provides a base from which developers can easily derive their own application classes. smx++ capitalizes upon underlying C++ strengths of smx such as:

• Task-specific this pointer field in TCB.
• Scheduler dispatch of both C and C++ tasks.
• Fully dynamic kernel … Read More → "Micro Digital Announces smx++ v4.1"

Portland, Oregon, April 3, 2013 – FishTail Design Automation, Inc., the golden timing constraints company, today announced that Japan’s Semiconductor Technology Academic Research Center (STARC) has completed a study of FishTail’s solution for merging multi-mode design constraints. This study has demonstrated that FishTail’s products drastically reduce STA runtime without any compromise on timing accuracy.

STARC engineers conducted a detailed study of FishTail’s mode-merging solution on a 4 million cell instance SoC with 700K flops. The design had 18 design modes, each with 10 timing corners, resulting in a total of 180 STA verification scenarios. FishTail’s Focus product was used … Read More → "STARC Endorses FishTail for Automated Merging of Multi-Mode Design Constraints for Timing Signoff"