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Evatronix SA Selects MunEDA Tool Suite WiCkeD

November 5, 2012

BIELSKO-BIALA, Poland and MUNICH, Germany – Nov. 5, 2012 – Evatronix SA has closed a licensing agreement with MunEDAregarding the MunEDA tool suite WiCkeD for analysis, modelling, optimization and verification of integrated circuit designs. With MunEDA’s WiCkeD tool suite Evatronix establishes a fast and reliable process to port its intellectual property (IP) upon customer request and create documented verification of IP quality and robustness.

Carsten Elgert, vice president Marketing and Sales of Evatronix stated: “The ability to port our IP … Read More → "Evatronix SA Selects MunEDA Tool Suite WiCkeD"

Aldec gives SoC Software Engineers early access to Hardware

November 5, 2012

Henderson, NV – November 5, 2012 – Aldec, Inc. is presenting a paper on Platform Validation at Verification Futures 2012 in Windsor, United Kingdom, on Monday 19^th November; where Platform Validation is at the heart of SoC hardware and software co-verification, and currently one of the EDA industry’s hottest topics.

With technology trends, such as embedded processors, and time-to-market pressures, concurrent engineering demands that software engineers have early access to silicon. Platform Validation extends beyond the realms of hardware design simulation and functional verification (for which Aldec is perhaps best … Read More → "Aldec gives SoC Software Engineers early access to Hardware"

Altera Announces Industry’s First FPGA Support for OpenCL – Eases the Adoption of FPGAs for Accelerating Heterogeneous Systems

November 5, 2012

SAN JOSE, Calif., Nov. 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — Altera Corporation (Nasdaq: ALTR) today announced the FPGA industry’s first Software Development Kit (SDK) for OpenCL™ (Open Computing Language) which combines the massively parallel architecture of an FPGA with the OpenCL parallel programming model. The SDK allows system developers and programmers familiar with C to quickly and easily develop high-performance, power-efficient FPGA-based applications in … Read More → "Altera Announces Industry’s First FPGA Support for OpenCL – Eases the Adoption of FPGAs for Accelerating Heterogeneous Systems"

RFEL makes FPGA performance available to ARM Software developers

November 5, 2012

Newport, Isle of Wight, UK – 5 November 2012 – RFEL, who specialize in high performance electronic signal processing solutions, has announced that it has extended its design service and consultancy range to include Xilinx’s new Zynq™-7000 All Programmable SoC. This merges together a mature and powerful ARM® multicore processing system with the latest, high speed, Xilinx 28nm FPGA programmable logic into a single chip.

“Making Zynq-7000 SoC design consultancy part of our service offering,” explained Dr. Alex Kuhrt, RFEL’s CEO, “allows us to offer support to engineers and project managers who wish to take … Read More → "RFEL makes FPGA performance available to ARM Software developers"

New Excelsys Xgen Configurable Power Supply Catalogue Now Available

November 5, 2012

Excelsys Technologies announces the publication of its new Xgen configurable power supply catalogue. Running to 56 pages the new catalogue brings together for the very first time the full range of the Exclesys Xgen datasheets into a single document.

Dermot Flynn, European Sales Director, comments, “We expect our new catalogue will become the system designers’ power supply selection guide of choice. It includes the latest new product releases, updated product specifications and introduces a range of new configuration options.“

The new Xgen catalogue contains a wealth of technical and configuration support including an easy to use … Read More → "New Excelsys Xgen Configurable Power Supply Catalogue Now Available"

Arasan Chip Systems extends UFS leadership with UFS, UniPro, and M-PHY IP

November 5, 2012

San Jose, California – November 5, 2012 – Arasan Chip Systems, Inc. (“Arasan”), a leading provider of Total IP Solutions, announced today it has strengthened its leading position in the UFS market with major new contracts giving Arasan the largest market share in the rapidly developing UFS market. Four out of the ten Top Semiconductor manufacturers have selected Arasan as their supplier for UFS/UniPro and M-PHY IP.

Arasan is the only IP provider that is simultaneously participating in MIPI® Alliance working groups defining M-PHY, in JEDEC defining UFS, and in UFSA defining the UFS test and compliance standards. UFS is … Read More → "Arasan Chip Systems extends UFS leadership with UFS, UniPro, and M-PHY IP"

Synopsys Announces Adoption of its TetraMAX ATPG and Yield Explorer Tools by STMicroelectronics as Essential Enablers of Rapid Yield Ramp

November 5, 2012

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Nov. 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq:SNPS), a global leader accelerating innovation in the design, verification and manufacture of chips and systems, today announced that STMicroelectronics (ST) has adopted Synopsys’ volume diagnostics solution company-wide for faster yield ramp. IC product teams must rapidly isolate and correct systematic failure mechanisms to ramp up new IC designs from low initial yield to mature yield in volume production. Synopsys’ solution has enabled ST engineers to quickly identify the most dominant systematic failure mechanisms on new designs, thereby driving yield improvement at a faster rate.

The solution is comprised … Read More → "Synopsys Announces Adoption of its TetraMAX ATPG and Yield Explorer Tools by STMicroelectronics as Essential Enablers of Rapid Yield Ramp"

Cortus Releases the World’s Smallest 32-bit Microcontroller IP Core

November 2, 2012

Montpellier, France – 31st October 2012. Cortus, a technology leader in cost effective, silicon efficient 32-bit processor IP, releases the world’s smallest 32-bit microcontroller IP core – the APS1. The launch of the silicon efficient, low cost APS1 completes Cortus’ 2012 processor roadmap. The APS1 is ideal for simpler embedded applications with limited code and data memory requirements. It offers a cost-effective way to replace many existing 8-bit cores by offering improved power consumption and simpler software development.

The Cortus APS1 is a native 32-bit core with a modern RISC … Read More → "Cortus Releases the World’s Smallest 32-bit Microcontroller IP Core"

Industry Leaders Collaborate to Accelerate Software Ecosystem for ARM Servers, and Join Linaro

November 2, 2012

[Santa Clara, US; 1 November 2012] Linaro, the not-for-profit engineering organization developing open source software for the ARM architecture, announced today the formation of the Linaro Enterprise Group (LEG) and the addition of AMD, Applied Micro Circuits Corporation, Calxeda, Canonical, Cavium, Facebook, HP, Marvell and Red Hat as Linaro members.

With significant market interest in energy-efficient ARM-based servers, industry leaders have joined together through Linaro, creating LEG, to collaborate and accelerate the development of foundational software for ARM Server Linux. LEG benefits have broad industry implications, including time to market acceleration, lower development costs, and access to innovative and … Read More → "Industry Leaders Collaborate to Accelerate Software Ecosystem for ARM Servers, and Join Linaro"

Green Hills Software Announces Record EEMBC CoreMark Benchmark Results

November 2, 2012

Green Hills Software, the largest independent vendor of embedded software solutions, has announced that its optimising compilersfor ARM^® Architecture were used by Freescale Semiconductor for published Embedded Microprocessor Benchmark Consortium^®(EEMBC^®) CoreMark^® scores on the Freescale Kinetis K70 90nm microprocessor based on the ARM Cortex™-M4. The Kinetis K70’s CoreMark/MHz score of 3.08, running at 150 MHz out of flash, represents the highest CoreMark scores ever published for a Freescale Kinetis microcontroller and exceeds all other published results for … Read More → "Green Hills Software Announces Record EEMBC CoreMark Benchmark Results"

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