Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today introduced two digital multimeters (DMMs) to complement its growing family of PXI products. These new 6.5 digit PXI DMMs offer the industry’s highest measurement speeds within their price range, along with excellent accuracy and stability. Test engineers in aerospace, defense, electronic manufacturing and automotive industries now have an alternative when designing their mission-critical PXI test systems.

The M9182A 6.5 digit DMM and Read More → "New DMMs Offer Fast Measurement Speeds, Easy Operation, Reliable Results"

CAMBRIDGE, England and SHANGHAI, Oct. 11 /PRNewswire-Asia/ — ARM and Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (“SMIC”, NYSE: SMI and HKSE: 981) today announced an agreement to collaborate on the development of ARM leading physical IP library platform for SMIC 65nmLL and 40nm LL technology process nodes. This agreement will provide free access on the ARM DesignStart™ online IP access portal to library suites of 9-track and 12-track multi-Vt logic libraries, power management kits, ECO kits and ARM high density optimized memory compilers. The agreement extends the longstanding partnership to provide their mutual customers with highly differentiated IP on … Read More → "ARM and SMIC Extend Comprehensive Product Portfolio of Free Libraries of Physical IP to 65nm and 40nm LL Process Technology"

What: See Agilent’s latest LTE, WiMAX, HSPA, MIMO, and Femtocell test and measurement solutions for R&D through Certification and Deployment.  This is the first public North American appearance  of Agilent’s  LTE user equipment(UE)  R&D test solution for PCT (protocol conformance test), data throughput, RF measurements and InterRAT.  The new Agilent N6070A series signaling conformance test for 3GPP LTE UE extends the capability of the recently introduced Agilent PXT Mobile Communications Test Set.  It offers a complete signaling conformance test solution which … Read More → "Agilent Technologies Demonstrates Test and Measurement Solutions at 4G World for Next Generation Mobile Devices and Basestations"

Who:         MoSys (NASDAQ: MOSY), a leading provider of serial chip-to-chip communications solutions that deliver unparalleled bandwidth performance for next generation networking systems and advanced system-on-chip (SoC) designs, is participating as an Alliance Sponsor and is exhibiting at the SMIC 2010 Technology Symposiumin Santa Clara, Calif.

What:       The SMIC Symposium 2010 marks … Read More → "MoSys Participates at SMIC 2010 Technology Symposium"

Braunschweig, Germany – October6^th 2010. Last week the 4th Symtavision NewsConference on Timing Analysis took place in Braunschweig. More than 100 delegates attended the annual event provided by Symtavision on September 29 and 30. With participants from all over Europe as well as Japan, Korea and Brasil this was in fact a world-wide meeting of leading timing experts from the automotive and avionics industry.  

“An Astonishing high bandwidth of participants! This conference could become THE Automotive … Read More → "4th Symtavision NewsConference on Timing Analysis with more than 100 delegates"

Sunnyvale, CA. — October 5, 2010 — Mirabilis Design Inc., a Silicon Valley software provider of system-level modeling and simulation solutions, announces the release of VisualSim Architect 10.3. This release has Model Templates for over 120 applications including multi-core; SoC and avionics power management; Network-on-Chip (NoC); high-performance storage; and real-time software design. Mirabilis Design is also announcing a new infrastructure with user-customizable graphical interface, new modeling components and interactive documentation.

Our user community has already realized massive productivity improvements from this release. The new NoC Template was used by a large Wireless Semiconductor company to model a Gigahertz-range multimedia SoC in approximately three … Read More → "VisualSim Architect 10.3 increases engineering productivity using extensive emerging application templates, libraries and shorter simulation times to create accurate visual specifications"

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Oct. 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS), a world leader in software and IP for semiconductor design, verification and manufacturing, has acquired Optical Research Associates (ORA®), a privately held leading provider of optical design software and optical engineering services. The addition of ORA’s expertise, technology and products will allow Synopsys to move into the rapidly growing markets associated with displays and solid state lighting using light emitting diodes (LEDs), as well as expand into markets such as semiconductor lithography equipment and cameras. This acquisition represents Synopsys’ initial move into this space and aligns with the … Read More → "Synopsys Acquires Optical Research Associates"

Unterpremstaetten, Austria (October 7, 2010) – austriamicrosystems Full Service Foundry business unit today introduced its “More Than Silicon” initiative, a comprehensive service and technology package that goes beyond industry standard foundry services. Foundry customers instantly benefit from access to leading edge technology add-ons, advanced packaging services and dedicated support engineers to enable first-time-right designs.

The “More Than Silicon” offering provides austriamicrosystems’ foundry customers access to leading edge 3D-IC integration using austriamicrosystems’ patented Through Silicon Via technology ( … Read More → "austriamicrosystems introduces “More Than Silicon” initiative"

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Oct. 4, 2010 — Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced the N6784A 4-quadrant general-purpose source measure unit (SMU), the newest member of the N6700 Modular Power System family. The N6784A SMU offers advanced sourcing and measurement capabilities in four quadrants, required for many general-purpose electronic test applications.

“General-purpose applications span a large number of industries with vastly different test requirements,” said Gary Whitman, vice president … Read More → "Agilent Technologies Continues Expansion of Source Measure Unit Offering with New 4-Quadrant General Purpose Model"