Bedford, Mass. – Feb. 8, 2010 – GateRocket® Inc. will showcase its latest FPGA design and debug innovations at DVCon this month.

WHO:  GateRocket, supplier of advanced FPGA design and debug solutions for Xilinx and Altera programmable devices.

WHAT:  Exhibiting new, innovative technology to cut FPGA design and debug time by 50 percent or more. At the show, GateRocket will be taking the wraps of the latest innovations and improvements in Version 5.0 of its RocketVision debug and RocketDrive verification solutions.

WHEN:  Feb. 22-25, 2010, DVCon, DoubleTree Hotel, … Read More → "GateRocket Highlights New FPGA Debug Solutions at DVCon"

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Feb. 1, 2010, Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced its support for IBIS-AMI (Algorithmic Modeling Interface) — a modeling standard for SerDes transceivers created to enable fast, statistically significant analysis of high-speed serial links. Agilent’s work in support of this standard is expected to yield the commercial release of a new version of Advanced Design System, ADS 2010, which will allow signal integrity designers to integrate IBIS-AMI models into their ADS projects.

“We are very pleased that our … Read More → "Agilent Technologies’ Advanced Design System 2010 to Support Emerging IBIS-AMI Modeling Standard"

SAN JOSE, CA – Jan. 25, 2010 — The 11^th International Symposium on … Read More → "ISQED Announces Multiple Interactive Tutorials"

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Feb. 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Synopsys, Inc. (NASDAQ:SNPS) , a world leader in software and IP for semiconductor design, verification and manufacturing, today announced it has acquired VaST Systems Technology Corporation to extend its virtual prototyping solutions into the automotive and consumer application space. The acquisition adds a comprehensive set of processor sub-system models frequently found in automotive and consumer applications to Synopsys’ virtual prototyping portfolio. Processor sub-system models allow developers to accelerate the virtualization of electronic systems and to start … Read More → "Synopsys Acquires VaST Systems Technology Corporation"

CHESTNUT RIDGE, N.Y., Feb. 2 /PRNewswire/ — LeCroy Corporation introduces the ProtoSync PE options for WaveMaster and WavePro Series of oscilloscopes. ProtoSync PE goes beyond simple decode annotation on an oscilloscope display and provides the intuitive LeCroy PETracer Protocol and BitTracer view of the oscilloscope captured waveform with a time and zoom correlation of physical layer signals, protocol packets, and logic analyzer byte views on a single instrument. ProtoSync PE is compatible with PCIe Gen1.x, 2.0, and 3.0 from 1 to 4 lanes.

While other manufacturers, including LeCroy, have provided a PCIe decode annotation on the oscilloscope, ProtoSync PE is the … Read More → "LeCroy Introduces ProtoSync® PE — Synchronized and Simultaneous Views of Physical Layer Signals with LeCroy PETracer Protocol and BitTracer Views"

DESIGNCON, SANTA CLARA, CA, Feb. 2, 2010—Mentor Graphics Corporation, (NASDAQ: MENT), the market and technology leader in printed circuit board (PCB) design solutions, today announced delivery of full-wave 3D electromagnetic (EM) analysis functionality addressing the needs of the industry’s most advanced designers of high-performance electronic products. These EM analysis enhancements address the advanced simulation needs of engineers designing PCBs and packages that utilize high-speed interconnect technologies such as SERDES, which operate at multi-gigabit-per-second speeds.

The new functionality is a result of Mentor Graphics’ recent acquisition of … Read More → "Mentor Graphics Enhances Signal and Power Integrity Solution with Full-Wave 3D Analysis"

SANTA CLARA, Calif., DesignCon, Booth 301, Feb. 1, 2010 — Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today introduced its PCIe®3.0 test solutions and the new Agilent Digital Test Console. The Digital Test Console is the industry’s only complete and integrated x1 through x16 protocol analyzer and exerciser solution for the PCI Express 3.0 specification, currently under development within the PCI SIG®. The Digital Test Console offers the industry’s largest capture buffer and fastest download interface, with multiple non-intrusive probing options that employs the latest ESP technology. The Digital Test Console was designed to assist with PCIe 3.0 development and provide accurate test … Read More → "Agilent Technologies’ Introduces Complete Test Solution for PCI Express® 3.0 Featuring the New Digital Test Console"

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., February 1, 2010 – Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS), a world leader in software and IP for semiconductor design, verification and manufacturing, today announced that Aeroflex Colorado Springs, Inc., a global provider of high-technology solutions to the aerospace, defense and broadband communications markets, has successfully deployed Synopsys’ CustomSim™ unified circuit simulation solution for the development and verification of its high reliability integrated circuits (ICs). The CustomSim solution delivers performance improvements of up to 60x over SPICE, increasing designer productivity and confidence by enabling more corners to be run for transistor-level verification of large blocks. In addition, taking … Read More → "Aeroflex realises 60x performance improvement using Synopsys CustomSim solution"

Tokyo, Japan – JANUARY 28, 2010 – CoFluent Design™, a leading Electronic System Level (ESL) company that provides system-level modeling and simulation to accelerate innovation in embedded devices, today announced that CoFluent Studio™ allows the creation and automatic generation of SystemC models and test cases for the Mentor Graphics Questa® functional verification platform.

CoFluent Studio helps hardware designers answer the following question: – How to specify a hardware component and validate its specification? It allows designers to create executable specifications of an integrated circuit (IC) by modeling its functionality and use cases using simple yet powerful graphical … Read More → "CoFluent Design Delivers Graphical Specification And VAlidation Solution For The Questa Functional Verification Platform"

WILSONVILLE, Ore., January 25, 2010 – Mentor Graphics Corp. (NASDAQ: MENT) today announced that the Catapult® C Synthesis tool has added SystemC synthesis, expanding the Catapult C tool’s full-chip synthesis capabilities. This complements the Catapult C tool’s existing algorithmic, control logic, and low power synthesis capabilities and expands its full-chip synthesis application scope through the efficient handling of specific SoC needs such as complex bus interfaces, SoC interconnect and TLM2.0-based ESL flows.

Catapult C support for SystemC … Read More → "Mentor Graphics Catapult C Adds SystemC Synthesis and Expands Full-Chip Capabilities"