LOS GATOS, Calif., June 2, 2011 – IC Manage, Inc. today announced that the IC Manage Global Design Platform (GDP) has been extended to include IP Central, an open platform for maximizing IP reuse. Design and verification teams can use IP Central to rapidly publish and integrate IP into existing flows, and to trace bug dependencies. Internal and third party IP can be imported or linked with IP Central from multiple commercial and open source design management systems, as well as internal revision control systems.& … Read More → "IC Manage Announces IP Central to Maximize IP Reuse"

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., June 2, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS), a world leader in software and IP for semiconductor design, verification and manufacturing, today announced its close cooperation with STMicroelectronics (ST) in the successful tapeout of ST’s first 20-nanometer (nm) technology demonstrator test chip. This tapeout represents a critical milestone in the R&D collaboration between the two companies to develop a comprehensive design enablement solution for system-on-chip (SoC) integrated circuits (ICs) using ST’s next-generation 20-nm process technology, co-developed with its ISDA (International Semiconductor Development Alliance) partners in Fishkill, NY.

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FREIBURG, Germany – June 2, 2011 – Design and verification engineers who work on complex analog/ mixed-signal (AMS) designs or who need to customize and integrate analog or digital IP building blocks into their system-on-chip (SoC) or integrated circuit (IC) designs will be able to assess a new analysis and debugging tool at DAC 2011. Due to the increasing use of building blocks in SoC design, engineers need to work at different design levels (RTL, gate, transistor, analog, etc.) as well as with different design languages and … Read More → "Concept Engineering Introduces Integrated Debugging Tool for Mixed-signal Design at DAC 2011"