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"

Highlights

• Fully compliant with HDMI 1.4 and High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP) 1.4 specifications
• Support for all key features including HDMI Ethernet and Audio Return Channel (HEAC), 3D modes, 4K resolution, additional colour spaces and more
• Superior analogue front end supporting up to 20 feet category 2-certified HDMI cables, while maintaining high performance
• HDMI PHY IP available in more than 10 processes from 90nm to 40nm

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., JANUARY 25, 2010 – Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq:SNPS), a world leader in software and IP for semiconductor design, verification and manufacturing, today … Read More → "Synopsys launches DesignWare HDMI 1.4 Tx/Rx controller and PHY IP solutions for 40nm process technologies"

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – January 25, 2010 – Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS), a world leader in software and IP for semiconductor design, verification and manufacturing, today announced the addition of silicon-proven DesignWare(R) MIPI IP consisting of 3G DigRF Controllers and PHY, Camera Serial Interface 2 (CSI-2) Host Controller and D-PHY to its IP portfolio. The Mobile Industry Processor Interface (MIPI) Alliance defines a set of standard hardware interfaces between mobile baseband processors, RF integrated circuits (ICs) and peripherals typically found in smartphones and multimedia handheld devices. Leading providers of system-on-chips (SoCs) are adopting these standards to improve interoperability and reduce system cost for … Read More → "Synopsys expands DesignWare IP portfolio with MIPI IP solutions"

• Artisan – Aonix merger is the catalyst for future market consolidation through partnerships and acquisition of complementary products
• Atego will offer integrated Application Development tools and services across architecture, systems, software and hardware for global engineering customers
• As the leading independent supplier, Atego will continue to support industry standards and competitor integrations for maximum customer choice
• Combined global footprint results in significant operations in the USA, UK, Germany, France and Italy

San Diego CA, USA and Cheltenham, UK – 20th January 2010. Artisan® Software Tools … Read More → "Atego launches as the foundation for an integrated tool chain strategy"

SYDNEY, Australia – January 18,  2010 – Read More → "Altium continues to expand its reseller network in Europe"

Kirkland, WA – 15 January, 2010 – Impulse Accelerated Technologies today announced that Hella Aglaia has completed a design for a computer vision 3D automatic passenger counting system using Impulse tools and Xilinx FPGAs in an ASIC prototyping flow.

Based on 3D- Sense Technology Hella Aglaia’s self contained Automatic Passenger Counting System AVC 1 offers a counting accuracy greater than 98%. It is possible to verify all results at any time, through the comparison with video recordings. The AVC1 can be used in any environment which … Read More → "Hella Aglaia Mobile Vision Designs 3D Passenger Counting ASIC, Using Impulse C High Level Synthesis Tools and Xilinx FPGAs"