Copenhagen, Denmark, February 17, 2010 — Supported by funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme, a consortium of eight leading institutions has launched a joint microelectronics research project aiming to develop innovative design methods and related EDA tools which remove the limitations in physical implementation effectiveness associated with technology scaling and advanced sub-wavelength lithography. The Synaptic consortium is composed of eight leading institutions, including four European technology companies, a European world-leading research institute in the field of nanoelectronics, and three academic institutions, two from Europe and one from … Read More → "EU funded microelectronics project launched to enhance lithography-based yield"

ALAMEDA, CALIF. –– February 17, 2010 –– Read More → "Vennsa Picks Verific Design Automation’s de facto Front End Software"

Nantes, France – FEBRUARY 16, 2010 – CoFluent Design™, a leading Electronic System … Read More → "CoFluent Design Delivers Embedded System Virtualization Solution Based On UML"

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Feb. 16, 2010 – Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today introduced a new line of system-level design and verification products for 3GPP LTE physical layer (PHY) design at Mobile World Congress 2010. In addition to its traditional test and measurement products, Agilent now provides predictive products and algorithmic references for the SystemVue platformthat are consistent with the LTE v.8.9.0 (December 2009) standard. The new line includes four products that accelerate 4G deployment for LTE system architects, baseband hardware designers, and RF equipment by … Read More → "Agilent Technologies’ New LTE Applications Target 4G System-Level Designers"

SYDNEY, Australia – February 16, 2010< … Read More → "Australia’s youngest engineers to innovate using Altium Designer"

SAN JOSE, CALIF. –– February 16, 2010 –– EVE, the leader in hardware/software co-verification, will sponsor the 18th ACM/SIGDA … Read More → "EVE Named Sponsor of International Symposium on Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA 2010)"

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., February 9, 2009 —Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq:SNPS), a world leader in software and IP for semiconductor design, verification and manufacturing, today announced that Yamaha, a leading provider of mobile audio and Graphics LSI chip products, achieved their aggressive performance targets ahead of schedule with Design Compiler® Graphical and successfully taped out their latest Graphics LSI chip. Traditionally, time-consuming iterations between synthesis and place-and-route have been performed due to routing congestion issues identified by the backend design teams late in the design. Design Compiler Graphical predicts and removes routing congestion early in the design flow during … Read More → "Yamaha tapes out its latest Graphics LSI Chip with Synopsys Design Compiler Graphical"

Rochester, NY (February 9, 2010) – EMA Design Automation™ (www.ema-eda.com), one of the world’s largest Electronic Design Automation Value Added Resellers, today announced some changes to the part number schema with the new Cadence® Design Systems Allegro® and OrCAD® 16.3 release. These changes enhance the breadth of technology available … Read More → "OrCAD Market Reach Expanded With Additional Allegro Technology"

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"