WHO:  The Open SystemC Initiative (OSCI), an independent, non-profit organization dedicated to supporting and advancing SystemC™ as an industry-standard language for electronic system-level (ESL) design, announced the annual European SystemC User Group (ESCUG) meeting.  Co-located with the Design, Automation & Test in Europe (DATE) Conference, the event is free to industry professionals and the media. In addition, a half-day SystemC AMS tutorial will be conducted for DATE attendees.

WHAT/WHEN:  Tutorial:  “Application of the SystemC AMS Standard,” will take place Monday, March 8, 09:30 – 13:00. The annual ESCUG … Read More → "European SystemC User Group (ESCUG) Meeting DATE 2010"

CHENGDU, China and SAN JOSE, Calif., Feb. 24, 2010 – Magma® Design Automation (Nasdaq: LAVA), a provider of chip design software, and Chengdu ICC (CDICC), a government-funded organization that promotes integrated circuit (IC) design in Chengdu, today announced the recent opening of a joint IC design lab. Established in the National IC Design Chengdu Industrial Base, one of seven technology incubation parks in China, the lab will provide local designers with access to Magma’s advanced analog and digital IC design software and comprehensive training programs.

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Kirkland, WA – 18 February, 2010 – Impulse Accelerated Technologies today announced a new FPGA hardware library supporting C-language math.h functions.

Unlike math.h functions that run “native” in embedded processors, the Impulse library is implemented directly in FPGA hardware, and supports refactoring into multiple, pipelined parallel processes. When used in this way, the math.h functions operate 2 – 10X faster than on embedded processors. And because they are callable from Impulse C, they are more accessible to software developers and others less … Read More → "Floating Point Math.h Functions Accelerated 2 – 10X on FPGA Hardware, with Impulse C High Level Synthesis Tools"

London, United Kingdom, 17 February 2010. AgO Inc, a technology leader in analog and RF circuit optimisation, announces the first stage of its plan to address … Read More → "AgO Inc appoints Alpha Star Ltd as European representative"

Paris, France and Plano, Texas – FEBRUARY 17, 2010 – CoFluent Design™, a leading Electronic System Level (ESL) company that provides system-level modeling and simulation to accelerate innovation in embedded devices,Read More → "CoFluent Design and No Magic Deliver The World’s First Industrial Grade UML To SystemC Solution For Multicore System Simulation"

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"