SAN JOSE, Calif. – December 9, 2009 – The Open SystemC Initiative (OSCI), an independent, non-profit organization dedicated to supporting and advancing SystemC^TM as an industry-standard language for electronic system-level (ESL) design, celebrates its 10th Anniversary this year, a decade marked by a series of major milestones for the group, including official IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) approval of the SystemC language as IEEE … Read More → "Open SystemC Initiative Commemorates 10-Year Anniversary of Service to System-Level Design Community"

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Dec. 8, 2009 — Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced the release of its RFIC simulation, verification and analysis software — GoldenGate version 4.4. This release extends Agilent’s leadership in advanced node RFIC design with enhanced performance, new key stability and yield analyses, and RF extensions to mixed-signal simulation. In addition, the new release brings performance and flexibility updates to its unique wireless standards-based virtual test bench capability.

“Advanced node RFIC design makes you rethink what’s important from a simulation point of view,” said Paul Colestock, product planning and marketing manager with Agilent’s EEsof EDA … Read More → "Agilent Technologies’ New GoldenGate Release 4.4 Accelerates Advanced Node CMOS RFIC Design"

San Jose, CA, December 8, 2009 – Atmel® Corporation (NASDAQ: ATML), a leader in touch and microcontroller-based solutions, today announced a new family of AVR® wireless microcontroller (MCU) devices targeting wireless applications such as ZigBee® and IPv6/6LoWPAN. The ATmega128RFA1 is IEEE 802.15.4 compliant and combines Atmel’s picoPower® AVR MCU and a 2.4 GHz RF transceiver. Atmel’s picoPower technology offers ultra-low power consumption to ultimately enable longer battery life for wireless ZigBee applications, including smart energy, building automation, telecom and health care. ATmega128RFA1 is supported by Atmel’s QTouch® Library, making it easy to combine … Read More → "Atmel Introduces Low-Power, Single-Chip Wireless Microcontroller Family for Growing IEEE 802.15.4 Market"

ERFURT, Germany, December 8, 2009 – X-FAB Silicon Foundries (www.xfab.com</ … Read More → "X-FAB Launches Third-Party IP and Design Partner Network to Link Customers with Optimal Resources; Expands In-House Technical Service Support"

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., December 7, 2009 – Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS), a world leader in software and IP for semiconductor design, verification and manufacturing, today announced that Hisilicon Technologies Co., Ltd., a worldwide provider of ASICs and solutions for communication network and digital media, and a subsidiary of Huawei Technologies, has established Synopsys as its primary EDA partner across its implementation and verification design flows. Hisilicon has signed an expanded business agreement to extend its use of Synopsys’ IC Compiler place-and-route technology and DesignWare(R) IP as well as other tools from the broad spectrum of Synopsys’ Galaxy(TM) Implementation and … Read More → "Synopsys chosen as primary EDA partner by Hisilicon"

Grenoble, France, December 4th, 2009 – … Read More → "Evatronix USB-IF verified USB 3.0 Device Controller achieves over 430 mb/s"

What: Perry Keller, Program Manager, Digital Applications and Standards and Memory Program Manager at Agilent presents “Managing Signal Integrity in High Speed Flash Designs”, as part of JEDEC’s Partner Program with CES, called “Storage Solutions: Flash Memory in Consumer Products”.

Understanding and managing signal integrity is increasingly important for next generation designs. In his presentation, Perry discusses Signal Integrity and when it becomes important, the impact on the design how to manage it. Signal Integrity test challenges are covered such as data rates increase so do distortions in digital signals that lead to data transfer failures.</ … Read More → "Agilent Technologies presents at 2010 International CES®"

Costa Mesa, California, December 1, 2009 – Micro Digital Inc. is pleased to announce that the GoFast floating point library has been ported to the Thumb-2 instruction set for Cortex processors. GoFast for Thumb-2 was carefully designed for high performance operation in embedded applications and ease of use including “link and go” compatibility with the IAR compiler. GoFast provides ROMable, reentrant, IEEE and ANSI compatible Thumb-2 single- and double-precision floating point support.

GoFast is a family of high-performance, reentrant, floating-point libraries designed for embedded applications. They are ANSI C compatible, IEEE 754 compliant, and designed to directly replace a C compiler’ … Read More → "Micro Digital Announces GoFast® Floating Point Library for Thumb-2 (Cortex) and IAR EWARM"

SYDNEY, Dec. 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Altium has released a new prototyping peripheral add-on board for its NanoBoard FPGA-based development boards.

The new board works with both the fixed-FPGA NanoBoard 3000 and the fully-configurable NanoBoard NB2. It will be available from December from Altium’s on-line distribution partners, in packs of either three or 20.

The board does away with having to create special, custom PCBs for circuit prototyping. A single on-board connector plugs into the NanoBoard to give direct access to the I/O on the host NanoBoard FPGA and common NanoBoard resources, including power and JTAG lines. Designers … Read More → "One Less Custom PCB to Design for Prototypes"

HSINCHU, Taiwan, R.O.C., Nov. 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd. (TWSE: 2330, NYSE: TSM) today announced that it plans to launch the automotive industry’s first process qualification specification and service package for automotive-grade semiconductor manufacturing at the China IC Design Conference being held in Xiamen on December 2.