A highly innovative high-resolution wafer-scale digital image sensor that targets medical imaging applications has been developed at the Science and Technology Facilities Council’s Rutherford Appleton Laboratory.

EDA Solutions has appointed Steve Attfield as Sales Manager for Northern Europe, covering the UK, Benelux and the Nordic countries. Attfield has more than 20 years experience in sales and product marketing roles in the electronics industry, primarily in semiconductors and EDA tools.

EDA Solutions, sole representative in Europe for Tanner EDA, announced it has been appointed as the sole representative in Europe for Incentia Design Systems Inc. Incentia’s complete suite of industry-leading tools will be available in Europe via EDA Solutions, including: TimeCraft™, a static timing and signal integrity analyser, known for its fast runtime and capability to handle large designs; DesignCraft™, a complete logic synthesis tool...

EDA Solutions announced a series of workshops in Germany, Belgium and the UK, on mixed-signal ASIC design, based on advanced ASIC design tools from Incentia and Tanner.

EDA Solutions, Tanner EDA's sole representative in Europe, has continued its expansion with the opening of an office in Stockholm, Sweden to serve customers in Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden. The office is headed by technology veteran Johan Gardelius. EDA Solutions represents Tanner EDA in Europe.

EDA Solutions and Europractice will be running a practical training course on Europractice Design Kits for the latest Tanner IC Design Tools. The two day course will be held in four European locations this Autumn and will cover various aspects of mixed-signal ASIC design.

EDA Solutions announces that X-FAB has released two 0.18µm process design kits for Tanner Tools Pro on X-TIC, X-FAB's online technical database. Tanner Tools Pro is the software suite for the design, layout and verification of analog, mixed-signal (A/MS), RF and MEMS ICs from Tanner EDA, the world leader in PC-based A/MS and MEMS circuit design software. The release of this new kit extends X-FAB's PDK support for Tanner tools, adding X-FAB's 0.1...

EDA Solutions has announced the availability of version 14.10 of Tanner EDA’s Tanner Tools Pro and HiPer Silicon design software, including a new interactive autorouter, SDL Router, and a layout device generator, DevGen. Both these additions increase designers’ productivity and speed up development of full custom analogue IC and MEMS design.

EDA Solutions has announced the availability of version 14.0 of Tanner EDA’s Tanner Tools Pro and HiPer Silicon design software, including a new interactive autorouter, SDL Router, and a layout device generator, DevGen. Both these additions increase designers’ productivity and speed up development of full custom analogue IC and MEMS design.

LFoundry today announced the availability of a high performance process design kit (PDK) for A/MS electronic designs, developed using Tanner EDA’s HiPer Silicon software, for its LF150 modular 0.15 µm Low Power and RF CMOS process. This grants Tanner EDA customers access to Europe’s leading pure-play foundry CMOS technology.

EDA Solutions, the exclusive European representative for Tanner EDA, and Cascoda, a semiconductor design company, has announced a partnership to provide design support to Tanner EDA customers in Europe. The agreement will enable EDA Solutions to offer seamless support to Tanner users, from initial set-up and training to physical design kit development and design services. Tanner is the world’s leading vendor of PC-based EDA tools for analogue a...

Tanner Tools V13.0 is a significant upgrade to Tanner EDA’s Windows-based tool suite for analog and mixed-signal IC and MEMS design. Tanner Tools consists of S-Edit for schematic capture, T-Spice for simulation, L-Edit for layout and HiPer Verify for design verification. The latest upgrade adds Verilog-A model support to T-Spice. L-Edit is boosted with better library support, improvements in schematic driven layout (SDL) and a new SDL automatic...

EDA Solutions and the Fraunhofer Institute, one of the Europractice Support Centres, will co-host a program of training seminars on Europractice design kits for the latest version of Tanner Tools at DATE 2008. The practical training sessions, to be held on Wednesday 12 March 2008, will give a hands-on introduction to the design kits and Tanner Tools Pro. They are free of charge and open to all those with an interest in analog and mixed-signal ASI...

Tanner EDA is to add Tiburon Design Automation’s Verilog-A module to its T-Spice simulation tool for analogue design, creating a new package that will be called HiPer Simulation. The Verilog-A module, which is fully compatible with the Verilog-AMS Language Reference Manual Version 2.2, enables designers to develop analogue models for components or complete circuits blocks over 10 times faster than creating C-based models.

Southampton-based electronic design automation specialist, EDA Solutions, has won the National Microelectronics Institute (NMI) 2007 award for Commitment to Training and Education. The award was presented to Paul Double, Managing Director of EDA Solutions, at the NMI’s Innovation Awards 07 event, held in the Hilton London Metropole Hotel on 8th November.

MOSIS, a provider of low-cost prototyping and small volume production services for custom ASICs, announces availability of IBM’s image sensing technology (CIMG) through its multi-project wafer (MPW) service. This means that companies working on imaging applications for everything from camera phones to high end digital cameras can access the technology at less than one-tenth of the cost of using a dedicated wafer run. They share wafers with othe...

MOSIS, a provider of low-cost prototyping and small volume production services for custom ASICs, announces availability of the IBM 0.25 micron SiGe BiCMOS 6WL technology. Utilising the service gives ASIC designers access to this advanced technology at less than 10% of the cost of a dedicated wafer run, minimizsing up-front risk and costs. The process is suited to high-performance analogue chip design for consumer wireless applications including ...

IC Mask Design, a Limerick-based (Ireland) company that offers chip layout services and training to companies throughout Europe and the US, has selected Tanner’s L-Edit layout tool for its training courses. Established in 2002, the company has trained hundreds of engineers in over 30 companies, 46% of which are fables semiconductor companies, 40% integrated device manufacturers and 14% universities. Training programmes cover an introduction to ...

EDA Solutions (Southampton, UK), the exclusive European representative for Tanner EDA and MOSIS multi-project wafer services for IC fabrication, has signed a representation agreement for Germany, the UK, Benelux and the Nordic region with SoftMEMS to market and support its open-platform, system-level design environment, MEMS Pro. The MEMS Pro environment accelerates development of MEMS devices and incorporates a multi-domain simulator for a var...

MOSIS, a provider of low-cost prototyping and small volume production services for custom ASICs, announces prototype and low volume fabrication access to IBM's fourth generation foundry technology, 8WL, the 130 nanometer (nm) silicon germanium (SiGe) bipolar complementary metal oxide semiconductor (BiCMOS) process. The process uses an emitter width of just 120nm and can be used to produce devices with an Ft of 100GHz. It creates low power devices...