Design

Imagination Technologies Group plc (LSE: IMG; Imagination), a leading multimedia and communications chip technologies company, has signed a multi-use license agreement with Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) for a multi-processor solution from Imagination's new POWERVR SGX Series5XT Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) IP core family.

To address increasing customer demand for integrated layout and 3D full wave analysis, CST and Cadence are collaborating to provide a best in class solution. A webcast on June 23 will demonstrate the integration.

Aegis Software announces that its New Product Introduction and shop-floor paperless documentation system has been selected by Makso Electronic BV for their manufacturing site in Veenendaal, The Netherlands. Their deployment integrates all of operations from New Product Introduction through documentation version control and viewing on the production floor. Through use of Aegis' singular system architecture, their process planning, documentation an...

EdXact, post-layout verification specialist will showcase the latest tool enhancements of its parasitics reduction and analysis tools. Among the highlights of the tool releases 5.0 of Jivaro™ and 3.2 of Comanche ™are hierarchical file handling, additional features to drive the selectivity options and integrations into different graphical user interfaces in order to facilitate interactive network debugging facilities.

Toshiba Electronics Europe (TEE) has announced a new starter kit to for the development of applications based on the company’s TMPA90xCMXBG family of ARM9 32-bit microcontrollers with built-in HMI (human machine interface) support.

Forte Design Systems today launched Cynthesizer Ultra, its high-level SystemC synthesis software tightly integrated with its CellMath product family to create better designs faster. Additionally, Forte’s flagship Cynthesizer SystemC high-level synthesis software, used in more than 200 production ASIC and SoC silicon tapeouts since 2002, includes new capabilities that reduce design time, improve power utilization and accelerate verification p...

Synopsys announced that MediaTek Inc., a leading fabless semiconductor company for wireless communications and digital multimedia solutions, has standardised on Synopsys’ IC Compiler physical design solution, a key component of the Galaxy Implementation Platform, to deliver best performance, power and area on MediaTek’s leading-edge wireless communications chips. IC Compiler’s advanced placement, timing and power optimisation along with its...

Magma Design Automation a provider of chip design software, today announced Titan™ Analog Layout Accelerator (ALX) and Titan Analog Virtual Prototyper (AVP), new tools that accelerate the creation and optimization of new analog design layouts, and automate the reuse of existing analog layouts in new processes and technologies.

Real Intent Inc., the innovator in automating the intelligence of formal techniques for design verification, announced today that it is shipping a new version of Ascent Lint Version 1.3. The new version adds VHDL checks to its existing Verilog checks.

Xilinx introduced the ISE Design Suite 12 software to enable breakthrough optimizations for power and cost with greater design productivity. For the first time, ISE design tools deliver 'intelligent' clock-gating technology that reduces dynamic power consumption by as much as 30 percent. The new suite also provides advances in timing-driven design preservation, AMBA 4 AXI4-compliant IP support for plug-and-play design, and an intuitive design fl...