Design

Artisan Software Tools has announced that it has acquired the HOOD Bridge technology from Objektum Solutions and renamed it Artisan HOOD Bridge. In addition, key personnel from Objektum will be working with Artisan in its legacy migration efforts, while also continuing to support existing customers.

Green Hills Software has announced major enhancements to its Platform for Medical Devices by adding support for Secure Guest OS Virtualization and expanding the existing networking, file system and target hardware options. The Platform for Medical Devices significantly reduces the cost and risk of Class II and Class III medical product approval while providing faster time-to-market for customers requiring either the premarket notification process...

Building on the interrupt handling capabilities of its predecessor this new version 3.1 offers even more flexible integration between interrupt handlers and application threads. The ease with which AVIX allows interrupts to be integrated in your application is unmatched by any competing product.

Synopsys has introduced its In-Design Rail Analysis capability to accelerate design closure. Part of Synopsys’ IC Compiler in-design ecosystem, In-Design Rail Analysis utilises embedded PrimeRail analysis and fixing guidance technology to enable designers to easily perform power network verification throughout physical implementation. By identifying and fixing voltage-drop and electromigration issues earlier in the flow, designers can eliminate...

Methodics LLC will introduce the industry’s first tool suite to enable true global IC design collaboration at the Design Automation Conference (DAC) 2009 in San Francisco, Calif., the week of July 27, 2009.

Adeneo Embedded has announced a Microsoft Windows Embedded CE 6.0 R2 training course in Munich, Germany, from October 5 to 8, 2009. This event is a unique opportunity for software system designers to develop an application based on Windows Embedded CE, using Texas Instruments’ OMAP3530 applications processor solution.

Synopsys has announced that Achronix Semiconductor Corporation, maker of ultra-fast field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), has deployed Synopsys’ IC Compiler and the recently announced IC Validator, the newest addition to the Galaxy(TM) Implementation Platform, for designing their next generation of high end FPGAs.

Mirics Semiconductor has today expanded its FlexiTV technology by launching a range of mobile TV and radio applications targeted at products powered by the Intel Atom CPU platform. This latest innovation brings low-cost embedded mobile TV and radio functionality to ultra-portable and low power PC products such as netbooks and mobile internet devices (MIDs).

Synopsys has announced its complete DesignWare IP solution for PCI Express 3.0 consisting of digital controllers, PHY and verification IP. PCI Express 3.0 is the next generation of the PCI Express I/O standard, which is currently under development within the PCI Special Interest Group (PCI-SIG(r)) at a preliminary revision 0.5. Synopsys' high-quality DesignWare IP enables easy integration of the 8.0 GT/s PCI Express 3.0 interface into system-on-c...

edXact SA, layout verification specialist, today announced that it will release versions 4.3 of its flagship simulation acceleration software Jivaro and version 3.1 of its parasitic rule checking analyzer Comanche at DAC. edXact also will showcase the new path finder feature as a major upgrade of the upcoming Jivaro 5.0 generation of its netlist reduction tools. Jivaro 4.3, preview Jivaro 5.0 and Comanche 3.1 will be demonstrated in Booth # 3765 ...