Design

Pulsic Limited today announces the immediate availability of the latest release of their groundbreaking physical chip design software suite, Unity 2009.1.

Adeneo Embedded presented today at TI Tech Days 2009 a preview of its new Windows Embedded CE 6.0 Board Support Package for the Gumstix Overo computer-onmodule series, which is based on Texas Instruments OMAP35x Applications Processors.

3L has announced immediate availability of Diamond 3.2, the latest and most powerful release of its Diamond multiprocessor tool-suite. This release of Diamond sets a new standard in complex multiprocessor design performance, and dramatically improves designer productivity. Diamond’s multiprocessor compiler automatically creates and then optimizes communication paths between multiple processors.

Synopsys has announced availability of advanced analogue simulation and layout capabilities in its Galaxy Custom Designer(tm) implementation solution. The new features in the 2009.06 release deliver productivity advances to aid analogue circuit designers and layout engineers, enabling Synopsys to further extend its reach in the custom implementation segment.

Synopsys has announced that TSMC selected Synopsys’ Galaxy Implementation Platform for its new Integrated Sign-Off Flow. The RTL-to-GDSII design flow deploys the advanced optimisation technologies of Synopsys’ Design Compiler synthesis and IC Compiler physical implementation solutions, and the PrimeTime sign-off and Star-RCXT extraction solutions—the industry yardsticks for IC design sign-off. The new flow is now available for 65nm designs ...

Agilent has announced the availability of a powerful foundry-certified process design kit (PDK) to support TriQuint Semiconductor's popular TQPED GaSs E/D pHEMT process. Providing the most complete MMIC design flow available using Agilent's Advanced Design System (ADS) platform, the new TQPED PDK completely renovates layout functions, adds many design automation and routing capabilities, and provides a MMIC toolbar personality to help streamline ...

Green Hills Software has announced the successful launch of optimized software products that support automotive microcontrollers (MCUs) jointly developed by Freescale Semiconductor based on the Power Architecture technology.

Altera has announced availability of the Stratix IV GX FPGA Development Kit. The kit features hardware and software solutions for the rapid creation of designs using Altera's high-performance 40-nm Stratix IV GX FPGAs with integrated 8.5-Gbps transceivers. The development kit provides an ideal environment for designing and testing high-speed serial interfaces, such as PCI Express (PCIe) Gen2, with up to x8-lane configurations.

Agilent has introduced a half size mid-bus probing solution for its PCI Express (PCIe) 2.0 E2960B Series analyzers. The half-size mid-bus probe is critical for lower link width designs (up to x4) where space constraints make it difficult to design in a full-size debug point. The new probe will allow designers to monitor the PCI Express protocol with a probe that is much more compact, reducing routing concerns and simplifying the board layout. The...

Infolytica Corporation has announced the availability of MotorSolve v2.2, an upgrade to the company’s design software for rotating electric machines. The extensive list of new features includes simulations and performance results for induction machines, system modeling tools and additional templates for induction and brushless machines.