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Synopsys, Inc and Global Unichip Corporation announces that GUC has achieved more than one gigahertz frequency on a dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 MPCore processor with Synopsys IC Compiler, a key component of Synopsys' Galaxy Implementation Platform. Synopsys' high-performance Galaxy implementation methodology was instrumental in achieving more than one gigahertz frequency with minimum power, while reducing schedule risk.

ARM and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd. (TWSE: 2330, NYSE: TSM) today jointly announced a long-term agreement that provides TSMC with access to a broad range of ARM processors and enables the development of ARM physical IP across TSMC technology nodes. This agreement supports the companies’ mutual customers to achieve optimized Systems-On-Chip (SoC) based on ARM processors and covers a wide range of process nodes extending dow...

Synopsys, Inc.has announced that it received TSMC's 2011 Interface IP Partner of the Year Award. Synopsys was selected based on customer feedback, TSMC-9000 compliance, technical support excellence and number of customer tapeouts. Synopsys' DesignWare® Interface IP portfolio includes widely used protocols such as USB, DDR, PCI Express, HDMI, MIPI and SATA that are offered in a broad range of processes from 180-nanometer (nm) to 28-nm.

Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS), a world leader in software and IP for semiconductor design, verification and manufacturing, today announced that TSMC has successfully taped out a complex 28-nanometer (nm) Product Qualification Vehicle (PQV) test chip using Synopsys' Galaxy™ Implementation Platform. Key features used to design the PQV test chip include 28-nm design rule support for place-and-route, interconnect process modeling, IEEE 1801-2009 (U...

PLX Technology today strengthened its industry leadership position by finishing a new design on 40nm process technology at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation (TSMC). This major achievement creates new opportunities for designers looking to reap the benefits of differentiation using PLX's well-known leading performance, low power and custom software tools. PLX is taking advantage of the 40nm geometry to develop a variety of new solutio...

Cadence Design Systems, Inc. today announced its collaboration with TSMC on 3D-IC design infrastructure development. 3D-ICs require co-design, analysis and verification of heterogeneous chips and silicon carriers. Coming from multiple disciplines and product areas, TSMC and Cadence teams worked together to create and integrate features to support this new type of design, culminating in the test-chip tapeout of TSMC’s first heterogeneous CoWoS v...

Cadence Design Systems, Inc. today announced that Nufront’s NS115 chipset integrated the Cadence configurable DDR3/3L/LPDDR2 Memory Controller and Hard PHY IP core in its dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 based mobile applications processor. The TSMC 40nm LP 32-bit DDR3/3L/LPDDR2 interface features a data rate of up to 800Mbps while providing the automated traffic-based power management and efficiency critical to the ultrabook, tablet and smartphone mark...

Magma Design Automation Inc. (Nasdaq: LAVA), a provider of chip design software, announced today that TSMC used Quartz™ DRC for physical verification of its 28-nanometer (nm) product qualification vehicle (PQV) test chip. PQVs are representative of design data customers will use in production designs. By designing and manufacturing the PQV test chip, TSMC offers its customers greater confidence in achieving silicon success in its 28-nm process...

Magma Design Automation announced that Wintegra, a leading provider of access processing semiconductors and software for next-generation telecommunication infrastructure solutions, has successfully taped out its latest low-power, high-performance 65-nanometer (nm) chip using Magma’s Quartz™ physical verification products. With Quartz DRC’s and Quartz LVS’s advanced capabilities, Wintegra was able to quickly sign off on the design using T...

Forte Design Systems, a leading provider of High-Level Synthesis software, today announced that TSMC has validated its Cynthesizer™ SystemC high-level synthesis product for Reference Flow 11.0 inclusion. Forte is demonstrating Cynthesizer in Booth #750 at the 47th Design Automation Conference (DAC) through Wednesday, June 16, at the Anaheim Convention Center here.