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The free evaluation version of CADSTAR 12.1 with all the latest functionality, is now available to download from Zuken.com. When companies are making the decision about what software to use, a demo isn’t enough. Designers want to get their hands dirty and see if the tools really live up to what the EDA companies are promising. The Express version of CADSTAR is a fully functional CADSTAR (limited to 300 pins and 50 components), allowing designer...

Zuken announces that it is seeking experienced EDA professionals to join their North American independent sales network in order to meet the growing demand from the region for CADSTAR, Zuken’s desktop PCB design solution. In 2008 Zuken witnessed a significant increase in uptake of CADSTAR across the continent, and in response is launching a recruitment drive to meet the demands of the market.

Zuken has announced its support for the IPC-2581 electronic data transfer format. IPC-2581 is a generic standard for printed circuit board manufacturing description data and transfer methodology. Zuken is a founding member of a new cross-industry consortium that has been established to support the standard.

Synplicity®, Inc. today announced the ReadyIP Initiative, a program that takes aim at simplifying the access, evaluation, and use of intellectual property (IP) for FPGA-based system design. The ReadyIP program delivers the industry’s first and complete universal, encrypted design methodology for FPGA implementation, allowing users to incorporate and easily integrate IP from several third-party vendors within their designs using the Synplify Pr...

Synplicity has announced that Ken McElvain, the company's co-founder and chief technical officer, will deliver a keynote address at FPL 2006 in Madrid, Spain. The keynote address, titled, FPGAS at 65 nm and Beyond - Powerful New FPGAs Bring New Challenges, will take place on August 28, 2006, the first day of the conference.

National Instruments has announced its collaboration with Test System Strategies, Inc. (TSSI), inventor of the Waveform Generation Language (WGL), on a new software tool that is compatible with NI LabVIEW graphical system design software. This software tool makes it possible for semiconductor test engineers to import WGL and IEEE 1450 Standard Test Interface Language (STIL) simulation vectors into NI PXI digital test systems, a task which previou...

Aldec has announced that its simulator now has integrated HDL support from Altera's Quartus II version 6.0 development software environment. Mutual customers can now select Aldec's HDL Simulator, Active-HDLT, directly from Altera's Quartus II software version 6.0.

The partners in a new publicly-funded research project today announced details of the multinational/multidisciplinary program: “END — Models, Solutions, Methods and Tools for Energy-Aware Design.” This three-year ENIAC (European Nanoelectronics Initiative Advisory Council) project is designed to enhance the competitiveness of Europe’s semiconductor and electronics equipment companies in developing new products and technologies that are at...

Toshiba Electronics Europe has announced its active support for the GSA & IET International Semiconductor Forum on 2nd and 3rd June 2009. The TEE ASIC and Foundry business unit will be exhibiting at the forum as well as offering private meetings with its team of specialists. Mr Noguchi, Technology Executive with the System LSI Division of Toshiba Semiconductor Company, will present a keynote address during the Forum’s conference sessions.

Mentor Graphics Corporation today announced that its advanced synthesis products support Xilinx 28nm 7 series field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). Xilinx 7 series FPGAs are built on a low-power and unified FPGA architecture that scales across low-cost and ultra high-end families. Support for the new 28nm Virtex-7 and Kintex-7 FPGA families is available now and support for Artix-7 will follow. Mentor Graphics is the first EDA FPGA synthesis pro...