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Synopsys - Results of Robert S. Hilbert Memorial Optical Design Competition
Synopsys today announced University of Rochester students Bin Ma and Dustin Moore are the winners of the 2011 Robert S. Hilbert Memorial Optical Design Competition. The competition was created in 2000 by Optical Research Associates (ORA®), now the Optical Solutions Group at Synopsys, and was named in honor of ORA's former president and chief executive officer Robert S. Hilbert. The annual competition is open to students in North America working ...
Synopsys Custom Design Tools Enable Creative Chips to Achieve First-pass Silicon Success
Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS), a world leader in software and IP for semiconductor design, verification and manufacturing, today announced that Creative Chips, a mixed-signal semiconductor IC provider, has taped out its most complex mixed-signal chip to date using Synopsys' Galaxy™ Implementation Platform. The 180-nanometer (nm) CMOS industrial bus controller contains complex analog and digital blocks that were created using the Galaxy cell-bas...
Synopsys and SMIC Team to Deliver Proven SoC Design Solution for 65-nm to 40-nm Process Nodes
Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS), a world leader in software and IP for semiconductor design, verification and manufacturing, and Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC; NYSE: SMI; SEHK: 981), today announced that they have delivered a comprehensive solution for system-on-chip (SoC) design for SMIC's advanced 65-nanometer (nm) process. The solution integrates Synopsys' broad DesignWare™ interface and analog IP portfolio plus o...
Synopsys' Design Compiler Graphical Shortens Design Schedule at Oticon
Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS), a world leader in software and IP for semiconductor design, verification and manufacturing, today announced that Oticon taped out the digital signal processor (DSP) chipset for their next-generation hearing-aid devices ahead of schedule using Synopsys' Design Compiler™ Graphical RTL Synthesis, a key component of the Galaxy™ Implementation Platform. Engineers at Oticon, a world leader in the design, development a...
Intense Announced High Power Turnkey Direct Diode Laser System at Photonics West 2010
Intense Ltd., today announced at Photonics West the release of Hermes DDL, a turnkey Direct Diode Laser System. Powered by Intense's patented QWI enabled high temperature QCW stack technology, Hermes DDL is the company's first turnkey industrial laser system. It includes a compact, turnkey laser that comes fully integrated with drive electronics and optics capable of delivering up to 1.5kW of power at various programmable pulse lengths and duty c...
Ophir Photonics Group Introduces Fast, Automated, CO2 Laser Beam Propagation Analyzer for M2 Measurements
Ophir Photonics, the global leader in precision laser measurement equipment, today announced the NanoModeScan M2 Laser Beam Propagation Analyzer. NanoModeScan enables the quantitative measurement and viewing of high power CO2 laser beams. The system is easy to setup and align; the straight line of sight design means little or no attenuation is required.
Ophir-Spiricon Introduces BeamGage Pro, Next Generation Laser Beam Analysis System
Ophir-Spiricon, a leader in precision laser measurement, today at Photonics West 2010 announced BeamGage Professional, the latest addition to the company's family of next generation laser beam analysis systems. BeamGage Professional builds on the features included in BeamGage Standard: BeamMaker beam simulator, automatic camera control for ease of use, and comprehensive set of beam analysis algorithms.
Picochip Achieves First Silicon Success for 40-nm picoXcel Femtocell Chip Using Synopsys' Lynx Design System
Synopsys, Inc. today announced that Picochip Ltd., who recently signed a definitive agreement to be acquired by Mindspeed Technologies Inc, has successfully achieved first silicon success using Synopsys' Lynx Design System and Galaxy Implementation Platform in the design of its next-generation 40-nanometer (nm) PC3008 picoXcell femtocell chip optimized for high-volume, cost-sensitive consumer applications.
Synopsys' DesignWare Audio IP Achieves First-Pass Silicon Success in Leading 65-nm and 55-nm Process Technologies
Synopsys, Inc has announced that its DesignWare 96 dB Hi-Fi Audio IP has achieved first-pass silicon success in 65-nanometer (nm) and 55-nm process technologies for multiple foundries. The DesignWare 96 dB Hi-Fi Audio IP is optimized for high-performance, low power dissipation and small area, making it ideal for consumer electronic system-on-chip (SoC) applications such as portable media players, smart phones, CD/DVD/ Blu-Ray Disc players/recorde...
Synopsys introduces Synphony High Level Synthesis
Synopsys has introduced its Synphony HLS (High Level Synthesis) solution that integrates M-language and model-based synthesis to deliver up to 10X higher design and verification productivity than traditional RTL flows for communications and multimedia applications. Synphony HLS creates optimised RTL for ASIC and FPGA implementation, architecture exploration and rapid prototyping. In addition, Synphony HLS complements C/C++-based flows by generat...