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Synopsys Low Power Solution Accelerates Time to Market for 3G Mobile IC
Synopsys, Inc. announced that Chongqing Chongyou Information Technologies Company, Ltd. taped out its first 65 nanometer, dual-mode baseband, low-power device within five months – significantly ahead of the original schedule – using the Synopsys Galaxy Implementation Platform. To meet the stringent low-power requirements of the GSM/TD-SCDMA market, CYIT implemented advanced low-power techniques including multiple power domains with shutdown, ...
eSilicon Selects Synopsys' Custom IC Design Solution and Tapes Out 28-nm Designs
Synopsys has announced that eSilicon Corp. has deployed Synopsys' custom IC design solution to streamline its custom memory intellectual property business. Synopsys' comprehensive unified custom implementation solution, readily available interoperable process design kits (iPDKs) from leading foundries, and expert application support enabled eSilicon to rapidly deploy the solution and achieve multiple successful 28-nanometer (nm) tapeouts.
Latest Innovations in Synopsys IC Compiler Deliver up to 40 Percent Power Reduction at HiSilicon
Synopsys announced that HiSilicon, a leading fabless semiconductor house supplying end-to-end ASIC solutions for communications networking and digital media markets, has reduced stand-by power consumption by up to 40 percent using the latest technology in Synopsys' IC Compiler, a key component of Synopsys' Galaxy Implementation Platform. Driven by their success, HiSilicon has deployed IC Compiler in their production design flow for ICs targeting ...
Synopsys and GLOBALFOUNDRIES Collaborate to Deliver Interoperable Process Design Kits (iPDKs)
Synopsys, Inc. a world leader in software and IP for semiconductor design, verification and manufacturing, today announced that it has collaborated with GLOBALFOUNDRIES to jointly develop, validate, support and distribute interoperable process design kits (iPDKs) for GLOBALFOUNDRIES' mainstream and advanced process technologies. The GLOBALFOUNDRIES 65-nanometer (nm) iPDKs are available now with additional iPDKs planned for delivery later in 2011....
Synopsys enables optimised high performance energy efficient ARM processor-based designs
Synopsys, Inc. today announced that it has created an optimised reference implementation methodology for the ARM Cortex-A8 processor that achieves greater than 2GHz (4000 DMIPS) at 540mW. This result was accomplished by combining optimised methodology, tools and ARM Physical IP to enable new classes of mobile and tethered devices requiring the combination of high performance and energy efficiency.
NVIDIA adopts Synopsys Yield Explorer to reduce time to volume
Synopsys, Inc has announced that NVIDIA Corp. has adopted Synopsys' Yield Explorer solution for yield analysis and yield ramp. NVIDIA, which invented the graphics processing unit, selected Yield Explorer because of its ability to coherently combine and cross-correlate large volumes of data from the design, fab and test domains to quickly identify dominant failure mechanisms. This is accomplished through volume diagnostics based on TetraMAX ATPG ...
Aeroflex realises 60x performance improvement using Synopsys CustomSim solution
Synopsys announced that Aeroflex Colorado Springs, Inc., a global provider of high-technology solutions to the aerospace, defense and broadband communications markets, has successfully deployed Synopsys’ CustomSim unified circuit simulation solution for the development and verification of its high reliability integrated circuits (ICs). The CustomSim solution delivers performance improvements of up to 60x over SPICE, increasing designer producti...
Synopsys expands DesignWare IP portfolio with MIPI IP solutions
Synopsys announced the addition of silicon-proven DesignWare MIPI IP consisting of 3G DigRF Controllers and PHY, Camera Serial Interface 2 (CSI-2) Host Controller and D-PHY to its IP portfolio. The Mobile Industry Processor Interface (MIPI) Alliance defines a set of standard hardware interfaces between mobile baseband processors, RF integrated circuits (ICs) and peripherals typically found in smartphones and multimedia handheld devices.
Synopsys - DesignWare Protocol Analyzer for verification of SuperSpeed USB 3.0-based designs
Synopsys announced the DesignWare USB 3.0 Protocol Analyzer, a new graphical debugger for SuperSpeed USB 3.0, the latest generation of the USB interface that delivers 10 times the speed of Hi-Speed USB 2.0. The DesignWare USB 3.0 Protocol Analyzer simplifies debug for engineers verifying SuperSpeed USB 3.0 and USB 2.0 interfaces in their systems-on-chip (SoCs) by providing a graphical view of the protocol traffic. It helps users quickly identify...
Synopsys speeds timing signoff by 2X with latest multicore technology
Synopsys announced the immediate availability of PrimeTime 2009.12, delivering up to 2X speed up of timing signoff through the addition of threaded multicore processing. With this latest addition, Synopsys’ PrimeTime tool provides a new level of flexibility enabling design teams to achieve optimal runtime performance across their heterogeneous multicore compute environments by utilising distributed and threaded multicore processing in tandem. ...