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Methodology eases 40nm modelling

At 40nm, the industry-standard BSIM-4 MOSFET model must now take into consideration mechanical stress effects in silicon and layout dependencies .

News from Synopsys (15 May 2008)

Layout editor expands interoperability

By combining the world's fastest layout editor with OpenAccess and IPL standards, Micro Magic provides real choice for chip design professionals.

News from Micro Magic (15 May 2008)

Alliance creates link from Matlab to ESL

C models generated from Matlab can now be efficiently run inside CoWare Signal Processing Designer, increasing the simulation performance by more than 3x in typical cases.

News from CoWare (15 May 2008)

Collaboration speeds IC verifictaion

 User application article   Synopsys' XA acceleration technology allows customers to achieve HSPICE accuracy while delivering far higher performance and capacity than existing FastSpice solutions.

News from Synopsys (14 May 2008)

Verification donation eases interoperability

Synopsys' donation addresses customers' need for a modular, scalable and re-usable design methodology standard, while enabling them to more easily develop and share complex verification environments.

News from Synopsys (13 May 2008)

NEW upgrade for test development tools

JTAG Technologies will unveil a number of new product developments at National Electronics Week, including enhancements to its popular test development tool ProVision.  Brochure available  

News from JTAG Technologies (13 May 2008)

Toolboxes combine in parallel development

Parallel computing capabilities are now integrated inside the optimisation solvers of MathWorks Optimisation Toolbox and Genetic Algorithm and Direct Search Toolbox.

News from MathWorks (13 May 2008)

USB test software supports multicore designs

USBTester is a software-based USB testing solution for USB developers.  Brochure available  

News from Direct Insight (12 May 2008)

Development and debug supports latest PowerPCs

CodeSymphony allows complete management of a development project using a simple graphical user interface.  Brochure available  

News from Direct Insight (12 May 2008)

Software eases model comparisons

Engineers and scientists can also use National Instruments' toolkit to easily create user interfaces to interact with their models built using Simulink.  Brochure available  

News from National Instruments (12 May 2008)

VMM methodology speeds I/O design

 User application article   Pairing the VMM methodology with the VCS tool enabled NextIO to efficiently build highly accurate system-level and unit-level simulation environments that quickly identify design bugs.

News from Synopsys ( 9 May 2008)

Tool autodetects concurrency defects

Coverity, the leader in automatically improving software quality and security in C/C++ and Java, has released the release of Coverity Thread Analyser for Java.

News from Coverity ( 9 May 2008)

Comms design library upgrades for the long term

Latest version provides enhanced support for code generation and examples of important features of WiMAX and Long Term Evolution communications systems.

News from MathWorks ( 9 May 2008)

Design suite bundles industry's best FPGA tools

Latest FPGA design tools deliver up to 30% faster design compile times and support multiprocessor powered design compilation to achieve the fastest timing closure.

News from Lattice Semiconductor UK ( 7 May 2008)

PLM software covers electronics lifecycles

Itochu Europe now offers Siemens PLM software for PCB Assembly, Test (NPI) and Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES), providing both the product and on-going product support across the UK and Ireland.

News from Itochu Europe ( 5 May 2008)

Software streamlines design process

CCEssentials streamlines the design process with a more intuitive interface combined with C code density and powerful debugging capabilities.

News from Texas Instruments (April 2006-) ( 2 May 2008)

Design tools produce their first ICs

 User application article   The Active Matrix Systems Group, one of several design teams at the Redhill, UK-based Philips Research Labs, started using the Tanner EDA tool suite just over a year ago.

News from EDA Solutions ( 2 May 2008)

Software provides transistor-level noise analysis

Noise Analysis Option provides transistor-level noise analysis, including analysis of the impact of white and flicker noise, with true Spice accuracy for every type of circuit.

News from Berkeley Design Automation ( 1 May 2008)

IC design offering eases 65nm processes

The Cadence Virtuoso custom design platform offers speedier simulation tools for accurate and efficient verification of complex designs.

News from Cadence Design Systems (30 April 2008)

Circuit simulator receives upgrade

The Cadence Virtuoso Spectre circuit simulator eases the verification of phase-locked loops, analogue-to-digital convertors, transceivers, clock data recovery circuits and power supply circuits.

News from Cadence Design Systems (30 April 2008)

Software helps replace submarine periscopes

 User application article   The optronic mast will use the Wind River VxWorks real-time operating system (RTOS) running on Thales quad PowerPC AltiVec COTS boards and AdaCore GNAT Pro to power the stabilisation system.

News from Wind River Systems (30 April 2008)

Alliance to advance printed electronics modelling

Generic modelling tool suite will enable organic electronics companies to build behavioural models of physical phenomena, technologies or IC designs.

News from Infiniscale (29 April 2008)

Software speeds display design

Until the release of SCADE Display, embedded display application developers have had to work manually or with a nonintegrated collection of design tools

News from Esterel Technologies (28 April 2008)

Target takes advantage of hardware acceleration

The new Altia OpenGL ES DeepScreen target is OS-independent and may be ported to any environment, with or without an OS.

News from Altia (28 April 2008)

Software kit provides processing boost

The Mitrion SDK includes new programming examples written in Mitrion-C and revised documentation, making it easier to start writing FPGA-accelerated applications.

News from Mitrionics (24 April 2008)

Etching simulation eases Toshiba's research

 User application article   Sentaurus Process and Device uses detailed physical models for simulating the fabrication process and electrical behaviour of a wide range of semiconductor devices.

News from Synopsys (24 April 2008)

Thermal simulation removes basestation hotspot

 User application article   Improved cooling scheme first modelled using thermal simulation software enables more powerful amplifiers to be placed in compact enclosures.  Brochure available  

News from Flomerics (23 April 2008)

Open source RTOS kit includes embedded database

McObject's eXtremeDB in-memory embedded database system now comes bundled with the eCosPro Developer's Kit.

News from eCosCentric (23 April 2008)

MCU development environment spreads its scope

CyanIDE 2 breaks the bounds of the microcontroller, extending the benefits of configurability and ease of use to the board level.

News from Cyan Technology (23 April 2008)

Workbench supports new microcontrollers

IAR Embedded Workbench for AVR was originally developed by IAR Systems, working closely in parallel with Atmel's development of the AVR architecture.

News from IAR Systems (22 April 2008)

FPGA design tools add mixed language simulator

Active-HDL Lattice Edition will be bundled with the next version of Lattice's ispLever design tool suite.

News from Lattice Semiconductor UK (22 April 2008)

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