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    <pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
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      <title>Methodology eases 40nm modelling</title>
      <description>At 40nm, the industry-standard BSIM-4 MOSFET model must now take into consideration mechanical stress effects in silicon and layout dependencies .</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Synopsys</category>
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      <title>Layout editor expands interoperability</title>
      <description>By combining the world's fastest layout editor with OpenAccess and IPL standards, Micro Magic provides real choice for chip design professionals.</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Micro Magic</category>
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      <title>Alliance creates link from Matlab to ESL</title>
      <description>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.</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>CoWare</category>
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      <title>Collaboration speeds IC verifictaion</title>
      <description>Synopsys' XA acceleration technology allows customers to achieve HSPICE accuracy while delivering far higher performance and capacity than existing FastSpice solutions. </description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Synopsys</category>
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      <title>Verification donation eases interoperability</title>
      <description>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. </description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Synopsys</category>
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      <title>NEW upgrade for test development tools</title>
      <description>JTAG Technologies will unveil a number of new product developments at National Electronics Week, including enhancements to its popular test development tool ProVision.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>JTAG Technologies</category>
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      <title>Toolboxes combine in parallel development</title>
      <description>Parallel computing capabilities are now integrated inside the optimisation solvers of MathWorks Optimisation Toolbox and Genetic Algorithm and Direct Search Toolbox.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>MathWorks</category>
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      <title>USB test software supports multicore designs</title>
      <description>USBTester is a software-based USB testing solution for USB developers.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Direct Insight</category>
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      <title>Development and debug supports latest PowerPCs</title>
      <description>CodeSymphony allows complete management of a development project using a simple graphical user interface.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Direct Insight</category>
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      <title>Software eases model comparisons</title>
      <description>Engineers and scientists can also use National Instruments' toolkit to easily create user interfaces to interact with their models built using Simulink. </description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>National Instruments</category>
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      <title>VMM methodology speeds I/O design</title>
      <description>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. </description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Synopsys</category>
      <link>http://www.electronicstalk.com/news/syn/syn459.html</link>
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      <title>Tool autodetects concurrency defects</title>
      <description>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.</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Coverity</category>
      <link>http://www.electronicstalk.com/news/cpt/cpt112.html</link>
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      <title>Comms design library upgrades for the long term</title>
      <description>Latest version provides enhanced support for code generation and examples of important features of WiMAX and Long Term Evolution communications systems.</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>MathWorks</category>
      <link>http://www.electronicstalk.com/news/mth/mth187.html</link>
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      <title>Design suite bundles industry's best FPGA tools</title>
      <description>Latest FPGA design tools deliver up to 30% faster design compile times and support multiprocessor powered design compilation to achieve the fastest timing closure.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Lattice Semiconductor UK</category>
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      <title>PLM software covers electronics lifecycles</title>
      <description>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.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Itochu Europe</category>
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      <title>Software streamlines design process</title>
      <description>CCEssentials streamlines the design process with a more intuitive interface combined with C code density and powerful debugging capabilities. </description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Texas Instruments (April 2006-)</category>
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      <title>Design tools produce their first ICs</title>
      <description>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. </description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>EDA Solutions</category>
      <link>http://www.electronicstalk.com/news/eso/eso143.html</link>
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      <title>Software provides transistor-level noise analysis</title>
      <description>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. </description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Berkeley Design Automation</category>
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      <title>IC design offering eases 65nm processes</title>
      <description>The Cadence Virtuoso custom design platform offers speedier simulation tools for accurate and efficient verification of complex designs. </description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Cadence Design Systems</category>
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      <title>Circuit simulator receives upgrade</title>
      <description>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. </description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Cadence Design Systems</category>
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      <title>Software helps replace submarine periscopes</title>
      <description>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.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Wind River Systems</category>
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      <title>Alliance to advance printed electronics modelling</title>
      <description>Generic modelling tool suite will enable organic electronics companies to build behavioural models of physical phenomena, technologies or IC designs.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Infiniscale</category>
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      <title>Software speeds display design</title>
      <description>Until the release of SCADE Display, embedded display application developers have had to work manually or with a nonintegrated collection of design tools</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Esterel Technologies</category>
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      <title>Target takes advantage of hardware acceleration</title>
      <description>The new Altia OpenGL ES DeepScreen target is OS-independent and may be ported to any environment, with or without an OS. </description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Altia</category>
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      <title>Software kit provides processing boost</title>
      <description>The Mitrion SDK includes new programming examples written in Mitrion-C and revised documentation, making it easier to start writing FPGA-accelerated applications. </description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Mitrionics</category>
      <link>http://www.electronicstalk.com/news/mik/mik115.html</link>
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      <title>Etching simulation eases Toshiba's research</title>
      <description>Sentaurus Process and Device uses detailed physical models for simulating the fabrication process and electrical behaviour of a wide range of semiconductor devices.</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Synopsys</category>
      <link>http://www.electronicstalk.com/news/syn/syn457.html</link>
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      <title>Thermal simulation removes basestation hotspot</title>
      <description>Improved cooling scheme first modelled using thermal simulation software enables more powerful amplifiers to be placed in compact enclosures.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Flomerics</category>
      <link>http://www.electronicstalk.com/news/flo/flo210.html</link>
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      <title>Open source RTOS kit includes embedded database</title>
      <description>McObject's eXtremeDB in-memory embedded database system now comes bundled with the eCosPro Developer's Kit.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>eCosCentric</category>
      <link>http://www.electronicstalk.com/news/ecm/ecm100.html</link>
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      <title>MCU development environment spreads its scope</title>
      <description>CyanIDE 2 breaks the bounds of the microcontroller, extending the benefits of configurability and ease of use to the board level.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Cyan Technology</category>
      <link>http://www.electronicstalk.com/news/cya/cya131.html</link>
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      <title>Workbench supports new microcontrollers</title>
      <description>IAR Embedded Workbench for AVR was originally developed by IAR Systems, working closely in parallel with Atmel's development of the AVR architecture.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>IAR Systems</category>
      <link>http://www.electronicstalk.com/news/iar/iar136.html</link>
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      <title>FPGA design tools add mixed language simulator</title>
      <description>Active-HDL Lattice Edition will be bundled with the next version of Lattice's ispLever design tool suite.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Lattice Semiconductor UK</category>
      <link>http://www.electronicstalk.com/news/lat/lat216.html</link>
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