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Design and Development Hardware
News Release from: Mercury Computer Systems
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 01 December 2006
Cell BE processor to accelerate EDA
Mercury Computer Systems is working with Mentor Graphics to jointly develop and deliver a fully integrated EDA platform based on the Cell Broadband Engine processor.
Mercury Computer Systems is working with Mentor Graphics to jointly develop and deliver a fully integrated electronic design automation (EDA) platform based on the Cell Broadband Engine (BE) processor Mentor, a worldwide leader in EDA solutions, will migrate its Calibre OPC product to Mercury's Cell BE processor-based, high-performance compute cluster
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 30 May 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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