August 6, 2008
[NI Week] LabVIEW 8.6 Adds FPGA, Multicore Support
LabVIEW 8.6, the latest version of the graphical system design software program for control, test, and embedded system development, includes new FPGA and multicore intellectual property (IP) and support for the company’s FPGA-based hardware.
August 4, 2008
[Web Exclusive] HF Design Suite Integrates Filter Design Tool
The Microwave Office high-frequency design suite now integrates what’s claimed as a breakthrough in filter design from its partner Nuhertz Technologies. Nuhertz’s filter synthesis and analysis software, Nuhertz Filter, offers what’s termed “delay equalization with off-axis quadruplet and real zeros,” which reduces from hours to seconds the computation time required to obtain flat group delay response in quadruplet-zeros-delay-equalized lumped element filters.
August 4, 2008
[Web Exclusive] FPGA Tools Aid Power Reduction And Simplify Design Creation
The latest revision of Actel’s Libero Integrated Development Environment (IDE) gives designers additional power supply options and enables even lower power consumption. Libero IDE 8.4 offers an FPGA core operating-voltage range from 1.14 to 1.575 V for Actel’s flash-based Igloo, Igloo Plus and ProASIC3L FPGAs. Enhancements to the SmartPower analysis tools within the Libero IBE also ease comparisons of multiple design scenarios and their resulting power consumption and battery life implications.
August 4, 2008
[Web Exclusive] Enhancements Bolster RF Board Design Suite
With improvements to the reliability of artwork masks for electromagnetic (EM) verification and RF board manufacturing, the 2008.07 release of Agilent Technologies’ Genesys suite for RF printed-circuit board (PCB) design delivers shorter design cycles with less iteration for RF designers. The update also includes modeling and user-interface enhancements.
August 4, 2008
[Web Exclusive] Automotive And Aerospace Designers Gain A Simulator
Simulation functionality is now available to designers of automotive and aerospace electrical systems in the 2008.1 release of Mentor Graphics’ CHS design software. The release makes these capabilities inherently available within the core Capital Logic and Capital Integrator tools.
July 1, 2008
[Web Exclusive] Cadence’s Grab For Mentor In Flux
Everyone expects continuing consolidation in the EDA industry, but no one expected it on the scale aspired to by Cadence Design Systems when it publicized its unsolicited attempt to acquire Mentor Graphics Corp. As has been widely reported, Mentor’s board of directors has rebuffed the $16/share offer first made in April, saying that even if it weren’t too low for their liking, it would probably run into resistance from federal anti-trust regulators.
July 1, 2008
[Web Exclusive] “Turbo” Technology Enhances RF Verification
In an effort to address the challenges of verifying wireless ICs implemented in advanced CMOS processes, Cadence has added the "turbo" technology it recently brought to the Virtuoso Spectre Circuit Simulator to its RF analysis capabilities. The claimed result is performance improvements of two- to five-times, and sometimes more, for analysis and verification of large RF circuits targeting advanced CMOS process nodes, and with no degradation in accuracy.
July 1, 2008
[Web Exclusive] Partnership Yields Concurrent Mechanical and PCB Design
In a partnership with Dassault Systèmes, Zuken has launched Board Interchanger, an integrative add-on tool for true concurrent mechanical and printed-circuit board (PCB) design. With it, MCAD engineers gain interactive access to Zuken’s board design-data interface within Dassault Systèmes’ CATIA V5 tools for virtual design by linking to CR-5000 Board Designer, providing seamless integration with other workbenches.
July 1, 2008
[Web Exclusive] Testbench Tool Exploits Distributed Compute Environments
Through an enhancement to inFact, Mentor Graphics’ intelligent testbench automation tool, large simulations can be automatically distributed across up to 1000 CPUs, extending non-redundant sequence generation to entire simulation server farms.
May 20, 2008
[Web Exclusive] FDKs Target Mixed-Mode and RF Technologies
UMC and Mentor Graphics have partnered on a new series of analog/mixed-signal and RF foundry design kits (FDKs). The FDKs, containing comprehensive and validated building blocks at the transistor device level, help IC designers to jump-start design cycles on UMC’s 0.13-um and 90-nm mixed-mode/RF process nodes.
May 20, 2008
[Web Exclusive] Broad IP Library Grows Its System-Level Offerings
Thirty new titles have joined Synopsys’ DesignWare System-Level Library. The new members of the Library include high-performance transaction-level models (TLMs) for PowerPC, MIPS, and DesignWare IP. DesignWare System-Level Library models significantly reduce the time to create virtual platforms and are written in SystemC to work in any IEEE 1666 (SystemC)-compliant simulation environment.
May 20, 2008
[Web Exclusive] Nominations Are Open For EDA’s Highest Honor
Nominations for this year’s recipient of the Phil Kaufman Award for Distinguished Contributions to Electronic Design Automation (EDA), sponsored by the EDA Consortium (EDAC) and IEEE Council on EDA (CEDA), are being accepted until Monday, June 30.
May 20, 2008
[Web Exclusive] Mentor Graphics Adds Ponte Solutions’ Technology To Calibre DFM
In the latest example of the ongoing disappearance of smaller DFM companies into the maws of EDA’s bigger fish, Mentor Graphics has acquired the assets of Ponte Solutions. Ponte’s model-based design-for-manufacturing (DFM) tools are meant to analyze, predict, and reduce the impact of process variability during SoC design. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
May 8, 2008
[Electronic Design TOC Newsletter] May 8, 2008
More powerful cameras and greater video-analysis capabilities push intelligent video beyond traditional industrial uses to surveillance, consumer, automotive, and other applications.
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