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Services firm prepares IC design tools Silicon Design Services, an IC physical design services company that claims to reduce silicon area by up to 50 percent, is quietly preparing to enter the EDA tools market next year. To gear up for its push, SDS has hired EDA veteran Naeem Zafar as its new
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George W. Bush in 2000. Panel: IC mask costs due to disparate data exchange A growing "Tower of Babel" in which the design and mask communities speak different languages is raising mask costs, according to panelists at the Advanced Reticle Symposium (ARS) June 22. Panelists said that EDA, mask
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Chinese chip designers Cadence Design Systems Inc. has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Chinese Ministry of Education to develop a national IC design training program, the company said. Software could simplify development of embedded 'super systems' A new simulation software package could
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Magma, PDF Solutions implement flow to improve IC yield Magma Design Automation Inc. is poised to be the first EDA vendor to integrate PDF Solution Inc.'s pDfx yield enhancement software into its physical implementation flow. EDA at a crossroads over Verilog's future A decision by the Accellera
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. Giga Scale tweaks IC prototyping Offering what it describes as a new type of IC prototyping tool, startup Giga Scale Integration Corp. will announce its InCyte product family, which lets users estimate and optimize design objectives such as timing, area, power, leakage and yield. Mentor revenue
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Startup fields muscle-bound hardware accelerator A 21-person design automation startup out of Pittsburgh is on the verge of releasing a hardware acceleration system that can perform verification of multimillion-gate IC designs up to 1,000 times faster than popular simulators, the company said
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of digital content pitting Hollywood studios against technology companies may be winding down, now that key consumer electronics giants, including Philips Electronics, appear to be uniting behind the smart-card-based SmartRight technology originally developed by Thomson Multimedia. Princeton fabs 60-nm IC
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officer Aart de Geus predicted that VHDL will go away in 10 years. De Geus made his prediction at the Synopsys Developers Forum here. BindKey overhauls rules-driven layout tool Promising to bring relief to full-custom IC designers, BindKey Technologies this week (April 9) is announcing a rewrite