IP

Cadence Design Systems has decided to buy Poland-based IP developer Evatronix as part of a plan to round out its portfolio of interfaces for SoC designs.

An early shift to finFET processes is making developing IP libraries more challenging.

Cadence Design Systems has announced on the eve of CDNLive Silicon Valley that it has decided to buy configurable-processor company Tensilica for approximately $380m in cash.

Cadence Design Systems is to buy Cosmic Circuits Private Limited, a developer of analog and mixed signal intellectual property (IP) cores.

Can planar devices on fully depleted SOI resist the relentless rise of finFETs as the next device architecture of choice for the semiconductor industry? An evening panel at IEDM explored the trade-offs

Mentor's Stephen Pateras explains how the proposed IJTAG standard speeds IP test by replacing time-consuming custom and ad hoc methodologies.

ARM is among the companies aiming to avoid a patent portfolio falling into the wrong hands after the break up of MIPS Technologies.

Xmos is going back to its roots as a microprocessor architecture designed specifically for low-latency, real-time applications.

At last year’s DAC, leading EDA analyst Gary Smith said chip design had run into a big problem: it was already too expensive to be worthwhile for most companies. Soon afterwards, three companies rang to tell him that the figures were too pessimistic: it was not costing in the region of $75m but perhaps just [...]

Synopsys has rolled out its SystemVerilog-based verification IP portfolio for a bunch of interconnect standards – and built in support for all the three major verification methodologies.