DAC 2012 Notebook
All our news and coverage from DAC 2012 is brought together here. Updates throughout the show.
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DAC 2012: The Gary Smith EDA ‘What to see’ list is live
If you're planning your DAC visit or want to set some Google Alerts for next week, it's time to consult the perennial touchstone.
DAC 2012: Energetic Si2 finds time to look back
But as it celebrates a decade of OpenAccess, the standards body also looks toward the future in PDKs, advanced DFM and 3D.
DAC 2012: Introducing Flexras Technologies
French start-up and conference debutant joins the drive to ease partitioning for FPGA prototypes
DAC 2012: Accellera takes first step to a real coverage standard
UCIS 1.0 will provide a common format to analyze and compare data from different vendors' tools. Yup, it's a 'Biden' of a deal.
DAC 2012: OCP-IP moves to further ease reuse
The partnership's 3.1 specification is open for review, with performance enhancements and alignment to Accellera's IP-XACT for metadata
Cadence joins the dots for verification
The EDA giant has accelerated and integrated its tool suites and broadened its verification IP catalog in its new look System Development Suite.
New England User2User puts emphasis on board-level design and verification
Mentor Graphics' user event includes insights on constraints-driven design and the emerging OVM verification methodology in an eye-catching program.
U2U notebook: five sources of EDA growth… and golf clubs
Mentor Graphics' CEO Wally Rhines picked out the trends he says can boost design productivity and drive growth for tools vendors at the company's Silicon Valley User2User conference
Mixed-signal for the rest of us from Triad
The specialist AMS foundry Triad Semiconductor has married its ViaASIC drag and drop libraries to Mentor Graphics' SystemVision design environment.