EDA

Synopsys is porting its IP to a series of virtual prototyping kits in a plan to cut the amount of time that it takes to integrate new high-speed interfaces such as USB 3.0

Synopsys has developed a digital signal processing (DSP) instruction set extension to its EM family and two cores that employ it.

At DAC 2014, some 30 per cent of exhibitors are IP suppliers, offering design services or both, demonstrating how system-level design is about building on what has gone before.

More lint rules, better SystemVerilog support, links to MATLAB and Simulink

Digi-Key is to sell software developed by Mentor Graphics intended to widen access to PCB design and ease access to vital parts data.

Pulsic has developed an automated mixed-signal layout tool that uses multiple generated variants to let designers pick the best implementation.

The second part of our interview with Mark Olen and Jim Kenney, looks at how formal and graph-based techniques move the market beyond simulation.

Cadence has expanded the reach of its parallelized fastSpice engine and Spectre XPS tool to support general-purpose analog and mixed-signal designs.

Cadence Design Systems has signed up for a licence to ARM cores that will let the EDA supplier optimize support for 32bit and 64bit Cortex processors in its tools.

Cadence Design Systems has developed two sets of IP aimed at the 28nm FD-SOI process developed by STMicroelectronics and qualified tools for the process.