EDA and IP

RS Components is working with a start-up company that develops ‘middleware’ software for Internet of Things (IoT) projects and applications.  The distributor’s agreement with Zerynth will mean its IoT development environment will be available via a portal on the RS DesignSpark engineering community, allowing customers to download the tools. Zerynth has developed a suite of software tools for programming 32-bit ...

Two president-CEOs in a room does not often produce the bonhomie witnessed on the Mentor Graphics booth at DAC 2018, observes Caroline Hayes The adage ‘buyer beware’ would seem not to apply in the case of the acquisition of Mentor Graphics by Siemens PLM in March 2017. Mentor Graphics’ president and CEO, Wally Rhines and Siemens Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) ...

Zuken has released CR-8000 2018, an updated version of its system-level 2D/3D PCB design environment. The focus of CR-8000 2018, according to the firm, is on enabling front-loading of design constraints and specifications to the design creation, coupled with placement and routing capabilities for physical layout. “With smart applications adding complexity to the product design process, controlling adherence of PCB ...

Caroline Hayes finds out about the Accellera effect at DAC 2018 As well as EDA, IP and SoC companies, this year’s DAC was distinguished by the number of industry bodies that were promoting their particular brand of technology and establishing standards which the industry should follow. Accellera , the body promoting system level design, modelling and verification standards, was linked ...

Swindon Silicon Systems has launched IC Builder – a new way for design engineers to visualise what their ASIC/MEMS solution may look like for their application and discuss the results and the process required to implement the design. “There are several reasons for taking the ASIC route and high on the list is the ability to integrate high levels of ...

Green Hills Software has announced that its Integrity Multivisor secure virtualization and advanced development tools now support implementation of Automotive Grade Linux (AGL) on different 64-bit automotive grade SoCs.  This means that AGL applications can be added to automotive systems meeting the ISO 26262 safety levels. So that AGL-based connected car applications will run in secure partitions alongside safety-critical and security-critical functions ...

Cadence Design Systems announces a cloud-based chip and system design tool portfolio.

DAC 2018: Foundry TSMC confirmed that it has refined the N7 technology it introduced at last year’s DAC, with N7+, using EUV layers to realise a smaller, denser standard cell to reduce power requirements and increase density by up to 20%. The denser standard cell increases reliability, exploiting EUV layers for greater accuracy in the design, says the company. Willy ...

UltraSoC will incorporate key elements of the Imperas development environment into its tools

Lightwave Logic, which is developing photonic devices and non-linear optical polymer materials, has bought the polymer technology intellectual property assets of BrPhotonics Productos Optoelectrónicos of Brazil. The acquisition advances Lightwave Logic’s patent portfolio of electro-optic polymer technology with 15 polymer chemistry materials, devices, packaging and subsystems patents. It further strengthens the company’s design capabilities as it prepares to enter the 400Gbps ...