EDA and IP

Those of us working in semiconductor IP industry are well aware of the Not-Invented-Here (NIH) Syndrome. Simply put, it's a pathology associated with an engineering reluctance to use other people's work.

Electronics Weekly puts its questions to an industry figure: Kevin Edwards, business development director at design services firm EnSilica

The next generation of Electronic System Level design tools are the equivalent of Web 2.0 applications says the head of ESL tool provider, CoWare

Silicon & Software Systems aims to create a world-class cenrtre for mixed-signal chip design in Europe following the acquisition of Acacia Semiconductor

True Circuits, the hard macro analogue IP company which licenses PLL and DLL technology to Icera Semiconductor and PicoChip, is looking for someone to handle its business in Europe

University of Leicester spin-out TTE Systems has released its first product: an integrated development environment for time-triggered embedded code

Bristol-based semiconductor design tool firm Pulsic has licensed its physical design technology to flash memory firm Saifun Semiconductors

A spin-out from the University of Linkoping in Sweden has won the start-up award at this year’s SAME conference in France for its analogue design tool

FPGA place and route tools continue to improve and adding algorithms can increase runtimes but tehre are ways to speed up the process

Patent reform is needed in the US, Scott McGregor, CEO of Broadcom, tells the International System and SOC Conference in Prague, accusing Qualcomm of unfair trading practices