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		Gary Smith has a note out about the Apache acquisition by Ansoft (unfortunately if you get his email newsletter the link there takes you to the wrong article but it really is here or here as pdf). Most of the note actually describes the acquisition and the Apache product line which won’t reveal much new to anyone here.
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		Oasys’s customersby Paul McLellan on 07-20-2011 at 1:36 pmCategories: EDA
 
			
		
	
	
		
		
	
	
	
		I haven’t made a secret of the fact that I maintain Oasys Design System’s website. So I had a small task yesterday of adding Qualcomm to the list of customer logos that cycle through on the home page. It is a pretty impressive list including Juniper Networks, Netlogic Microsystems, Texas Instruments and ST Microelectronics.… Read More 
	 
	
	
	
		
	
		
			
		
	
	
		
		
	
	
	
		As you probably know, Synopsys last year acquired VaST and CoWare and a couple of years early had acquired Virtio. All three companies primarily competed in the virtual platform market. In addition, Synopsys is the #2 IP company (behind ARM) and has a wide range of tools for SoC design. So the interesting question is how would they… Read More 
	 
	
	
	
		
	
		
			
		
	
	
		
		
	
	
	
		During the next 6 months or so, SpringSoft will be running a dozen community conferences. These are open not just to users but to anyone interested in SpringSoft’s technology.
There will be 3 conferences in US in October in Irvine, Austin and San Jose. For more details as they become available check here. There will be three… Read More 
	 
	
	
	
		
	
		Variation Analysisby Paul McLellan on 07-18-2011 at 1:33 pmCategories: EDA, Solido
 
			
		
	
	
		
		
	
	
	
		I like to say that “you can’t ignore the physics any more” to point  out that we have to worry about lots of physical effects that we never  needed to consider. But “you can’t ignore the statistics any more” would  be another good slogan.  In the design world we like to pretend that the world is pass/fail. But manufacturing is actually a statistical… Read More 
	 
	
	
	
		
	
		
			
		
	
	
		
		
	
	
	
		The next Apache webinar is coming up on 21st July at 11am Pacific time on “IP integration methodology”.
This webinar will be conducted by Arvind Shanmugavel,  Director Applications Engineering at Apache Design Solutions. Mr.  Shanmugavel  has been with Apache since 2007, supporting the RedHawk and  Totem product … Read More 
	 
	
	
	
		
	
		
			
		
	
	
		
		
	
	
	
		The first of the low power webinars is coming up on July 19th at 11am Pacific time. The webinar will be conducted by Preeti Gupta, Sr. Technical Marketing  Manager at Apache Design Solutions. Preeti has 10 years of experience in  the exciting world of CMOS power. She has a Masters in Electrical  Engineering from Indian Institute of technology,… Read More 
	 
	
	
	
		
	
		
			
		
	
	
		
		
	
	
	
		Another announcement of interest, given all the discussion of Intel’s 22nm process around here, is that Samsung (along with ARM, Cadence and Synopsys)  announced that they have taped out a 20nm ARM test-chip (using a  Synopsys/Cadence flow).
An interesting wrinkle is that at 32nm and 28nm they used a gate-first  process but… Read More 
	 
	
	
	
		
	
		
			
		
	
	
		
		
	
	
	
		Cadence this morning announced that it has acquired Azuro. Azuro has become a leader in building the clock trees for high performance SoCs. A good rule of thumb is that the clock consumes 30% of the power in an SoC so optimizing it is really important. Terms were not disclosed.
The clock trees involve clock gating which can reduce clock… Read More 
	 
	
	
	
		
	
		
			
		
	
	
		
		
	
	
	
		At DAC I talked with Mike Dimelow of ARM about the latest upcoming revision to the AMBA bus standards, AMBA 4. The standard gets an upgrade about every 5 years. The original ARM in 1992 ran at 10MIPS with a 20MHz clock. The first AMBA bus was a standard way to link the processor to memories (through the ARM system bus ASB) and to peripherals… Read More 
	 
	
	
	
	
		
	 
			
	
	
 
		 
		
		
	
Intel to Compete with Broadcom and Marvell in the Lucrative ASIC Business