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Business and technology news from the semiconductor and design tool industries.

Mentor Graphics , Model Technology Merge

Mentor Graphics (Wilsonville, OR) has acquired Model Technology Inc. (Beaverton, OR) in a move making the latter a fully-independent subsidiary of the former. Mentor Graphics' QuickVHDL simulation tool combines direct-compiled code technology from Model Technology with design entry, synthesis, and co-simulation technology from Mentor Graphics . Model Technology will continue to operate uninterrupted, and their simulation products will continue to be OEM'd to Mentor Graphics . They will also fully support all existing OEM and distributorship agreements. Model Technology 's headquarters will remain in Beaverton. Terms of the agreement were not announced.

EDA, PLD conferences To meet the demands of followers of the growing Windows-based technology and applications for EDA, a technical conference and exhibit will be held this spring. The conference, called WinEDA '95, is to be held April 25-27 at the Santa Clara Convention Center in conjunction with PLDCon '95. Now in its fifth year, PLDCon is for engineers who use programmable logic (FPGAs, CPLDs, and PLDs) in their designs. WinEDA '95 topics will include interoperability, synthesis use, PCB design, ASIC development, and EDA tool evaluation. PLDCon '95 will focus on the latest programmable logic advancements. Included will be high-level system design, state machines, designing for speed, and telecommunications. The conferences' sponsors include Integrated System Design , EE Times, Data I/O (Redmond, WA), Intergraph Electronics, and Microsoft Corp. (Redmond, WA). The cost for the three days of the double conference is $275. For more information, contact Linda Uslaner at (516) 562-5709.

COMPASS targets submicron design with Synopsys .com/isdweb/&lf=isd-sendtolog"> Synopsys tools COMPASS Design Automation Inc. (San Jose, CA) is working with Synopsys Inc. (Mountain View, CA) to provide integrated synthesis and floorplanning design tools for deep submicron design. COMPASS will more tightly integrate their extant floorplanning, placement, and routing products with Synopsys .com/isdweb/&lf=isd-sendtolog"> Synopsys ' synthesis products to create a complete, automated design solution optimized for 0.6µm and smaller designs. The new interface technology developed by COMPASS will support parasitics, PDEF, and SDF, and should be available in the second quarter of this year.

NewsBytes

Escalade Corp. (Sunnyvale, CA) has entered into an agreement with Itochu Techno-Science Corp. (CTC, Tokyo, Japan) for the latter to be its Japanese distributor, In addition, CTC has taken an equity stake in Escalade.

United Silicon Structures (US2, San Jose, CA) has changed its name to EU2.

Simucad Inc. (Union City, CA) has added a sales and marketing channel for the new SILOS III Simulation Environment by licensing Quick-Logic Inc. (Santa Clara, CA) as its newest OEM partner.

Movers and Shakers

Kurt Keuzer has been named chief scientist for the design tools group of Synopsys Inc. (Mountain View, CA).

Chrysalis Symbolic Design Inc. (Andover, MA) has named Hal Conklin to the newly-created position of director, western region.

Summit Design Inc. (Beaverton, OR) has appointed Eric Benhayoun vice president of sales for Europe.

The new director of sales at Silicon Valley Research (Mountain View, CA) for the central and eastern U.S., and Europe is Michael Sharp.

integrated system design  February 1995