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IN THE NEWSBusiness and technology news from the semiconductor and design tool industries.
In the News
* Harris EDA
(Fishers, N.Y.) has changed its name to
Xynetix Design Systems Inc.
The electronics industry shows continued strength in all areas, with strong orders as we move into the slow summer months.* Xilinx Inc. (San Jose) announced an exclusive agreement to fully integrate Synopsys 's FPGA Express technology into Xilinx Foundation Series solutions. The partnership expands the synthesis capabilities of the Foundation Series to address high-density programmable logic design in a new solution called Foundation Express. The terms of the agreement give Xilinx a period of exclusive rights as the only silicon supplier to distribute FPGA Express. * Avanti Corp. (Fremont, Calif.) launched Galaxi Inc., a subsidiary that, with its customers, will develop intellectual property blocks for system-on-a-chip design. * Viewlogic Systems Inc. (Marlboro, Mass.) and Ikos Systems Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.) announced a joint marketing and technology agreement to enable the two companies to provide product solutions and interfaces targeted at the development and verification problems in hardware/software co-development for the embedded systems market. The initial interfaces will couple Viewlogic 's Eaglei and EagleV products with Ikos's Voyager and Gemini mixed-level simulation products. A later phase of the agreement will focus on interfaces to Ikos's VirtuaLogic and Avatar in-circuit emulation products. * Members of the CAD Framework Initiative Inc. (CFI) voted to adopt Silicon Integration Initiative Inc. (SI2) as the international organization's new name. In addition, the group has decided to revise its charter to provide value-added services and to transfer technologies that reduce the cost and complexity of silicon design and integration at the system level. The focus of SI2 will be to facilitate cooperation and accelerate implementation plans of its member constituencies such as the ASIC Council, the EIAJ, and the EDA Industry Council. Current plans include expanding the ASIC Council's Customer Advisory Board beyond Apple, Ericsson, Hewlett-Packard, Nortel, Silicon Graphics, and Sun; testing EDA tool capabilities and performance, in addition to Verilog compatibility, in the ASIC Lab; fielding a library representation as a basis for design reuse; improving timing and power calculation accuracy through DCL/DPC; promoting the commercial adoption of the Sematech Chip Hierarchical Design System data model; and enabling component and intellectual property data to be distributed using the Electronic Component Information Exchange (ECIX) format. More information about Silicon Integration Initiative is available from its Web site, www.si2.org. * Seiko Epson Corp. (Nagano, Japan) and Exemplar Logic Inc. (Alameda, Calif.) will jointly develop Seiko Epson/SMOS ASIC libraries for Exemplar's Leonardo design environment. As a result of the agreement, Seiko Epson/SMOS ASIC libraries are being distributed by both Seiko Epson and Exemplar. The delay models jointly developed by both companies interface to the Seiko Epson ASIC development system, Auklet. * Advanced RISC Machines Ltd. (Cambridge, UK) has added offices in Maidenhead, Birks., UK; Austin, Texas; and Seoul. * Summit Design Inc. (Beaverton, Ore.) announced that Sun Microsystems Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.) has signed a three-year agreement to license Summit's Visual StateScore and Visual StateAlert design analysis tools. The agreement allows Sun to use the tools on several next-generation processor and ASIC projects in any Sun development lab worldwide. * Model Technology Inc. (Beaverton, Ore.) and Synplicity Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.) have entered into a joint marketing agreement. The agreement allows Synplicity's sales channels full access to Model Technology 's V-System products, both workstation and PC, for use in the promotion of its synthesis product, Synplify. * In addition, Model Technology has entered into an OEM agreement with the HP EEsof Division of Hewlett-Packard Co. (Palo Alto, Calif.). The agreement gives HP EEsof the nonexclusive right to bundle Model Technology 's V-System HDL simulation products with HP DSP Designer and HP DSP Synthesis software tools. * CMP Media Inc. (Manhasset, N.Y.) and Aspect Development Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.) have formed a joint venture company called EDTN--the Electronics Design & Technology Network --that will develop Web-based productivity enhancement services for electronic design engineers. * Aptix Corp. and Altera Corp. (both in San Jose) have signed an OEM agreement for Aptix to resell Altera's Max II Plus software for its Flex 10K programmable logic family. The Flex 10K CPLDs will be offered as one of the options in the Aptix System Explorer prototyping product family. * The seventh annual Surface Mount International Conference & Exposition, to be held Sept. 7-11 in San Jose, will feature a keynote address entitled "The Revolution in IC Packaging," looking at developments in ball-grid arrays and other chip packages. A full-day symposium on chip-scale packaging, focusing on the future of high-density packages, will run concurrently. It will include 10 technical papers and a panel discussion with leading members of the electronics industry. Movers and Shakers
* ASIC International (Knoxville, Tenn.) appointed
Stephanie Payne
to its technical staff.
Money Bits
Seagate Technology Inc.
(Scotts Valley, Calif.)
announced that owing to continued weakness in customer demand, primarily for its higher-performance products, together with internal production issues, the guidance issued on June 2 on the projection for the quarter ending June 27 with respect to revenue, gross margins, and earnings per share are not expected to be achieved. The company stated that it now anticipates revenues to be between $2.0 billion and $2.1 billion, with a significant impact on earnings for the quarter.
On-lineSeveral new articles will be appearing this month and next exclusively on isdmag.com, Integrated System Design's Web site. Feature stories will cover the following topics:
Editorial CallIntegrated System Design will publish a Focus Report on Windows-based EDA tools in the October issue and a Focus Report on verification tools in the November issue. If you wish to be listed in the table for the October issue, please contact Sarah Reid by July 21st. To be listed in the table for the November issue, please contact her by August 18th at (415) 903-0140 or sarah@isdmag.com. To voice an opinion on this or any Integrated System Design article, please e-mail your message to: miker@asic.com. integrated system design August 1997[ Articles from Integrated System Design Magazine ] [ ICs and uPs ] [ Custom ICs and Programmable Logic ] [ Vendor Guide ] [ Design and Development Tools ] [ Home ] For advertising information e-mail amstjohn@mfi.com Comments on our editorial are welcome. Copyright © 1997 - Integrated System Design Magazine |
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