ARC Cores Ltd. (San Jose) has agreed to acquire Metaware, Inc. (Santa Cruz, Calif.) for an undisclosed sum. Metaware, a 20-year-old supplier of software development tools for embedded applications, will become a division of ARC Cores Ltd.

Summit Design, Inc. (Beaverton, Ore.) and Viewlogic Systems, Inc. (Marlboro, Mass.) have agreed to a merge. The acquisition has been structured as a stock-for-stock merger, in which a total of approximately 16.2 million Summit shares will be issued in exchange for all outstanding shares of Viewlogic. Summit will also assume Viewlogic options exercisable for up to two million Summit shares. The merger, approved by the boards of directors at both companies, requires the approval of each companyýs shareholders and is subject to other customary conditions. Will Herman, president and CEO of Viewlogic, will become chairman, president, and CEO of the as yet unnamed company, and Rick Lucier, chief operating officer of Viewlogic, will retain his current role in the combined company. Guy Moshe will be senior vice president and general manager of Israel Operations. William Botts, chairman and interim CEO of Summit, will serve on the board of directors. After the merger, the resulting company will focus on the worldwide EDA market, offering a range of software and services for designing complete electronic systems, from initial concept through implementation. The companyýs corporate headquarters will be located in Marlboro, Mass., where Viewlogic is based.

Cirrus Logic, Inc. (Fremont, Calif.), under its Crystal Semiconductor Division, has filed suit against Sigmatel, Inc. (Austin) for infringement of selected mixed-signal patents. The suit has been filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas. Both Cirrus Logicýs Crystal Division and Sigmatel have principal business offices in Austin. Among the Sigmatel products cited in the action are the STAC9704/07 audio codecs as well as the related family of codec and analog front-end modem chips (STAC9700, STAC9705, STAC9708/11, STAC9721/23). Cirrus Logic is seeking a preliminary injunction to enjoin the infringing products from being manufactured, used, sold, or imported in the United States, as well as permanent injunctive relief and damages. Cirrus Logic anticipates that its request for preliminary injunction will be heard within the next six months. In order to prevail in its request for preliminary injunctive relief, Cirrus Logic will need to show that there is a reasonable likelihood of success on the merits and that it is being irreparably harmed by Sigmatelýs infringement.

Avanti Corp. (Fremont, Calif.) completed its acquisition of Chrysalis Symbolic Design, Inc. (N. Billerica, Mass.). As a result of the merger, Avanti has formed its new front-end division, which combines Chrysalis with Avantiýs Logic Business Unit. The new division will develop and market register transfer level (RTL) and logic design and verification tools. Avantiýs front-end divisionýs formal design and verification tools include Design Verifyer formal equivalence checking software, Design Explore interactive formal debugging software, and the new Design Insight formal model checking products.

Galileo Technology Ltd. (San Jose) announced that Galileo shareholders approved a two-for-one stock split in the form of a 100 percent stock dividend. The stock split was previously approved by Galileoýs Board of Directors on August 3, subject to shareholder approval.

ST Microelectronics NV (Saint-Genis-Pouilly, Cedex, France) offered 28,600,000 of its common shares in the United States, France, and outside these countries as well as the filing of an application for a public offering in Italy. 2,600,000 of the common shares will be newly issued by ST and 26,000,000 will be sold by ST Microelectronics Holding II B.V. ST and ST Holding will also grant the underwriters the right to purchase up to an additional 390,000 newly issued common shares and 3,900,000 existing common shares, respectively, to cover over- allotments in connection with the share offering.

Mosaid Technologies, Inc. (Ottawa) and Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc. (Irvine, Calif.) agreed that Mosaid will be named a Toshiba Design Support Partner. The agreement positions the partnership to serve the SLI market. The agreement also provides Mosaid with access to select Toshiba cell libraries containing the ýbuilding block coresý used to create SLI products. This access will change Mosaidýs existing suite of cores and those it sources from third parties. In addition, Mosaid is designing application-specific embedded memory for inclusion in Toshibaýs cell library.

Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (San Jose) launched the new Industrial Electronics design group within its design services organization. The group will focus on board-level subsystems for embedded measurement and control, with technology expertise in areas such as signal conditioning, integration of sensors and actuators (including small motors), embedded control software, and industrial and enterprise networking. Headed by vice president and general manager Al Strelzoff, the Industrial Electronics design group will also support the Cadence Electronics Infusion strategic consulting group, which helps industrial and consumer companies to conceptualize products that incorporate advanced electronic content.

Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Trillium Digital Systems, Inc. (Los Angeles, Calif.) reported that Trillium has become the first company to receive an equity investment from the recently created Intel Communications Fund. Intel created the $200 million Communications Fund to invest in companies supporting Intelýs key programs and initiatives in voice and data communications. Trillium will optimize and port its communications software for telephony, the Internet, and wireless and broadband networks, to Intelýs recently announced network processor and the Internet Exchange (IX) architecture. Intelýs equity investment is part of a round of private financing received by Trillium. Specific financial terms of the investment by Intel were not disclosed. The Intel Communications Fund was designed to make minority equity investments of typically less than $10 million.

Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International (SEMI; Mountain View) reported that the North American-based manufacturers of semiconductor equipment posted an August 1999 Book-to-Bill ratio of 1.08. A book-to-bill of 1.08 means $108 in orders were received for each $100 worth of products shipped. The three-month average of worldwide shipments in August 1999 was $1.34 billion. The figure is even with the July 1999 level, yet is 32 percent above the August 1998 shipments of $1.01 billion. The three-month average of bookings in August 1999 was $1.45 billion. The booking figure is three percent below July 1999 yet is more than 150 percent above the August 1998 level of $571 million and 202 percent above the cyclical low point of $481 million posted in September 1998.

Monterey Design Systems (Sunnyvale, Calif.) added five direct sales offices across the United States and Europe as well as the companyýs first distributor in Asia. The direct sales offices in the U.S. are located in Sunnyvale, Boston, and Austin. In Europe, the company has added sales offices in Munich, Germany and Grenoble, France. Finally, Soliton Systems K.K. will distribute and support the companyýs product, Dolphin, in Japan.

Hewlett Packard Co. (Palo Alto, Calif.) and White Eagle Systems Technology (San Jose) formed a strategic alliance to meet the challenges posed by third- generation (3G) digital signal processing (DSP) wireless design for communication systems. White Eagle and HPýs EEsof Division will provide EDA tools, intellectual property (IP), and systems-on-a-chip (SOC) design services for DSP-based wireless systems. Under the terms of the alliance, HP will provide White Eagle with its system-level simulation software, HP Advanced Design System, and comprehensive W-CDMA, CDMA, GSM, and other wireless-design libraries. White Eagle will use the HP Advanced Design System and its own design tools to develop complex IP and hard-coded SMADSPs (small microcoded architecture digital signal processors) for high-performance and low-power DSP applications, which it will offer to HP customers in conjunc- tion with associated design services.

Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (San Jose) acquired the rights and patents covering SONOS (Silicon Oxide Nitride Oxide Silicon), a non-volatile memory technology. The agreement with NVX Corp. (Colorado Springs, Colo.) gives Cypress access to a electrically-erasable, non-volatile memory structure that can be integrated into a range of Cypress products, including timing generators, USB and general-purpose microcontrollers, and Neuron chips that enable control networks in home, industrial, building, and transportation applications. The SONOS Oxide Nitride Oxide approach uses only dielectric elements, making it 100-percent compatible with standard CMOS technology. The agreement with NVX gives Cypress all rights to the SONOS technology going forward, including the ability to license it to other companies. The terms of the multi- million-dollar agreement were not disclosed.

Virage Logic (Fremont) and Logicvision, Inc. (San Jose) created a partnership to provide their mutual customers with Logicvisionýs MemBIST-IC. Both companies will also work together to integrate and automate the interface between the memory level embedded test and the full-chip embedded test. According to terms of the joint agreement, Virage will build EDA and test models for Logicvisionýs MemBIST-IC to ensure integration between the memory-level and full-chip level embedded test. Together, the two companies will validate the models to ensure high quality. Some of the common customers are National Semiconductor and Level-One Communications. In addition, both companies will jointly market Logicvisionýs MemBIST-IC and Virageýs Custom-Touch Star memory compilers for embedding one megabit and greater of embedded SRAM memory into SOC (system-on-a-chip) designs.

Memscap S.A. (France) formed an agreement with Tanner Research (Sunnyvale, Calif.) for exclusive distribution rights to Tannerýs Windows NT-based MEMS design tool flow. The agreement enables Memscap to target MEMS design teams at a multitude of smaller MEMS research and development companies. Under the terms of the agreement, Memscap will take over all marketing, tool design, tool maintenance, and support for Tannerýs MEMS Pro tool suite. Memscap will service the entire installed base of MEMS Pro customers and will immediately establish a customer support program for MEMS Pro users.

Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing (Milpitas, Calif.), Hewlett-Packard Co. (Palo Alto, Calif.), and Lucent Technologies, Inc. (Murray Hill, N.J.) are launching an initiative to set guidelines for an open standard for electronic communications across the semiconductor and foundry industry. Operating under the nomenclature of the ýEfab Alliance,ý the three companies will immediately begin designing a preliminary specification that outlines the core requirements for implementing secure, standardized electronic communications.

Texas Instruments (TI; Dallas) will offer a worldwide series of free two-day seminars on the latest digital signal processing (DSP) and analog technologies from TI. The first day of the seminar series, in each city, will focus on system issues and software overviews for DSP-based systems. The second day will focus on TIýs analog product portfolio including power management, data converters, and amplifiers.

Movers and Shakers

Quickturn (San Jose), a company of Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (San Jose, Calif.), named Kinya Tabuchi as president of Quickturn Japan. Tabuchi is responsible for all of Quickturnýs Japanese business operations and for managing the Quickturn teams based in Shin-Yokohama and Osaka. He replaces Hiroshi Masuda, who resigned the position. Most recently, Tabuchi served as vice president of strategic business development with Maingate Electronics, Inc.

Timothy Smith joins Triscend (Mountain View, Calif.) as the vice president of marketing for component products. Smith comes to Triscend from Memec Design Services (MDS) of Tempe, Ariz., where he served as managing director.

Memscap S.A. (Grenoble, France) selected Mary Ann Maher to the position executive vice president of technology. Maher will be responsible for overseeing all product development as Memscap expands its portfolio of MEMS design tools and intellectual property (IP). Maher comes to Memscap from Tanner Research, where she held the position of director of advanced products.

David Coakley is the new Vice President of Operations at Chip Express Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.). Coakley will oversee the operations of the Chip Express ASIC fabrication and supervise the process research and development. Most recently, Coakley served as vice president of U.S. wafer fab operations for Readrite Corp.

Axis Systems, Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.) reports that Wu-Fu Chen has joined Axisýs advisory board. Chen most recently served as the chairman of Shasta Networks. Prior to Shasta, he was the VP of technology at Cisco Systems where he led the companyýs multi- service access concentrator product development, and was a member of Ciscoýs Service Providers Voice Strategy and Technologies panel.

Solidum Systems Corp. (Scotts Valley, Calif.) appointed Tim Feldhousen as director of marketing. Feldhousen joins Solidum from Nortel Networksý Shasta IP Services Business Unit.

Thomas R. Jackson took the position of director of marketing at ASIC Alliance Corp. (Woburn, Mass.) Prior to joining ASIC Alliance, Jackson was director of corporate marketing at Chrysalis Symbolic Design, Inc.

Monterey Design Systems (Sunnyvale) appointed Jacques Benkoski as the chief executive officer in addition to remaining president of the company. Benkoski joined Monterey in 1998 and was most recently executive vice president of sales and marketing. Previously he was vice president of European operations and strategic development advisor for Epic Design Technology and recently the director of Synopsysýs European Strategic Group and general manager for Southern Europe.

Bruce McWilliams was named president and CEO of Tessera (San Jose). Recently, McWilliams was chairman of S-Vision, a company that he cofounded in 1996.

Insight Electronics (San Diego, Calif.), a specialty semiconductor distributor with the VEBA Electronics Group, appointed Dennis Bourque to the position of vice president of operations, and Karen Worley as president of sales. Bourque was hired in 1986 as one of Insight Electronics original employees. Worley joined Insight as a division manager in 1994 and was responsible for running the San Diego division.

Mark Wadlington was named vice president and general manager of LSI Logicýs Asia Pacific region. In this position, Wadlington will be responsible for all sales activities in the Asia-Pacific market including Australia, China, Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan. This region is the companyýs second largest sales area worldwide. Wadlington first joined LSI Logic in 1986 as an engineer in the Test Operations Organization. Additionally, Jeff Wolf was appointed to the position of vice president of marketing for LSI Logicýs consumer products division. In this position, Wolf will be responsible for overseeing the product marketing efforts for the companyýs portfolio of advanced digital technology products with emphasis on digital video compression and decompression, error correction, and digital demodulation. Wolf is a 14-year employee of LSI Logic whose past positions include system design engineering and field applications engineering.

Lexra (Waltham, Mass.) named Kathleen Leavitt to the position of vice president of corporate marketing. Leavitt will be responsible for all of Lexraýs marketing activity including corporate communications, investor relations, and product marketing. Leavitt has over 14 years of experience in the semiconductor IP, EDA, and computer industries.

Dii Semiconductor, Inc. (Sunnyvale) named Glen Wiley to the position of vice president of sales and marketing of Dii Semiconductor and general manager of its gate-array division. Most recently, Wiley was the vice president of worldwide sales at Pericom Semiconductor. In addition, Elli Yaniv, formerly general manager for Dii Semiconductor, was named the companyýs vice president of European operations. He will manage the current activities of Dii Semiconductor in Europe and Israel, including field service and the companyýs design center in Eilat, Israel. Uzi Breier was named vice president of sales and marketing for the European operations of Dii Semiconductor. Brezier previously worked in marketing at Chip Express and National Semiconductor.

Adriaan Ligtenberg was named to the position of senior vice president of methodology services in the Design Productivity Group at Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (San Jose). Ligtenberg will oversee all facets of methodology services business, including the development, delivery, marketing, sales, and all other business functions. Ligtenberg has cofounded two Internet businesses: Speedport, a European Internet Service Provider (ISP) and Frescher.com, a real-time search engine. Prior to joining Cadence, Ligtenberg served as a partner in Viasphere, a company created through the merger of Metis and A3 Ventures. Money Bits

Integrated Systems, Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.) compiled $35 million in total revenue for the second quarter of fiscal year 2000, compared to $32 million reported in the second quarter of fiscal year 1999, an increase of 10 percent quarter over quarter. Net income in the second quarter of fiscal year 2000, excluding amortization of goodwill, in-process research and development, acquisition-related expenses, and the associated tax effects, was $1.8 million or $0.08 per diluted share. Core embedded systems and tools product revenue increased 23 percent in the second quarter of fiscal year 2000 as compared to the same period in fiscal year 1999. Total product revenue increased 17 percent quarter over quarter while services revenue, which includes product maintenance and consulting contracts, remained flat compared to the second quarter of fiscal year 1999.

Philips Semiconductors VLSI, Inc. (formerly known as VLSI Technology, Inc.; San Jose), an affiliate of Royal Philips Electronics, has called for redemption of the companyýs 8 1/4 percent convertible subordinated notes, due in 2005. The aggregate principal amount outstanding of the notes is approximately $132.6 million. Upon conversion, a holder would receive approximately $383.21 per $1,000 principal amount of notes. Alternatively, holders may have their notes redeemed at a total redemption price of $1,025.44 per $1,000 principal amount of notes, including a $24.75 premium for early redemption and accrued interest of $0.69.