Universities gain access to Agilent, EVE, Altium, Evatronix tools

EVE (Palaiseau, France) announced the IC&System Research Center at Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) of China acquired its ZeBu emulation platform through the EVE university program known as unEVErsity Connections Program.

IC&System Research Center said it selected EVE's ZeBu emulation platform because many of its design projects require hardware/software co-verification and system validation. It is to be used in design complex SoCs for multimedia, communications, and navigation applications

In parallel, Agilent Technologies said it has concluded a collaboration agreement with CMC Microsystems to provide EDA tools to Canadian Universities and Colleges.

"We realize the critical role universities and colleges play in pushing the limits of modern EDA tools, and we are committed to supporting the needs of universities and colleges," stated P.K. Lam, account manager with Agilent Technologies. "Our collaboration with CMC Microsystems enables us to make a significant contribution to the future of microelectronics and gives universities and colleges across Canada access to our EDA resources, empowering further scientific success in academia."

Also this week, Australian design tool provider Altium said undergraduate students at the University of Wisconsin's College of Engineering will use Altium Designer to develop foundations in modeling, characterization and application of semiconductor devices.

Altium Designer is a circuit board design tool which is intended to bring together the traditionally separate worlds of hardware design and software development.

This announcement followed the signature of an educational program between Evatronix SA (Bielsko-Biala, Poland) and France-based Circuits Multi-Projets (CMP) for universities and research laboratories.

Under the terms of the collaboration agreement, the entire Evatronix IP portfolio will be available through CMP - 8051 microcontrollers, USB 2.0 and 3.0 as well as SD and NAND flash memory controllers, multimedia IP and a variety of complementary solutions, Evatronix and CMP said.