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It took us some time to find a company that is a competitor for Teraptor ...
paul_schnizlein
agk thought that "Texas processor verification firm" meant a division at Texas ...
ARM buys Texas processor verification firm
Peter Clarke
6/17/2011 5:47 AM EDT
LONDON – Processor intellectual property licensor ARM Holdings plc has acquired Obsidian Software Inc., a privately held company that has been providing processor verification products, verification consulting and training services to processor designers since 1997.
The amount ARM is paying for Obsidian (Austin, Texas) was not disclosed.
"ARM and Obsidian Software have had a long relationship which started with early work on Cortex-A8," said Mike Inglis, general manager and executive vice president of ARM's processor division, in a statement. "The technology and people that will come with this acquisition are a significant addition to our capabilities in maximizing quality and reducing time to market of ARM-based SoCs.”
The Obsidian Software validation team will become part of an ARM processor validation team based in Austin, Texas.
Obsidian's best known product is the Random Architecture Verification Engine, known as RAVEN, a processor verification tool for generating stimuli in standard and custom processor cores.
ARM said it would honor all existing contractual agreements between Obsidian and its customers.
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agk
6/17/2011 9:37 AM EDT
First sight i understood as ARM buys TI processor verification division. But after reading now i know it buys at Texas.
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KB3001
6/19/2011 4:21 PM EDT
That's journalism for you :-)
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AnilMuthagouni
6/17/2011 6:14 PM EDT
Does this mean, there wouldn't be anymore DVclub free lunch with some tech stuff ?...,
P.S - Obsidian's owner was the one organizing these events.
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goafrit
6/17/2011 8:22 PM EDT
everyone is buying these days. ADI bought Lryric, Texas got NI. it is heating up people. Too interesting
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daleste
6/18/2011 3:54 PM EDT
Yes, a lot of aquisitions. I expect to see more consolidations before it ends.
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KB3001
6/19/2011 4:25 PM EDT
good or bad? and for whom?
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paul_schnizlein
6/20/2011 5:41 PM EDT
agk thought that "Texas processor verification firm" meant a division at Texas Instruments, or TI.
goafit said "Texas got NI."
It seems some people use the word "Texas" as abbreviation for TI. Well, you CAN abbreviate everything so far until it loses meaning, but that is sloppy and confusing. As for "Texas got NI", that is just wrong. "NI" means National Instruments, not the same as National Semiconductor. Again, sloppy to the point of meaningless, or, as I say, fubar.
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gopib
7/14/2011 6:14 AM EDT
It took us some time to find a company that is a competitor for Teraptor Verifier (in our business plan presentation) 2 years ago, now they are gone ! In fact most companies we listed as competition are gone. Now, that is generally very good or very bad.
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