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Thursday 10 June 2010
TSMC unveils new reference flows
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) on June 9 introduced two reference flows - Reference Flow 11.0 and Analog/Mixed Signal (AMS) Reference Flow 1.0 - a day after announcing...
Thursday 8 April 2010
TSMC delivers interoperable EDA formats for advanced process technologies
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has made available several unified and interoperable electronic design automation (EDA) technology files for its 65nm, 40nm and 28nm...
Tuesday 16 March 2010
SpringSoft unveils automated custom digital IC place-and-route tools
SpringSoft, a global supplier of specialized IC design software, today introduced two new products aimed at addressing the increasing challenge of designing custom chips that contain...
Wednesday 30 September 2009
Sunplus partners with Synopsys
Taiwan-based IC design house Sunplus Technology has announced Synopsys has become its primary EDA partner. Under the new multi-year agreement, Sunplus will consolidate on Synopsys'...
Wednesday 26 August 2009
Mentor aims to take lead in Asia Pacific, says new regional head
Mentor Graphics considers the Asia Pacific as the world's key foundry and IC design market, and is seeking to expand its customer and partner portfolio in the region, according to...
Tuesday 4 August 2009
TSMC promoting OIP by combining EDA, IP
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) is making efforts to make its OIP (Open Innovation Platform) - a technology platform for integrated services from IC design to manufacturing...
Friday 24 July 2009
UMC gearing up for 40nm
United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC) has been working closely with customers, including FPGA specialist Xilinx, to volume produce 45/40nm products at its 300mm (12-inch) fabs,...
Wednesday 22 July 2009
TSMC unveils reference flow for 28nm
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has unveiled its Reference Flow 10.0 for the 28nm process technology, delivering innovations to enable system-in-package (SiP) des...
Wednesday 22 July 2009
TSMC intros interoperable PDK, unified EDA formats for advanced processes
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has launched an interoperable process design kit (iPDK) for use in 65nm analog/mixed-signal and RF designs. TSMC has also introduced...
Monday 13 July 2009
EDA providers reshuffle management in Asia Pacific
Another electronic design automation (EDA) provider is reshuffling its Asia-Pacific operations, following recent regional head changes at Cadence Design Systems and Synopsys, according...
Thursday 25 June 2009
TSMC adopts SpringSoft Laker for 65nm CMOS node
SpringSoft has announced a multi-year technology agreement with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) to jointly develop and validate process design kits (PDKs) for chip...
Friday 24 April 2009
SMIC to set up design service center in Shenzhen
China's Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC) has planned to set up a design service center in Shenzhen, where one of its 12-inch fabs is located, according...
Tuesday 24 February 2009
Springsoft agrees to acquire Certess
Springsoft, a global supplier of specialized IC design software, has signed a definitive agreement to acquire all the outstanding shares of Certess, an electronic design automation...
Monday 12 January 2009
China IC design industry should strengthen R&D amid economic downturn, says Cadence executive
China's IC design houses should strengthen their R&D in order to gain competitiveness within their home market against foreign rivals, when developed markets such as Europe and...
Wednesday 24 December 2008
MEMS to bring in NT$50 billion, says president of Cadence Asia Lung Chu
MEMS is expected to bring in sales worth NT$50 billion (US$1.5 billion) as long as MEMS components can be produced on a large scale, according to Lung Chu, president of Asia Pacific...