Apache’s Power and Noise Solutions for Chip-Package-System Convergence Adopted by Sigma Designs for Digital Media SoCs

Contract reflects successful integration of Apache and Sequence Design, now delivering complete power and noise solutions from RTL to GDS SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA – January 20, 2010 – Apache Design Solutions, the technology leader in power and noise solutions for chip-package-systems (CPS) convergence, today announced that Sigma Designs, Inc. (Nasdaq: SIGM), a leader in digital [...]
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Azuro Closes Fifth Consecutive Year of Revenue Growth

Adds two more top ten semiconductor vendors to list of customers SANTA CLARA, CA – January 19, 2010 – Azuro, Inc., a leading provider of advanced clock tree synthesis and timing optimization tools for digital chip design, today announced that it has completed its fifth consecutive year of revenue growth. Increases in revenue resulted from [...]
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Triad Semiconductor Announces Availability of World’s First Configurable ARM® Cortex™-M0 Mixed-signal ASIC Solution

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – January 12, 2010 – Triad Semiconductor Inc., the industry’s leading supplier of via-configurable mixed-signal ASICs, today announced the first system-on-chip (SoC) to integrate the world-class ARM® Cortex™-M0 with the via-configurable analog and digital functions needed to rapidly and inexpensively deliver embedded mixed-signal solutions. Triad’s Mocha-1™ array provides access to ARM standardized 32-bit [...]
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Unlock the Low-Power Design Puzzle with Algorithmic Synthesis

Low-power design techniques have been around for quite a while and have until recently been looked upon as a set of nice optimizations to have, not a tape-out requirement in many application domains. The rapid growth of the consumer market for handheld devices and growing awareness about environmental impact from power usage has changed this. [...]
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Building a Better Team

The NFL is kicking off again as coaches announce their final rosters, putting the most elite players on the field for a season of intense competition. And just like football, in business you need the best team in order to win, and that is why I am so pleased to be joining Apache as a [...]
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TSMC Includes Azuro Vectorless Power Analysis and Multi-Corner CTS in Reference Flow 10.0

Azuro, Inc., a provider of software tools for semiconductor chip design, today announced that Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has included Azuro’s PowerCentric™ multi-corner CTS and SASim™ vectorless power analysis as part of TSMC’s Reference Flow 10.0.
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Synfora introduces PICO Extreme Power for Low Power Applications

Synfora, Inc., the premier provider of algorithmic synthesis tools for integrated circuit and system designers of large, complex processing applications, today announced PICO Extreme Power™ to reduce power consumption, which is a major consideration in designing mobile devices.
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