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| EDA Alert e-Newsletter | August 19, 2008
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Growth Innovation and Leadership 2008
A Frost & Sullivan Global Congress on Corporate Growth
September 14-16, San Francisco
For over 45 years, Frost & Sullivan has been providing Global 1000 clients and beyond with
innovative strategies, research, and consulting solutions to maximize growth opportunities to
dominate the competition. Strategies to grow your company in a turbulent economy, in addition to
Executive Insight, will be revealed at this event. All attendees will have access to the exhibit
hall as well as our welcome reception, Economic Summit, Tour and Taste of Sonoma Valley, networking
luncheons, Golf Scramble Tournament, and participation at industry networking dinners.
Click here to register now.
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Cadence Abandons Its Bid To Buy Mentor Graphics
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There will be no merger of Cadence Design Systems and Mentor Graphics after all. Cadence has withdrawn its proposal to acquire all of the outstanding shares of Mentor Graphics’ common stock. Instead, Cadence’s board of directors has authorized a $500 million increase to Cadence’s stock repurchase program.
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 | | Doug Phillips, Worldwide Marketing Manager for Power Management at Texas Instruments, discusses the ultra-thin, 6MHz, 500mA TPS62601 step-down converter. Watch it now...
(Note: Video might take a minute to download, click only once.)
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NI Week
One of the best conferences I go to each year is NIWeek. Another has come and gone, but like always I got a glimpse at some solid technology from the mega-company. National Instruments has been sponsoring their own conference here in Austin, TX for several years now, and it has become a solid industry event. Why? Simply because NI's products like LabVIEW software, data acquisition hardware, and virtual instruments have become so widely used.
Your Ideas For Design Can Win $500
Send us your Ideas for Design and we'll pay you $150 for every Idea for Design that we publish. In addition, the year's top design as selected by our readers will earn an additional $500, with two runners-up each receiving $250. You can submit your Ideas for Design via e-mail to dbs@penton.com, or you can mail your material to:
Ideas for Design
Electronic Design
45 Eisenhower Dr., Suite 550
Paramus, NJ 07652
Click here for our guidelines on Ideas for Design.
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Looking for the latest design techniques and technology in your market? Check out Electronic Design's Design Hotspots. Here you'll find exclusive content from our editors in Embedded, Power, and Analog technologies as well as Green Design and ROHS. We've also compiled Ideas for Design schematics here for your circuit design sweet-tooth. These spots are chock-a-block with information, so don't delay!
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Northrop Grumman's Transformational Fire Scout Vertical Takeoff and Landing Tactical Unmanned Aerial Vehicle system provides unprecedented situation awareness and precision targeting support for U.S. Armed Forces of the future. The MQ-8B Fire Scout has the ability to autonomously take off and land on any aviation-capable warship and at prepared and unprepared landing zones in proximity to the soldier in contact.
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Constraint-Driven Flow Targets PCB High-Density Interconnects
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With pin pitches shrinking on FPGAs and other IC packages, many printed-circuit board (PCB) designers—like it or not—are forced to enter the realm of high-density interconnects (HDIs). In response to this trend, Cadence has announced the SPB 16.2 release of its Allegro and OrCAD families of PCB design flow. While the flow has offered constraint-driven design for some time, that capability is now coupled with new features aimed at HDIs.
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PCB Tools Cross-Probe Between Layout And Schematic
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Providing a valuable mechanism for design, review, verification, and testing of printed-circuit board (PCB) designs, CircuitSpace Foundation from DesignAdvance Systems now offers cross-probing between layouts and PDF schematics. The new cross-probing capability adds to CircuitSpace’s existing auto-clustering and replication technologies and works seamlessly within Cadence’s Allegro PCB design environment.
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DDR3 and DDR2 Memory IP Bolsters SoC Designs
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A full range of DesignWare DDR intellectual property (IP) is available for systems-on-a-chip (SoCs) that require an interface to high-performance DDR3, DDR2, and DDR memory subsystems. The DesignWare DDR IP delivers memory system performance of up to 1600 Mbps, which is the maximum data rate of the JEDEC DDR3 specification. The IP includes configurable protocol and memory controllers, integrated mixed-signal PHYs including I/Os, and verification IP.
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User Advisory Group To Guide Open Verification Methodology’s Evolution
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The best cooperative efforts in the EDA industry are guided by the collective input of users and technology providers. Those that aren’t tend to be dominated by one or two key players, making them somewhat less than truly cooperative. The Open Verification Methodology (OVM) World community is striving for the former path through its establishment of the OVM Advisory Group (OAG), an organization of distinguished users and ecosystem suppliers.
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electronica 2008 - 11-14 Nov - Munich, Germany
As the international trade show for the electronics industry, electronica reveals the complete
spectrum of all areas - in all of its variety, breadth and depth. Showing components, systems,
applications and technologies in their relevant contexts reflects the great innovative power of
electronics. Components, systems, applications and technologies - get the whole picture at
electronica 2008.
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now.
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What kind of infotainment system do you want most in your next car?
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- Navigation system
- Internet access
- Rear-seat entertainment
- Increased memory for audio/video
- Safety/security features
- Other
Click here to take the poll. Remember to scroll down. The poll is at the bottom of the page.
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Coming Soon! One Powerful Day
Mark October 15, 2008 on your calendar now. From 10AM-5PM the editors at Penton Media’s Electronic
Design Group are joining together to bring the latest in power design information direct to you the
designer with the premier of ONE POWERFUL DAY, an online conference with a full day of top
speakers on top topics via web conferencing. Watch for more information as registration will be
opening soon. Marquee Sponsorship by International Rectifier.
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BGA Breakouts & Routing
By Charles Pfeil, Mentor Graphics
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Call it a “vanity” publishing project if you will, but Charles Pfeil’s book, BGA Breakouts & Routing, published by his employer, Mentor Graphics, is more than worth the price of admission. Pfeil, who is the engineering director of Mentor’s System Design Division, is an acknowledged industry expert in the black art of printed-circuit board (PCB) routing, and he brings his expertise to bear on this densely-packed and richly-illustrated volume.
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