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July 1, 2008
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If you haven't seen our video coverage, you don't know DAC
Editor David Maliniak chatted with leading companies like Mentor,
Agilent, Synopsys plus the latest from CoFluent, OneSpin and CLK. More
than 20 video segments are available to fill you in on what you
missed!
Click
here.
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A Mid-Year Check On The Optimism Meter
Lauro Rizzatti, General Manager
EVE-USA
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Six months ago, I predicted that emulation would be a bright spot
within the EDA industry in 2008. Who could have guessed back then that
our little world would be upended with the announcement of an
astonishing attempt to merge two industry giants, both of whom have
emulation products? My optimism remains intact, however.
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full article...
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A 45th DAC Post-Mortem
By David Maliniak, EDA Editor
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Last week's 45th Design Automation Conference (DAC) in Anaheim was
my twelfth consecutive DAC, and it was surely the most interesting and
different I've experienced in journalistic terms. Yeah, that was me
traipsing around the show floor with my colleague Damian Mendez in tow,
toting a great big video camera. It was my first experience in
documenting DAC in video, and I would term it a success.
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full article...
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Your Ideas For Design Can Win
$500
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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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Add Modular Plug-In Functionality To Any
Embedded Design
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Utilizing modularity in an embedded design opens up a number of new
possibilities when compared to standard embedded applications. It
enables the design of compact form-factor devices, without sacrificing
functionality.
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full article...
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The Berkeley Aerobotics group is expanding its research scope into
the advanced control and coordination of fixed-wing UAVs. Leveraging on
their expertise, experiences, and thoroughly investigated flight control
software from the rotary wing cousins, BEAR group has created a fully
autonomous UAV platform, the SmartBATS (Single Man Aerial Reconnaissance
Technology-Battlefield Assessment Telewing).
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Rev up fuel efficiency and win $10,000
Design an energy-saving solution for automotive applications
Infineon and Auto Electronics invite you to participate in the “REV UP
FUEL EFFICIENCY†design contest. Take “the green challenge†and
design a solution using Infineon products that enables or improves
energy efficiency for automotive applications. You could win a grand
prize of $10,000, a second prize of $5,000 or a third prize of
$2,000.
The three winners will get an all-expenses-paid trip to the Infineon and
Auto Electronics Contest Award Ceremony at Convergence 2008. In
addition, your winning design will be featured at the Infineon booth
during the show. Submit your entry by August 15, 2008.
See you at CONVERGENCE 2008, Booth 409.
For complete contest rules or to take the design challenge, go to http://autoelectronics.com/contest/rev-up
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Cadence’s Grab For Mentor In Flux
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Everyone expects continuing consolidation in the EDA industry, but
no one expected it on the scale aspired to by Cadence Design Systems
when it publicized its unsolicited attempt to acquire Mentor Graphics
Corp.
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full article...
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“Turbo†Technology Enhances RF
Verification
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In an effort to address the challenges of verifying wireless ICs
implemented in advanced CMOS processes, Cadence has added the "turbo"
technology it recently brought to the Virtuoso Spectre Circuit Simulator
to its RF analysis capabilities.
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full article...
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Partnership Yields Concurrent Mechanical and
PCB Design
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In a partnership with Dassault Systèmes, Zuken has launched Board
Interchanger, an integrative add-on tool for true concurrent mechanical
and printed-circuit board (PCB) design. With it, MCAD engineers gain
interactive access to Zuken’s board design-data interface within
Dassault Systèmes’ CATIA V5 tools for virtual design by linking to
CR-5000 Board Designer, providing seamless integration with other
workbenches.
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full article...
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Testbench Tool Exploits Distributed Compute
Environments
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Through an enhancement to inFact, Mentor Graphics’ intelligent
testbench automation tool, large simulations can be automatically
distributed across up to 1000 CPUs, extending non-redundant sequence
generation to entire simulation server farms.
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full article...
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Speedo and Ansys used computer
modeling software to develop a new record-breaking swimsuit. What effect
will this and other technology have on the upcoming
Olympics?
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- Technology gives too large an advantage to wealthy nations.
- Technology levels the playing field for all athletes.
- Technology is irrelevant, as the athletes still have to
perform.
- Technology diminishes the significance of the athletes'
performance.
Click here to
take the poll. Remember to scroll down; the poll is at the bottom of the
page.
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If you haven't seen our video coverage, you don't know
DAC
Editor David Maliniak chatted with leading companies like Mentor,
Agilent, Synopsys plus the latest from CoFluent, OneSpin and CLK. More
than 20 video segments are available to fill you in on what you
missed!
Click
here.
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Inside Steve’s Brain
By Leander Kahney
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Each chapter of Inside Steve’s Brain explores a different facet of
what’s made Jobs and Apple (not to mention Pixar) so successful:
organizational genius, perfectionism, elitism, despotism, passion,
inventiveness. It also looks at some of the traits that have made him a
legend in Silicon Valley.
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full article...
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