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EDA Alert e-Newsletter
Electronic Design -- www.electronicdesign.com
March 13, 2007

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Today's Table of Contents:

1. Viewpoint: ESL Goes Mainstream
2. Composite Current Models Gain Support On TSMC 65-nm Process
3. Instant "Replay" Comes To Timing Simulation
4. Synthesis Support Arrives For Xilinx's Virtex-5 SXT FPGAs
5. Parallel Fast-Spice Simulator Verifies Large Mixed-Signal SoCs
6. Happenings
- SLIP'07
- ISPD'07
- DATE

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1. Viewpoint
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ESL Goes Mainstream

Devadas Varma, Chairman and Founder
Calypto Design Systems Inc., Santa Clara, Calif.

Design at the electronic system level (ESL) continues to gain traction, as system-level modeling has moved past the system architect into the realm of software and hardware designers. As a result, ESL design is becoming a mainstream reality...

Read the complete story at:
Viewpoint

> http://www.elecdesign.com/Articles/Index.cfm?ArticleID=15140&bypass=1

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2. News
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Composite Current Models Gain Support On TSMC 65-nm Process

Composite Current Source models are now available for use in the TSMC 65-nm and 90-nm process technologies. The high-accuracy CCS timing and noise models allow the designer to improve quality of results and reduce design iterations...

Read the complete story at:
http://www.elecdesign.com/Articles/Index.cfm?ArticleID=15152&bypass=1

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3. News
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Instant "Replay" Comes To Timing Simulation

Novas Software's Siloti Replay technology streamlines the process of detecting, isolating, and fixing the source of timing problems using gate-level simulation. The module yields significantly faster simulation times and smaller dump-file sizes when compared to traditional methods, while providing the accuracy needed to debug timing issues...

Read the complete story at:
http://www.elecdesign.com/Articles/Index.cfm?ArticleID=15153&bypass=1

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4. News
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Synthesis Support Arrives For Xilinx's Virtex-5 SXT FPGAs

Mentor Graphics' latest update of its Precision Synthesis product provides synthesis support for Xilinx's new Virtex-5 SXT FPGAs. The companies began work last year on Virtex-5 SXT FPGA support within the Mentor Graphics family of synthesis tools. Support within the LeonardoSpectrum tool suite will follow...

Read the complete story at:
http://www.elecdesign.com/Articles/Index.cfm?ArticleID=15154&bypass=1

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5. News
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Parallel Fast-Spice Simulator Verifies Large Mixed-Signal SoCs

Magma provides a parallel fast-Spice simulation option for its FineSim Pro circuit-level simulation and analysis tool, better equipping designers for verification of very large, complex mixed-signal SoCs. This technology provides faster simulation and more accurate results than other commercial products...

Read the complete story at:
http://www.elecdesign.com/Articles/Index.cfm?ArticleID=15155&bypass=1

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6. Happenings
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System Level Interconnect Prediction Workshop (SLIP'07)
Austin, Texas
March 17-18, 2007
http://www.sliponline.org/

International Symposium on Physical Design (ISPD'07)
Austin, Texas
March 18-21, 2007
http://www.ispd.cc/

Design, Automation, and Test in Europe (DATE)
Nice, France
April 16-20, 2007
http://www.date-conference.com/

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