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San Jose, Calif.--At a recent breakfast interview with Electronic News editors, Cadence Design Systems president and CEO Joseph Costello called silicon the platform of integration for future systems, predicting it […]

Mountain View, Calif.--Consilium, Inc. announced four enhancements to its WorkStream manufacturing execution system (MES) product, and teamed up with another company on a supply chain management product. Consilium also took […]

Mountain View, Calif.--Last week, acquisitions of French electronic design automation companies were de rigueur, with both Mentor Graphics and MINC Inc. acquiring Gallic businesses. Mentor Graphics added Meta Systems to […]

SUNNYVALE, CALIF.--ArcSys last week agreed to acquire Integrated Silicon Systems (ISS) in a stock-swap deal valued at about $280 million. The combined companies will form a small but significant player […]

LOS ALTOS, CALIF.--A long-simmering dispute between Viewlogic Systems and the management of its Chronologic Simulation subsidiary broke out into the open last week with the resignation of most senior executives […]

SUNNYVALE, CALIF.--Addressing IC designers who have complained for years about difficulty with electronic design automation (EDA) software, Escalade is moving closer toward ease-of-use with its new DesignBook suite, which allows […]

SAN DIEGO - Accel Technologies signed an agreement in principle with IBM to acquire the assets of Altium's P-CAD business unit, which markets printed circuit board (PCB) design software for […]

WILSONVILLE, ORE.--Mentor Graphics last week agreed to acquire Anacad Electrical Engineering Software, a German firm specializing in analog and mixed-signal design software. Observers said the acquisition will cement the aid […]

SAN JOSE, CALIF.--Cadence Design Systems has temporarily shelved plans to offer a universal field programmable gate array (FPGA) design system, having run up against the reluctance of FPGA vendors to […]

Electronics companies last week continued to release third-quarter financials, and results underscored the weakened economy. With few exceptions, companies in the semiconductor, capital equipment, distribution, component and contract manufacturing sectors […]

DuPont Photomasks, partners produce potential reticle X architecture took a step toward the semiconductor mainstream today with DuPont Photomasks Inc. (DPI) and Simplex Solutions Inc. saying that they have produced […]

FOLLOWING A FILING AGAINST AVANT! CORP., PRIVATELY HELD Sequence Design Inc. has filed a similar legal complaint against Simplex Solutions Inc. alleging patent infringement against its extraction technology. The complaint, […]

Simplex goes public, scores big With a stagnated U.S. economy stumbling over the bloody carcass of the New Economy, going public might not seem like the wisest course of action. […]

293 Boston Post Road West Marlborough, MA 01752 508-480-0881 www.innoveda.com nasdaq: INOV 2000 Calendar-Year Revenue: $89.9 million 2000 Net Calendar-Year Income: $(11.2) million Public Fiscal-Year Information: Year End: 12/31 FY […]

Design Strategies Innoveda Inc., Marlboro, Mass., named Kenneth L. Tepper as senior vice president, Product Realization Group; Joseph A. Siderowicz, vice president of corporate marketing; and Wayne R. Jessop, vice […]

INNOVEDA INC., MARLBORO, Mass, early this month reported financial results for the year ended Dec. 30,2000. During the year, Innoveda (nasdaq: INOV), which was formed as a result of a […]

The EDA segment warpped up 2000 with a few toasts beyond the usual 'peace on earth.' The big surprise in the bunch came Dec.11 from Sunnyvale, Calif., when Wall Street […]

CynApps, San Jose, will today appoint Jacob Jacobsson as president and cheif executive officer. Company founder John Sanguinetti is to move into the chief technical officer role in order to […]

AS THE YEAR WINDS DOWN, several EDA companies are just getting started when it comes to rolling out their latest and greatest verification technologies. Today both Verplex Inc., the formal […]

TODAY AT THE INTERNATIONAL Conference of Computer Aided Design in San Jose, Sapphire Design Automation Inc. of Santa Clara, Calif., will release ClockIT, a clock-tree synthesis tool. Clock signal is […]

TOOLWIRE INC. LAST WEEK said it has secured $15 million in financing from 3i, an international venture capital company. Other investors have jumped on board, including Horizon Ventures, while existing […]

CEO Herscher brings her own management style to Simplex Penny Herscher works in a small office where most of the decoration consists of family pictures and plush toys from the […]

TTI Inc., a distribution company based in Forth Worth, Texas, recently named Robin Quek as vice president of TTI Electronics Asia Pte Ltd., the company's new Asia division located in […]

Numerical Technologies Inc. (NumeriTech) is demonstrating what it takes to be a high-technology company in Silicon Valley today. Fueling growth through acquisitions, alliances, and a public stock offering as well […]

New York--While the semiconductor intellectual property end of chip design runs itself ragged at IP2000 in Santa Clara, Calif., this week, the high-end 'deep submicron' analysis end of electronic design […]

At the International Hardware Description Language Conference (HDLCon), look for the panel session titled, 'System-Level Design Language Strategies, A User's Perspective,' to be held Thursday, March 9, from 1:30-3:30 p.m. […]

At the behest of their mutual customers, ultra-deep submicron verification companies Simplex Solutions Inc. and CadMOS Design Technology Inc. are integrating their tools in order to improve capacity, performance, and […]

Goodsell Leading Direct Trend in Japan Simplex Solutions Inc., the interconnect verification specialist of Sunnyvale, Calif., is moving to direct representation in Japan with the establishment of its Simplex KK […]

San Jose-based Numerical Technologies Inc. (NumeriTech) this week will announce it is acquiring Transcription Enterprises Ltd. of Los Gatos, Calif. Transcription supplies Computer Aided Transcription System (CATS), the de facto […]

Mentor Graphics Corp. and Intergraph Corp. last week announced that Mentor has acquired Intergraph's Veribest electronic design automation (EDA) subsidiary for an undisclosed cash sum. Wilsonville, Ore.-based Mentor said it […]

From their U.S. headquarters in Sunnyvale, Calif., Arexsys S.A. of Meylan, France, and Telelogic AB of Malmo, Sweden, said they are developing an SDL to VHDL interface that enables electronic […]

Intergraph Corp., Huntsville, Ala., wrapped up in a high-powered legal battle with Intel Corp., on Sept. 2 set a restructuring effort that included a decision to exit from the PC […]

If it's fall, Viewlogic Systems Inc. must be involved in an M&A deal. For the third year in a row, the electronic design automation (EDA) company from Marlboro, Mass. has […]

Viewlogic Systems Inc., Marlboro, Mass., last week said it would acquire Transcendent Design Technology Inc., Camarillo, Calif., in order to broaden its offerings in consulting services and electromechanical design and […]

For Its NXT Architecture SUNNYVALE, CALIF.-- In-Chip Systems will today announce it has signed up another licensee to its NXT architecture for 0.25-micron application specific integrated circuits (ASICs). Oki Electric […]

Opposing approaches force closure fremont, calif. and uxbridge, middlesex, u.k. -- In less than seven months, Abstract Inc. went from the recipient of a $5 million Intel investment to a […]

Promis Systems began shipping version 2.0 of its Encore Process Composer, part of its new generation of Windows NT-based, event-driven application software for process and device engineers. Process Composer is […]

Tefen USA of Foster City, Calif., added three new productivity enhancement products designed to help reduce overall manufacturing cost with limited bottom-line risk, the company said. Tefen said it would […]

SANTA CLARA, CALIF.--Its pockets flushed with $1 million in seed money, Verplex Systems expects to make a splash this year in San Francisco at the Design Automation Conference, June 15-18, […]

Cadence Design Systems Inc. has agreed to buy Simplex Solutions Inc. for $300 million in stock, a move that further solidifies Cadence's position as the world's largest electronics design supplier […]

Mountain View, Calif.--Hanging its hat on the submicron issue, Quickturn Design Systems, Inc. continued a series of moves set to bring the company out of its backend slot by unveiling […]

Santa Clara, Calif.--Using an all-metal, three-layer interconnect architecture, QuickLogic Corp. has developed a series of field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) that offer high speed and low price. QuickLogic's ViaLink technology results […]

Sunnyvale, Calif.--Obsoleting its own technology, Avant! announced version 2.0 of its deep-submicron IC design product families, including: Aquarius place-and-route tools; Planet floorplanners; Star simulation, timing, analysis, and RC extraction tools; […]

San Jose, Calif.--In an unprecedented move, the electronic design automation industry's two largest players are joining forces to address what may be their customers' biggest gripe: the lack of interoperability […]

Marlboro, Mass.--Viewlogic Systems is poised to move from beta test to 4Q95 availability of its Workview Office product, a fully Windows-compliant design tool suite that runs on the Windows NT, […]

Recent events--and commentary by market leaders--have generated a lot of discussion that the complex programmable logic device (CPLD) and field programmable gate array (FPGA) market will continue to consolidate around […]

SAN JOSE, CALIF.--Altera Corp. will today initiate a program to sell programmable logic in vertical markets, initially for asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) networking chipsets, with the introduction of an ATM […]

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF.--Several companies laid bare plans for new design environments at last week's Design Automation Conference (DAC) here. Xilinx, which changed the name of its field programmable gate array […]

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIF. - Looking to provide users with the ability to significantly fine-tune their synthesis results, Synopsys agreed last week to acquire Silicon Architects for approximately 770,000 shares of […]

SAN JOSE, CALIF. - In an attempt to bring some unity to the alphabet soup of standards in electronic design automation, the CAD Framework Initiative (CFI) and the EDIF Division […]