Show Highlights: DAC 2006, NIWeek 2006
Staff -- Test & Measurement World, 9/1/2006
DAC innovations span digital DFM to RF test
Design Automation Conference, July 24–28, San Francisco, CA, IEEE, EDA Consortium, and SIGDA, www.dac.com.
| PXI Express, LabView 8.20 highlight NIWeek |
Mentor Graphics (www.mentor.com) announced that its YieldAssist and TestKompress design-for-test tools have been adopted within TSMC and UMC flows and that its Calibre nmDRC tool has been qualified on AMD and Intel processors. The MathWorks (www.mathworks.com) introduced model-based-design links to Mentor Graphics’ ModelSim and Texas Instruments’ (www.ti.com) Code Composer Studio. Link for ModelSim enables users to verify RTL-level models from within Matlab and Simulink. Link for Code Composer Studio Development Tools enables developers deploying embedded software on TI’s digital signal processors and microcontrollers to perform continuous verification of code.
Cadence Design Systems (www.cadence.com) announced that it has added compression and yield diagnostics capabilities, is qualified in TSMC’s reference flow, and is joining the Power Forward initiative. Synopsys (www.synopsys.com) presented the PrimeYield tool suite and announced enhancements to its Star-RCXT extraction tool and PrimeTime static timing-analysis tool.
Magma Design Automation (www.magma-da.com) emphasized the integration of its software into TSMC’s Reference Flow 7.0, and it highlighted its DFM methodology for nanometer designs. Virage Logic (www.viragelogic.com) announced that its Area, Speed and Power (ASAP) technologies have been adopted by CEVA (www.ceva-dsp.com), SOCLE (www.socle-tech.com), and MIPS Technologies (www.mips.com).
Atrenta (www.atrenta.com) highlighted the fact that STMicroelectronics (www.st.com) has standardized on Atrenta’s Spyglass design closure tools. LogicVision announced that it is teaming with GDA Technologies on Serdes test IP. Using LogicVision’s ETSerdes, a full set of high-speed I/O parametric tests can be performed at production test speeds.
PXI Express, LabView 8.20 highlight NIWeek
NIWeek 2006, August 8–10, Austin, TX, National Instruments, www.ni.com/niweek.
Conduant (www.conduant.com) highlighted its StreamStor PXIe-416, a real-time data-recording system that supports the PXI Express environment. PLDApplications (www.plda.com) launched its PXIe XpressLite CY2 development kit for CompactPCI Express. The kit includes a x1 add-in board, based on Altera’s Cyclone II FPGA. Goepel electronic (www.goepel.com) exhibited its prototype 3060 communications module for ECUs; initial versions support PXI Express and PCI platforms. PLX Technology (www.plxtech.com) showcased its PCIe bridging technology in Compact PCIe/PXI Express (PXIe) applications.
For its part, National Instruments introduced LabView 8.20 as well as the NI PXI-5152 general-purpose digitizer/oscilloscope, which extends the company’s digitizer offering to 2 Gsamples/s by providing a 1-Gsample/s real-time sampling rate on two simultaneous channels or 2 Gsamples/s on one channel at 8-bit resolution. The company also introduced two PXI Express data-acquisition modules—the NI PXIe-6259 and NI PXIe-6251 M Series, which deliver analog and digital I/O with up to 250-Mbytes/s dedicated per-slot bandwidth. In addition, NI announced four PXI Express remote, embedded, and rack-mount controllers, which provide up to 1-Gbyte/s system and slot bandwidth. Finally, the company debuted the PXI-1033 chassis with PCI Express support in the form of an integrated MXI-Express remote controller.
