While several EDA companies sit licking their Web-based design and collaboration wounds, one of the world's largest semiconductor companies is set this week to leap into the space. NEC Electronics Inc ...

Predicting ever-smaller designs, faster turnaround times, and lower development costs, the four latest additions to the company’s CMOS-10HD gate-array offerings sport miniature form factors.

Targeting FPGA-to-ASIC conversions and first-time ASIC designs, a 0.18-micron, hybrid-process gate array from AMI Semiconductor hits a triple play of cutting cycle time, slashing up-front NRE costs, ...