The Week In Review: Feb. 19
By Ed Sperling
The acquisitions continue. Mentor Graphics acquired Freescale‘s Virtual Garage optimization and analysis technology, expanding its reach into automotive electronic design. Consider this an interesting way for Mentor to leverage its design expertise in adjacent markets.
Synopsys reported revenue of $330.2 million in fiscal Q1, down about $9.6 million from the same quarter in 2009. Profit was $132.8 million, but that included an extraordinary one-time gain of $91.6 million from a tax settlement with the IRS. Still, the company surpassed analyst expectations, and numbers are expected to be as good or better in the current fiscal Q2.
Mentor announced it was making its embedded Inflexion user interface available for the Android mobile platform using TI’s OMAP environment. Mentor made the announcement at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain.
Virage Logic teamed up with Open-Silicon to create an ultra low-power design that combines Virage’s low-power memories with Open-Silicon’s back-biasing technology.
Arasan signed onto Atrenta’s clean IP program, aka SpyLinks, which is yet another link in the chain of providing IP that actually works. This has become critical ever since the major foundries, TSMC and the Common Platform group began rating IP to make sure it works and can be manufactured.
Tags: Arasan, Atrenta, Common Platform, Freescale, Mentor Graphics, Open-Silicon, Synopsys, TSMC, Virage Logic