The Week In Review: Aug. 13
By Ed Sperling
Mentor Graphics’ Calibre Design-to-Silicon solutions were used in the development of TSMC’s 28nm Product Qualification Vehicle. No surprise there. The foundry already standardized on Calibre. TSMC also standardized on Synopsys’ Galaxy Implementation, including advanced routing rules, low power and signoff capabilities for the same chip.
Synopsys launched a DesignWare USB software alliance program to create an ecosystem for USB software providers for drivers.  And it rolled out the Time Division Duplex mode for its Long-term Evolution Model library for physical layer system simulation. And if that wasn’t enough, the company renewed its OEM relationship for FPGA synthesis software with Lattice.
TI licensed ARM’s Cortex-A series processor core, aka Eagle, for its future OMAP platform. This builds upon a similar relationship the two companies have had in the past for OMAP processors with ARM cores.
TSMC’s sales, which are a good gauge of how the design industry will fare, increased 3.0 in July vs. June. It was up 19.4% over July 2009, showing just how far things have improved.
Tags: ARM, Mentor Graphics, Synopsys, Texas Instruments, TSMC