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APTIX |
| APTIX, the system integration and
validation compagny is the leader in reconfigurable systems
prototyping technology, delivering products to rapidly verify
and debug complex system-on-a-chip (soc)designs. |
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ARM |
ARM is the
industry's leading provider of 16/32-bit embedded RISC
microprocessor solutions. The company licenses its high-performance,
low-cost, power-efficient RISC processors, peripherals,
and system-on-chip designs to leading international electronics
companies.
ARM also provides comprehensive support required in developing
a complete system.
ARM's microprocessor cores are rapidly becoming the volume
RISC standard in such markets as portable communications,
hand-held computing, multimedia digital consumer and embedded
solutions. |
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AVERTEC |
Avertec
is the European leader in analysis and characterization
of complex nanometer technology designs. The flexibility
of Avertec products, HiTAS and YAGLE, allows them to
handle full-custom and cell library based designs at
transistor and gate level. The technology can manage
complete Systems on Chip as well as macro-cells and IP
cores.
YAGLE is a functional abstraction tool. The unique
ability to generate RTL directly from an extracted
transistor netlist allows formal proof of physical
designs
HiTAS is a hierarchical static timing analysis tool. The
latest version can generate industry standard timing
models allowing IP reuse within any design flow. |
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CADENCE
DESIGN SYSTEMS |
| Cadence Sophia Antipolis site belongs
to the worldwide network of Cadence R&D sites. It
gathers 60 R&D engineers working on the next generation
physical implementation tools. The next generation tool
integrates floorplanning, synthesis, place and route integrated
in an innovative flow from RTL to GDSII. The majority
of engineers working in Sophia Antipolis are software
developers but the site also includes Product verification
and Product engineers working with the developers on the
definition and validation of the new flow The company
is headquartered in San Jose, California. |
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CENTILLIUM |
| Centillium Communications, Inc. is combining
technical innovation and customer commitment to make broadband
communications a market reality. Centillium consistently
delivers value to its customers by providing broadband
networking systems for applications across all market
segments. The company designs and markets communications
chipset solutions for central office equipment, digital
loop carrier (DLC) line cards, and customer premise equipment
for Digital Subscriber Line (DSL), Voice over Packet (VoP)
and Premise Networking. The Centillium Communications
headquarters are located in Fremont, California and the
Sophia Antipolis site is dedicated to R&D. |
| www.centillium.com
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CONEXANT |
Conexant is the world's largest independent
company focused exclusively on providing semiconductors
and systems solutions for personal networking products
used in mobile communications and the broadband digital
home, as well as in semiconductors and software solutions
for equipment that powers the Internet.
Conexant has a strong foundation and rich heritage as
one of the leading forces behind today's multibillion-dollar
fax, modem and wireless communications marketplace. The
company's products enable communications over wireline
voice and data communications networks, and through cordless
and cellular wireless broadband communications
networks. |
| www.conexant.com |
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ESTEREL
TECHNOLOGIES
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Esterel Technologies provides systems designers with
both a methodology and tools to secure their design flow
at the earliest stage, while reducing
their overall design and verification costs and their
time-to-market. Its flagship product Esterel Studio
provides graphical formal specification, interactive
system simulation, formal property verification,
automated test generation, compact code generation, and
automated document generation. Esterel Technologies also
offer advanced consulting, development services and
tailored training. |
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IBM |
| IBM is the largest worldwide company
for Information Technology, the first for IT Services,
rental and financing of IT Equipment. Some of the key
areas IBM La Gaude is focusing on today are: leading edge
solutions for Telecommunication and ISP Industries, start-ups
such as Internet access platforms, advanced networking
microelectronics integrated circuits and sub-systems (strikethrough:
products and components), e.g. highspeed multi-protocol
switches for data networks, Radio Frequency integrated
circuits for Wireless, product for service delivery including
outsourcing, product support services, e-business software,
middleware platforms, ERPs and JAVA programming services. |
| www.ibm.com |
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INFINEON |
| Infineon
Technologies, offers semiconductor and system solutions
for applications in the wired and wireless
communications markets, for security systems and
smartcards, for the automotive and industrial sectors,
as well as memory products. With a global presence,
Infineon operates in the US from San Jose, CA, in the
Asia-Pacific region from Singapore and in Japan from
Tokyo. In the fiscal year 2000 (ending September), the
company achieved sales of Euro 7.28 billion with about
29,000 employees worldwide. |
| www.infineon.com |
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IROC
TECHNOLOGIES |
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iRoC
Technologies, is the leading Robust IP Provider,
offering design solutions for signal integrity in the
leading edge of ICs.
iROCS
brings self-correcting intelligence
to integrated circuits, protecting them from transient
errors. Transient errors encompass timing faults, due to
crosscoupling or ground bounce, and soft errors due to
single event upset, affecting signal integrity in I.Cs,
and thus systems reliability.
Next generation of I.Cs becomes more prone to transient
errors, especially those manufactured in 0,13 µm.
iRoC provides cost-effective solutions for IC Robustness.
Contact:
info@iroctech.com.
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MENTOR
GRAPHICS |
| Mentor Graphics® is a technology leader
in electronic design automation (EDA), providing software
and hardware design solutions that enable companies to
send better electronic products to market faster and more
cost-effectively. The company offers innovative products
and solutions that help engineers overcome the design
challenges they face in the increasingly complex worlds
of board and chip design -where deep submicron (DSM) technology
and System-on-Chip (SoC) design multiply the challenge
of getting great product ideas to market. |
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NEWLOGIC
TECHNOLOGY |
NewLogic is a world leading supplier
of Intellectual Property (IP) and IC Design Services.
As well as providing a range of IC design capabilities
which can be tailored to meet our customers' specific
requirements, we offer a number of IP cores and associated
software protocol stacks which can be incorporated into
the users' own system-on-chip (SoC) and product designs.
NewLogic has been founded in 1997 and remains an independent
company headquartered in Lustenau, Austria. With more
than 100 engineers, the company experiences an exponential
growth and is expanding very fast in the IP business.
Created in 1999, NewLogic Sophia Antipolis team is dedicated
to the design of wireless integrated circuits and associated
embedded software.
Its most successful product to date is the BOOST system,
comprising all the IP required to implement Bluetooth
functionality in an ASIC (baseband, software and CMOS
RF) at the lowest possible cost. It has been licenced
to numerous semiconductor companies around the world,
including LSI Logic, VTech, Yamaha... |
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MUMERICAL TECHNOLOGIES
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Numerical develops and markets proprietary technology,
software tools and services; it enables the
semiconductor industry to produce subwavelength
integrated circuits smaller than the wavelength of
light. Numerical's products and industry alliances form
a comprehensive design-to-silicon solution that enables
the creation of smaller, faster and more power-efficient
semiconductors using available manufacturing equipment.
Numerical's proprietary phase-shifting technology
bridges the subwavelength gap to reliably design and
produce ICs with sub-0.1-micron silicon features.
Numerical's
Cadabra Tools offer fundamental building blocks for
today's designs improving power/performance &
manufacturability while reducing time-to-market. |
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PHILIPS
SEMICONDUCTORS |
| Philips Semiconductors is the world's
third largest provider of communications ICs. Philips
Semiconductors has the key competencies required to provide
total solution chip-sets for wireless applications such
as 3G, GSM, GPRS, EDGE, DECT, and Bluetooth, together
with the system level know-how required to provide customers
with optimum hardware/software solutions. Philips Semiconductors
offers a unique 'one-stop' source for advanced and high
performing ASICs and/or ASSPs for wireless communications,
incorporating features of 3G technology today, such as
high-speed data rate capabilities enabling multimedia
applications. |
| www.semiconductors.philips.com |
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SEQUENCE DESIGN |
Sequence Design, Inc., the Design Closure
Company(SM),
enables system-on-chip (SoC) designers to bring
higher-performance and lower-power SOC integrated
circuits quickly to tapeout. Sequence's proprietary
physical design software and solutions give customers
the competitive advantage they need to excel in
aggressive application segments, despite demanding
complexity and time-to-market issues. Sequence is
based in Santa Clara, California with worldwide
development and field service operations.
Sequence's Product Lines:
PowerTheater(TM) optimization products for SOC designs
including Watt Watcher(TM), WattSmith(TM), Peak Watcher(TM),
and Vector Watcher(TM). These products provide full-chip
power analysis and optimization at the Register Transfer
(RTL) and gate levels.
PhysicalStudio(TM) timing optimization products for SOC
design that simultaneously find and optimize timing and
signal integrity problems. ExtractionStage(TM) products include
Columbus-Gold(TM), Columbus-Turbo(TM), Columbus-RF(TM), and
Columbus-SoC(TM),
which provide 3D extraction accuracy through patented
algorithms.
ShowTime(TM) -- The industry's first Static Analyzer to
include timing, coupling delay and glitches, IR drop,
and inductance delay in one tool. |
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SILVACO |
Silvaco
is uniquely positioned as an independent broadline
supplier of analog IC technology simulation software and
services for Spice parameter extraction (UTMOST), analog circuit simulation
(SmartSpice), parasitic extraction (DISCOVERY), circuit design and verification (CELEBRITY)
Silvaco's TCAD
Driven CAD framework for the first time delivers a
fully integrated and technology based design environment.
Linking technology to all phases of the design cycle
provides accurate physics-based solutions to the most
complex design challenges. |
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SONICS
INC |
Sonics provides unique semiconductor
IP that enables faster SoCs. Sonics is a venture-funded
company. Sonics develops and licenses the SiliconBackplane
ìNetwork IP core which is a breakthrough in SOC
design. The SiliconBackplane ìNetwork manages all
communications between SOC subsystems while guaranteeing
end-to-end performance and real-time quality of service.
SiliconBackplane ìNetworks are being adopted for
communications, networking and multimedia applications
where Sonics' customers report six-month design time
savings. |
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STEPMIND |
| Founded in july 2 000 by Alain and André
JOLIVET, STEPMIND is the story of two brothers who
decided,
after having successful careers, to move on and start
anew with their own company in wireless domain. STEPMIND
operates in the field of wireless high speed data, offering
RF, analogue and digital complex systems on chip and system
in package intellectual property to OEM or foundry
customers.
STEPMIND's offer starts from technology analysis and SoC
integration consulting to complete design of mixed signal
and RF ASIC. With a starting capital of more than 98 millions
Euros, STEPMIND is strongly capitalized and his staff
is mainly composed of engineers with many years of successful
expertise in the domain of digital wireless. |
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SYNPLICITY |
Synplicity, Inc. (Nasdaq: SYNP) is a
leading provider of software products that enable the
rapid and effective design and verification of semiconductors
used in next-generation networking and communications
hardware and other electronic devices. The company leverages
its innovative logic synthesis, physical synthesis and
verification software solutions to improve performance
and shorten development time for complex programmable
logic devices, application specific integrated circuits
(ASICs) and system-on-chip (SoC) integrated circuits.
Synplicity's fast, easy-to-use products offer extremely
high quality of results, support industry-standard design
languages (VHDL and Verilog) and run on popular
platforms.
As of the end of March 2001, Synplicity employed over
230 people in its 16 facilities worldwide. Synplicity
is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.
Synplicity is a registered trademark and Certify is a
trademark of Synplicity, Inc. All other brands or products
are the trademarks or registered trademarks of their
owners.
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TACHYS TECHNOLOGIES |
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Tachys Technologies is a leading provider of advanced
switch fabric integrated circuit (IC) technology. The
company provides data communications equipment
architects innovative, high-speed interconnect building
blocks that deliver a high-performance, cost-effective
solution to internal switch architecture requirements,
involving both scalable switching fabric components and
high-speed, point-to-point transmission macrocells that
enable their interconnection with other LAN, WAN, and
SAN ICs.
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TEMENTO |
Temento has developed tools and methodologies
which enhance your initial IEEE 1149-1embedded test
capabilities up to now dedicated to manufacturing testing
manly.
These software tools and methodologies will provide
you with :
• Better Performance for Functional Verification
of your VHDL and Verilog models
• 20 % to 50 % Test Coverage Gain
• 30 % to 80 % Simulation Time Reduction
• Application Software Vectors can be extracted from
the Emulator and turned in the Simulator
• Direct Application Software Observation on ASIC
Model
• Real Fast Static to Dynamic Timing Back Annotation
for Slow Path correction on Silicium
• Instantaneous detection of "Skew" or
"long path" phenomena
• Component Behavior Observation under Over Temperature
and Data - Overflow conditions
• Precise localization of Data Path in Silicium accessible
in few minutes
• Direct reading of Dynamic to Static Timing differences
for Back Annotation
• Easy and progressive introduction into your Design
Flow www.temento.com
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TEXAS
INSTRUMENTS |
| Texas Instruments is a
global semiconductor company and the world's leading designer
and supplier of digital signal processing solutions, the
engines driving the digitisation of electronics. Created
40 years ago, TI's Villeneuve-Loubet site focus on advanced
integrated circuits for Digital Signal Processing Solutions
and has established a particular reputation in Wireless
Communications as the major supplier of DSP-based solutions
for GSM and other digital cellular standards. The site
is currently strongly focused on the development of new
2.5G and 3G wireless terminal solutions. |
| www.ti.com
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VALIOSYS |
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Valiosys is a French start-up in the field of software
and hardware formal validation. Valiosys' goal is to
provide customers with a comprehensive solution to
shorten the verification time of complex designs. At the
front-end, Valiosys offers the imPROVE product line
designed to validate high-level models in semiconductor
and real-time embedded designs against specification,
quickly and exhaustively without the need for simulation
test benches.At
the back-end, Valiosys offers the TLL product line
designed to abstract the logic behavior of complex
transistor-level circuits into high-level models,
enabling more effective functional verification or
legacy design retargeting.Valiosys is headquartered in Hérouville Saint Clair, with
offices in Paris and Sophia Antipolis, France. |
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