Compaq Merced designers fly coop. compaq merced designers fly coop. Designers who worked for Compaq on its Merced program are calling it quits as it becomes apparent there is nothing for them to do. Designers who worked for Compaq on its Merced program are calling it quits as it becomes apparent there is nothing for them to do....

IBM, Sony and Toshiba open chip design center. ibm. IBM Corp., Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. and Toshiba Corp. are hiring about 300 computer and chip designers for an R&D center in Austin, Texas....

Virtual ICs improve design process. virtual ics improve design process. Icinergy Software says that its SoCarchitect software will allow IC designers to create "virtual prototypes" early in the design process. Icinergy Software says that its SoCarchitect software will allow IC designers to create "virtual prototypes" early in the design process. The Canadian company believes its product will save time and money by allowing engineers to run basic tests on designs long before register-transfer level coding begins....

Rambus Licenses RaSer Comm Chip Design to Intel. rambus licenses raser comm chip design to intel. However, at the Rambus Developer Forum yesterday, the company was touting its benefits - along with the fact that Intel has licensed the technology for use by network communications chip designers in board and system-level apps. Rambus says that RaSer gives designers a "scalable serializer/deserializer architecture that addresses current and future serial link applications requiring the highest bandwidth" and that it can be employed across networking applications that include WAN router and switch backplanes, Gigabit and 10-Gigabit Ethernet, InfiniBand, Fibre Channel, fiber optic network interfaces, and other chip-to... Rambus RaSer cells are offered as an analog core library cell for ASIC and ASSP designs and contains serializer, transmitter, receiver, deserializer, and clock recovery circuitry....

Sun Opens Processor Design Ranch. sun opens processor design ranch. The new facility, and its sister sites in Austin, Texas and Chelmsford, Mass., is supposed to speed development of new versions of the UltraSPARC processor by dedicating increasingly massive computing power to the task of designing and verifying complex, multi-Gigahertz, multi-100-million transistor processor designs. The ranches, which total 5,500 processors, serve Sun's 1,300-member processor design engineering team. The Compute Ranch's main role is to perform the calculations required to design new processors. At tape out for the UltraSPARC III processor, when designers send a chip design to the fab for production, data for the chip consisted of 90,000 data files, occupying 23 Gigabytes of disk space....

Cypress Shows off USB On-the-Go Reference Design. cypress shows off usb on. If you can remember way back to September (and I'm surprised that I can remember tech news from that month), we told you about the USB On-the-Go specification, a supplement to the USB 2.0 spec that includes letting designers put a small USB connector on gadgets like MP3 players and cameras so that they can be connected to each other for things like transferring music files or connecting direc... If you can remember way back to September (and I'm surprised that I can remember tech news from that month), we told you about the USB On-the-Go specification, a supplement to the USB 2.0 spec that includes letting designers put a small USB connector on gadgets like MP3 players and cameras so that they can be connected to each other for things like transferring music files or connecting dire... The reference design includes schematic diagrams, design documentation, samples of the SL811HS and SL11R devices, firmware, an assembler, a compiler, and technical support. If you're looking for more information on the design so that you can build your own USB OTG device, you can pick up an application note on Cypress' website . ...

IC designers demand testing prices cuts of 10-15 ic designers demand testing prices cuts of 10. The current slow season is forcing memory testing prices down by 10-15% on demand from independent IC design houses, according to some local IC testing firms. The current slow season is forcing memory testing prices down by 10-15% on demand from independent IC design houses, according to some local IC testing firms....