Week In Review: Design, Low Power

By Jesse Allen - 15 Nov, 2019 - Comments: 0

M&A eSilicon will be acquired by Inphi Corporation and Synopsys. Inphi is acquiring the majority of the company, including the ASIC business and 56/112G SerDes design and related IP, for $216 million in both cash and the assumption of debt. Inphi expects to combine its DSP, TiA, Driver and SiPho products with eSilicon’s 2.5D packaging and custom silicon design capabilities for electro-optics... » read more

Week In Review: Design, Low Power

By Jesse Allen - 01 Nov, 2019 - Comments: 0

Micron acquired FWDNXT, an AI software and hardware startup. Founded in 2017 and based in Lafayette, Indiana, FWDNXT, specializes in building machine learning deep neural network inference accelerators scalable from edge devices to server-class performance as Xilinx FPGAs, SoCs, or SDK. The company's engine already powers Micron's Deep Learning Accelerator (DLA) technology. “FWDNXT is an a... » read more

Week In Review: Design, Low Power

By Jesse Allen - 25 Oct, 2019 - Comments: 0

ANSYS will acquire Dynardo, a provider of simulation process integration and design optimization (PIDO) technology. Dynardo's tools include algorithms for optimization, uncertainty quantification, robustness, scenario variation, sensitivity analysis, simulation workflow building and data mining. Based in Weimar, Germany, Dynardo was founded in 2001 and has been an ANSYS software partner; the ac... » read more

Week In Review: Design, Low Power

By Jesse Allen - 11 Oct, 2019 - Comments: 0

M&A Dialog Semiconductor will acquire Creative Chips for approximately $80 million cash, with contingent consideration of up to $23 million. The move will expand Dialog's Industrial IoT portfolio, adding Creative Chips' industrial Ethernet and other mixed-signal products for connecting large numbers of IIoT sensors to industrial networks. Based in Bingen, Germany, Creative Chips was founded in... » read more

Week In Review: Design, Low Power

By Jesse Allen - 13 Sep, 2019 - Comments: 0

M&A ANSYS will acquire Livermore Software Technology Corp. (LSTC), a provider of explicit dynamics and other advanced finite element analysis technology. Based in Livermore, CA, LSTC was founded in 1987 to commercialize the DYNA3D technology developed at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. DYNA3D became the company's premier product LS-DYNA, a general purpose nonlinear finite eleme... » read more

Siemens-Mentor Deal Retrospective

By Ed Sperling - 21 Aug, 2019 - Comments: 1

Tony Hemmelgarn, president and CEO of Siemens PLM Software and CEO of Mentor, a Siemens Business, sat down with Semiconductor Engineering to talk about the acquisition of Mentor Graphics, the shift toward more customized design, and where AI fits into the design picture. SE: How does a company like Siemens see the EDA industry evolving? Hemmelgarn: Part of the reason we bought Mentor Grap... » read more

Week In Review: Design, Low Power

By Jesse Allen - 26 Jul, 2019 - Comments: 0

CEVA acquired the Hillcrest Labs business from InterDigital. Hillcrest Labs supplies software and components for sensor processing in consumer and IoT devices. Hillcrest Labs' MotionEngine sensor processing software already runs on CEVA DSPs (as well as ARM and RISC-V cores) and enables high accuracy 6-axis and 9-axis sensor fusion, dynamic sensor calibration, and application specific features ... » read more

Top Considerations For Evaluating The Tech In Tech M&A

By Synopsys - 26 Jun, 2019 - Comments: 0

M&A is high stakes. With thousands of transactions and billions of dollars spent on technology mergers and acquisitions every year, acquirers must protect their investments by conducting due diligence. This white paper discusses: Risks you may encounter in an M&A transaction involving software; How to evaluate these risks using a multifaceted evaluation model; What to look... » read more

Week In Review: Design, Low Power

By Jesse Allen - 21 Jun, 2019 - Comments: 0

ON Semiconductor completed its $946 million acquisition of Quantenna Communications, a San Jose-based company that specializes in Wi-Fi chips and software. Aldec introduced automatic UVM register generation to its Riviera-PRO verification platform. Riviera-PRO can now accept a CSV file or IP-XACT register description as an input and, working at the Register Abstraction Layer (RAL) of UVM, ou... » read more

Week In Review: Design, Low Power

By Jesse Allen - 14 Jun, 2019 - Comments: 0

M&A Intel will acquire Barefoot Networks, a maker of programmable Ethernet switch silicon and the P4 networking programming language for data centers. Founded in 2013, the Santa Clara-based company has raised $155.4 million in funding. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but Intel expects the acquisition to be final in the third quarter of this year. Tools & IP Mentor extended it... » read more

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Week In Review: Design, Low Power

Week In Review: Design, Low Power

Week In Review: Design, Low Power

Week In Review: Design, Low Power

Week In Review: Design, Low Power

Siemens-Mentor Deal Retrospective

Week In Review: Design, Low Power

Top Considerations For Evaluating The Tech In Tech M&A

Week In Review: Design, Low Power

Week In Review: Design, Low Power