UBM Electronics ' DESIGN West Conference & Exhibition to Heat Up Silicon Valley with Industry's Hottest New Products & Embedded Technologies
SAN FRANCISCO, March 6, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- UBM Electronics, a UBM company and the daily source of essential business and technical information for the electronics industry's decision makers, today unveiled the complete program, including the list of more than 300 exhibiting electronics technology and product companies, at the exhibition of DESIGN West (March 26 – 29, 2012, McEnery Convention Center, San Jose, California).  This new event builds on the rich engineering education foundation of the well-established Embedded Systems Conference (ESC), which is now combined with popular electronic design summits (Android Summit, Black Hat Summit, DesignMED, Multicore DevCon, EDN's Designing with LEDs, Sensors in Design) in one venue for th ...

National Instruments Establishes New Electronic Design Specialty
NUREMBERG, Germany, Feb. 29, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Embedded World – National Instruments (Nasdaq: NATI) today announced the Electronic Design Specialty for NI Alliance Partner Network members with specialized skills in custom electronics.

BiTMICRO Selects Synopsys for Chip Design Automation
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Feb. 28, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS), a world leader in software and IP used in the design, verification and manufacture of electronic components and systems, today announced that BiTMICRO Networks, a manufacturer of high-end enterprise Solid State Drive (SSD) technologies, has chosen Synopsys as its electronic design automation (EDA) provider for system-on-chip (SoC) design.

Synopsys Completes Acquisition of Magma Design Automation
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Feb. 22, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS), a world leader in software and IP used in the design, verification and manufacture of electronic components and systems, has completed its acquisition of Magma® Design Automation Inc.

Qualcomm Establishes Integrated Circuit Design and Engineering R&D Center in Singapore
SINGAPORE, March 29, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ: QCOM) today announced plans to establish an Integrated Circuit (IC) Design and Engineering R&D center in Singapore. Qualcomm also will manage certain strategic business planning and development, sourcing, procurement and distribution, as well as other marketing and administrative functions, from Singapore for Qualcomm CDMA Technologies, the Company's chipset division. The new IC Design and Engineering R&D operations will focus on chipset design and development – including analog and power design; mixed signal design; digital design; mask layout design; and pre and post silicon verification. "We are delighted to expand our Singapore operations by establ ...