“This confirms our commitment to the military-aerospace industry and extends our experience in obsolescence mitigation to other key markets.” “We are extending our product range for a wider set of applications, where system redesign is complex,” said Thierry Gouvernel, Head of Strategic Business Development, with the Specialist Semiconductor division of e2v. Utilising its proven, reliable wafer banking methodology, e2v will offer a comprehensive range of products for this extended period. The current arrangement allows e2v to build and sell its own products, from the 68K family to high-performance Power Architecture devices, by sourcing commercial wafers and devices from Freescale and then repackaging, screening, characterising and testing at extended temperatures. “Īs a Freescale aerospace and defense partner, e2v has been licensed by Freescale to deliver high-reliability versions of their products to the aerospace, defence and other extended reliability markets, for more than 25 years. “e2v is alone in its category with the depth and breadth of products and services needed by both semiconductor companies and electronics systems OEMs.
“As our long-term extended reliability applications partner, e2v is now serving other industries with its extended life solutions,” said June Lewis, Consumer & Industrial Business Operation Manager, Microcontrollers Group at Freescale Semiconductor. These Freescale products will remain available from e2v for the next 10 years, or longer. This arrangement is based on e2v’s long-term experience in extending the availability of strategic semiconductors used in the aerospace and defense markets. The companies have agreed that once Freescale ceases production of the 68020, 68882 and 68C000 processors, e2v’s portfolio of high-reliability grade products will be extended with commercial-grade versions in both plastic and ceramic packages. GRENOBLE, FRANCE: e2v announced the long-term availability of the Freescale 68K microprocessor line by continuing manufacture for all markets following the discontinuance of these popular products by Freescale Semiconductor. “We are confident that, by virtue of its fast execution, ZeBu will significantly accelerate the debugging of Konica Minolta’s designs and ultimately speed time to market of its new designs.” Luc Burgun, EVE’s chief executive officer and president. “We are delighted to be chosen by Konica Minolta and are appreciative of its diligence in conducting the evaluation,” remarks Dr. We also valued EVE team’s effective and knowledgeable support that permitted us to keep on schedule.”
“In a couple of months, ZeBu found several hard-to-find bugs that simulation would not have been able to pinpoint in any practical amount of time. “We have been delighted to discover that ZeBu cut four days of RTL simulation to one and half hours in co-emulation driven by the very same Verilog test benches, practically accelerating simulation by 80 times,” says Takashi Kawabe, engineer of Architecture R&D Division, System Solution Technology R&D Laboratories at Konica Minolta Technology Center Inc. ZeBu was chosen after an evaluation of cost-effective, commercially available emulation platforms that could accelerate simulation of Konica Minolta’s iImage Processing LSI designs.
SAN JOSE, USA: EVE, a leader in hardware/software co-verification, announced that Konica Minolta Technology Center Inc., of Tokyo, Japan, has selected its ZeBu (for Zero Bugs) hardware-assisted verification platform for the design of its high-speed, high-performance large-scale integrated circuits (LSIs) used in image processing.