Synopsys' Open-Source Liberty Format to Incorporate On-Chip Variation Extensions

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Synopsys' Open-Source Liberty Format to Incorporate On-Chip Variation Extensions

Collaborating with Standards Board Industry Leaders to Ensure Broad Ecosystem Enablement

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Sept. 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --
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• OCV extensions help standardize usage of the popular stage-based Advanced OCV (AOCV) modeling approach for 40- and 28-nm
• Liberty Technical Advisory Board expected to finalize and ratify new extensions in November 2012

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 it intends to incorporate on-chip variation (OCV) extensions in its open-source Liberty™ library format, the de-facto modeling standard  for integrated circuit (IC) implementation and signoff. The new extensions will help standardize usage of the popular stage-based Advanced OCV (AOCV) modeling approach for 40- and 28-nm processes nodes. The final format extensions and ratification as part of the Liberty standard will be completed with the guidance and assistance of the Liberty Technical Advisory Board.
The Liberty library format is the semiconductor industry's most widely adopted library standard used by virtually all EDA implementation, analysis and library characterization tools as the library model exchange for timing, noise, power and test behavior.  In May 2006, an industry-wide Liberty Technical Advisory Board was formed to facilitate the evolution of the Liberty library modeling standard. The Liberty Technical Advisory Board functions under the auspices of the IEEE Industry Standards and Technology Organization (IEEE-ISTO). Its 14 member companies represent the broad semiconductor industry including the design community, EDA companies, silicon foundries, and semiconductor intellectual property (IP) companies. A complete list of members can be found at http://opensourceliberty.org/liberty_techadvisory.html. Liberty is available for download to the entire semiconductor design community under standard open-source terms. The latest Liberty syntax specifications and tools can be found at http://www.opensourceliberty.org.
"Standardizing the Liberty format extensions through the Liberty Technical Advisory Board allows the design community and EDA tool suppliers an opportunity to contribute and participate in the standardization process," said Rich Goldman, vice president of corporate marketing and strategic alliances, Synopsys. "In the past 2 years, the Liberty Technical Advisory Board has helped guide the ratification of over 10 new additions to Liberty to improve design for low-power flows."
The standardization of on-chip variation extensions via the Liberty Technical Advisory Board will benefit the semiconductor industry by:

• Allowing broad participation from the design community and EDA tool suppliers on final format
• Ensuring a fast path to a standard that meets the growing needs of EDA tool and IP Library providers
• Providing a foundation and structure for future collaboration and evolution of on-chip variation extensions

AvailabilityThe Liberty Technical Advisory Board is expected to finalize and ratify the OCV extensions to Liberty in November 2012, making it available to open-source licensees shortly thereafter.

• Learn more about Open Source Liberty at: http://www.opensourceliberty.org

About SynopsysSynopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS) is a world leader in electronic design automation (EDA), supplying the global electronics market with the software, intellectual property (IP) and services used in semiconductor design, verification and manufacturing. Synopsys' comprehensive, integrated portfolio of implementation, verification, IP, manufacturing and field-programmable gate array (FPGA) solutions helps address the key challenges designers and manufacturers face today, such as power and yield management, system-to-silicon verification and time-to-results. These technology-leading solutions help give Synopsys customers a competitive edge in bringing the best products to market quickly while reducing costs and schedule risk. Synopsys is headquartered in Mountain View, California, and has approximately 70 offices located throughout North America, Europe, Japan, Asia and India. Visit Synopsys online at http://www.synopsys.com/.

Northrop Grumman Supplies Integrated Bridge System for Major Cruise Ship

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Northrop Grumman Supplies Integrated Bridge System for Major Cruise Ship

NEW MALDEN, U.K. – Sept. 5, 2012 – Northrop Northrop Grumman Corporation's (NYSE:NOC) Sperry Marine business unit is supplying a complete integrated bridge system (IBS) retrofit for the cruise ship Artania, which is undergoing a major refurbishment and modernization by V.Ships Leisure. The project will be managed by Seacom Electronics. The ship's navigation electronics systems are being replaced by a state-of-the-art VisionMaster FT™ IBS with TotalWatch™ multifunction display consoles. The system includes dual-channel X- and S-band primary navigation radars, separate X-band bow radar, electronic chart display and information system (ECDIS) as well as other subsystems and sensors, tied together into an integrated Ethernet network. There is a separate redundant ECDIS backup station to meet International Maritime Organization (IMO) requirements for a secondary navigation site in case the primary bridge is damaged or disrupted. "The navigation system upgrade will bring the ship into compliance with the upcoming IMO ECDIS carriage requirements," said Alan Dix, managing director of Northrop Grumman Sperry Marine. "The VisionMaster FT system will also offer a significant improvement in safe navigation and situational awareness for the ship's navigation team." Northrop Grumman Sperry Marine has a long-standing relationship with V.Ships as a major supplier of navigation systems to the company's managed fleet. V.Ships, which manages a fleet of more than 1,000 ships, is one of the largest suppliers of independent ship management and related services to the international maritime industry. Sperry Marine is a business unit of Northrop Grumman's Naval and Marine Systems Division. Headquartered in New Malden, U.K., with major engineering and support offices both in New Malden and in Hamburg, Germany, Northrop Grumman Sperry Marine provides smart navigation and ship control solutions for the international marine industry with customer service and support in numerous locations worldwide. Northrop Grumman is a leading global security company providing innovative systems, products and solutions in aerospace, electronics, information systems, and technical services to government and commercial customers worldwide. Please visit www.northropgrumman.com for more information.

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Cisco and VMware Expand Their Strategic Partnership to Deliver Next Generation Cloud Infrastructures

Integrated solutions to offer unprecedented scale, security and automation across physical and virtual cloud infrastructures

SAN FRANCISCO – VMworld® – August 27, 2012 –  Today Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO)  and VMware (NYSE: VMW)  announced they plan to expand their strategic partnership to include integrated products and solutions aimed at delivering the software defined datacenter. This partnership expansion will be highlighted by an investment in dedicated engineering teams collaborating on deeper integrations across the VMware cloud infrastructure and management stacks and Cisco's Data Center Networking and Fabric Computing platforms. The companies' investment in joint dedicated engineering teams will represent a new level of collaboration which will enable the software defined datacenter through unprecedented coupling of virtual and physical infrastructure.

Highlights:

• Cisco and VMware will make significant joint engineering investments to develop technology integration initiatives, which will launch a new set of solutions designed to provide customers unprecedented levels of agile compute and network services, workload and workspace mobility,  end-to-end visibility, and ease of troubleshooting across their physical and virtual infrastructures.
• To support customer demand and choice, VMware will integrate the Cisco Nexus 1000V Series Switches with the new VMware vCloud® Suite 5.1, also announced today, and other VMware products.
• Cisco and VMware will develop Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS)-based cloud solutions, which will bundle Cisco virtual networking, virtual services and management such as the Nexus 1000V virtual switch, CSR 1000V cloud router, ASA 1000V cloud firewall, virtual WAAS for WAN optimization, and Intelligent Automation for Cloud with VMware vSphere® 5.1, VMware vCloud Suite 5.1 and complementary management offerings.
• Furthering the commitment to mutual customers, Cisco will resell VMware vCloud Suite 5.1, which will feature enhanced interoperability with Cisco Nexus 1000V.
• As part of the companies' joint vision for the transformation of the workspace in the post-PC era, VMware and Cisco are expanding their joint solutions with Cisco VXI and VMware View to introduce new integrated solutions for SMB and ROBO customers featuring Cisco e-Series UCS servers and VMware View®. 
• Cisco and VMware will also provide Cisco Validated Designs and reference architectures to simplify and accelerate customer implementation of these joint solutions.
• Cisco and VMware joint solutions will be made available for VCE, as well as ecosystem partners,  to help drive customer adoption of its industry-leading converged infrastructure platforms. Cisco and VMware remain strongly committed, along with EMC, to the VCE partnership.

This expanded partnership will leverage Cisco's history of innovative leadership in networking and systems with VMware's industry leadership in software-based virtualization and cloud infrastructure.  To date, the partnership has delivered groundbreaking products and solutions including:

• Nexus 1000V – In 2009, VMware and Cisco delivered a distributed virtual switch from Cisco enabling network administrators to simplify network management between their physical and virtual environments. Since its inception, more than 6,000 customers have licensed this joint solution.
• Cisco UCS – In 2009, Cisco introduced the Unified Computing System (UCS), a new x86 platform that radically simplified the management of compute, storage access, networking and virtualization and is tightly integrated with the VMware vSphere platform, enabling customers to reduce their CAPEX and OPEX as they expand their virtual and cloud infrastructures.
• Converged Infrastructure – Cisco and EMC, together with VMware and with investments from Intel, established the VCE coalition in 2009, spearheading the movement toward converged infrastructure. Customers globally have recognized the value of Vblock™ Infrastructure Platforms in accelerating the migration of enterprise workloads to private and public clouds.    
• Cisco VXI and VMware View – In 2012, Cisco and VMware cooperated to deliver a unified collaboration solution leveraging VMware cloud infrastructure, VMware View and Cisco UCS, Cisco Wide Area Application Services and Unified Communications platforms to enable customers to migrate to a more open, mobile and immersive workspace environment in the post-PC era.

Supporting Quotes:

Rob Lloyd, Executive Vice President, Cisco

"Cisco and VMware have delivered incredible value to customers seeking to accelerate the deployment of private and public clouds. The next-generation datacenter will enable customers to capture the value of VMware cloud infrastructure and management stacks along with the next wave of Cisco innovations in hardware, ASICs, systems and network programmability to deliver unprecedented scalability, security, diagnostics and policy management. As the leader in networking, Cisco looks forward to continuing to lead the industry in partnership with VMware."

Pat Gelsinger, Incoming Chief Executive Officer, VMware

"The software-defined datacenter will deliver the next leap in software-based datacenter automation across server, storage and networking, but it requires equal hardware and systems-based innovation. We are very excited to further our partnership with Cisco, the industry-leading innovator in networking, as we believe it will bring significant value to our joint customers through the integration of the VMware cloud infrastructure platform with Cisco's intelligent network fabric."

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VMware (NYSE: VMW)  is the leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure solutions that enable businesses to thrive in the Cloud Era. Customers rely on VMware to help them transform the way they build, deliver and consume Information Technology resources in a manner that is evolutionary and based on their specific needs. With 2011 revenues of $3.77 billion, VMware has more than 400,000 customers and 55,000 partners.  The company is headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices throughout the world and can be found online at www.vmware.com.

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F5 Highlights Integrated Virtualization and Cloud Solutions at VMworld^® 2012

F5 showcases enterprise application delivery that optimizes virtual desktop infrastructures and other VMware technologies

Seattle, August 21, 2012

F5 Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: FFIV), the global leader in Application Delivery Networking, today announced its activities at VMworld^® 2012, taking place August 26–30 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. As a Platinum sponsor, F5 will offer dedicated technical sessions that highlight ways enterprise IT professionals can improve the agility of their systems. Specifically, F5 will demonstrate how its BIG-IP^® solutions enhance the value of VMware View^® environments and improve organizations’ operational efficiency by streamlining service provisioning and orchestration in the cloud withVMware vCloud^®.

Visit F5 at Booth #1101: “Connect. Secure. Orchestrate.”

Given that one of IT’s biggest challenges today is the BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) trend, F5 will feature a mobile device bar where visitors can see how BIG-IP solutions improve access management by augmenting the scalability, security, and availability of VMware View environments. F5 will demonstrate two specific new solutions that help optimize end-user computing with VMware View virtual desktop clients:

• The F5 Single Namespace solution, which uses F5^® BIG-IP products and iRules^®—a key differentiator for F5 that helps customize how network resources are directed—to simplify users’ access to VMware View at different times from different locations. This is especially beneficial to VMware View deployments with multiple pods or sites by providing users with simplified access and an improved user experience.

• The F5 Username Persistence solution, which uses F5’s BIG-IP products and an innovative iRule to maintain user connections irrespective of device or location. This enables a user to change devices or locations and reconnect to an existing desktop session, resulting in a better user experience.

F5 also provided technical input and support for three VMware View solutions: (1) the VMware View Business Process Desktop; (2) the VMware View Mobile Secure Desktop; and (3) the VMware View AlwaysOn Desktop. F5’s engagement with VMware on these solutions reflects both companies’ commitment to making IT professionals and users as efficient as possible.

Technical Sessions: “Integrating Application Delivery Services with VMware Solutions”

In concert with VMware, F5 will host three technical sessions that explain how organizations can leverage F5’s industry-leading Application Delivery Networking solutions in VMware cloud and virtual desktop environments to maximize application performance, availability, security, and manageability. Each session will feature a co-presenter from VMware. Individual session titles are listed below, along with corresponding links to additional information such as times, dates, and speaker names:

• Solving the Application Provisioning Nightmare: Integrating vSphere and vCloud Director with Your Application Delivery Networking Services
• Enhancing the User Experience for Multi-Pod VMware View Deployments
• Application Heal Thyself! How to Automate the Most Important Networking Functions for Your Applications

In addition, VMware will lead separate sessions, which will include F5’s solutions in the larger context of software defined data center initiatives. Session titles are listed below with links to additional information:

• vCloud Networking: An Extensible and Open Platform
• Software Defined Networking and Security: The Here and Now
• VMware vCloud Automated Networking Framework: Network Extensibility (NetX)
  

About F5 Networks

F5 Networks, Inc., the global leader in Application Delivery Networking (ADN), helps the world’s largest enterprises and service providers realize the full value of virtualization, cloud computing, and on-demand IT. F5^® solutions help integrate disparate technologies to provide greater control of the infrastructure, improve application delivery and data management, and give users seamless, secure, and accelerated access to applications from their corporate desktops and smart devices. An open architectural framework enables F5 customers to apply business policies at “strategic points of control” across the IT infrastructure and into the public cloud. F5 products give customers the agility they need to align IT with changing business conditions, deploy scalable solutions on demand, and manage mobile access to data and services. Enterprises, service and cloud providers, and leading online companies worldwide rely on F5 to optimize their IT investments and drive business forward. For more information, go to www.f5.com.

You can also follow @f5networks on Twitter or visit us on Facebook for more information about F5, its partners, and technology. For a complete listing of F5 community sites, please visit www.f5.com/news-press-events/web-media/community.html.

F5, BIG-IP, and iRules are trademarks or service marks of F5 Networks, Inc., in the U.S. and other countries. All other product and company names herein may be trademarks of their respective owners. VMware, VMware vCloud, VMworld and VMware View are registered trademarks and/or trademarks of VMware, Inc. in the United States and/or other jurisdictions. The use of the word “partner” or “partnership” does not imply a legal partnership relationship between VMware and any other company.

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Leading Egyptian Dairy and Juice Manufacturer and Distributor Increases Business Efficiencies Through IBM Integrated Solutions

Juhayna Food Industries Invests $ 1.15M to Build a Smarter IT Infrastructure

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Cairo, Egypt - 09 Aug 2012: Juhayna Food Industries is investing $ 1.15M into building a smarter computing infrastructure provided by IBM (NYSE: IBM). This move is designed to improve business flexibility and efficiency as the organization ramps up for growth in the years ahead.

As one of Egypt's largest dairy and fruit juice producers, Juhayna supports a distinguished list of clients through its 26 distribution centers in Egypt. The company's substantial growth plans require it to transform its business model to support current and future expansion plans.

 “Juhayna Food Industries group is keen to invest in technology to boost the company’s efficiency and performance,” said Seif El Din Thabet, Operations Director, Juhayna Food Industries.

The company first earmarked the use of technology to support growth in 2004, when it applied an SAP system to centrally manage critical business processes. Today, Juhayna is collaborating with IBM to build out the company's IT infrastructure to become agile and responsive to marketplace changes.

IBM is upgrading Juhayna’s IT infrastructure to support the SAP ERP and CRM applications that it uses for Finance, Personnel Management, Materials Management, Production Planning, Quality Management and Sales & Distribution.  The company will use IBM DB2 database software running on IBM Power Systems with the AIX operating system and IBM XIV Storage System in a fully virtualized environment using IBM PowerVM. The new IT infrastructure will enable Juhayna to enhance customer service and ensure business continuity with the more reliable computing platform.

“Juhayna Food Industries is effectively preparing for the future with an end-to-end development plan for its technology infrastructure,” said Amr Talaat, General Manager, IBM Egypt. “IBM is pleased to play a fundamental role in their transformation strategy with our products and field expertise.”

“Our new IBM-based platform will provide Juhayna the reliability and scalability needed to manage our business’s growth.” said Ihab Naguib, IT Associate Director. “In addition, IBM’s service has been exemplary – conducting a seamless migration of all our data within half the time we expected without any loss of information.”

The agreement was signed in late 2011 and implementation was completed this year. 

About Juhayna:

Juhayna Food Industries," is one of the leading Egyptian companies in the manufacturing, packaging & distributing milk, yoghurt, juices and fruit concentrates, it managed since its inception and to this day to enjoy the confidence of its consumers. Juhayna was founded in 1983 and presented a different concept in the food industry based on its sophisticated technology used in manufacturing, in an effort to provide an outstanding quality in the dairy and juice sectors. With a clear vision, continuous development and communication with customers, Juhayna was able to reach its consumers & gain their confidence and trust in her products. The company succeeded to create the most prevalent brand, Juhayna group is constantly working to achieve its goal which is "to provide leading food for all ages and a companion for all generations"

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Rockwell Collins Pro Line Fusion® ‘flies’ into the business aviation market

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Rockwell Collins Pro Line Fusion® ‘flies’ into the business aviation market

Industry’s most advanced integrated avionics system enters service on Bombardier Global 5000 aircraft

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (Mar. 28, 2012) – Rockwell Collins today announced that its Pro Line Fusion® advanced integrated avionics system has entered into service as part of Bombardier’s Vision Flight Deck*on Global aircraft.

“Never before has there been an avionics system this sophisticated with such captivating enhancements in the business and regional aviation market,” said Greg Irmen, vice president and general manager, Business and Regional Systems for Rockwell Collins. “Pro Line Fusion brings superior situational awareness, unprecedented flexibility, and a new level of secure, reliable synchronization between the aircraft and corporate flight operations.”

Pro Line Fusion offers unmatched breadth and capabilities that span from turboprops to air transport and military aircraft. The system integrates and displays essential flight information through empowering, graphically rich interfaces, including high-integrity head-up guidance featuring synthetic and enhanced vision, and the industry’s largest format LCD primary flight displays (15 inch). These state-of-the-art interfaces make flying more intuitive and greatly enhance pilot situational awareness during all phases of flight.

Pro Line Fusion brings new features currently not available in the marketplace, including:

• Certified synthetic vision on a head-up display that improves safety and operational efficiency in low-visibility conditions and unfamiliar territory
• Highest-resolution synthetic terrain data, which couples with Rockwell Collins’ patented Airport Dome that orients pilots before descent and targets runway highlighting on the airport diagram
• Networked capability enabling interoperability with Rockwell Collins Ascend™ to synchronize the aircraft and ground systems for database and maintenance updates
• An open, software-based architecture which supports rapid deployment of new features as they are certified and adapts to meet future airspace requirements

This first delivery is on a Global 5000 jet. The first delivery of a Bombardier Global 6000 aircraft featuring the Rockwell Collins Pro Line Fusion as part of the Vision Flight Deck is expected in the coming weeks.

About Rockwell Collins
Rockwell Collins (NYSE: COL) is a pioneer in the development and deployment of innovative communication and aviation electronic solutions for both commercial and government applications. Our expertise in flight deck avionics, cabin electronics, mission communications, information management, and simulation and training is delivered by 20,000 employees, and a global service and support network that crosses 27 countries. To find out more, please visit www.rockwellcollins.com.

Infosys & Fabric Worldwide Chosen to Support Delivery of Digital Strategy

Infosys and Fabric Worldwide Chosen by GlaxoSmithKline to Support the Delivery of Digital Strategy

An Integrated Platform and Services Solution to Streamline Global Digital Engagement

Bangalore, London, New York, March 13, 2012: Infosys Ltd (NASDAQ: INFY), today, announced its partnership with GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) to optimize digital channels across its global consumer healthcare and pharmaceuticals business lines. The partnership in association with Fabric Worldwide, a WPP company, will simplify and improve effectiveness of how GSK delivers digital engagement with consumers and healthcare professionals.

Through this partnership, with Infosys, GSK will create 'Global Digital Services' (GDS), a new shared service which will drive standardized processes and sharing of best practices in creating and securely delivering information, across multiple digital channels.

The service will utilize the 'Digital Marketing Platform', built by Infosys in partnership with Fabric Worldwide. This brings together the best of technology and marketing expertise, on a unified platform, delivered on the Cloud. The proprietary BLUE (Build, Listen, Understand, Engage) framework of the ‘Digital Marketing Platform' will allow GSK to quickly build digital assets and listen to consumers across an array of digital channels. GSK will be able to use the platform's advanced analytical capabilities to better understand consumer segments and leverage audience insight to deliver an engaging brand experience. The platform will allow teams to collaborate through superior work flow capabilities, and foster re-use of digital assets. Infosys, in partnership with Fabric Worldwide, will also provide specialized digital marketing services, around brand and agency liaison, and advanced analytics to enable GSK to improve the effectiveness of digital media.

Phil Benton, Vice-President, Global Digital Services, at GSK Core Business Services, said, "We recognize that our customers, consumers and other external stakeholders increasingly want to engage with us on-line. Global Digital Services will enable us to provide globally standard processes, scalable assets and advanced analytics to support better and more efficient engagement with these external audiences. Infosys and Fabric bring important and complementary capabilities to give us the potential to make a real step forward in this area."

Dheeshjith V.G. Senior Vice President and Global Head of Life Sciences at Infosys said, "For pharmaceutical companies, driving digital transformation, globally across the organization to achieve rapid growth and deepen customer engagement, is very important. In the coming years, pharmaceutical companies will be heavily leveraging digital media to connect with their sales force, customers, physicians and key opinion leaders in the industry. Infosys, with its in-depth life sciences industry knowledge, robust cross-industry experience and cutting edge technology expertise, has partnered with WPP to build the foundation for the global digital transformation initiative at GSK."

Samson David, Vice President and Global Head - Business Platforms, Infosys said, "Companies, today, spend a significant part of their time streamlining their digital processes with little focus on engaging with stakeholders. Our partnership with WPP brings the best of marketing and technology together to create the next-generation Digital Marketing Platform. Delivered on the Cloud, the platform will enable GSK to efficiently create digital properties and effectively engage with its digital consumers."

Neil Miller, Joint CEO of Fabric WW said. "We are delighted that GSK is using the Fabric Data Management Platform and Marketing Operating System, as a key part of the overall Infosys solution. It will greatly enhance GSK's ability to consistently understand consumer signals from digital channels, across all brands in all markets, and react faster to the insight they gain."

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