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  PRESS RELEASE Silvaco Announces Final Settlement With Circuit Semantics Resolving All Legal Disputes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
As a result of this settlement, Silvaco has obtained full ownership of all former CSI Dyna group of products, including patent rights and source code as of the last official day of business of CSI on August 15, 2004.
Silvaco, headquartered in Santa Clara, California was founded in 1984.
Silvaco delivers its proven Stanford-based TCAD products and supports them with experienced engineers to provide complete semiconductor process and device simulation solutions.
www.marketwire.com /mw/release_html_b1?release_id=153832&tsource=3   (441 words)

  
 Law.com: Small Software Developer Sues Tech Giants Over Use of Code
Silvaco Data Systems, a small Santa Clara, Calif., software developer, apparently wasn't satisfied after it forced the now-defunct Circuit Semantics Inc. to stop licensing and maintaining a stolen trade secret in 2003.
Silvaco claims its trade secret battle with CSI over the DynaSpice product, which Silvaco said included trade secrets from Silvaco's SmartSpice product, was widely publicized in the software industry.
Silvaco is seeking exemplary damages in a sum equal to twice the amount of the award of damages and attorneys fees, according to the Hewlett-Packard complaint.
www.law.com /jsp/law/LawArticleFriendly.jsp?id=1155892476896   (570 words)

  
 EETimes.com - UPDATED: Silvaco products supporting Stanford TCAD legacy
Silvaco originally said the demand was created by customers who told the company that Synopsys Inc. was planning to end-of-life the technology following its October 2004 acquisition of Swiss TCAD provider Integrated Systems Engineering (ISE).
Silvaco (Santa Clara, Calif.) said it would continue to provide advanced TCAD technologies based on the latest physical models for process and device simulation.
The Silvaco spokesman said TCAD is used by, among other groups, designers who want to simulate the physics of the semiconductor industry's most advanced and upcoming technology nodes.
www.eetimes.com /news/latest/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=166402967   (564 words)

  
 Silvaco
Note : Silvaco recommends that the software be installed as the root user in order that it can be controlled and deletions do not occur.
Silvaco can not guarantee that these libraries will be compatible with users' systems due to the vast variety of hardware options available.
Silvaco recommends that the correct library for the user's system is loaded off the OS media supplied with the user's system, but if the
www.silvaco.com /support/licensing/unix_install.html   (2699 words)

  
 PRESS RELEASE Silvaco Delivers TMA-Compatible TCAD Simulators   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Silvaco is the only company dedicated to exclusively support the Stanford TCAD legacy.
Switching to Silvaco TCAD means that TMA customers do not have to recalibrate their model coefficients, re-establish their process and device simulation flows developed over many years, and learn new software.
Silvaco International, headquartered in Santa Clara, California, is a leading vendor of electronic design automation software (EDA) for the development of analog and mixed signal integrated circuits.
www.marketwire.com /mw/release_html_b1?release_id=91780   (499 words)

  
 Avant! challenges Silvaco awards - will appeal a court's award of $31.4 million in damages to Silvaco International - ...
Silvaco's final counterclaim against Meta for breach of contract alleged that Meta's HSpice included an unlawful distribution of Silvaco's portion of the DDL 2000 discrete device library, and that Meta still has Silvaco's source code.
The spokesman asserted that the default judgments awarded to Silvaco on the first two claims prevented Avant!, which was a latecomer to the litigation as a party, from mounting an effective defense on those claims.
Silvaco was embroiled for years in litigation with Technology Modeling Associates (TMA), a company which, ironically enough, agreed earlier this year to be acquired by Avant!
findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0EKF/is_n2194_v43/ai_20003293   (972 words)

  
 Silvaco Delivers Complete IC CAD Tool Flow on Linux | LinuxElectrons
Silvaco has been redesigning its tools to take advantage of this modern GUI and inter-tool communication for over a year to achieve several critical objectives in response to customer demands:
Silvaco's custom IC design platform offers a compelling alternative to high-priced custom IC design tools and low-cost, partial solutions that do not offer integrated schematic, circuit simulation, layout, verification and parasitic extraction solutions.
Silvaco provides worldwide customer support, training, process design kit (PDK) development, and SPICE modeling to serve its customers and foundry partners.
www.linuxelectrons.com /news/eda/silvaco-delivers-complete-ic-cad-tool-flow-linux   (468 words)

  
 Silvaco wins $20M ruling against Avant! - Silvaco International, aka Silvaco Data Systems - Company Business and ...
That check would be written to Silvaco International (also known as Silvaco Data Systems) of Santa Clara, Calif. Silvaco last week declined to comment on the case, which is ongoing, and referred all questions to its attorney, who could not be reached by press time.
In July 1996, Silvaco filed a first amended cross-complaint, adding Shawn Hailey, then the president, CEO and a major shareholder of Meta, as a personal defendant, and further alleging defamation, interference with economic advantage, unfair competition and abuse of process by acts or statements made by Meta or its agents.
Silvaco did not present their damage theory or the basis for the amount claimed until Oct. 28, 1997.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0EKF/is_n2193_v43/ai_19973278   (884 words)

  
 Simucad spins out of Silvaco with eye toward IPO - 1/9/2006 - EDN   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Silvaco and Pesic are somewhat of an anomaly in Silicon Valley.
Silvaco currently has suits pending against some Circuit Semantics users for continuing to use the simulator that incorporated Silvaco's simulation technology.
Silvaco then acquired Simucad in 2003, mainly for the company's popular SILOS and Hyperfault simulators, but also for its name.
www.edn.com /article/CA6297890.html?spacedesc=newProducts   (811 words)

  
 Avant! challenges Silvaco awards - will appeal a court's award of $31.4 million in damages to Silvaco International - ...
Silvaco's final counterclaim against Meta for breach of contract alleged that Meta's HSpice included an unlawful distribution of Silvaco's portion of the DDL 2000 discrete device library, and that Meta still has Silvaco's source code.
The spokesman asserted that the default judgments awarded to Silvaco on the first two claims prevented Avant!, which was a latecomer to the litigation as a party, from mounting an effective defense on those claims.
Silvaco was embroiled for years in litigation with Technology Modeling Associates (TMA), a company which, ironically enough, agreed earlier this year to be acquired by Avant!
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0EKF/is_n2194_v43/ai_20003293   (972 words)

  
 Silvaco Rolls Out High Voltage IC Design Tool Suite | LinuxElectrons
Silvaco's BSIM3 Level-88 is the only model that accurately simulates high voltage MOS transistors over their full range of voltage, current and temperature -- avoiding the inaccuracies of standard BSIM3 models.
The Scholar Schematic Editor is the integrated front-end of Silvaco's high voltage IC design tool suite, providing schematic driven layout, netlist processing, and a simulation control environment for performing nested sweeps, circuit optimization, and other complex circuit analysis functions.
Silvaco provides complete PDK development services to its foundry partners in supporting mutual customers.
www.linuxelectrons.com /news/eda/silvaco-rolls-out-high-voltage-ic-design-tool-suite   (563 words)

  
 EETimes.com - Silvaco wins judgment against Circuit Semantics
While the judgment appears to be a severe blow for the 25-person Circuit Semantics, it's actually a positive step because it ends the litigation, according to Ewald Detjens, CSI president.
Silvaco charged that two employees who left the company in 2000 — Aliaksandr Antonau and Nikolay Rubanov — stole trade secrets from Silvaco's SmartSpice product, which were then incorporated into CSI's DynaSpice.
The accompanying Silvaco statement goes further, stating that CSI offered "explicit admission that SmartSpice was stolen, repackaged, and sold as DynaSpice." It states that CSI has agreed to pay an undisclosed amount of money to Silvaco and that Silvaco has obtained perpetual source code rights for "all" Circuit Semantics products.
www.eetimes.com /story/OEG20030903S0032   (1115 words)

  
 AboutSpice.com - PolarFab and Silvaco partner in Analog Design Kit Support
Silvaco analog design kits enable designers to exploit the capabilities of PolarFab’s advanced semiconductor processes in the early design stages.
Accurate and reliable SPICE parameters and models are the first and most critical step to achieving first-time correct silicon, shorter design times, optimum semiconductor performance, lower development costs, reduced risks and ultimately faster time to market.
Silvaco International, headquartered in Santa Clara, California, is a leading vendor of electronic design automation software (EDA) for the development of analog and mixed signal integrated circuits.
www.aboutspice.com /details.php?ID=369   (815 words)

  
 Positions in Semiconductor Simulations at Silvaco   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Silvaco is the leader in semiconducor simulation software development.
Silvaco is a commercial company of around 100 people, developing and supporting CAD software including the "Virtual Wafer Fab" CAD framework.
The Virtual Wafer Fab software includes a number of areas of active development including: device simulation development, process simulation development, circuit simulation development, distributed computing, parallel computing, numerics, gridding, databases, statistics, graphics and GUI's.
www.csc.fi /math_topics/Mail/NANET94/msg00710.html   (133 words)

  
 Silvaco - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Silvaco International and its subsidiary, Silvaco Data Systems, is a privately owned provider of electronic design automation (EDA) software.
Silvaco was founded in 1984 by Dr. Ivan Pesic.
In June 2004, Silvaco's non-TCAD business was spun off into a new company called Simucad.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Silvaco   (172 words)

  
 EETimes.com - Silvaco aims high in EDA
The outspoken founder and CEO of Silvaco International Inc. expects to be running a new company that will become the No. 1 full-line electronic design automation provider within a few years — with no venture capital money and few if any acquisitions.
Silvaco last week announced the spin-off of Simucad Design Automation Inc., which will sell the analog/mixed-signal IC design tools developed by Silvaco.
Simucad's stated intent is to go for an initial public offering in the fourth quarter, to add digital synthesis and placement and routing in 2007, and to become the No. 1 provider of simulation and IC physical-design tools.
www.eetimes.com /issue/fp/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=177100251   (973 words)

  
 CIRRUS LOGIC INC - CRUS Quarterly Report (10-Q) ITEM 1. LEGAL PROCEEDINGS
Silvaco's complaint stems from a trade secret dispute between Silvaco and a software vendor, Circuit Semantics, Inc., who supplies us with certain software design tools.
Silvaco alleges that our use of Circuit Semantic's design tools infringes upon Silvaco's trade secrets and that we are liable for compensatory damages in the sum of $10 million.
Silvaco has not indicated how it will substantiate this amount of damages and we are unable to reasonably estimate the amount of damages, if any.
sec.edgar-online.com /2005/10/25/0000950134-05-019671/Section10.asp   (1147 words)

  
 シルバコ・ジャパン : Silvaco Japan BSIM3v3.2.4
Silvaco implementation is referred to as MOSFET model LEVEL 8 and is based on the most recent version (3.2.4) released by UC-Berkeley on December, 21 2001.
Silvaco is the ONLY Spice vendor with this knowledge capable of offering the BSIM3v3.2 model in its full potential to the circuit design community!
Silvaco’s BSIM3v3.2 implementation contains none of the discontinuities and non-physical behavior found in the original Berkeley model.
www.silvaco.co.jp /products/ams/bsim3.html   (599 words)

  
 WHO are you buying your EDA software FROM?:EDNAsia.com: Voice of the electronics engineer
Silvaco is bucking that trend, and, pending the conclusion of its suit against Magma, Synopsys hasn’t ruled out pursuing Magma customers, either (see box "Silvaco seeks legal remedy as Synopsys watches").
According to Chris Scott Graham, Silvaco’s attorney with law firm Dechert LLP, Silvaco is now pursuing its right to recover the cost of the stolen license from those customers as well as a percentage of revenue from any products developed with the stolen software.
Silvaco risks burning the bridge that links it to some of the EDA industry’s biggest customers.
www.ednasia.com /article-4068-whoareyoubuyingyouredasoftwarefrom-Asia.html   (3823 words)

  
 [IndustryCommunity.com] ANN: Silvaco offers their EDA tools online in pay per use format.
ANN: Silvaco offers their EDA tools online in pay per use format.
Silvaco has joined a group of eight other EDA vendors by offering our TCAD and CAD design automation tools on line in a metered pay-per use format.
Re: ANN: Silvaco offers their EDA tools online in pay per use format.
www.industrycommunity.com /ee/ee-4/messages/206.html   (170 words)

  
 Silvaco -- [Spring 2000] SSuprem4, SSuprem3, S-Pisces   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The VWF enables anyalyses of process variations on device and circuit performance, and production optimization control, with a minimum investment in the building of test wafers.
Silvaco software supports Open Windows and Motif based window managers only.
Availability ------------ The Silvaco software is available for use in the uape and e3329 workstation labs.
acs.ucsd.edu /info/silvaco.php   (308 words)

  
 Silvaco offers open-source Verilog-A models   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
SANTA CRUZ, Calif. — Moving to help speed adoption of the Verilog-A analog modeling language, Silvaco International is offering nine Verilog-A device models for free download under open-source distribution.
Users are invited to download these active device models, study them, use them, modify them, and submit improvements to Silvaco for posting.
The open-source models can be downloaded from Silvaco's support website.
www.eedesign.com /article/printableArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=NGWO2AJ0CRYKKQSNDBCSKHY?articleID=18201542   (216 words)

  
 PRESS RELEASE Silvaco Delivers MOSIS SCMOS Process Design Kit   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
This multi-foundry, multi-process PDK enables educational institutions and fabless companies to be immediately productive in using Silvaco IC design capture, simulation, layout and verification tools.
"Silvaco design tools and this PDK provide a solid platform for our customers to take advantage of our low-cost prototyping services to design ICs targeting any of our supported processes,'' said Cesar Pina, director of MOSIS.
"Silvaco's PDK-based IC design flow has met the challenge of building a flexible, multi-process kit for educational applications and low-volume commercial designs," said Kenneth Brock, vice president of marketing for Silvaco.
www.marketwire.com /mw/release_html_b1?release_id=92752   (495 words)

  
 UW Applied Microtechnology - Silvaco
The Silvaco TCAD tools have been installed in the MEMS Computing Lab (B20A).
They are available from any NT machine on the EE domain, so you can try them out from your office.
Below are directions on getting started which you can pass on to your students.
www.ee.washington.edu /research/microtech/silvaco.html   (199 words)

  
 Platform
Silvaco products that are grid-enabled with Platform LSF provide users with access to a sophisticated back-end job scheduling and load balancing system necessary for maximum CPU resource and application license utilization.
SmartSpice Analog Circuit Simulator: Delivers the highest performance and accuracy required to design complex analog circuits, analyze critical nets, characterize cell libraries, and verify analog mixed-signal designs.
Silvaco International is a leading provider of electronic design automation (EDA) software for analog and mixed-signal integrated circuit design.
www.platform.com /Partners/Directory/Silvaco.htm   (289 words)

  
 Silvaco International Inc. White Papers, Webcasts, Case Studies and Product Information
SILVACO is the leading vendor of technology computer aided design (TCAD) simulation software.
Silvaco is uniquely positioned as an independent broadline supplier of analog IC technology simulation software and services.
This independence allows Silvaco to work with leading high-tech companies and universities worldwide to bring the latest advances in analog design technology to the marketplace.
www.bitpipe.com /detail/ORG/997338305_41.html   (212 words)

  
 Getting Started - Silvaco TCAD software   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The Silvaco TCAD software may be started in different ways.
Another way to start the Silvaco TCAD software is explained in a tutorial written by Silvaco.
To take best advantage of the tutorial it is probably best to be simultaneously running Netscape (for reading the instructions) and the various components of the Silvaco TCAD software, as called for in the tutorial.
www.ece.osu.edu /~valco/silvaco   (245 words)

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