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New relationship

Virage Logic announced a new relationship with IBM that designates Virage Logic as an IBM PowerPC Design Center, granting it the rights to license and distribute IBM’s PowerPC processor cores and peripheral cores when combined with Virage Logic’s broad portfolio of semiconductor IP. The agreement expands IBM’s distribution channel and offers customers the convenience of working with a single source to gain access to both the PowerPC technology and Virage Logic’s extensive offering of silicon-proven semiconductor IP including embedded SRAMs, embedded NVMs, embedded test and repair, logic libraries, memory development software, and interface IP solutions.

Good news about EDA and MEMS design tools

Tanner EDA, a leader in PC-based analog and mixed-signal and MEMS circuit design tools, announced today that its customer Proteus Biomedical, a pioneer in intelligent medicine, has been using Tanner EDA tools for its CMOS and MEMS design applications to develop micro-scale implanted devices, protective layers for active electronic and ingestible event markers. Proteus embeds computers and sensors into proven therapeutic products, drugs and devices and recently was honored with the 2009 Technology Pioneer Award by the World Economic Forum.

EDA revenue is down

The EDA Consortium Market Statistics Service announced that the EDA industry revenue for Q4 2008 declined 17.7% to $1318.7 million, compared to $1,602.7 million in Q4 2007. The four-quarter moving average declined 9.4%. Note that revenue numbers which include Q1 and Q2 2008 reflect a restatement of those numbers.

Companies that were tracked employed 27,311 professionals in Q4 2008, down 0.9% from the 27,562 employed in Q4 2007, and down 3.1% from the 28,176 employed in Q3 2008.