ByteK Spreads Dot-Com Phenomenon to EDA and Semiconductor Industry with Free Services at www.ICtips.com.PALO ALTO Palo Alto, city, California Palo Alto (păl`ō ăl`tō), city (1990 pop. 55,900), Santa Clara co., W Calif.; inc. 1894. Although primarily residential, Palo Alto has aerospace, electronics, and advanced research industries. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 20, 1999-- Site Offers a Free Interactive Design Compiler Class for ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuit) Pronounced "a-sick." A chip that is custom designed for a specific application rather than a general-purpose chip such as a microprocessor. Designers, Expert Advice and Design Quizzes ByteK Designs, Inc., an EDA (1) (Electronic Design Automation) Using the computer to design, lay out, verify and simulate the performance of electronic circuits on a chip or printed circuit board. design consulting and training company, today announced the Company's first foray onto Web-based training -- www.ICtips.com. The new Web site is one of the electronic design industry's first knowledge-based Web sites for electronic systems designers. It offers expert on-line ASIC design training, design advice, discussion groups, online quizzes Online quizzes are quizzes that are published on the internet and are generally for entertainment purposes. Introduction Online quizzes are a popular form of entertainment for web surfers. and other sources of knowledge for the EDA and semiconductor industry. The first interactive online class for Synopsys' (Nasdaq: SNPS SNPS Space Nuclear Power System ) Design Compiler addresses ASIC synthesis and is currently free. The site is of benefit to designers and mangers because it offers an alternative to more expensive and time-consuming training classes. At ICtips.com designers can work at their own pace wherever and whenever they wish. ByteK hosts the site to avoid the hassle of installing and maintaining the classes. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Pran Kurup, Co-founder and President of ByteK, "We believe we are among the first to offer the electronic systems designers access to on-line design knowledge and classes that they can take at their own pace." Kurup added, "Our goal is to get designers to come back to the site often and use its resources. Later this year we plan on adding new courses on tools and methodologies that will have a fee. At our site design teams or new tools users can be trained cost-effectively and without travelling." All You Need To Do Is Register To take advantage of the free class, the Ask the Experts service and to find out just how much design expertise you possess, all a designer needs to do is visit the site and register. ByteK has even reserved a locker for each registrant. Here they can update their personal profile and review the statistics on their class and quiz scores. The ASIC synthesis class includes animation, text, graphics, tests at the end of each module and an audio track. As students take the class they can email questions to the instructors. Future classes will include video and chat sessions. ICtips.com quizzes are randomly generated based on the designer's skill profile and include questions on various topics such as hardware description languages, synthesis, design for test, and verification. ByteK's Mission-Life-Long Learning for EDA & Semiconductor Professionals ICtips' Ask the Experts service solicits queries about select topics such as Logic Synthesis The conversion of a high-level electronic circuit description into a list of logic gates and their interconnections, called the "netlist." Every logic synthesis program understands some subset of Verilog and VHDL. , Design Verification, Test Synthesis, Behavioral Synthesis, Design Methodology and USB USB in full Universal Serial Bus Type of serial bus that allows peripheral devices (disks, modems, printers, digitizers, data gloves, etc.) to be easily connected to a computer. and ARM cores. ICtips.com experts include ByteK founders and executives: Pran Kurup, president; Taher Abbasi, Vice-President, Product & Technology; and Ricky Bedi, Vice-President, Engineering. Price and Availability The site is open to registrants now. The ASIC synthesis using Synopsys' Design Compiler is currently free. Access to the Design Compiler tool is not required. Future Web-based training courses will include ByteK proprietary courses, such as coding styles for synthesis and design-for-test classes, as well as customized courses for EDA companies  The external links in this article or section may require cleanup to comply with Wikipedia's content policies. and educational institutions. For these, designers will be
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About ByteK The founders of ByteK Designs are from leading EDA software companies and semiconductor design houses. They have published two books -- It's the Methodology, Stupid! and Logic Synthesis Using Synopsys. They have been in the classroom training business for the past two years, have done training work for Avant!, Cadence, Viewlogic, and Chrysalis chrysalis (krĭs`əlĭs): see pupa. and have taught design classes for the University of California The University of California has a combined student body of more than 191,000 students, over 1,340,000 living alumni, and a combined systemwide and campus endowment of just over $7.3 billion (8th largest in the United States). at Santa Cruz (UCSC UCSC University of California, Santa Cruz (since 1965; Santa Cruz, California) UCSC University of South Carolina UCSC University of Colombo School of Computing (Colombo, Sri Lanka) ) Extension. ByteK will be exhibiting for the first time at the 1999 Design Automation Conference, Booth Number 2361, in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, the week of June 21, 1999. Contact ByteK Designs, Inc. at 953 Industrial Ave., Suite 108, Palo Alto, CA 94303 650/813-1230, FAX 650/813-1428 or visit www.bytekinc.com. Note to Editors: ByteK acknowledges trademarks or registered trademarks of other organizations for their respective products and services. Acronym: ASIC: Application Specific IC EDA: Electronic Design Automation IC: Integrated Circuit Web graphics available on request. |
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