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It’s business as usual at Oscilloscope Laboratories, Beastie Boy Adam Yauch’s upstart film company. In the wake of today’s news that the Beastie Boys are canceling upcoming concert appearances and postponing the release of their new album, Oscilloscope reiterated its committment to film distribution despite a temporary setback for company founder Yauch.

In a YouTube video on his band’s website, Adam Yauch today announced that he has a cancerous tumor in his left parotid (salivary) gland. His upcoming cancer treatment is forcing the band to change some plans, but he reiterated today that he’ll still be spending a lot of time focusing on film.

“This will be a good opportunity to dig through that pile of screeners,” Yauch said, in a statment sent to indieWIRE this afternoon. “Maybe I’ll find a few gems.”

The active company, founded last year and headed up by David Fenkel, has been busy of late. O-scope recently announced the acquisition of Oren Moverman’s directorial debut and also launched an exclusive distribution agreement with Warner Bros. Digital Distribution to bring its films to VOD and download-to-own across all platforms including cable, satellite, digital and wireless.

“I just need to take a little time to get this in check, and then we’ll release the record and play some shows,” Yauch said today, in a statement. “It’s a pain in the neck (sorry, had to say it) because I was really looking forward to playing these shows, but the doctors have made it clear that this is not the kind of thing that can be put aside to deal with later.”

Beastie fans will be particularly happy to hear that the cancer is not in a location that will affect Yauch’s vocal chords (and indieWIRE wishes Yauch a rapid recovery).

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Tektronix has added a mid-range instrument to its family of mixed signal oscilloscopes.

The MSO3000 series has up to four analogue and 16 digital channels. The bandwidth on the analogue channels is 100 to 500MHz with an analogue sample rate of 2.5Gsamples /s.

On the digital channels the instruments will acquire 10,000 points at up to 8.25Gsamples/s. This is equivalent to a waveform resolution of 121.2ps.

The instruments sport a 5 million point record length.

The instruments also have a 50,000 waveform per second capture rate and the company has included its customary intensity-graded digital phosphor display technology.

The Wave Inspector waveform search function is available across all analogue and digital channels.

The oscilloscopes offer a full range of tools for debugging serial buses with automatic trigger, decode and search for I2C, SPI, RS-232/422/485/UART, CAN, LIN, and I2S/LJ/RJ/TDM standards.

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“We went out to breakfast with these cats,” Adam Yauch said in a statement regarding Oscilloscope Laboratories’s new deal with Warner Brothers Digital Distribution, “had a good time hanging out shooting the shit.. so I said – what the hell, they seem like they know what they’re doing. Let’s do this.”

And with that, Oscilloscope Laboratories has signed an exclusive distribution agreement with Warner Bros. Digital Distribution (WBDD) to bring Oscilloscope’s films to Video-On-Demand (VOD) and download-to-own across all platforms including cable, satellite, digital and wireless. Oscilloscope’s catalog will debut on these platforms at the conclusion of each film’s theatrical run and, with the appropriate films, day and date with theatrical.

Through this relationship, Oscilloscope said it will continue to have the flexibility to execute national theatrical campaigns for all of its films, yet “maximize these emerging distribution channels at optimal times, including offering its content day-and-date on VOD, and potentially in the future before its DVD street date.”

The agreement kicked off with Oscilloscope’s “Wendy and Lucy,” which was released May 5 on DVD and debuted day and date on VOD and digital platforms. It was carried by all major distributors including Comcast, Time Warner Cable, iTunes and Amazon Video On Demand.

This summer WBDD will work with O-Scope to release “The Garden,” “Scott Walker: 30 Century Man,” “Treeless Mountain,” “Frontrunners,” and “Dear Zachary: A Letter To a Son About His Father.”

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Speeds RTL-to-GDSII Turnaround Time Through Look-ahead Constraint Analysis

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., July 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS), a world leader in software and IP for semiconductor design, verification and manufacturing, today introduced Galaxy(TM) Constraint Analyzer, a new tool which improves designer productivity through look-ahead constraint analysis technology tuned for the Synopsys Galaxy Implementation Platform. The Galaxy Constraint Analyzer is an intuitive tool that enables designers to quickly assess the correctness and consistency of timing constraints. Correctness and consistency lead to more efficient runtimes in Synopsys’ Design Compiler(R) synthesis and IC Compiler physical implementation tools. The Galaxy Constraint Analyzer features unique constraint debug capabilities to help designers eliminate long “trial-and-error iterations” during implementation, reducing design cost as a result of more predictable schedules all the way to full-chip signoff.

“Our complex SoC designs have a large number of clocks that require an intricate set of timing constraint definitions,” said Hitoshi Sugihara, department manager of the DFM & Digital EDA Technology Development Dept., Design Technology Div., Renesas Technology Corp. “Making sure that our design engineers start with and hand-off a high-quality set of constraint files significantly lowers risk to our design schedules. Using the Galaxy Constraint Analyzer enabled us to find constraint issues that we could not have found otherwise, saving us significant time and effort. We plan to incorporate the Galaxy Constraint Analyzer into our standard design flow that includes Design Compiler and IC Compiler.”

The rapid increase in design size and complexity, as well as the widespread reuse of intellectual property (IP) design blocks, has lead to a major increase in the size and complexity of timing constraint specification files. Ensuring high-quality timing constraints is paramount to efficient design implementation, especially during handoffs between teams. Incomplete, inconsistent or conflicting constraints can cause optimization and implementation tools to run ineffectively or to never converge. To address this challenge, the Galaxy Constraint Analyzer tool provides an extensive set of rule checks designed to maximize the efficiency of Design Compiler synthesis and IC Compiler physical implementation. In addition, Galaxy Constraint Analyzer uses technology based on Synopsys’ golden PrimeTime(R) timing engine to ensure correct interpretation and propagation of constraints. This gives designers a signoff-correlated view of the constraints ahead of each step of the design implementation process. Galaxy Constraint Analyzer’s ability to deliver comprehensive constraint analysis on 10-million-gate designs in a matter of minutes, combined with a unique set of interactive analysis and debug capabilities, helps designers quickly identify and fix constraint issues within hours versus days.

“Constraint analysis is becoming a crucial step to ensure an efficient design implementation process,” said Robert Hoogenstryd, director of marketing for design analysis and signoff at Synopsys. “However, in order for a constraint analysis tool to be effective, it has to interpret and analyze constraint specifications in a manner that is consistent and correlated with signoff. We built the Galaxy Constraint Analyzer using technology based on the PrimeTime golden timing engine to help designers produce the highest quality constraints for the Galaxy Implementation Platform.”

About Synopsys

Synopsys, 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, software-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 more than 65 offices located throughout North America, Europe, Japan, Asia and India. Visit Synopsys online athttp://www.synopsys.com.

Synopsys, Design Compiler, Galaxy and PrimeTime are registered trademarks or trademarks of Synopsys, Inc. Any other trademarks or registered trademarks mentioned in this release are the intellectual property of their respective owners.

Editorial Contacts:

Sheryl Gulizia
Synopsys, Inc.
650-584-8635
sgulizia@synopsys.com

Lisa Gillette-Martin
MCA, Inc.
650-968-8900 ext. 115
lgmartin@mcapr.com

SOURCE Synopsys, Inc.

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Description: This is a powerful logic analyzer in a very small anodized aluminum package from Saleae Logic. We absolutely love the simplistic, sleek design with light-weight software and a high-quality finish. Who needs 50+ connections when you’re troubleshooting I2C? With USB connectivity, you can analyze up to 8 digital waveforms and timing information on your I2C, SPI, serial, and digital IO lines with ease. Great for those reverse engineering projects as well. Works with signals 5V or lower!

Check out the video of the Logic Analyzer in action here.

Includes everything you need in a compact carrying case. Test leads are disconnectable from the Logic unit. This makes it easy to remove the expensive portion of Logic from a board when you’ve got lots of hooks in place.

New units in stock now are fully over-voltage protected, as well as protected against failures from plugging USB 5V into the unit’s ground.

Features:

* USB 2.0 Cable (5′)
* Sampling rates up to 24MHz @8 bits
* 9 ultra-flexible test lead set
* 9 E-Z Hook XKM Micro-Hook
* -0.5V to 5.25V operating voltage
* Input low voltage: -0.5 to 0.8V
* Input high voltage: 2 to 5.25V
* 24MHz maximum sample rate
* 200M samples

Dimensions:

* 1.6×1.6×0.36″
* 16g (0.5 oz)

Documents:

* User’s Guide
* Software download

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