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Synopsys buys software firm Optical Research

October 8th, 2010

Synopsys Inc. on Thursday said it has acquired Optical Research Associates, a privately held optical design software and optical engineering services company.
It is the fifth acquisition announced this year by Synopsys, which makes chip testing and development software. Financial terms were not disclosed. The deal closed Thursday.
Pasadena-based ORA was founded in 1963 and has customers in more than 25 countries. The acquisition is not expected to affect Synopsis’ financial results for the current fiscal year or next year.
ORA’s software is used to design and optimize applications that require light to be controlled or manipulated.
The acquisition represents Synopsys’ first move into markets associated with displays and solid state lighting using light emitting diodes. The company said the acquisition will also allow it to expand into markets such as semiconductor lithography equipment and cameras.
In March, Synopsys bought electronic systems design software developer CoWare. It closed its $315 million purchase of rival chip design software provider Virage Logic Corp. in September.
Shares of Synopsys closed Thursday trading up 20 cents at $24.93.

Source:-Synopsys Inc. on Thursday said it has acquired Optical Research Associates, a privately held optical design software and optical engineering services company.
It is the fifth acquisition announced this year by Synopsys, which makes chip testing and development software. Financial terms were not disclosed. The deal closed Thursday.
Pasadena-based ORA was founded in 1963 and has customers in more than 25 countries. The acquisition is not expected to affect Synopsis’ financial results for the current fiscal year or next year.
ORA’s software is used to design and optimize applications that require light to be controlled or manipulated.
The acquisition represents Synopsys’ first move into markets associated with displays and solid state lighting using light emitting diodes. The company said the acquisition will also allow it to expand into markets such as semiconductor lithography equipment and cameras.
In March, Synopsys bought electronic systems design software developer CoWare. It closed its $315 million purchase of rival chip design software provider Virage Logic Corp. in September.
Shares of Synopsys closed Thursday trading up 20 cents at $24.93.

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2010 IBM Rational Innovate Conference: Software for Systems of Systems Moves into the Spotlight

September 2nd, 2010

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Research and Markets has announced the addition of the “2010 IBM Rational Innovate Conference: Software for Systems of Systems Moves into the Spotlight” report to their offering.

The 2010 IBM Rational User Conference, IBM Innovate, took place in Orlando, Florida, from June 6-10. The size of the event has doubled in the past five years, per IBM, and this tallies with Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) research findings indicating that overall interest in software development is at an all time high. Businesses are making the link between software quality and consequent reductions in ongoing support costs. As a result, software development is being viewed more as a discipline, and less as a series of ad-hoc, disconnected activities and projects.

At the same time, the focus of application development has changed as well. It has been expanded beyond business software and into the mobile and embedded software markets, systems of systems within devices and products. As a result, software development has become a critical path component of the product manufacturing process.

IBM made multiple announcements at this years event that reinforce these observations. A grand scheme for a new city was unveiled, as were a set of product offerings, licensing options, and frameworks designed to simplify the coordination and successful completion of integrated product/software development lifecycles.

Source:http://www.tradingmarkets.com/news/press-release/ibm_research-and-markets-2010-ibm-rational-innovate-conference-software-for-systems-of-systems-moves-i-1146755.html

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Research Park at IIT-M to open in October

August 22nd, 2010

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The Rs. 300-crore Research Park developed at the IIT-Madras as an institute-industry partnership to promote research and development (R&D) is likely to be opened in October, IIT-M Director M. S. Ananth said on Sunday.

Addressing the opening of the “ASES India Regional Summit 2010” (Asia Pacific Student Entrepreneurship Society) co-hosted by IIT-M and Financial Software Systems (FSS), Prof. Ananth said the Research Park, located on a 11.5 acre site, aimed to evolve a knowledge and innovation ecosystem through institute-industry synergy and “bringing unlike minds togetherThe park has allocated 85 per cent of space for industrial houses that engage in R&D with the IIT-M and the remaining portion for start-ups, he said.

Noting that industry-University interaction often provided a reality check on education, Prof. Ananth said the idea was to have a combination of faculty that was advanced in theoretical knowledge, industry expertise that could take an idea and convert it into a marketable proposition and students with the spirit to conquer the world.

Prof. Ananth wanted students to give serious thought to the concept of intellectual property, what ownership of knowledge was and the unfairness in one who articulated a discovery taking precedence over the actual inventor.

In a marketplace where one needed IPR protection to safeguard oneself from being exploited, Prof. Ananth stressed the importance of “being comfortable with the ethics of what you are doing.”

Nagaraj Mylandla, Managing Director, FSS, said a successful business was seldom an overnight phenomenon and involved hard work and perseverance.

Providing constant value-addition to customers is important and so is timely investment for growth.

Ashwin Mahalingam, advisory faculty for IIT-M’s Cell for Technology Innovation, Development and Entrepreneurship Support (C-TIDES), said the summit featured lectures as well as site visits, and provided a networking platform.