System level EDA firm Beach Solutions has acquired VCX Software,
the Scottish semiconductor intellectual property (IP) management
company.
"This acquisition is in response to Beach's customer requests to
add better design management capabilities for today's most complex
SoCs and their derivatives," said Doug McCafferty, president and
CEO at Beach.
"VCX's database technology is one of the best kept secrets in
the industry," he added.
Jim Ensell of the fabless semiconductor association said: "VCX
Software has in its many guises, been a real contributor towards
the creation of a higher quality IP supply-chain."
Beach will continue to run its IP portal at www.thevcx.com,
said Andy Travers, president and CEO of VCX. It will operate as a
separate business unit of Beach.
Beach's EASI Studio tools captuer information about a chip
design, then generate the interfaces, documentation and
verification environment for the IP blocks in the design.
www.beachsolutions.com