Today Tensilica announced hardened versions of the Diamond Standard processor family that will be available for the SMIC foundry. E L & Associates and Tensilica will work together to develop the Diamond hardcore packages. The hardened cores will enable systems and semiconductor companies to use SMIC's cost effective foundry process with minimum integration cost, time and risk.

E L & Associates signs agreement to join Tensilica's Diamond partnership. E L & Associates has been supporting Tensilica customers in the past, and will now support customers that want to use Tensilica's new Diamond Standard processor family.

E L & Associates becomes a Tensilica Authorized Design Center. E L & Associates currently supports several Tensilica customers with their system-on-chip (SOC) design programs, and is a leader in integrated solutions for design-for-test (DFT) and design-for-manufacture (DFM) of complex SOC architectures.

E L & Associates adopts the complete suite of Magma Design Automation tools to address customer ASIC/COT requirements from RTL to GDSII. The addition of these tool resources complement ELA's vast design-for-test (DFT) and design-for-manufacture (DFM) capabilities.

E L & Associates announces the opening of their Ottawa design center. Located at 15 Fitzgerald Road, Suite 50, Nepean, Ontario, this site will provide design resources to customers in Eastern Canada, Europe as well as the Mid-Atlantic technology hub.

E L & Associates announces the opening of their Silicon Valley design center. Located in Suite 309 of the Techmart Building, 5201 Great America Parkway, Santa Clara, this site will provide design resources to customers in the pan-pacific rim as well as the Western portion of North America.

LogicVision, Inc., the leading provider of embedded test for integrated circuits and systems, today announced that EL & Associates, Inc, a leading design services company, is the first firm to be certified as a LogicVision Design Service Partner.
EL & Associates will provide embedded test integration and verification services using LogicVision’s embedded test technology and the LV2004TM test products.