Design Software News Update:

Hifn Selects CoWare ESL 2.0 Solutions for Design and Performance Optimization of Next-Generation Applied Services ... (Centre Daily Times)
CoWare ® , Inc., the leading supplier of platform-driven electronic system-level (ESL) design software and services, announced today that Hifn, Inc., the catalyst behind storage and networking innovation, has selected CoWare ESL 2.0 solutions for system-on-chip (SoC) platform architecture design and performance optimization. CoWare Platform Architect and CoWare’s ESL design methodology will ...

Hifn Selects CoWare ESL 2.0 Solutions for Design and Performance Optimization of Next-Generation Applied Services ... (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
SAN JOSE, Calif.----CoWare®, Inc., the leading supplier of platform-driven electronic system-level design software and services, announced today that Hifn, Inc., the catalyst behind storage and networking innovation, has selected CoWare ESL 2.0 solutions for system-on-chip platform architecture design and performance optimization.

Virage Logic lowers 1Q guidance (AP via Yahoo! Finance)
Semiconductor design software maker Virage Logic Corp. lowered its fiscal first-quarter guidance Tuesday, and said it now expects to post a loss because of the global economic crisis.

Designing Gestural Interfaces (Kansas City InfoZine)
New from O'Reilly: Touchscreens and Interactive Devices: Tap is the New Click

SolidThinking offers design program free for students (MacNN)
SolidThinking has announced a free personal-use version of its industrial design software, solidThinking 7.6, for architecture, industrial design, and fine arts students. The program allows users to create 3D models that can be exported into HTML pages, while offering capabilities such as animation, photo and sketch rendering, reverse engineering, and QuickTime VR movie output. The "sTudent" ...