Chip design tool supplier Simplex solutions has acquired 3D field solver software for use in IC designs using 0.13µm or less. Simplex paid $2.5m for the Coyote Systems business division of Coventor.

SUNNYVALE, Calif. — Simplex Solutions Inc. has acquired the software intellectual property assets of Coyote Systems, including a 3-D field solver that Simplex called the “world's fastest” and which it ...