Author Archives: Chris Edwards

About Chris Edwards

Chris Edwards has spent a long time covering electronics and EDA. He is a former Editor-in-Chief of Electronic Engineering Times UK and electronics editor of the IET's Engineering & Technology. His work has appeared in a variety of international newspapers including The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph, The Age and the South China Morning Post.
October 10, 2016

Cadence packages VIP for ten protocols

Cadence Design Systems has released a set of ten verification IP packages intended to support a new crop of standard protocols.
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September 27, 2016

Ceva adds hardware to speed up deep learning

Ceva has launched the fifth generation of its vision-oriented DSP core family with an architecture tuned for the fast-growing area of convolutional neural networks and deep learning.
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September 20, 2016

UltraSoC to support RISC-V

UltraSoC plans to support the RISC-V open-source instruction architecture with its debug infrastructure and tools.
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September 20, 2016

Debut for safety-critical ARMv8 core

ARM has launched the first of its Cortex-R series of processors to be based on the v8R architecture, providing greater protection for software tasks from each other.
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September 16, 2016

GlobalFoundries ports MRAM to 22nm FD-SOI

GlobalFoundries has introduced an embedded-MRAM option for its 22nm FD-SOI process: the 22FDX platform.
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September 13, 2016

DVCon Europe to examine role of UVM, SystemC in system-level verification

DVCon Europe this year provides a venue for extending UVM, SystemC and TLM for faster, more effective verification its organizing committee claims.
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August 24, 2016

Cadence building photonics environment around Virtuoso

Cadence is creating a flow that the company believes will make it possible to bring greater predictability to photonics design.
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August 15, 2016

EEMBC updates automotive benchmark for scalability tests

EEMBC has released version 2.0 of its suite for measuring the performance of automotive powertrain tasks on multicore processors.
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August 15, 2016

SystemC materials move to Apache 2.0 license

Accellera has moved to an Apache 2.0 open-source license for all of the supplementary materials for its SystemC library.
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July 26, 2016

Cadence adds floating point to Fusion

Cadence Design Systems has added floating-point to its latest core intended for embedded signal processing.
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