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The Design Automation Conference (DAC) has kicked off free registration for the exhibit floor at early June's Las Vegas event.

Arduino Due shield interface makes adding peripherals to a Cortus-based SoC prototype easier.

New markets such as hardware cyber security, automotive and embedded software key to EDA industry growth

FinFETs, ever proliferating verification, 3DIC, security and more feature on our guide to some of the most intriguing panels at DAC 2013.

Mentor Graphics’ Nucleus real-time operating system (RTOS) is already used in more than 2.3B handsets worldwide as well as a wide range of other markets and is now available in its third generation version. Key features of this release include: built-in power management that exploits hardware design techniques such as dynamic voltage and frequency scaling; […]

As the 2011 Freescale Technology Forum wraps today in San Antonio, Texas, here are a few of my initial takeaways. They’re nowhere near comprehensive – it’s a huge (and hugely informative) event with 2,300 attendees and 350 hours of technical presentations. We’ll need to take another look at the conference in the next print Tech […]

We’ve just heard from the Small Form Factor Special Interest Group (SFF-SIG) that the RS-DIMM rugged embedded memory featured in the latest print edition of Tech Design Forum and online has been renamed XR-DIMM (eXtreme Rugged Dual In-Line Memory Module) with immediate effect. Paul Rosenfeld, SFF-SIG’s president, says the change is intended to “reflect the […]

A few weeks ago, the White House released its International Strategy for Cyberspace . To a technical audience, it’s a pretty thin document. But that’s fair enough – it’s intended for consumption by politicians, diplomats and policy wonks, not technologists. However, the strategy does make it pretty clear that the private sector has a big […]

Wearing another hat, I recently got back from NABshow, the huge broadcast engineering event in Las Vegas. As a self-confessed movie buff, I enjoy it more than CES. Smaller crowds, too. Only about 90,000.