Yearly Archives: 2014

Despite the swirl of interest in the internet of things progress is likely to be held back by interoperability issues according to speakers at the recent NI Week conference.

Technology from advanced-physics research institute CERN will form part of National Instruments' long-term strategy to improve the ability of distributed systems to support real-time control.

High peak-to-average ratios inherent in 4G/5G modulation schemes are driving the circuitry controlling RF PAs to become more modeling-oriented.

Nokia Siemens Networks has built an instrument able to handle bandwidths up 1GHz to investigate the use of milllimeter-band radio for 5G communications.

National Instruments plans to build an ecosystem around semiconductor test that could provide a missing link between the design process and production.

National Instruments has developed a kernel for Spice analog simulations that can be downloaded for faster performance on the FPGAs inside CompactRIO hardware.

Cadence Design Systems has introduced a variant of Voltus that runs transistor-level simulations to check for electromigration and IR-drop problems.

Foundry licenses atomistic TCAD simulator to better understand key aspects of advanced process nodes.

Cadence Design Systems has made three additions to its OrCAD line of PCB tools, largely aimed at data management and organization for projects.

New data transfer standard challenges IPC-2581 and extends Mentor's own ODB++.