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.
December 6, 2021
Imperas has put together a suite of tools to verify that custom RISC-V processor cores remain compatible with the common infrastructure behind the open-source instruction set.
November 8, 2021
University of Florida researcher proposes third-party checks on chiplets to demonstrate they are free of trojans.
November 5, 2021
A £6.5m grant will fund the development of memories and other IP to improve the control of qubits in quantum computers.
November 4, 2021
Cloud computing is gaining ground in EDA but close to a third of organizations are planning to stay with on-premises computing for the foreseeable future, according to a survey commissioned by IC Manage.
November 3, 2021
Sondrel has combined EDA tools with custom SystemC and Python code to develop a system that can help automate the detailed performance analysis of high-level architectures before RTL is generated.
November 2, 2021
Agile Analog has moved into the supply of cores for detecting hardware-hacking attempts as well as more conventional data-conversion modules.
October 28, 2021
Emulation capacity and its scalability is a major issue for large SoC designs, said panelists at DVCon Europe.
October 27, 2021
In a panel at this week’s DVCon Europe, experts described a number of issues facing teams looking to incorporate machine learning in logic verification flows and why some of those efforts will not pay off while others succeed.
October 26, 2021
Arm’s SystemReady program has revealed a number of the subtleties involved when trying to maintain software compatibility with operating systems without moving to the straightjacket of platforms like those used for the x86-based PC.
October 26, 2021
Arm has used machine-learning tools supplied by the Solido group at Siemens Digital Industries Software to speed up IP validation runtime a thousand-fold compared to conventional statistical methods.