Connected cars call for safety islands
A Siemens Tessent white papers examines the role of safety islands in advanced automotive systems.
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IEDM 2021 publishes course schedule
Aiming for a primarily physical event in the fall, organisers of the 2021 IEDM have published the tutorial and short-core schedule.
Keynotes for DVCon Europe announced
DVCon Europe has announced its first two keynote speakers, who will cover the topics of AI and the role of virtualisation in ADAS design and implementation
DAC and RISC-V move in together at Moscone in December
DAC and the RISC-V Summit will colocate at Moscone West in December, along with Semicon West.
ST makes its first 200mm SiC wafers
STMicroelectronics has made its first silicon carbide wafers that can be run on a 200mm line.
Cadence uses reinforcement learning to tune flow
Cadence has launched a tool that the company claims can speed up implementation by applying machine learning across the flow.
Arm shows off biggest flex processor so far
Arm and flexible-electronics specialist PragmatIC have demonstrated a 32bit processor implemented on a plastic substrate.
Chiplet design raises big questions
Building products using chiplets involves more than treating them as hard IP cores. Many open questions surround the field, explored by panelists in a MEPTEC conference online.
Chiplets to need digital twins for reliability
The added complexity of managing reliability as chiplet-based designs become more common will need to be managed using digital-twin techniques, says a professor working in the field.
Accellera approves IP security-documentation standard
Accellera has approved version 1.0 of the SA-EDI standard, intended to provide a consistent way of describing security concerns for IP cores.