Macronix proposes 3D to breathe life back into NOR flash
At IEDM this year, Macronix showed how a 3D architecture may bring back NOR flash, which stopped scaling a decade ago.
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Chipmaking’s new environment presented at IEDM
Imec's senior vice president of CMOS outlined future directions for the technology over the coming decade.
Mentor rebrands as Siemens EDA
Mentor, a Siemens business, has rebranded as Siemens EDA, almost almost four years after the EDA company was acquired.
OSVVM updates go into Riviera-Pro
Aldec updates tools to add support for the latest release of the VHDL verification methodology.
Version 2 draft of portable stimulus standard goes up for public review
Accellera Systems Initiative has published for open review version 2.0 of the Portable Test and Stimulus standard.
IEDM 2020 highlights transistor and interconnect advances
This year's IEDM will feature papers that exploit stacked nanoribbons to reduce CMOS footprint, graphene interconnects that support easier integration, and the variability prospects of 2D semiconductors.
Arm starts pulling security extensions into processor cores
The Arm Cortex-A78C extends the reach of the core into larger tablets and brings in one of a series of memory-protections extensions that will be used in the company's standard cores.
DVCon keynoters look to software for verification optimization ideas
Speakers at this year's DVCon Europe called on the hardware community to find inspiration in software-development trends.
DVCon Europe: using all the tools at your disposal
Among the papers that will be presented at the end of October, this year's DVCon Europe will demonstrate the benefits of taking good ideas from wherever you can in the pursuit of more effective verification flows.
Arm’s Project Cassini edges closer to cloud-like embedded platforms
At its DevSummit, Arm talked about the progress being made in Project Cassini, an initiative to bring cloud-style deployment and management tools to connected embedded systems.