Author Archives: Chris Edwards

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.
May 28, 2019

Cadence expands Protium for rack-based prototyping

Cadence has developed a version of its Protium prototyping engine that supports larger designs and which is intended to go into data-center racks.
May 28, 2019

ESDesign West gets HoT

Heart of Technology (HoT) founder and Jim Hogan talks about the event at the upcoming ESDesign West show in San Francisco.
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May 21, 2019

Achronix deploys network on chip for faster FPGAs

Achronix is introducing an FPGA architecture that pulls a full network-on-chip into the programmable-logic fabric combined with hardened matrix-math processors for AI.
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May 13, 2019

Security, machine learning, and variety at DAC

Security and machine learning are two topics that take center stage at DAC this year, says the conference’s general chair Rob Aitken.
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May 8, 2019

Formal engines learn from experience

Cadence and OneSpin are applying various forms of machine learning to their tools to automate formal verification.
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April 24, 2019

May meeting to push for UVM analog extensions

Accellera is trying to standardize extensions to UVM for mixed-signal design.
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April 22, 2019

Machine learning and chiplets headline VLSI Symposia

Large-scale MCMs and novel device architectures bookend the papers on machine learning at VLSI Symposia in an event that will also cover chiplet integration and other topics.
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April 9, 2019

DAC announces first set of keynotes for 2019

Electronic musician Thomas Dolby will be among the keynote speakers at the 56th Design Automation Conference (DAC) in Las Vegas.
April 4, 2019

ODSA weighs options for chiplet interconnect

An Open Compute Project group working on multichip integration sees a combination of parallel and serial interfaces being important for interchip communication.
April 2, 2019

Cadence presents plan for piecemeal cloud compute

Cadence has launched a web-based EDA service the company hopes will ease the transition from self-hosted computing to more flexible cloud-based development.
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