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.
October 31, 2018

Cadence adds deep-learning support to audio DSP

Cadence has added direct support for neural networks to the latest iteration of its DSP cores aimed at audio systems.
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October 22, 2018

IEDM to examine scaling from multiple directions

CMOS moving to 3nm and DRAM going beyond 20nm scaling are two of the late papers at the upcoming IEDM and part of a larger examination of semiconductor trends.
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October 17, 2018

DVCon Europe takes in machine learning and stimulus for verification

Next week's DVCon Europe conference in Munich will tackle a range of topics, from analog verification to the use of machine learning for functional verification, backed up with case studies on the use of TLM and SystemC in live projects.
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October 17, 2018

UltraSoC combines tools for cross-SoC debug and analysis

Following deals with Imperas and Percepio, UltraSoC has released an IDE aimed at debug, run control, performance tuning and runtime analytics for SoC development.
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September 26, 2018

SureCore SRAM tuning service aims for lower power

SureCore is introducing an IP customization service intended to deliver SRAM cores tuned to specific power and performance requirements for wearable, wireless, augmented reality, and IoT devices.
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September 26, 2018

DVCon Europe keynotes take in digital twin and IoT concepts

Two keynote speakers have been announced for DVCon Europe 2018, which takes place next month.
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September 24, 2018

Module strategies try to streamline IoT trials

Suppliers to the embedded industry see modules and readymade software as being key to getting IoT projects off the ground.
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September 21, 2018

Power analyzer takes rates up to 5MHz

Yokogawa has moved to a modular architecture to handle the growing number of complex applications that are emerging in power testing.
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September 19, 2018

Dialog plans configurable mixed-signal expansion

Dialog Semiconductor aims to expand its use of configurable mixed-signal circuitry across its product line following its acquisition of specialist Silego a year ago.
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September 19, 2018

Cadence culls zeroes for faster neural throughput

Cadence has launched an AI processor using an designed to take advantage of the sparse structure of typical deep neural networks.
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