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.
November 3, 2023

Codasip pips Arm to commercial CHERI with RISC-V version

Codasip has put support for a set of instruction extensions intended to secure memory into its RISC-V core designs.
November 2, 2023

X-Fab adds galvanic isolation to CMOS process

X-Fab has made it possible to put galvanic isolation based on capacitive coupling directly into chips made on its XA035 process.
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November 1, 2023

Companies partner for embeddable ReRAM

SureCore and Intrinsic have teamed up to provide a way to implement resistive random-access memory as an SoC-embeddable technology.
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October 31, 2023

Accellera publishes draft of CDC standard

Accellera has published for public review version 0.1 of a standard designed to help pass clock-domain crossing information between EDA tools.
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October 25, 2023

Image sensors shrink at IEDM

This year’s IEDM features a number of papers that seek to drive down the size and boost the performance of image sensors.
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October 16, 2023

Accellera updates portable stimulus standard

Accellera ’s board of directors has approved the version 2.1 of the Portable Test and Stimulus Standard.
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October 6, 2023

Fast instruction simulator expands to Arm

MachineWare has expanded its portfolio of high-speed instruction-set simulators to the Arm Cortex-A and -M architectures.
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October 5, 2023

Vertical integration expands at IEDM

Vertical integration is one of the major focus areas at the upcoming IEDM conference, both in terms of transistors and the multiple channels that will go into them.
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October 3, 2023

Siemens and CEA link up on AI-assisted digital twins

Siemens and CEA-List have signed a deal under which the two organisations will research the combination of digital-twin and AI.
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September 20, 2023

AI aims to cut CAD-model generation time

Ultra Librarian has developed an AI-driven CAD modeling engine that should slash the the time it takes to build component and subsystem models for PCB layout and system design.
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