Motion harvester wins MEMS design contest
Energy harvesting, mechanical reprogrammable logic, and genetic algorithms were among the finalists for the MEMS design competition.
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Cadence opens three fronts on mixed-signal failures
Cadence has started the rollout of a set of design tools for mixed-signal reliability analysis.
7nm process with EUV to feature at VLSI
Samsung Electronics will describe at the upcoming VLSI Symposia how its engineers have applied EUV to a variety of layers in a 7nm finFET process.
Arm adds tamper resistance to M-series core
Arm aims to bring protection against physical tampering and side-channel attacks into processor cores designed for IoT nodes, starting with one of its M-series designs.
Andes teams with Imperas and UltrasoC for RISC-V
Andes Technology has expanded support for its RISC-V processor cores through deals with Imperas and UltraSoC.
Tensilica DSP extends pipeline for performance
Cadence Design Systems’ Tensilica division has launched a variant of its Vision P6 processor core to tackle embedded designs that need to run a mixture of imaging and deep learning-type algorithms.
Cadence tunes Virtuoso for 5nm and SIP
Cadence Design Systems has made enhancements to its Virtuoso mixed-signal layout tool at both the system-level and nanometer-design levels for its 18.1 release.
DAC keynotes and sessions aim for AI
DAC in June will feature a series of keynotes and technical sessions on machine learning and AI for both target applications and in the design process itself.
VLSI Symposia adds day for AI
June's Symposia on VLSI Technology & Circuits will bring together a number of industry trends that extend from implantable biomedical applications to machine learning and cloud computing under the banner of technologies for ‘smart living’.
Xilinx plans reconfigurable compute for 7nm FPGA generation
Xilinx plans to make reconfigurable computing the focus of its upcoming generation of FPGAs, which will be made on a 7nm finFET process at TSMC and expected to start sampling next year.