IC Manage expands big-data work
IC Manage is expanding its work on big data in EDA with the creation of a labs program that aims to work with clients on novel ideas for analyzing the gigabytes of output from chip-design tools.
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European teams explore 3D integration tradeoffs
Two leading European research institutes presented their work on the feasibility and cost-effectiveness of monolithic 3D integration at this year's IEDM.
Workshop sees the RISC-V ecosystem expand
The RISC-V workshop in California at the end of November 2017 provided the opportunity for Western Digital to commit its own work on processors for internal use to the open-source architecture and for the ecosystem of off-the-shelf cores and tools to expand.
X-Fab cuts flicker noise for 180nm process
X-Fab has added a process module to its wide voltage- and temperature-range 180nm mixed-signal process that supports a set of transistors with lower 1/f flicker noise.
Near-threshold clock control aims to improve processor efficiency
Minima Processor is working on the first processor cores that will be customized to use its timing-control technology to push supply voltages into the near-threshold zone.
Maxim uses own PUF for low-cost crypto devices
Maxim has used its own mismatch-based PUF technology to support a new line of low-cost security devices.
Arm plans secure reference architecture for Cortex-M
Arm is putting together a security framework that the company is assembling to support, at least initially, IoT devices based on the Cortex v8M architecture.
Microsemi sets up RISC-V partner program
Microsemi has set up an ecosystem program around the RISC-V soft cores the company has designed for its FPGAs.
Sub-10nm finFETs to feature at IEDM
Intel and GlobalFoundries will talk about their post-14nm finFET-based processes at December's IEDM.
Accellera updates SystemC library
Accellera has released a maintenance update to the SystemC core language library that addresses a number of issues that users have reported over the past three years.