IEDM opts for later deadline on 63rd conference
The 63rd IEDM has issued a call for papers for its conference in San Francisco in early December and has stuck with the later deadline introduced last year.
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Advanced processes feature at VLSI in June
Among the papers at this year's VLSI Symposia in Hawaii in June, Samsung will describe a 7nm CMOS process that uses EUV lithography to tighten up device features on minimum-pitch interconnects.
Racyics puts FD-SOI design flow online
Racyics has kicked off a hosted-design service to make it easier for startups and researchers to access the 22nm FD-SOI process offered by GlobalFoundries.
Embedded developers learn to become agile
Can embedded projects that call for both custom hardware and software be agile? It's a question that a conference in early May organized by UK training company Feabhas sought to answer.
Imagination to slim down to graphics core
Hit by the loss of major client Apple, Imagination Technologies plans to sell off its MIPS and Ensigma divisions. The move signals a shift away from previous plans to diversify out from graphics processors.
Cadence tunes fixed-point DSP for neural networks
Cadence has stripped out some of the image-processing functions of the Vision P6 and boosted the number of execution units to build a DSP aimed at deep learning.
ARM deploys data-center tech to study verification patterns
ARM is using technologies such as Hadoop and Spark to provide insight into how well its verification processes are working.
Conference to look at agile development for embedded
A one-day conference on using agile development techniques for embedded systems takes place in the UK on 3 May.
Cadence cuts up DRC for speed
Cadence Design Systems has launched a design-rule checking engine that can distribute its workload across multiple servers in a cloud, private farm or mixture of both to speed up signoff.
Solido sets up lab to drive machine-learning adoption
Solido aims to bring the types of machine-learning techniques the company has used for its physical-analysis tools to a wider range of EDA tools through the launch of its ML Labs initiative.