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.
April 4, 2017

Registration opens for I Love DAC program

For the ninth year, I Love DAC badges will provide free access to the Design Automation Conference exhibition and pavilion sessions.
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March 27, 2017

EEMBC starts rollout of IoT wireless benchmarks

The benchmarking consortium EEMBC has released the first of series package designed to measure the energy efficiency of IoT wireless communications, kicking off with one for Bluetooth Low Energy.
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March 21, 2017

ARM to re-spin Cortex for AI and servers

ARM has pulled together a number of forthcoming changes to its Cortex processor and Big-Little cluster architectures under the umbrella title DynamIQ, claiming they will support the increasing use of AI algorithms in servers and embedded control.
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March 20, 2017

Motion sensors get earache

Attacks using sound can upset accelerometers and make them produce false motion signals.
March 8, 2017

Verification Futures tackles safety and security

The Verification Futures conference organized by European EDA consultancy TV&S returns for its seventh year in early April with a focus on safety and security in the growing area of cyber-physical systems.
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March 8, 2017

IoT security seminar heads to US

The NMI's IoT Security Foundation is organizing a seminar on embedded systems security in Silicon Valley at the end of March.
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February 27, 2017

Cadence tunes up simulators and FPGA prototyping

Cadence has reworked two parts of its verification suite to streamline the use of multicore computers for simulation and FPGA-based prototyping systems.
February 23, 2017

Ceva DSP multiplies execution units for MIMO 5G

Ceva's latest iteration of its XC architecture aims at the intensive DSP required for 5G basestations.
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February 21, 2017

Xilinx to bring analog conversion onto finFET FPGAs

Xilinx plans to add high-speed analog interfaces to its upcoming FPGAs to better support high-density 5G basestation designs.
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February 14, 2017

Software brings secure IDs to almost any device

Intrinsic-ID has developed software that allows its PUF technology to be used in most systems that contain static memory together with a framework for managing secure keys in the supply chain.
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