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.
June 7, 2016

Analyzer merges constraints for multiple timing modes

Ausdia has launched a product intended to reconcile the multiple sets of timing constraints needed for operating and test modes so that a consistent group of constraints can be fed to implementation tools.
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June 6, 2016

ARM recruits design houses and tools for quicker IoT projects

ARM aims to recruit more startups to develop IoT SoCs around the Cortex-M0 with design-house network and easier access to EDA tools.
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June 6, 2016

Intento uses graphs to optimize analog blocks

Startup launches an analog-circuit migration and optimization tool that uses less simulation time than traditional approaches the company claims.
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June 6, 2016

Menta launches fourth-generation embedded FPGA core

Menta SAS has launched an embedded FPGA core family that improves density over previous versions.
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June 5, 2016

Schematic capture moves to the web with browser engine

Concept Engineering is introducing a version of its Nlview family of automatic schematic generation products that runs inside a standard web browser.
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May 30, 2016

ARM aims for top-end phones with core pairing

ARM is combining a new high-end 64bit Cortex-A core with a reworked Mali graphics processor to support high-throughput applications such as virtual reality and machine learning.
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May 25, 2016

Register tools appear ahead of DAC

Ahead of June's Design Automation Conference, Agnisys and Semifore have both released tools aimed at reducing the overhead of implementing register-rich SoCs.
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May 25, 2016

ECC crypto code and core aim for home automation

Oberon Microsystems has ported a set of low-overhead cryptographic codes suitable for Apple's HomeKit to the Cortus APS3RP 32bit processor core.
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May 23, 2016

Cloud analysis comes to power grid design

Ansys has decided to marry cloud computing with some of the tools used in SoC design that can make use of large amounts of temporary computer power.
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May 18, 2016

ARM completes multicore test chip on 10nm finFET

ARM says it has received test chips designed to check how well an SoC built around a 64bit multicore Cortex v8-A processor complex would work TSMC's upcoming 10nm FinFET process technology.
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