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.
October 7, 2015

Software puts deep learning onto embedded DSP

Ceva has launched a software package intended to streamline the porting of convolutional neural network implementations to the XM4 DSP core.
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October 6, 2015

Tensilica vision processor cuts power through memory changes

Memory efficiency has driven the design of the latest video and image processor core developed by Cadence Tensilica.
September 30, 2015

Vertical structures to debut at IEDM 2015

A novel approach to 3D NAND will be among the presentations at the International Electron Device Meeting to be held in Washington, DC in December.
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September 25, 2015

DVCon Europe initial technical program unveiled

DVCon Europe has published the technical program for its upcoming November conference in Munich, Germany.
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September 14, 2015

Menta aims for TSMC 28nm with embedded FPGA cores

Menta has launched a family of off-the-shelf IP cores aimed at TSMC’s 28nm processes to provide reconfigurability for SoCs.
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September 10, 2015

Debug monitors look for deadlock

UltraSoC has added deadlock detection capabilities to its multicore onchip debug framework.
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September 2, 2015

Early registration opens for DVCon Europe 2015

Early registration has opened for the DVCon Europe conference to be held in Munich, Germany in November.
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July 28, 2015

Samsung applies early prediction and color management to 10nm plans

Rapid virtual prototyping and a metal stack that's more designer friendly are two of the ways in which Samsung aims to build up foundry market share for its 14nm and 10nm finFET processes.
July 15, 2015

PSpice builds interfaces to PCB and system-level cosimulation

The need for virtual prototyping at the PCB-design has led to changes in the way PSpice is being used – with much greater emphasis on cosimulation.
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July 13, 2015

GlobalFoundries tunes 28nm for smaller, lower-power FD-SOI

GlobalFoundries has developed variants of the 28nm FD-SOI process that offer smaller die sizes and lower-power operation.
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