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 20, 2022

3DIC design needs more hierarchy, TSMC says

TSMC calls for modular EDA flows and increased use of hierarchical verification to support complex 3DIC designs.
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June 13, 2022

Real Intent updates reset and clock-domain crossing tools

Real Intent has upgraded its Meridian CDC clock-domain crossing sign-off tool, with support for multimode-aware dynamic models.
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June 10, 2022

Cadence adds machine learning to electrical simulation

Cadence has used machine-learning techniques originally developed for its Cerebrus tool to build software that can speed up multiphysics analysis.
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June 1, 2022

Oxide DRAM gains traction at VLSI Symposium

VLSI Symposium 2022 will show the rapid development taking place in oxide-based replacements for traditional DRAM cells as well as the emerging area of memory-based low-power machine learning.
May 31, 2022

Imagination brings in lower-cost access for accelerator IP

Imagination Technologies has dropped the requirement to take an upfront licence for some of its IP cores if customers join its Open Access program.
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May 23, 2022

IEDM to celebrate 75 years of the transistor

Recognizing the 75th anniversary of the transistor in December, the 68th IEDM has taken on the theme of looking at “transformative devices to address global challenges”.
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May 5, 2022

DAC returns to SF for in-person event

DAC returns to San Francisco in July for its 59th year as a purely in-person event.
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March 23, 2022

Nvidia open to chiplet standards

Nvidia says it will support the UCIe chiplet interface standard once it has "stabilized" while opening up its latest form of NVLink to other companies.
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March 4, 2022

Verification engineers look to better skills to beat schedules

A panel at DVCon argued too much of a focus on point tools coupled with challenges with interoperability and cross-industry cooperation is hindering the ability of SoC teams to design and verify complex products.
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March 2, 2022

Synopsys talks AI in verification at DVCon

Synopsys R&D vice president Manish Pandey described the ways in which the tools supplier has harnessed machine learning so far to gain speedups and improvements in coverage.
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