CAST and SoC Solutions partner for IoT platforms
CAST and SoC Solutions have teamed up to put together pre-integrated platforms, with designs that reach down into the 8bit space.
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DAC2015: Real Intent at the Design Automation Conference
Real Intent has lined up a mixture of technology and speed tests for its presence on Booth #1422 at the Design Automation Conference this year.
Cadence deploys parallel strategy for faster synthesis
RTL synthesis has joined the array of tools developed by Cadence Design Systems that employ distributed processing, with the aim of exploring more ways of creating area- and power-efficient logic blocks.
Server, IoT acceleration on Intel’s mind in Altera buy
Altera has agreed to Intel's offer to buy the company, with FPGAs to be integrated into Xeon processors after 2016. Atoms will join programmable logic in IoT-oriented devices.
Avago and Broadcom: integration of another kind?
Last week's announcement by Avago that it would buy Broadcom looks to be only partly about bulk. The merger could help drive SIP and 3DIC integration.
Mentor zooms in on power peaks with emulator interface
Mentor Graphics has released a programming interface to its Veloce emulators intended to support faster and more accurate power estimation.
Intersil buck converter aims to cut out intermediate power bus
Intersil is aiming to remove the intermediate converters from the power buses of industrial systems using a buck converter that can take a voltage of 48V and provide power rails down to 1V.
Shape a major choice for sub-10nm nanowire FETs
TCAD specialist GSS says nanowire transistors look practical down to 5nm but that designers need to carefully explore how the wires are shaped as quantum-confinement effects take hold
Cadence updates Allegro with PCB production and routing tools
Cadence has launched the 16.6 release of its Allegro PCB-design portfolio, adding modules for manufacturing documentation and design-rule preparation aids.
OneSpin uses app-store approach to open up formal verification
Formal-verification specialist OneSpin is setting up its own equivalent of an app store, building on top of a formal engine the company now licenses to other companies.