Altera finds a way to cheaper floating point in FPGAs
Altera has revealed that the DSP blocks in the Arria 10 FPGAs contain the logic needed to make them work as IEEE754-compliant floating-point units.
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Cadence to expand formal portfolio with Jasper buy
Cadence Design Systems has reached an agreement with Jasper Design Automation to buy the formal-verification specialist for $170m in cash.
ARM moves to open-source compiler
ARM has decided to shift from using its in-house compiler technology to the open-source combination of Clang and LLVM.
Latest ITRS underlines slowdown in interconnect and IC scaling
The 2013 edition of the International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors has been published. The latest set of tables underlines the slowdown in some aspects of scaling, particularly when it comes to metal interconnect.
DAC 2014 offers free exhibit entry for three days
The 51st Design Automation Conference, to be held in San Francisco in early June, is offering free exhibit floor entry for the full three days.
Silicon suppliers home in on energy-harvesting sensor nodes
Power converters are arriving on the market with the aim of simplifying the job of building energy-harvesting systems for wireless sensor nodes and the Internet of Things.
Conference demonstrator brings printed-electronics suppliers together
For its Printed Electronics conference, IDTechEx pulled together a team together with P&G to develop a collaborative demonstration of the technology.
Automated driving: have you got 1000 centuries to spare?
Self-driving connected cars will drive a change in the way systems are architected for safety, according to Bosch research chief Michael Bolle.
Even EUV faces a 1D future, says IMEC
IMEC's Rudy Lauwereins explained at DATE 2014 how 1D routing for self-aligned multiple patterning is likely to be inevitable even if EUV makes it into production fabs.
NI uses complex RF to help attack software development
A massive MIMO processor being developed at Lund Unversity is serving as a testbed for a platform view that National Instruments is building for LabView.