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.
November 6, 2013

Entrepreneurs get help for hardware

Highway1 has opened up Spring applications for its incubation service for hardware startups: trying to overcome the gap between prototype and product.
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November 5, 2013

Synopsys aims at fast real-time apps with ARC HS family

Synopsys has launched the ARC HS family of configurable-processor cores, using superpipelining to target high-performance embedded applications.
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November 5, 2013

Formal app looks for sneak paths in secure chips

Jasper Design Automation has developed a tool that analyzes RTL and gate-level HDL for hidden paths that may expose on-chip secure elements to hackers.
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November 4, 2013

Oracle lays out its future for IoT

Oracle aims to reduce the incompatibilities between the two main embeddable versions of Java as the company tries to make the language the natural choice for IoT.
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November 3, 2013

ARM reworks Mbed for the internet of things

ARM is making its Mbed online development platform the cornerstone of its push into the internet of things (IoT), with Java as its preferred language.
November 1, 2013

GUI engine comes to Cortex-M class micros

Express Logic has launched a graphical user interface (GUI) software stack for resource-light 32bit microcontrollers running the company's ThreadX RTOS.
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October 31, 2013

Skills gap stalks internet of things

Software skills could hold back the development of the internet of things, ARM CEO Simon Segars claimed in his keynote speech at ARM TechCon 2013.
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October 30, 2013

The prospects for GALS: Real Intent’s view

Real Intent CTO Pranav Ashar talks about GALS: the reasons for and against using asynchronous protocols for chip-crossing communications and what to do about verification.
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October 29, 2013

HP: bring us your hardware, your workloads, your mass of data

HP is throwing open its doors to other companies to bring in the necessary hardware and low-level software to build a new generation of servers, each specialized to a workload.
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October 29, 2013

Altera to go 64bit with ARM on FPGAs

Altera will add a quad-core 64bit ARM processor complex to the Stratix 10 family of high-end FPGAs that will be made on Intel's 14nm finFET process.
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