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.
May 7, 2013

CDNLive EMEA: Cadence brings IEEE 1801 into simulation update

Cadence Design Systems has decided to embrace IEEE 1801, derived from the Unified Power Format (UPF), providing support alongside the Common Power Format (CPF).
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May 7, 2013

CDNLive EMEA: Cadence to buy Evatronix

Cadence Design Systems has decided to buy Poland-based IP developer Evatronix as part of a plan to round out its portfolio of interfaces for SoC designs.
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May 1, 2013

NXP captures tools for ARM micros with Code Red buy

NXP Semiconductors has decided to buy tools supplier Code Red Technologies to help build up software support for its ARM-based microcontrollers.
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April 29, 2013

GlobalFoundries to take Infineon flash to 40nm for MCUs

Globalfoundries will port Infineon Technologies’ flash technology to 40nm to support the manufacture of automotive and security microcontrollers (MCUs).
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April 29, 2013

CDNLive EMEA looms

CDNLive EMEA opens 6 May, providing delegates with an opportunity to find out what their peers are doing with Cadence Design Systems’ tools in real projects.
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April 23, 2013

AMD targets software scalability with embedded x86

AMD has stepped back into the market for embedded processors with a quad core design derived from its desktop APUs, which combine a general-purpose x86 subsystem with a GPU.
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April 18, 2013

Accellera publishes tag standard for soft IP

Accellera Systems Initiative has published version of 1.0 of its Soft IP Tagging standard for adding licensing information to RTL and other design files.
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April 18, 2013

ARM intros single-use licence for Big-Little

ARM has decided to put together a package deal for some of the components that will let prospective customers implement a multiprocessor subsystem in a single SoC design
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April 10, 2013

The wrong units of compute

Scale-out computing has demands so different from conventional applications that it could reshape the way to design one class of multicore processors.
April 9, 2013

New tools reinvigorate older processes

At DATE 2013, Synopsys senior vice president Antun Domic, described how techniques for the latest nodes are being rolled back into mature nodes, all the way to 180nm.
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