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.
March 18, 2013
Mentor Graphics has release a version of its Flotherm tool that makes it possible to build accurate models of heat flow through electronic systems from initial concepts through to prototypes without the extensive manual rework that these analyses have needed traditionally.
March 13, 2013
Experts from Cadence and Synopsys talk about the implications for designers of the rise of ‘systems of systems’.
March 12, 2013
The purchase of Tensilica by Cadence Design Systems could prove the way that EDA and multicore-based system design come together.
March 11, 2013
Cadence Design Systems has announced on the eve of CDNLive Silicon Valley that it has decided to buy configurable-processor company Tensilica for approximately $380m in cash.
March 11, 2013
Lime Microsystems has decided to join the open-source hardware movement in the hope of building an RF analog of the Arduino.
March 7, 2013
Tanner EDA has completed the port of its HiPer Silicon design suite to work with the OpenAccess database, providing better interoperability with foundry process design kits (PDKs) and with other vendors’ IC design tools as well as providing better support for multiple users accessing the same design.
March 4, 2013
The Motor Industry Software Reliability Association (MISRA) is nearing publication of the latest version of its coding standard intended to make C safer for use in critical embedded systems.
February 23, 2013
The Multicore Association has published the MTAPI specification for a programming interface that aims to simplify the job of building applications that can not only use many cores running in parallel but schedule jobs dynamically depending on which types of core are available.
February 19, 2013
TSVs and layers of organic electronics provide two ways to build medical sensors and prosthetics, as shown at ISSCC 2013.
February 14, 2013
The Multicore Association has launched a guide to programming multicore systems in C and C++.