Cadence to buy Tensilica
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.
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RF boards go open source
Lime Microsystems has decided to join the open-source hardware movement in the hope of building an RF analog of the Arduino.
Tanner embraces OpenAccess
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.
MISRA-C update to land later in March
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.
Parallel API for embedded systems goes public
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.
ISSCC 2013: Silicon and organic stacks for prosthesis
TSVs and layers of organic electronics provide two ways to build medical sensors and prosthetics, as shown at ISSCC 2013.
Multicore-programming guide released
The Multicore Association has launched a guide to programming multicore systems in C and C++.
25 million gate prototyper arrives through collaboration
A team effort between three French companies has resulted in the launch of an FPGA prototyping system that is intended to provide emulation of designs with up to 25 million ASIC gates.
Cadence buys IP provider Cosmic
Cadence Design Systems is to buy Cosmic Circuits Private Limited, a developer of analog and mixed signal intellectual property (IP) cores.
GlobalFoundries inks IP deals
GlobalFoundries has signed deals to let the foundry offer power-saving clocks, a massively parallel floating-point processor and interface IP from Rambus. They are "uncommon solutions" to come from a foundry, the company claims.