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.
December 5, 2012
Embedded software engineers need to focus on power optimization in their code much earlier and more comprehensively than many of them do today, says Mentor Graphics technologist Colin Walls.
December 4, 2012
Traditional IP reuse is giving way to configurable, customized cores delivered by semi-automated "IP factory" groups.
December 4, 2012
20nm design is fraught with problems for analog design but one that causes the biggest headaches is density variation, says Synopsys' Joachim Kunkel.
December 4, 2012
Tabula expects to have 22nm FPGAs next year and is trying to recruit IP developers to an 'app store' for data-center hardware.
November 27, 2012
Cadence Design Systems has developed semiconductor IP for the automotive industry's OPEN Alliance to make ethernet the core networking backbone of future motor vehicles.
November 26, 2012
National Instruments wants to shift the focus for many embedded systems designers away from hardware cost optimization towards graphical programming as a way of reducing the time it takes to get targets up, running and productive.
November 19, 2012
Chip-design teams are running into problems with verification because they are focused too much on tools and not enough on processes, Mentor Graphics chief scientist Harry Foster explained today at the first of a series of Verification Futures seminars hosted by TVS in Europe this week.
November 6, 2012
In a deal that pits the company head to head with ARM, Imagination Technologies has decided to buy the business of MIPS Technologies including the CPU architectures and cores. The price tag is $60m cash.
November 6, 2012
ARM is among the companies aiming to avoid a patent portfolio falling into the wrong hands after the break up of MIPS Technologies.
November 6, 2012
Xmos is going back to its roots as a microprocessor architecture designed specifically for low-latency, real-time applications.