IEF: Open source hardware to muscle into data centers
Open-source hardware is going to change the way people buy computing capacity for data centers, says LSI's Rob Ober
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IEF: Achronix plans embedded FPGA push
Achronix plans to use the FPGA fabric that it has developed for standalone products to be fabbed through Intel as the springboard for an embedded-FPGA offering.
IEF: Samsung wants a skunk-works
Samsung Electronics is setting up a center in Silicon Valley to try to develop technologies that the company hopes will ultimately drive volume for its chipmaking operation.
SAME: Memory-saving standard to expand
The scope of the Low-Latency Interface (LLI) developed by the MIPI Alliance is expanding as it heads towards version 2 – increasing the ways in which a single DRAM array can be shared between SoCs in a mobile phone.
Small is beautiful once again in embedded systems
Embedded-processor vendors are rediscovering the beauty of the small customer – reversing the trend that the bigger suppliers put in place in the mid-1990s as the internet and mobile-phone booms got into full swing.
Cadence updates Allegro and Orcad
Cadence Design Systems has updated both of its printed circuit board (PCB) tools – Allegro and Orcad – to improve their handling of design constraints, multiuser design and deal with embedded components and mechanical CAD tools.
GlobalFoundries to go with finFETs at 14nm
GlobalFoundries has confirmed its 14nm process as the one that will see the foundry introduced finFET-based transistors, claiming that its approach is optimized for mobile devices
EUV nears last-chance saloon
If you were to dramatize the situation for extreme ultraviolet (EUV) as the next-generation lithography technology for chipmaking as a movie, it would by now be in the difficult third act. Having been through many ups and downs, it’s now lying on a hospital bed and it’s not clear whether the slowing pulse will flatline […]
Aart de Geus on the changing face of EDA
The president and co-CEO of Synopsys provides his take on the mounting influence of software and physical effects in the creation of SoCs.
Synopsys to buy SpringSoft
Synopsys is to acquire SpringSoft, expanding its custom-IC tool base and letting it fold debug into its existing HDL flow.