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.
October 4, 2012
Open-source hardware is going to change the way people buy computing capacity for data centers, says LSI's Rob Ober
October 4, 2012
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.
October 4, 2012
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.
October 3, 2012
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.
September 26, 2012
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.
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September 26, 2012
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.
September 20, 2012
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
August 6, 2012
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 […]
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August 6, 2012
The president and co-CEO of Synopsys provides his take on the mounting influence of software and physical effects in the creation of SoCs.
August 3, 2012
Synopsys is to acquire SpringSoft, expanding its custom-IC tool base and letting it fold debug into its existing HDL flow.
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