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.
June 4, 2012
At last year’s DAC, leading EDA analyst Gary Smith said chip design had run into a big problem: it was already too expensive to be worthwhile for most companies. Soon afterwards, three companies rang to tell him that the figures were too pessimistic: it was not costing in the region of $75m but perhaps just […]
May 29, 2012
Calypto has combined the Catapult high-level synthesis (HLS) tool with elements of its PowerPro software to focus on the demand for lower-power SoC designs.
May 23, 2012
Texas Instruments has put together a tool aimed at users of its MSP430 microcontroller family that will help cut the power consumption of their applications.
May 15, 2012
Designers working on mixed-signal circuits will benefit from using digital tools, Cadence's SVP of R&D for custom design said at CDNLive EMEA today. But for those who don't a faster fast Spice is on its way.
May 14, 2012
A startup has analyzed the shape of Intel's fins and found the process is not quite as well-behaved as circuit designers would perhaps like.
April 25, 2012
Mentor Graphics has updated its Veloce emulator, using a newly developed chip to double capacity while, at the same time, developing new software to overcome the traditional handicaps of in-circuit emulation.
April 24, 2012
Xilinx has created Vivado, a new set of tools to support sub-30nm FPGAs that, for advanced designs at least, will take over from its long-established ISE suite.
April 17, 2012
SpringSoft is trying a different approach to constraint-based design in a bid to improve the automation of custom and mixed-signal design, particularly on advanced process nodes.
April 5, 2012
Qualcomm's director of engineering is among the panelists at the upcoming U2U event in Santa Clara who will look at the state of play for 3DICs and how design flows are bearing up to dealing with 3D integration.
March 26, 2012
At the SNUG event this week, Synopsys is taking the wraps off its plans to support 3DIC, with updates to tools for physical design and verification.