About Luke Collins
Luke Collins has spent 22 years covering electronics, EDA and innovation. He is a former Editor-in-Chief of Electronics Times in the UK, and co-founded the international IP9x conference series on semiconductor IP. Luke's work has also appeared in The Economist, The Financial Times and Reseach-Technology Management.
June 5, 2013
The increasing use of graphics in mobile SoCs means that finFET processes need to be optimised for density and power - as well as early availability at low risk.
June 5, 2013
Deal creates methodologies and tools to help deliver IP and SoC assemblies verified using formal methods. Low-power verification strategy also launched.
June 3, 2013
CMOS approaches are likely to underpin electronics for the next century, according to Chenming Hu, father of the finFET
May 28, 2013
Fabless designers and IP providers need process simulation tools to understand how process variability could affect their designs.
May 22, 2013
A look at what you can learn about design for manufacturability and yield at this year's Design Automation Conference
May 14, 2013
Real Intent and DeFacTo Technologies combine clock-domain crossing and design for test tools in RTL sign-off flow.
May 5, 2013
Synopsys users will be gathering at a series of SNUG meetings across Europe over the next month to share insights and experience of using Synopsys tools
May 5, 2013
It's time to act if you want your semiconductor device or process research to be considered for presentation at IEDM 2013 in Washington DC this December.
March 22, 2013
ARM CPU chief proposes 'unit of compute' as building block for energy-efficient computation systems
March 20, 2013
An early shift to finFET processes is making developing IP libraries more challenging.