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.
September 14, 2016
Webinar explores the impact of ISO 26262 on DFT requirements, and what is being learnt from the introduction of the standard at ON Semiconductor.
September 12, 2016
Ultra-low power security processor IP includes defences against side-channel attacks, data and instruction encryption, DSP options for sensor processing and more.
August 30, 2016
A look at some of trade-offs involved in building large system memories for enterprise equipment using DDR4 IP.
August 27, 2016
Synopsys video details challenges of 10nm design and its collaboration with Samsung Semiconductor to build a full flow to address them.
July 12, 2016
Synopsys has introduced TetraMAX II, a faster and more parallelisable ATPG and diagnostics solution, which is now also certified for use in ISO 26262 compliant automotive designs.
June 10, 2016
Electrical analysis facility does RC extraction on virtual fab models, accelerating the availability of early PDKs for new processes
May 5, 2016
Videos detail techniques to improve the functional safety and reliability of FPGA designs, including the implementation of triple modular redundancy, safe FSM schemes and self monitoring.
March 30, 2016
Synopsys is updating its custom design tools to make working with finFET based processes easier.
February 26, 2016
Videos discuss formal verification planning, correct initialisation, writing constraints, developing properties, interpreting results - and knowing when you have done enough.
February 23, 2016
Directed self assembly techniques may offer similar benefits to EUV lithography, especially for DRAM makers, says SPIE conference paper