Author Archives: Luke Collins

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 29, 2014

Verification platform offers unified compile, debug environments

Synopsys is integrating its verification tools to make it easier to move between verification approaches for software centric SoCs
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September 3, 2014

DVCon Europe focuses on systems design and verification

Focus on systemic issues matches DVCon Europe event to European interests
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August 28, 2014

Mentor joins European power electronics consortium

Will help industry giants develop more reliable power electronics systems for applications including transport and power generation.
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July 25, 2014

GlobalFoundries licenses atomistic TCAD simulator toolchain

Foundry licenses atomistic TCAD simulator to better understand key aspects of advanced process nodes.
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June 13, 2014

Path to 5nm plotted at DAC panel

Panel discusses Moore's law scaling beyond the 14nm node to 5nm, where economic, device, interconnect, materials, lithography and design issues abound
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June 12, 2014

Internet of Things: an opportunity, but for whom?

Building the internet of Things will demand collaboration and a healthy ecosystem
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June 6, 2014

eSilicon to cut costs of ASIC development for IoT, other markets

Online portals enable ASIC designers to explore IP and delivery options, enabling lower-cost markets such as IoT
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June 5, 2014

Cliff Hou, TSMC VP R&D, on the route to 10nm – and beyond

Head of TSMC R&D talks about what it will take to develop and use 10nm, 7nm processes, and a possible shift to using packaging to extend Moore's law scaling
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June 5, 2014

EDA industry must look to new markets for growth – Rhines

New markets such as hardware cyber security, automotive and embedded software key to EDA industry growth
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June 3, 2014

Synopsys adds formal, CDC, low-power checks to Verification Compiler

Synopsys adds formal, static, clock-domain crossing, and low-power checking to verification engineers' toolbar
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