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 2, 2014
Samsung, Synopsys and ARM have been working together to create a finFET design ecosystem.
May 24, 2014
More lint rules, better SystemVerilog support, links to MATLAB and Simulink
April 16, 2014
Managing finFET variability issues without extending design times is key to extracting the most from the new processes, key players told a panel at the recent SNUG meeting in Santa Clara.
April 2, 2014
Newton, a MIPS based board from Ingenic, is optimized for Android Gear smartwatches, wearables and IoT designs.
March 28, 2014
Software quality testing company acquisition will broaden Synopsys's reach as well as serving current customers
March 26, 2014
Free book explains virtual prototyping and includes case studies about virtual prototyping from Altera, Bosch, GM, Hitachi, Lauterbach, Linaro, Microsoft, Renesas, Ricoh, Siemens, and TI.
March 26, 2014
VCS AMS updates AMS verification tool and methodology
March 24, 2014
New data model and optimisation strategy, plus revised analysis engines update Synopsys's IC Compiler place and route tool
February 7, 2014
Uses improved logic optimisations and a new approach to meeting timing.
December 16, 2013
Synopsys launches HAPS-DX, an FPGA-based IP and subsystem prototyping system, with an optimized toolchain and interoperability with HAPS-70 systems.