ISSCC notebook – Back to the future
The International Solid State Circuits Conference is one of the most important technology shows, but you've gotta be careful in using it to cite market trends...
Author Archives: Paul Dempsey
A first look at CDN Live Silicon Valley
The CDN Live series of Cadence Design Systems user conferences begins with its Silicon Valley edition at San Jose's Doubletree Hotel on March 12-13.
Common Platform sets US Technology Forum for Wednesday 14th March
The annual West Coast showcase for the IBM-Samsung-GLOBALFOUNDRIES foundry alliance will be held at the Santa Clara Convention Center.
Washington seeds market for unmanned aviation
Unmanned aerial vehicles have received a boost from a Senate vote, opening up opportunities for electronics designers.
Mentor releases third gen Nucleus RTOS
Mentor Graphics’ Nucleus real-time operating system (RTOS) is already used in more than 2.3B handsets worldwide as well as a wide range of other markets and is now available in its third generation version. Key features of this release include: built-in power management that exploits hardware design techniques such as dynamic voltage and frequency scaling; […]
One week to ARM TechCon
ARM’s annual west coast technical conference opens next Tuesday (October 25) and they’ve made some useful tweaks to how the three-day program will be presented. The first day is dedicated to chip design, while Wednesday and Thursday concentrate on software and systems, as well as modules and boards. For me, with ARM, the focus always […]
Steve Jobs
Does Steve Jobs leave a legacy relevant to chip design? Well, he certainly leaves behind a lesson or two. This may not be a perfect distinction, but I think that what Jobs came quickly to understand, if not better then certainly more influentially than any other technology leader of our time, is the distinction between […]
International Test Conference 2011 Anaheim Day Two
The International Test Conference got into full stride on Tuesday (September 20th) and inevitably the word you heard a lot was ‘bottleneck’. There’s no questioning the importance of test in terms of time-to-market and its an issue that splits two ways: technology and management. For a necessarily quick blog post, I’m going to set aside […]
International Test Conference 2011 Anaheim. Day One.
The 2011 International Test Conference opened last night at Disneyland’s Convention Center in Anaheim with a panel that looked to get some idea of the shape of test in a decade’s time. We’ll take a more detailed view of what was said in a full round-up from the conference in the next print edition of […]
GlobalFoundries and Mentor Graphics in new ‘third generation’ DFM tie-up
A busy day on the announcement front continues with this from GlobalFoundries and Mentor in the run-up to next week’s Global Technology Conference in Santa Clara. We’ll go under the hood on this more when the companies present the further details promised below on Tuesday. Meanwhile, here’s the release. WILSONVILLE, Ore., August 26, 2011 – […]