Gary Smith EDA: PCB ‘a door to the future’ but ‘slow take-off’ for ESL
The leading EDA analyst also charts growth for RTL and IC CAD in 2014 Market Share Summary, and highlights system-driven shifts in tool evaluation.
Tech Design Forum Briefing
Briefing Authors
Paul Dempsey
Paul Dempsey has been a technology journalist for 20 years. His work has also appeared in EETimes, Red Herring and specialist journals published by the Financial Times.
Luke Collins
Luke Collins is a freelance technology journalist with 22 years’ experience. He is a former Editor-in-Chief of Electronics Times in the UK, and co-founded the IP9x series of conferences.
Chris Edwards
Chris Edwards has spent two decades covering electronics and EDA. He is a former Editor-in-Chief of Electronic Engineering Times UK and electronics editor of the IET's Engineering & Technology.
14nm/16nm finFETs debut at IEDM
The International Electron Device Meeting (IEDM) has once again provided a chance for the major chipmakers to go head-to-head with their latest processes – this time with finFETs.
Use-cases drive high-level verification tool
Cadence has released a tool intended to ease the creation of scenario-driven tests to better exercise complex IP and SoC designs.
A57 finFET design underlines routing challenges
In a presentation at the recent ARM TechCon, HiSilicon described the issues in putting together a 16nm finFET-based design built around a cluster of ARM’s Cortex A57 processors.
Startup builds environment for custom EDA tools
Canadian startup Invionics has launched a development environment and packager intended to make it easier for users within chipmakers and design houses to build customized tools.
TSMC begins risk production of 16FF+
TSMC says it has begun risk production on its FinFET Plus (16FF+) process, claiming that it has reached a greater level of maturity earlier in its development cycle than previous nodes developed at the foundry.
Chip tariff eliminated and the big winner is… China?
Not just Intel and TI but also Lenovo and Huawei have cause to welcome end to 25% import tax. And could it even help reinvigorate Chinese start ups?
Space camera project uses rapid development for test
UK-based RAL Space has picked up an award from National Instruments for a system the organization built to test a pair of cameras ahead of being being deployed on the International Space Station to photograph the Earth from orbit.
From Darwin to Mao: how multi-patterning could move up the flow
Are we torn between evolution and revolution? Mentor Graphics’ Joe Sawicki discusses how pattern matching already in fabs could move up and radically alter the design flow.
Siemens produces open-source code for multicore acceleration
Siemens has developed an open-source implementation of the Multicore Association’s MTAPI to make it easier to divide and manage concurrent tasks that run on systems with multiple processors.