Software firewall demo provides shield against malware
A demo at ARM TechCon showed one way malware could be foiled on systems that run software of uncertain provenance.
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.
Carbon introduces exchange for building and stressing virtual prototypes
Carbon Design Systems has introduced a web portal to streamline the process of finding the most appropriate executable models for a system-level virtual prototype.
ARM tools take aim at finFET layout, timing issues
ARM has launched a pair of tools designed to improve the density and performance of finFET designs that use the company’s physical libraries.
Applied Micro moves away from MIPS, PowerPC in 64bit embedded push
Applied Micro is to use the ARM v8 CPU architecture it developed for data centers to keep hold of embedded-systems customers who have decided to move away from its existing MIPS and PowerPC-based processors.
ARM to extend Big.Little for GPUs and heat management
A multiprocessor test chip has led ARM to improve the energy-control strategy for its Big.Little architecture and to simplify the debug architecture for the company’s multicore processor IP.
Software encryption manager aims to tighten up on embedded security
HCC Embedded has developed a modular software manager for encryption, designed to provide embedded systems with the foundation for handling security algorithms.
ARM puts IoT operating system on roadmap in software drive
ARM is making a free operating system a cornerstone of its push into selling both more cores and server software to help manage them.
Liberty changes bring together nanometer OCV techniques
The Liberty library format has been extended to cope with the most common forms of on-chip variation analysis in use today on nanometer processes.
The changes demanded by IoT design
Does the internet of things (IoT) require a change in design techniques? A number of people involved in the EDA industry reckon it does.
Altera moves to 55nm for non-volatile programmable logic
Altera has moved to a 55nm embedded flash process to continue its Max series of non-volatile FPGAs.