Formal app looks for sneak paths in secure chips
Jasper Design Automation has developed a tool that analyzes RTL and gate-level HDL for hidden paths that may expose on-chip secure elements to hackers.
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.
Rambus CEO calls for collaboration and an architectural focus for memory
Dr Ron Black also discussed his experiences with the Internet of Things in a lively keynote at the GSA Memory+ Conference in Taipei
Amkor keeps question mark next to ‘full’ 3D-IC in 2016
Stacked 3D-IC memory-on-logic is on the packaging company’s roadmap, but there are still yield hurdles to scale at the MEOL.
Oracle lays out its future for IoT
Oracle aims to reduce the incompatibilities between the two main embeddable versions of Java as the company tries to make the language the natural choice for IoT.
ARM reworks Mbed for the internet of things
ARM is making its Mbed online development platform the cornerstone of its push into the internet of things (IoT), with Java as its preferred language.
GUI engine comes to Cortex-M class micros
Express Logic has launched a graphical user interface (GUI) software stack for resource-light 32bit microcontrollers running the company’s ThreadX RTOS.
Skills gap stalks internet of things
Software skills could hold back the development of the internet of things, ARM CEO Simon Segars claimed in his keynote speech at ARM TechCon 2013.
The prospects for GALS: Real Intent’s view
Real Intent CTO Pranav Ashar talks about GALS: the reasons for and against using asynchronous protocols for chip-crossing communications and what to do about verification.
Mentor targets PCB ERP ‘missing link’
Valor additions aim to deliver shopfloor data to PCB ERP systems in real time… for the first time. And could boost ROI beyond 70%.
HP: bring us your hardware, your workloads, your mass of data
HP is throwing open its doors to other companies to bring in the necessary hardware and low-level software to build a new generation of servers, each specialized to a workload.