Tech Design Forum Briefing


Briefing Authors

Paul Dempsey

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 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 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.
October 16, 2013

CDNLive calls out for papers

Cadence Design Systems has issued a call for papers for the European leg of its CDNLive of events for 2014. The deadline for the Silicon Valley event is also looming: the call closes mid-November 2013.

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October 11, 2013

India outlines subsidies for foundry fab plan

The Indian government will meet up to a quarter of initial capital costs for a foundry capable of nodes up to 45nm and 40,000 wafer starts per month at 300mm.

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October 11, 2013

Verification Futures rolls out in Europe next month

The one-day conference series features the latest innovations from many verification vendors in separate UK, France and Germany editions.

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October 10, 2013

Cadence launches IP cores for 60GHz wireless and consumer audio

Cadence Design Systems has launched IP cores for high-end mobile audio as well as gigasample ADCs for 28nm to support 60GHz wireless.

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October 10, 2013

Help preserve EDA’s slice of electronics history

There’s still time – just – to reserve your place at EDAC’s Back To the Future dinner and auction to raise funds to mark EDA’s contribution to our business at the Computer History Museum.

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October 9, 2013

Cadence parallelizes FastSpice for large-scale mixed-signal checks

Cadence Design Systems has developed a version of its Spectre FastSpice tool that splits simulation across many computers without manually cutting the design into segments.

October 9, 2013

Silicon Labs opts for security on M0+ low-power MCUs

Silicon Labs is aiming at Internet of Things applications with an ARM Cortex M0+-based MCU family with encryption engine and low-energy DAC for biasing analog circuitry.

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October 9, 2013

Jasper preps User Group and Architectural events

The EDA vendor has set a broad agenda across two Silicon Valley events taking place in late October, with registration now open for both.

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October 8, 2013

Wreal and Open Access star in mixed-signal summit

Real-value modelling and flows using the Open Access database will be among the focus topics of Cadence’s Mixed-Signal Technology Summit on 10 October.

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October 4, 2013

eSilicon delivers free MPW quote tool

Design services company eSilicon has made freely available a tool it developed to streamline ordering for multi-project wafer (MPW) ‘shuttle’ services.

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