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.
March 7, 2013

Tanner embraces OpenAccess

Tanner EDA has completed the port of its HiPer Silicon design suite to work with the OpenAccess database, providing better interoperability with foundry process design kits (PDKs) and with other vendors’ IC design tools as well as providing better support for multiple users accessing the same design.

Tags: , ,  |  Comments Off on Tanner embraces OpenAccess
March 4, 2013

MISRA-C update to land later in March

The Motor Industry Software Reliability Association (MISRA) is nearing publication of the latest version of its coding standard intended to make C safer for use in critical embedded systems.

Tags: , ,  |  Comments Off on MISRA-C update to land later in March
February 26, 2013

Intel foundry to make Altera FPGAs

Intel’s announcement that it will make FPGAs for Altera in an upcoming 14nm finFET process will reshape the programmable logic, and foundry, businesses.

February 25, 2013

DVCon: UPF and CPF harmony in low power is only a foundation

As DVCon begins, we interview Cadence’s Qi Wang, who has led its efforts to converge the Common Power Format with its rival as the IEEE1801 standard is revamped.

Tags: , , , ,  |  Comments Off on DVCon: UPF and CPF harmony in low power is only a foundation
February 23, 2013

Parallel API for embedded systems goes public

The Multicore Association has published the MTAPI specification for a programming interface that aims to simplify the job of building applications that can not only use many cores running in parallel but schedule jobs dynamically depending on which types of core are available.

Tags: , , ,  |  Comments Off on Parallel API for embedded systems goes public
February 21, 2013

ISSCC 2013: AMD constraints help tame Jaguar

Some conservative decisions were important parts of AMD’s design strategy for the 28nm core that’s just been specified in PlayStation 4

Tags: , ,  |  Comments Off on ISSCC 2013: AMD constraints help tame Jaguar
February 20, 2013

ISSCC 2013: IBM adds digital logic synthesis methodology for System z

The paper on the 32nm upgrade to Big Blue’s family of server chips also detailed how the company is tackling BTI.

Tags: ,  |  Comments Off on ISSCC 2013: IBM adds digital logic synthesis methodology for System z
February 19, 2013

ISSCC 2013: Silicon and organic stacks for prosthesis

TSVs and layers of organic electronics provide two ways to build medical sensors and prosthetics, as shown at ISSCC 2013.

Tags: , , , ,  |  Comments Off on ISSCC 2013: Silicon and organic stacks for prosthesis
February 19, 2013

ISSCC 2013: AMD on how to make a Star Trek holodeck… eventually

Keynoter Lisa Su spun a whimsical idea to serious intent as AMD looks to promote its model for heterogeneous architectures

Tags: ,  |  Comments Off on ISSCC 2013: AMD on how to make a Star Trek holodeck… eventually
February 19, 2013

ISSCC 2013: Energy harvesting needs to prioritize

ISSCC expert panel highlights lowering power over energy sources and identifies the need to focus on the product rather than the technology

Tags: , ,  |  Comments Off on ISSCC 2013: Energy harvesting needs to prioritize
Previous Blog Posts
Next Blog Posts