Multicore-programming guide released
The Multicore Association has launched a guide to programming multicore systems in C and C++.
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.
25 million gate prototyper arrives through collaboration
A team effort between three French companies has resulted in the launch of an FPGA prototyping system that is intended to provide emulation of designs with up to 25 million ASIC gates.
Cadence buys IP provider Cosmic
Cadence Design Systems is to buy Cosmic Circuits Private Limited, a developer of analog and mixed signal intellectual property (IP) cores.
GlobalFoundries inks IP deals
GlobalFoundries has signed deals to let the foundry offer power-saving clocks, a massively parallel floating-point processor and interface IP from Rambus. They are “uncommon solutions” to come from a foundry, the company claims.
GlobalFoundries and Samsung talk finFET progress at CPTF
GlobalFoundries and Samsung described how they are readying finFETs for production at CPTF 2013 and how the 28nm processes will have a long shelf life.
Mentor updates HyperLynx for faster boards, more rules checking
Mentor’s HyperLynx gets speed and accuracy enhancements, as well as more embedded help, to speed up fast board design
Cadence updates Virtuoso for the 20nm generation
Cadence Design Systems has built into its latest Virtuoso update features designed to tackle the problems of working with the 20nm generation of processes with finer control over layout-dependent effects, double patterning and new types of local interconnect.
Future Horizons: prepare for a tight 2014
Even though inventories are slack right, chipmakers could be struggling to find wafers in 2014.
The silicon industry’s crunch time
Future Horizon’s forecast meeting for the first half of 2013 made it clear how the electronics sector and the semiconductor industry in particular is facing big problems.
Remembering Colin Holland
The respected electronics journalist and our friend passed away this Thursday at 59.