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 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 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.
Xilinx says it has made the first public release of its Vivado Design Suite – the reworked design environment for its sub-40mn programmable-logic devices that is based more heavily on concepts from the custom-IC world than its existing ISE toolset.
Cadence Design Systems has purchased Sigrity, the specialist in signal and power integrity, in a deal worth approximately $80m, to extend its IC packaging, PCB and IP portfolio.
Characterizing standard-cell defect mechanisms helps improve IC testing
Software-defined-modem IP licensing company Cognovo acquired to help build end products.
Analog Devices has helped developed a new version of TSMC’s 180nm BCD process for analog and mixed-signal circuits that slashes noise tenfold compared with the original version released in 2009.
Atrenta has taken a step into functional verification with the decision to buy NextOp Software, a specialist in assertion synthesis.
A day ahead of Intel’s VLSI Technology Symposium paper on its 22nm finFET process, a group led by IBM set out to show that silicon-on-insulator (SOI) devices could do as well not only on low-power, where SOI has traditionally had the edge, but high-performance circuits.
Texas Instruments had good news for teams that want to assemble 3DIC stacks using thru-silicon vias (TSVs). The stress induced by the copper TSVs is not as bad as many feared for nanometer-scale transistors.
MEMS relay-based devices offer the ultimate in subthreshold leakage: they don’t have any. Design and technology advances are promising to overcome problems with reliability, design and speed, according to Tsu-Jae King Liu of UC Berkeley.
Six companies have come together to launch a foundation intended to develop standards for software that can run on a wide variety of computers based on a heterogeneous mix of processors.