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.
June 13, 2012

From devices to systems: Intel’s projections for the future

In his opening keynote at the VLSI Technology Symposium on Tuesday, Intel director of components research Mike Mayberry provided four ways to look into what is from today’s perspective a very foggy future.

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June 12, 2012

Doping gives finFETs threshold control

You want finFETs with different threshold voltages on the same SoC? Forget what the FD-SOI guys tell you: it’s possible. At least with a certain amount of performance loss, say IBM and GlobalFoundries.

June 12, 2012

Rethought analog design focuses on event-driven simulation

During his CEDA talk at DAC last week Professor Mark Horowitz challenged the audience to find holes in the approach he and his team have been developing over the past few years to rethink analog design.

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June 11, 2012

Degrees of freedom for finFETs

FinFET or trigate structure provide a number of degrees of freedom in design in the battle against DIBL – and one of those dimensions is doping, Professor Tsu-Jae King Liu explained in a course ahead of the 2012 VLSI Symposia this week.

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June 11, 2012

Webinar on model-driven design for soft modems

Cognovo is running a webinar next week (19 June) on model-driven design for software-defined wireless modems.

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June 11, 2012

FD-SOI to get foundry push in ST deal

A deal between GlobalFoundries and STMicroelectronics has answered the question as to where ICs based on an FD-SOI process can be made, and not just for ST.

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June 7, 2012

DAC 2012: Synopsys marries virtual and FPGA prototyping

Expose your transaction-level innovations to the real world early on and catch bugs before simulation.

June 6, 2012

DAC 2012: A look inside Accellera’s UCIS

Accellera has approved version 1.0 of the Unified Coverage Interoperability Standard (UCIS). Here’s how it works.

June 6, 2012

DAC 2012: Intel’s Ivy Bridge chip chop shop

Intel’s Ivy Bridge series of processors were designed from the outset to be split apart and recombined to create variants of the base platform, Intel architecture project manager Brad Heaney explained during the Wednesday keynote session at DAC 2012.

June 5, 2012

DAC2012: Collaboration key to success at 20nm

Foundries can’t hand down design rules on tablets of stone any more – success at 20nm will take close collaboration with customers and tool vendors

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