New SystemC reference simulator open for public comment
A reference simulator for the latest version of SystemC is now available for public review and comment, writes Accellera’s Dennis Brophy.
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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.
ITRS update goes online
The wait is over for the latest edition of the International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors (ITRS).
Near misses don’t teach the right lessons
Y2K taught the world some lessons: but mostly the wrong ones, according to Martyn Thomas in his keynote at the Safety-Critical Systems Symposium 2012.
Tech Design Forum is changing
The Tech Design Forum is going through some more changes as we add features and resources.
Lessons from beneath the surface
When looking at new architectures for low-power operation, it is easy to get fixated on one part of the design and ignore the ramifications for the rest of the system. The consequences of that are demonstrated in a paper that was presented at last year’s International Symposium on Low-Power Electronic Design in Japan that shows […]
Mentor releases third gen Nucleus RTOS
Mentor Graphics’ Nucleus real-time operating system (RTOS) is already used in more than 2.3B handsets worldwide as well as a wide range of other markets and is now available in its third generation version. Key features of this release include: built-in power management that exploits hardware design techniques such as dynamic voltage and frequency scaling; […]
One week to ARM TechCon
ARM’s annual west coast technical conference opens next Tuesday (October 25) and they’ve made some useful tweaks to how the three-day program will be presented. The first day is dedicated to chip design, while Wednesday and Thursday concentrate on software and systems, as well as modules and boards. For me, with ARM, the focus always […]
Steve Jobs
Does Steve Jobs leave a legacy relevant to chip design? Well, he certainly leaves behind a lesson or two. This may not be a perfect distinction, but I think that what Jobs came quickly to understand, if not better then certainly more influentially than any other technology leader of our time, is the distinction between […]
International Test Conference 2011 Anaheim Day Two
The International Test Conference got into full stride on Tuesday (September 20th) and inevitably the word you heard a lot was ‘bottleneck’. There’s no questioning the importance of test in terms of time-to-market and its an issue that splits two ways: technology and management. For a necessarily quick blog post, I’m going to set aside […]
International Test Conference 2011 Anaheim. Day One.
The 2011 International Test Conference opened last night at Disneyland’s Convention Center in Anaheim with a panel that looked to get some idea of the shape of test in a decade’s time. We’ll take a more detailed view of what was said in a full round-up from the conference in the next print edition of […]