UK consortium starts work on cryogenic CMOS
A £6.5m grant will fund the development of memories and other IP to improve the control of qubits in quantum computers.
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.
Design management survey points to more tactical cloud EDA
Cloud computing is gaining ground in EDA but close to a third of organizations are planning to stay with on-premises computing for the foreseeable future, according to a survey commissioned by IC Manage.
Python provides the link for speed checks at Sondrel
Sondrel has combined EDA tools with custom SystemC and Python code to develop a system that can help automate the detailed performance analysis of high-level architectures before RTL is generated.
Glitch detection cores add to Agile portfolio
Agile Analog has moved into the supply of cores for detecting hardware-hacking attempts as well as more conventional data-conversion modules.
Emulation’s scheduling challenge
Emulation capacity and its scalability is a major issue for large SoC designs, said panelists at DVCon Europe.
DVCon Europe explores pitfalls and possibilities of AI for verification
In a panel at this week’s DVCon Europe, experts described a number of issues facing teams looking to incorporate machine learning in logic verification flows and why some of those efforts will not pay off while others succeed.
Arm SystemReady adjusts to compatibility issues
Arm’s SystemReady program has revealed a number of the subtleties involved when trying to maintain software compatibility with operating systems without moving to the straightjacket of platforms like those used for the x86-based PC.
Arm accelerates library verification with Solido ML
Arm has used machine-learning tools supplied by the Solido group at Siemens Digital Industries Software to speed up IP validation runtime a thousand-fold compared to conventional statistical methods.
Digitalization beyond the enterprise
What companies do internally to digitalize matters, but so does using the concept to optimize their supply chain with partners.
Three ways to 3D feature at IEDM
Three highlighted papers at IEDM, taking place in December, show the different approaches to the use of the vertical dimension to cut energy use and improve density.