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.
May 13, 2021

Sigasi editor provided free for open-source hardware developers

Sigasi aims to attract developers working on open-source projects with a version of its Studio suite the company is making available for free to that community.

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May 13, 2021

Siemens extends Solido’s reach into IP validation with Fractal

Latest acquisition adds technologies to mitigate rising verification time and cost for third-party IP.

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May 2, 2021

Alternative scaling approaches form VLSI 2021 technology highlights

The upcoming VLSI Symposia will feature a number of papers that show the ways in which novel approaches are going to be needed to continue scaling.

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April 20, 2021

Edge AI focuses on power efficiency at Linley Spring

The Linley Spring Conference saw several vendors present architectures that they claim can deliver more performance to edge systems than what are now traditional approaches.

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April 19, 2021

Hardware verification puts software first

Siemens’s expansion of the Veloce hardware-assisted verification platform delivers on one of its current mission statements.

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April 16, 2021

US Republicans seek federal curbs on EDA sales to China

EDA’s lower profile during the US-China semiconductor face-off could be coming to an end.

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April 16, 2021

Siemens buys formal start-up OneSpin

The formal apps start-up has built strong positions in automotive and RISC-V and will strengthen Siemens in competition with Cadence.

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April 15, 2021

Portable stimulus moves to version 2.0

The Accellera board has approved version 2.0 of the Portable Test and Stimulus Standard.

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April 8, 2021

Navigating the Siemens EDA portfolio

The vendor has reworked its website and discussed more about its strategy going forward, following its rebranding from Mentor.

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April 7, 2021

Accellera publishes security standard draft

Accellera has published the version 1.0 draft of the proposed Security Annotation for Electronic Design Integration standard.

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