MRAM pushes speed and endurance at IEDM
IEDM late last year showed how MRAM is being prepared for both FD-SOI and advanced finFET nodes.
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.
Siemens and Arm combine to extend digital twin further into SoC design
Partnership combines Siemens PAVE 360 digital twin with ARM IP, including dedicated automotive offerings, to speed and streamline design toward Level 5.
On-demand DRC within P&R cuts closure time in half for MaxLinear
Case study describes how RF/AMS specialist used Calibre RealTime Digital within its flow for a high-end DSP SoC.
Capacitive link to power cheap wireless tags
Imec, TNO, and Cartamundi have developed a low-cost way of letting tags communicate with embedded devices wirelessly by using a capacitive touchscreen.
Automating the pain out of clock domain crossing verification
A new CDC methodology uses automation and data hooks to improve a notoriously lengthy and tricky task – verifying synchronizers.
Mentor delivers eMRAM test for ARM/Samsung FDSOI at 28nm
Tessent test suite targets automotive, AI and IoT projects that need embedded non-volatile memory.
Support for RISC-V expands at summit
This week’s RISC-V Summit in California has seen an expansion to the open-source portfolio being built around the architecture as well as increased support from software vendors such as Wind River.
Breker adds automated system integration test generation for RISC-V
App joins Portable Stimulus specialist’s Trek5 family to reduce manual test writing during verification on designs for the fast-growing RISC-V open-source processor.
Cadence to acquire AWR from National Instruments
Cadence Design Systems has agreed to buy the AWR RF-design company from its current owner National Instruments for approximately $160m.
Imagination splits GPU lanes for high-utilization acceleration
Imagination Technologies has launched a new generation of GPU IP aimed at multitasking compute acceleration.