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.
November 15, 2023

Siemens buys Insight for reliability addition to Calibre

Siemens has completed the acquisition of Insight EDA, a specialist in circuit-reliability analysis.

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November 14, 2023

Imec makes virtual fab public for green analysis

Imec has a version of its imec.netzero virtual fab tool accessible to the general public with the aim of showing the environmental impact of IC manufacturing.

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November 6, 2023

Cadence combines ML techniques for power signoff

Cadence has linked several machine-learning approaches to build a tool that is designed to speed up the detection and diagnosis of on-chip power-integrity issues.

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November 3, 2023

Codasip pips Arm to commercial CHERI with RISC-V version

Codasip has put support for a set of instruction extensions intended to secure memory into its RISC-V core designs.

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November 2, 2023

X-Fab adds galvanic isolation to CMOS process

X-Fab has made it possible to put galvanic isolation based on capacitive coupling directly into chips made on its XA035 process.

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November 1, 2023

Companies partner for embeddable ReRAM

SureCore and Intrinsic have teamed up to provide a way to implement resistive random-access memory as an SoC-embeddable technology.

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October 31, 2023

Accellera publishes draft of CDC standard

Accellera has published for public review version 0.1 of a standard designed to help pass clock-domain crossing information between EDA tools.

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October 31, 2023

Imperas builds model of Tenstorrent AI core

Imperas Software has worked with AI specialist Tenstorrent to create and distribute a model of the Ascalon processor core.

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October 25, 2023

Image sensors shrink at IEDM

This year’s IEDM features a number of papers that seek to drive down the size and boost the performance of image sensors.

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October 25, 2023

VLSI Symposium 2024 looks to bridge digital and physical

The IEEE Symposium on VLSI Technology & Circuits switches back to Honolulu for its 44th year in the summer of next year and has issued its call for papers, with a deadline of early February for contributions.

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