UVM Cookbook released in new edition
Popular Verification Academy manual revamped and updated to bring it more closely in line with IEEE 1800.2 UVM and reflect the increasing use of emulation.
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.
Microsoft offers free RTL for fast server compression
Not only has Microsoft decided to make a compression algorithm intended for data centers open source, the company the company is providing its own RTL to anyone who wants to implement it in silicon.
PCI may provide key to OCP chiplet standard
The ODSA Workgroup formed by Netronome and others is looking to adopt the PIPE standard for interconnecting chiplets as it starts work on a proof-of-concept module.
ES Design West registration opens
Registration has opened for the first ES Design West exhibition, which takes place alongside Semicon West in San Francisco in July.
Free registration opens for DAC
The Design Automation Conference (DAC) has kicked off free registration for the exhibit floor at early June’s Las Vegas event.
Mastering automotive complexity through generative design
The trend toward Level 5 fully autonomous vehicles poses major complexity, cost and change issues that Generative Design flows aim to address.
China Focus 3: The R&D template
5G has given Beijing a development template to use across its Made in China 2025 program.
MACOM to use GlobalFoundries 300mm SOI for PICs
MACOM has decided to use GlobalFoundries’ 90nm SOI process on 300mm wafers to build higher-integration optical-switching devices for servers.
Graphcore licenses ESD protection from Sofics
Graphcore has licensed IP from Belgium-based Sofics to protect its Colossus GC2 processors from ESD.
A hardware-centric approach to checking HLS code before synthesis
Tools that checks pre-synthesis C++ and SystemC code have historically had no understanding of hardware intent. The Catapult Design Checker fills that gap.