Cadence culls zeroes for faster neural throughput
Cadence has launched an AI processor using an designed to take advantage of the sparse structure of typical deep neural networks.
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.
Mentor automates silicon photonics layout
The LightSuite Compiler produces designs based on Python descriptions and certifies them DRC-clean through hooks into the market-leading Calibre DFM suite.
GlobalFoundries stops 7nm work to focus on existing processes
GlobalFoundries has decided to put development of its 7nm process on the backburner and focus on its existing finFET and FD-SOI processes.
IBM and Synopsys to apply DTCO to post-finFET process development
Collaboration on DTCO offers IBM a better way to evaluate combinations of transistor architectures, materials and other process technology innovations using design metrics, before real wafers become available for physical experimentation.
Mentor as an evolving Siemens business: 3. Tanner EDA
Tanner’s focus on AMS, MEMS and, now, the IoT-edge are making it even more ripe for integration with other Mentor tools.
MPW service arrives for RRAM
Research institute Leti and low-volume wafer service CMP are cooperating on a project to let fabless chipmakers explore the use of non-volatile resistive RAMs in their designs.
Mentor as a maturing Siemens business: 2. Foundations
How are Siemens’ internal investments in Mentor to fuel innovation and integration stacking up alongside the boost it has given for M&A?
Mentor as a maturing Siemens business: 1. Acquisitions
Mentor has added three companies since its acquisition a little over a year ago – and there’s method to this buying spree.
56G Ethernet IP to enable leaf-spine hyperscale data centres
Faster PHYs needed to shift vast amounts of data around giant data centres.
Synopsys catalogues AI IP
The rapid growth of interest in machine learning and artificial intelligence has prompted Synopsys to bring all its AI IP together in a microsite and brochure.