DVCon US 2018 preview: Mentor
The Siemens subsidiary is involved with a wide range of tutorials, technical papers and more at this month’s San Jose conference.
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.
Machine learning and visualization ‘needed for coverage’
Traditional functional coverage has run out of steam and novel methods to improve the understanding of what tests are doing are needed to make progress. That is the view of Greg Smith, director of verification innovation and methodology improvement at Oracle.
Metrics introduces elastic compute to handle peak-time verification
Metrics Technologies has launched as a supplier of cloud-based verification tools offering per-minute pricing.
Analog blocks go digital for faster integration
Movellus has launched the first of a series of IP-creation tools with one that will build all-digital PLLs and integrate them into a design.
UltraSoC delivers trace for RISC-V
UltraSoC has released its first implementation of processor trace for cores based on the RISC-V instruction set.
ARM DesignStart case study demonstrates scheme’s ease-of-use
ARM and Mentor describe a proof-of-concept project using free tools and IP to combine AMS and digital.
Triage without tears: improving debug’s most human challenge
Struggling with how to make your debug triage process more efficient? A new checklist could help focus your efforts.
Capacity shortages loom if 2017 growth repeats
If current market trends persist, shortages in wafers are likely to follow, hurting the ability of some companies to ship silicon and boost the prices for those who can.
Codasip updates processor-architecture tools
Codasip has launched the seventh generation of its Studio software for processor design and tuning, aiming to take advantage of the interest in RISC-V as a core instruction set for customized processors.
Demand for better video, audio prompts HDMI 2.1 IP push
IP provides key building blocks for building better video and audio playback devices using HDMI 2.1