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.
October 18, 2017

Sub-10nm finFETs to feature at IEDM

Intel and GlobalFoundries will talk about their post-14nm finFET-based processes at December’s IEDM.

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October 17, 2017

Arm TechCon 2017 preview: Synopsys

Synopsys’ line-up at next week’s ARM TechCon includes joint presentations with Huawei and Nvidia.

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October 17, 2017

Arm TechCon 2017 preview: Mentor

Mentor will present seven papers during the ARMTech Con and a dedicated session, and exhibit at Booth #606.

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October 16, 2017

Accellera updates SystemC library

Accellera has released a maintenance update to the SystemC core language library that addresses a number of issues that users have reported over the past three years.

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October 12, 2017

VLSI Symposia 2018 looks to machine learning

Machine learning is among the focus topics at next year’s Symposia on VLSI Technology & Circuits in Honolulu, which has issued its call for papers.

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September 22, 2017

5G and automotive provide applications focus for DVCon Europe

The massive complexity of 5G and automotive systems and the need for advanced verification techniques set the scene for DVCon Europe this year.

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September 21, 2017

GlobalFoundries adds 12nm finFET process

GlobalFoundries intends to offer a 12nm FinFET process as a stepping stone from its 14nm process.

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September 12, 2017

MCU benchmark homes in on peripheral power

EEMBC has released a benchmark and initial results that analyze peripheral performance on microcontrollers.

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September 12, 2017

Group to build CCIX accelerator test chip

ARM, Xilinx, Cadence Design Systems, and TSMC have agreed to produce a test chip for the CCIX project.

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August 21, 2017

Codasip adds IoT core to RISC-V line

Codasip has added a processor core aimed at low-energy IoT nodes to its growing portfolio of customizable designs based on the RISC-V architecture.

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