Cadence pulls Virtuoso and Allegro closer for 3DIC
Cadence Design Systems has brought its chip- and PCB-design environments closer together as the shift towards multichip packages gains pace.
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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.
How Mentor realized concurrent engineering for PCB design
The vendor’s experiences in enabling concurrent engineering in Xpedition Enterprise contain lessons for all design disciplines.
ARM extends top end of Cortex-A family
A year on from the last Computex and the launch of the Cortex-A73 and Mali-G71, ARM has launched a new trio of processors aimed not just at smartphones this time but servers and driver-assistance systems.
Austemper tools straddle the functional-safety flow
Austemper Design Systems has launched a portfolio of tools that span the development lifecycle of projects that need to demonstrate functional safety.
DAC to train on machine learning
DAC’s traditional training day is expanding into the field of machine learning this year in Austin.
FinFET-project growth ‘stunning’ says EDA exec
Machine learning, smarter cars, and the infrastructure to support a sixfold increase in IoT and edge devices have helped push up the number of teams doing finFET designs to more than 100, according to Tom Beckley of Cadence.
Matlab links up with Virtuoso for circuit analytics
Cadence Design Systems and The Mathworks have implemented the first phase of an integration program to link tools such as Virtuoso ADE to Matlab.
Cadence adapts Jasper tools for CDC and lint
Cadence has added two apps to its JasperGold lineup that handle clock-domain crossing and linting.
Imagination sells design services, software integration to Sondrel
Engineering consultancy pays undisclosed sum for IMGworks division.
IEDM opts for later deadline on 63rd conference
The 63rd IEDM has issued a call for papers for its conference in San Francisco in early December and has stuck with the later deadline introduced last year.