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.
March 23, 2017

Leverage a zero-cost proof-of-concept platform for the IoT

ARM and Tanner EDA aim to chart a path toward cheaper, easier to realize designs for the embedded and Internet-of-Things markets.

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March 21, 2017

ARM to re-spin Cortex for AI and servers

ARM has pulled together a number of forthcoming changes to its Cortex processor and Big-Little cluster architectures under the umbrella title DynamIQ, claiming they will support the increasing use of AI algorithms in servers and embedded control.

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March 20, 2017

Motion sensors get earache

Attacks using sound can upset accelerometers and make them produce false motion signals.

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March 14, 2017

Wind River targets the industrial IoT for virtualization

Intel subsidiary’s new Titanium Control platform pulls the analysis and management of legacy hardware control systems into the cloud.

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March 13, 2017

Open-Silicon claims RISC-V ultra-low-power first

Implementation uses dedicated PULP technology in silicon for Green Waves Technologies on TSMC’s 55nm LP process.

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March 8, 2017

Verification Futures tackles safety and security

The Verification Futures conference organized by European EDA consultancy TV&S returns for its seventh year in early April with a focus on safety and security in the growing area of cyber-physical systems.

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March 8, 2017

IoT security seminar heads to US

The NMI’s IoT Security Foundation is organizing a seminar on embedded systems security in Silicon Valley at the end of March.

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March 7, 2017

Reducing the documentation burden in ISO 26262

The Mentor Safe program aims to increase automotive users’ confidence in tools and provide documentation needed for the functional safety standard.

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March 7, 2017

POSTPONED: Get to grips with new PC, monitor energy regs

An ESD Alliance panel on incoming Californian energy regulations originally scheduled for later this month has been postponed.

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March 6, 2017

Mentor’s Xpedition virtualizes simulation for ruggedized, safety-critical designs

Xpedition adds vibration and acceleration analysis to shorten physical PCB test times for ruggedized and safety-critical designs.

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