Synopsys adds ultra-low power security processor IP
Ultra-low power security processor IP includes defences against side-channel attacks, data and instruction encryption, DSP options for sensor processing and more.
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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.
Design trade-offs in using DDR4 memory for enterprise applications
A look at some of trade-offs involved in building large system memories for enterprise equipment using DDR4 IP.
Creating a reference design flow for 10nm processes: video
Synopsys video details challenges of 10nm design and its collaboration with Samsung Semiconductor to build a full flow to address them.
Cadence building photonics environment around Virtuoso
Cadence is creating a flow that the company believes will make it possible to bring greater predictability to photonics design.
EEMBC updates automotive benchmark for scalability tests
EEMBC has released version 2.0 of its suite for measuring the performance of automotive powertrain tasks on multicore processors.
SystemC materials move to Apache 2.0 license
Accellera has moved to an Apache 2.0 open-source license for all of the supplementary materials for its SystemC library.
Chinese dates set for Asia-Pacific editions of Mentor Forum
Wally Rhines headlines as keynote at free technical events set for Shanghai on August 30 and Beijing on September 1.
Cadence adds floating point to Fusion
Cadence Design Systems has added floating-point to its latest core intended for embedded signal processing.
IEDM alters schedule to keep abreast of process updates
The International Electron Device Meeting has pushed back the deadline for its papers to get the latest developments in process and device design into the December conference.
The IoT dream behind SoftBank’s ARM purchase
SoftBank cites IoT as its main reason for buying ARM, but could it change the relationship between customers and the processor designer?