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.
June 7, 2016

Analyzer merges constraints for multiple timing modes

Ausdia has launched a product intended to reconcile the multiple sets of timing constraints needed for operating and test modes so that a consistent group of constraints can be fed to implementation tools.

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June 6, 2016

NXP readies single package solution for 77GHz radar

NXP discusses second silicon flavor for automotive radar, after earlier launch of postage-stamp devices.

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June 6, 2016

ARM recruits design houses and tools for quicker IoT projects

ARM aims to recruit more startups to develop IoT SoCs around the Cortex-M0 with design-house network and easier access to EDA tools.

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June 6, 2016

Intento uses graphs to optimize analog blocks

Startup launches an analog-circuit migration and optimization tool that uses less simulation time than traditional approaches the company claims.

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June 6, 2016

Menta launches fourth-generation embedded FPGA core

Menta SAS has launched an embedded FPGA core family that improves density over previous versions.

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June 5, 2016

Schematic capture moves to the web with browser engine

Concept Engineering is introducing a version of its Nlview family of automatic schematic generation products that runs inside a standard web browser.

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June 1, 2016

Samsung taps Mentor for Closed-Loop DFM

Samsung Foundry has adapted Mentor’s DFM and test tools in a system that can produce a 10% increase in yield across all nodes.

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June 1, 2016

Computex 2016: Microsoft makes play to be the VR OS

Microsoft has launched an OEM version of the Windows Holographic platform it has developed for its own AR headset, the HoloLens.

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May 30, 2016

ARM aims for top-end phones with core pairing

ARM is combining a new high-end 64bit Cortex-A core with a reworked Mali graphics processor to support high-throughput applications such as virtual reality and machine learning.

May 26, 2016

Real Intent extends Meridian Constraints for untimed paths

Meridian Constraints update seeks to extend existing capabilities and address a gap not covered by other functional verification tools.

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