Spectrum analyzers aim for IoT projects
Tektronix has aimed a pair of RF instruments at the growing number of engineering teams trying to incorporate low-power wireless communications into their designs.
Tech Design Forum Briefing
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.
MEMS contest launches at DATE
The DATE 2016 conference saw the launch of a competition to encourage novel designs using MEMS technology.
X-Fab aims at lower-cost SiC with upgraded 6in line
X-Fab Silicon Foundries has upgraded its 6in fab in Lubbock, Texas to handle silicon carbide wafers in parallel with existing silicon production.
Tek brings chips to the tips for high-bandwidth probing
Tektronix has moved the some of the active signal-conditioning to the tip to develop a probe for oscilloscopes that can handle bandwidths up to 20GHz and with less need for de-embedding techniques.
GSA on how to reinvigorate silicon business models
Open-source hardware, in-field configurability, and a hardware-plus-services approach could protect margins as the IoT hammers down costs, says GSA report.
IP implementation variety drives latest partnerships
Mentor Graphics’ recent deal with ARM illustrates how proliferation in design is influencing deals between tool and IP vendors.
Mentor builds out verification IP for memory
About 1,600 new UVM System Verilog verification IP memory models will cut testbench development time and offer more time to increase coverage.
Six quick videos introduce key formal verification concepts
Videos discuss formal verification planning, correct initialisation, writing constraints, developing properties, interpreting results – and knowing when you have done enough.
Mentor’s Veloce boasts emulation gains fueled by software
Mentor Graphics is looking to get yet more efficiency from its market-leading Veloce emulator family through an OS upgrade and new task-specific Apps.
Security focus for Embedded World
Security took center stage at the Embedded World show in Nürnberg this week, with a number of vendors launching software intended to help protect against hacks.