Qt tightens open-source licenses
The Qt Company has changed the licenses it supports on the open-source versions of its user-interface software framework, removing the LGPL2.1 version.
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.
Prpl Foundation proposes security architecture
The Prpl Foundation has published a guide to techniques it claims will improve the security of embedded systems.
Accellera and Mentor’s Dennis Brophy talks standards targets and DVCon
Driving down energy consumption for the IoT, making portable stimulus deliver real benefits and the practical benefts of a globalizing DVCon.
GaN power makes progress at IEDM 2015
Researchers describe at IEDM 2015 how they are making gallium nitride fit into a wider range of power-handling applications and may even result in mass-market vertical transistors.
IEDM keynote: cost scaling will swap architectural changes for area
According to ARM’s Greg Yeric in his keynote at IEDM, even with cost improvements for multiple patterning, fewer designs will see the benefit of further silicon node scaling. Savings will come from design.
Cortus adds hardware floating point to low-area processor family
Cortus has added to its version 2 architecture a processor core that offers hardware support for floating-point code.
Asymmetric variability issues could impact 7nm processes
Simulation shows 7nm process will need tighter variability control than expected, and possibly accommodation for asymmetric variability
Cadence partners for photonic IC design
Cadence Design Systems has worked with Lumerical Solutions and PhoeniX Software to develop a flow for designing photonic ICs based on the Virtuoso custom-design platform.
Three key ways to reduce silicon test costs
Mentor’s Greg Aldrich describes how test’s market leader is driving down cost in the billion-gate era by rethinking and extending existing technologies
Ultrasoc tweaks debug technology to act as SoC burglar alarm
Ultrasoc is adding security monitoring to its toolkit, providing SoC designers with a mechanism for their chips to warn of attempts by hackers to break into secure areas.