ARM extends ISO 26262 safety work up to A-class
ARM is extending its work on ISO 26262 safety packages for automotive systems beyond the Cortex-R devices supported in a documentation release earlier this year.
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.
Thursday returns as DAC training day
The Design Automation Conference in San Francisco this year will again feature a day of half-day training courses provided by Doulos on Thursday, June 11 .
Fusion core targets voice-activated devices
Cadence has launched a processor core aimed at ‘always on’ signal-processing applications such as voice detection and recognition for wearables.
Mentor tool streamlines multi-corner parasitic extraction
Mentor Graphics has launched Calibre xACT, a tool that uses deterministic algorithms to extract parasitics from complex finFET and other nanometer processes.
Neuroprocessing to drive next wave of processor cores, says Qualcomm
Deep learning offers the next major opportunity for specialist processors, Qualcomm’s Karim Arabi claimed in his keynote at Mentor Graphics’ U2U in San Jose.
Are you ready for design for crime?
Designers will need to take crime into account as part of their design signoff process, Wally Rhines argued in his keynote at Mentor Graphics’ U2U San Jose 2015 conference.
Cadence updates OrCAD line with additions for PCB manufacturability and integrity
Cadence Design Systems has added five products to its OrCAD line of PCB-design tools that cover manufacturability, signal integrity and management, and introduced three feature updates.
Leakage analysis checks IP cores against crypto vulnerability
The Athena Group says it has developed countermeasures against side-channel attacks for its IP that offer the best protection currently available.
Mentor’s 2015 Valley User2User is less than two weeks away
IoT-themed keynotes from Mentor’s Wally Rhines and Qualcomm’s Karim Arabi headline vendor’s User2User conference on April 21.
Xmos brings programmable networking to Gigabit Ethernet
Xmos has launched a series of microcontrollers based on its timesliced multicore architecture that adds Gigabit Ethernet interfaces.