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.
March 10, 2015

Cadence reworks implementation for both finFET and older processes

Cadence Design Systems has coupled the parallel-processing techniques behind its recently launched sign-off tools to engines intended to deal with sub-28nm process issues in a suite that reworks the company’s key implementation tools.

March 10, 2015

Douglas Adams 1: Apple Watch 0 (game in progress)

‘Bling’ for fashionistas and the B Ark lot. Apple Watch limps as the S1 SIP fails to offer convincing battery life. Silicon shortfall still dogs wearables.

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February 26, 2015

EEMBC launches expanded benchmark suite

The Embedded Microprocessor Benchmark Consortium (EEMBC) has released a benchmark suite aimed at applications processors and higher-performance microcontrollers with floating-point units.

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February 26, 2015

Embedded world wakes up to security

Unsettled by attacks on embedded devices such as the point-of-sale terminals used by retailers such as Target and the potential for hackers to target critical infrastructure, the industry focused squarely on security at this year’s Embedded World in Nürnberg, Germany.

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February 25, 2015

Real Intent updates linter for aviation, Mathworks and SystemVerilog

Ascent Lint adds checks for DO-254, tighter integration with HDL Coder, more SystemVerilog support and new VHDL and Verilog rules in March update.

February 25, 2015

Cadence combines HLS tools in Stratus release

Cadence Design Systems has tied together the Forte Synthesiser and the internally developed C-to-Silicon tools into a new high-level synthesis (HLS) environment the company has titled Stratus.

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February 24, 2015

All aboard the IoT starter kit bandwagon

A variety of organizations used Embedded World to introduce kits to attract a broader base of developers looking at Internet of Things (IoT) applications.

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February 24, 2015

Visual tool probes processor, memory and network use on embedded devices

Express Logic has developed a tool to monitor the real-time resource requirements of multithreaded embedded systems that lets designers tune task priorities, stack usage and other factors for improved efficiency and memory usage.

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February 24, 2015

HCC adds web, mail, time services to ‘reliable’ network stack and extends flash support

HCC Embedded has extended the TCP/IP stack the company wrote using MISRA rules and formalized V-model processes to include web server, mail, time, and network management protocols.

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February 16, 2015

CDNLive Silicon Valley: last chance for early bird discount

The $99 discount registration price for Cadence’s main US user conference will no longer be available after Friday (February 20)

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