low power

March 22, 2013

DATE: Silicon Europe plans to build cluster of clusters

Four of the European centers for electronics research and business development have set up a project to try to create a virtual “silicon cluster” that aims ultimately to build a worldwide development network for energy-efficient systems.
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March 20, 2013

DATE: The rise of the power architect

Docea Power extends power and thermal analysis tools to address complexity and sub-dividing responsibilities among architects.
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February 25, 2013

DVCon: UPF and CPF harmony in low power is only a foundation

As DVCon begins, we interview Cadence's Qi Wang, who has led its efforts to converge the Common Power Format with its rival as the IEEE1801 standard is revamped.
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February 19, 2013

ISSCC 2013: Energy harvesting needs to prioritize

ISSCC expert panel highlights lowering power over energy sources and identifies the need to focus on the product rather than the technology
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December 11, 2012

Intel launches its first microserver SoC

Intel has launched its first server SoC, based on a stripped-down Atom, in a bid to seal its place in microservers before ARM can ready its 64bit architecture for production. But the chip seems more a stake in the ground than the answer for low-power servers.
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December 11, 2012

FD-SOI vs finFETs mulled during IEDM

Can planar devices on fully depleted SOI resist the relentless rise of finFETs as the next device architecture of choice for the semiconductor industry? An evening panel at IEDM explored the trade-offs
December 5, 2012

IPSoC: Software power optimization ‘must start earlier’

Embedded software engineers need to focus on power optimization in their code much earlier and more comprehensively than many of them do today, says Mentor Graphics technologist Colin Walls.
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October 30, 2012

ARM’s 64bit shift provides clean-up opportunity

ARM has named the first pair of processor cores that employ its 64bit architecture and revealed that an architectural clean-up is likely to result in the smaller of the pair requiring less silicon real estate than the existing 32bit Cortex-A9.
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October 30, 2012

AMD mixes it up with ARM64 server processors

AMD adopts ARM64 to promote heterogeneous processing and encourage users to break with Intel and x86 in the enterprise market.
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October 26, 2012

Mentor Graphics CEO Wally Rhines – Interview

The Mentor chief discusses ESL-based low power, emulation, 32nm to 20nm and using tools in the cloud.

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