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August 16, 2018

IBM and Synopsys to apply DTCO to post-finFET process development

Collaboration on DTCO offers IBM a better way to evaluate combinations of transistor architectures, materials and other process technology innovations using design metrics, before real wafers become available for physical experimentation.
August 3, 2018

MPW service arrives for RRAM

Research institute Leti and low-volume wafer service CMP are cooperating on a project to let fabless chipmakers explore the use of non-volatile resistive RAMs in their designs.
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July 30, 2018

56G Ethernet IP to enable leaf-spine hyperscale data centres

Faster PHYs needed to shift vast amounts of data around giant data centres.
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July 30, 2018

Synopsys catalogues AI IP

The rapid growth of interest in machine learning and artificial intelligence has prompted Synopsys to bring all its AI IP together in a microsite and brochure.
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July 20, 2018

Why the time has come for cloud-based emulation

Mentor has untethered its Veloce platform online because it feels more designs need emulation and the cloud can now support it.
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July 11, 2018

Leti and Soitec partner for wafer development

Research institute Leti and Soitec have decided to team up to work on a new generation of engineered substrates, such as specialized SOI wafers.
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July 2, 2018

Tools suppliers back version 1.0 of portable-stimulus standard

Accellera has published the first release of the Portable Test and Stimulus Standard (PSS), with tools suppliers following up with software support.
June 27, 2018

EDA needs to work on the back end, says Qualcomm

It’s the back-end that needs work as system-level considerations begin to dominate design, Qualcomm’s vice president of engineering said at DAC.
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June 25, 2018

IoT devices need surprises, Amazon claims

IoT device makers should play more with their software and make use of techniques used in website design to increase overall usability, Amazon’s head of IoT analytics has claimed.
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June 25, 2018

Cadence puts tools in the cloud

Cadence Design Systems has made a collection of its tools suitable for cloud computing, providing them for both Cadence- and customer-managed environments.
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