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June 25, 2018

Node-variant FinFET tweaks try to improve cost, performance

Foundries have taken aim at standard-cell track height and design-rule tweaks to try to improve the area efficiency and performance of derivative finFET processes.
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June 22, 2018

Mentor strikes deal to buy Austemper

Deal to buy functional safety specialist builds out the automotive and Industry 4.0 offerings for Mentor and its parent Siemens.
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June 22, 2018

GlobalFoundries plays with metal gear in search for solid gains

At VLSI Symposia 2018, GlobalFoundries researchers proposed looking at the metal-gate ‘gear’ ratio as a way of improving the routability of standard cells.
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June 21, 2018

DAC 2018 preview: Real Intent

Real Intent's move into post-synthesis CDC debug leads its DAC 2018 activities, with technical papers on its new Verix PhyCDC tool also now online for those who cannot make it.
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June 21, 2018

DAC 2018 preview: Breker Verification Systems

The portable stimulus pioneer will demonstrate how the technology and standard have been leveraged for its new Trek5 release.
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June 20, 2018

SAR-VCO combo tunes RF receiver power on 16nm

Researchers from the UC Berkeley and Intel teamed up to develop an energy-tuneable RF front-end on a digital finFET process with no need for analog process options.
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June 20, 2018

DAC 2018 preview: Mentor

Mentor will be present throughout the DAC program but with a particular focus on machine learning, artificial intelligence and automotive challenges.
June 20, 2018

DAC 2018 preview: Austemper Design Systems

Functional safety specialist will demonstrate extensions to its own suite and co-host demos highlighting its collaboration with OneSpin Solutions.
June 19, 2018

Holistic verification change needed for self-driving cars

Verification of the coming generation of highly autonomous vehicles needs says Peter Davies, director of security concepts at Thales.
June 19, 2018

Exploring the automotive industry’s requirements for data converter IP

What does it take to build data converter IP that will meet the reliability and functional safety requirements of the automotive industry?
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