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April 10, 2018

Cadence tunes Virtuoso for 5nm and SIP

Cadence Design Systems has made enhancements to its Virtuoso mixed-signal layout tool at both the system-level and nanometer-design levels for its 18.1 release.
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April 10, 2018

Control test point counts for ISO 26262

The automotive safety standard targets 90% in-system test coverage. VersaPoint technology helps to simplify reaching your target.
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April 9, 2018

DAC keynotes and sessions aim for AI

DAC in June will feature a series of keynotes and technical sessions on machine learning and AI for both target applications and in the design process itself.
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April 5, 2018

Leti releases photonics design kit for Synopsys PhoeniX OptoDesigner suite

PDK enables photonics prototyping on MPW runs and compatibility with volume production at STMicroelectronics at Crolles.
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April 5, 2018

Mentor aims to grow emulation with lower gate-count hardware

Strato emulator family adds modular boxes that can build from 640K and 1.25B gate-counts for automotive, mil/aero markets and 'digital twin' strategies.
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March 23, 2018

Layout schema generation speeds early-stage yield learning

LSG generates random design-like test vehicles to enable more detailed pre-ramp analysis for incoming nodes.
March 21, 2018

VLSI Symposia adds day for AI

June's Symposia on VLSI Technology & Circuits will bring together a number of industry trends that extend from implantable biomedical applications to machine learning and cloud computing under the banner of technologies for ‘smart living’.
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March 19, 2018

Xilinx plans reconfigurable compute for 7nm FPGA generation

Xilinx plans to make reconfigurable computing the focus of its upcoming generation of FPGAs, which will be made on a 7nm finFET process at TSMC and expected to start sampling next year.
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March 19, 2018

Accellera begins IP security-assurance standards effort

Accellera Systems Initiative has begun a project that may result in the creation of a standard to address security assurance for semiconductor IP cores.
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March 9, 2018

DATE 2018 preview: Mentor

DATE highlights for Mentor include a 90-minute workshop on achieving functional safety for autonomous driving.