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January 15, 2014

Power analyzer pulls in scope functions for energy-saving designs

Yokogawa has pulled together power meter and oscilloscope functions into a hybrid instrument for teams working to increasingly stringent energy-usage regulations.
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January 14, 2014

Cadence updates Incisive with formal, CRV, wreal additions

Cadence's Incisive 13.2 verification environment includes new formal and constraints engines, X propagation checks, and further real-number model support.
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January 13, 2014

Inside Secure to offer IP for mobile hardware vaults

Inside Secure has developed a set of certification-ready hardware IP modules that can be used stand-alone or in conjunction with ARM's TrustZone
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December 16, 2013

Synopsys puts physical IP prototypes into developers’ hands

Synopsys launches HAPS-DX, an FPGA-based IP and subsystem prototyping system, with an optimized toolchain and interoperability with HAPS-70 systems.
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November 20, 2013

FinFETs’ III-V future promises sub-7nm, RF and opto CMOS

FinFETs for 7nm and below processes will be able to integrate high-mobility III-V materials despite being built on silicon processes, thanks to recent work by imec.
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November 20, 2013

Complexity to force shift to four-stage verification

The complexity of on-chip interconnect and the relentless growth in software size will drive the move to a four-stage verification process as well as the increased use of formal techniques to speed up SoC-level testing, Mentor Graphics verification specialist Mark Olen claimed at the Verification Futures conference.
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November 19, 2013

An easier start for UVM, take two

Training company Doulos is working on a second version of its Easier UVM guidelines intended to speed up the process of getting a UVM testbench underway for new users.
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November 12, 2013

Cadence ties IR drop into static timing analysis

Cadence Design Systems uses parallelism in its Voltus tool to provide faster IR drop analysis and bridge static timing and IC-level power-integrity analysis.
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November 6, 2013

Entrepreneurs get help for hardware

Highway1 has opened up Spring applications for its incubation service for hardware startups: trying to overcome the gap between prototype and product.
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November 5, 2013

Synopsys aims at fast real-time apps with ARC HS family

Synopsys has launched the ARC HS family of configurable-processor cores, using superpipelining to target high-performance embedded applications.
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