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October 10, 2013

Help preserve EDA’s slice of electronics history

There's still time - just - to reserve your place at EDAC's Back To the Future dinner and auction to raise funds to mark EDA's contribution to our business at the Computer History Museum.
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October 9, 2013

Cadence parallelizes FastSpice for large-scale mixed-signal checks

Cadence Design Systems has developed a version of its Spectre FastSpice tool that splits simulation across many computers without manually cutting the design into segments.
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October 9, 2013

Silicon Labs opts for security on M0+ low-power MCUs

Silicon Labs is aiming at Internet of Things applications with an ARM Cortex M0+-based MCU family with encryption engine and low-energy DAC for biasing analog circuitry.
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October 8, 2013

Wreal and Open Access star in mixed-signal summit

Real-value modelling and flows using the Open Access database will be among the focus topics of Cadence's Mixed-Signal Technology Summit on 10 October.
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October 4, 2013

eSilicon delivers free MPW quote tool

Design services company eSilicon has made freely available a tool it developed to streamline ordering for multi-project wafer (MPW) ‘shuttle’ services.
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October 4, 2013

Design kit for 10nm FD-SOI due out next year

Research group CEA-Leti expects to have design kits ready for a 10nm FD-SOI process in June 2014
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October 2, 2013

IP-XACT gets design-flow extensions

Accellera has vendor extensions for IP-XACT that allow tool-specific metadata to be added to support activities such as power-aware verification and floorplanning.
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October 2, 2013

Old problems on a new scale

For the new web TV program Unhinged, Brian Fuller talked to venture capitalist Jim Hogan about the future of mixed-signal and the past of EDA.
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September 19, 2013

Real Intent updates X verification tool

Updated tool checks for correct design initialization, as well as managing X optimism and X pessimism at RTL or netlist level.
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September 16, 2013

Distributor builds ECAD-MCAD links with free software

RS Components is now offering a solid-modelling tool to work with its free PCB design tool to provide easier access to 3D mechanical design.
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