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October 25, 2016

ARM brings security to Cortex-M family

ARM has launched the first of a series of Cortex-M series microcontrollers based on the V8M architecture that incorporate the Trustzone security mechanism.
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October 24, 2016

Serdes deal to push copper server interconnect to 100Gbit/s

A licensing deal with GlobalFoundries has provided chipmaker Aquantia with the ability to speed up development of a 100Gbit/s link technology for data centers.
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October 24, 2016

7nm finFET process techniques lead IEDM lineup

At the 62nd annual IEDM taking place in early December two of the leading groups in process development will take the wraps off their 7nm finFET technologies.
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October 17, 2016

Portable stimulus gears up to accelerate verification

Ahead of a tutorial on the technique at DVCon Europe with other EDA experts, Breker's Adnan Hamid talks about the need for portable stimulus in verification.
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October 14, 2016

ARM TechCon: Mentor Graphics preview

Catch up with the vendor's plans for the ARM technical conference in Santa Clara later this month.
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October 13, 2016

ESD Alliance to describe system shift at DVCon Europe

Electronic System Design Alliance executive director Bob Smith is to be be the keynote speaker during the DVCon Europe gala dinner.
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October 11, 2016

Achronix moves into embedded FPGA

Achronix has decided to offer the FPGA technology it has developed as a set of embeddable cores.
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October 10, 2016

Speeding up AMS design in the age of finFETs

STMicroelectronics, Samsung, GSI Technology and Synopsys talk about the challenges of doing AMS design on finFET processes.
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October 10, 2016

Ceva aims to displace ARM in IoT nodes with combo processor

Ceva has decided to take its VLIW architecture into the world of IoT sensor nodes and smart wearables with the launch of the X1 processor core.
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October 10, 2016

Cadence packages VIP for ten protocols

Cadence Design Systems has released a set of ten verification IP packages intended to support a new crop of standard protocols.
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