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The EDA Consortium is rebranding and extending its activities to better reflect all the tools and services that now comprise IC design.

The 53rd Design Automation Conference has published its program for the upcoming event in Austin, Texas, which will include keynotes from AMD, nVidia, and NXP Semiconductors and tracks that connect electronics to biology.

The DATE 2016 conference saw the launch of a competition to encourage novel designs using MEMS technology.

X-Fab Silicon Foundries has upgraded its 6in fab in Lubbock, Texas to handle silicon carbide wafers in parallel with existing silicon production.

Tektronix has moved the some of the active signal-conditioning to the tip to develop a probe for oscilloscopes that can handle bandwidths up to 20GHz and with less need for de-embedding techniques.

Open-source hardware, in-field configurability, and a hardware-plus-services approach could protect margins as the IoT hammers down costs, says GSA report.

Mentor Graphics' recent deal with ARM illustrates how proliferation in design is influencing deals between tool and IP vendors.

About 1,600 new UVM System Verilog verification IP memory models will cut testbench development time and offer more time to increase coverage.

Videos discuss formal verification planning, correct initialisation, writing constraints, developing properties, interpreting results - and knowing when you have done enough.

Mentor Graphics is looking to get yet more efficiency from its market-leading Veloce emulator family through an OS upgrade and new task-specific Apps.