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ARM, Xilinx, Cadence Design Systems, and TSMC have agreed to produce a test chip for the CCIX project.

Automotive test has never been easy. Safety made sure of that. But the move to autonomous vehicles is making it more challenging still.

Placement-aware synthesis and an array of post-layout recovery steps have helped drive up the clock speed and silicon utilization of a series high-end SoCs on leading-edge processes developed by customers of Synopsys' implementation tools.

ARM has expanded its DesignStart program by providing access to the Cortex-M3 as well as the M0 with no up-front licence fee.

EUV and fin optimization help build Samsung's upcoming 7nm process, the company discloses at the VLSI Technology Symposium.

Semiconductor supplier Microsemi has used the Eclipse open-source IDE platform to develop a Windows-based toolchain for CPUs that supports the RISC-V instruction set.

EDA's leading association will be visible across the program at DAC 2017 from CEO interviews to social events.

Synopsys has released details on its varied activities at DAC 2017, ranging from panels to technical papers.

A year on from the last Computex and the launch of the Cortex-A73 and Mali-G71, ARM has launched a new trio of processors aimed not just at smartphones this time but servers and driver-assistance systems.

Engineering consultancy pays undisclosed sum for IMGworks division.