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March 20, 2013

DATE: The rise of the power architect

Docea Power extends power and thermal analysis tools to address complexity and sub-dividing responsibilities among architects.
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March 19, 2013

SoC prototyping ascends the learning curve

Leading vendors and users spoke of the challenges in developing today's SoCs when faced with a plethora of prototyping techniques - and the challenges that remain.
March 19, 2013

DATE: Mobile phone to drive Internet of Things MEMS wave

The Internet of Things will drive the next phase for MEMS, greatly helped by a change in the way that the mobile phone interacts with its environment, says Benedetto Vigna of STMicroelectronics.
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March 19, 2013

FD-SOI costs to match bulk by year end, says ST

STMicroelectronics pushes on with FDSOI despite dissolution of ST-Ericcson joint venture that provided the lead customer for the process.
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March 11, 2013

RF boards go open source

Lime Microsystems has decided to join the open-source hardware movement in the hope of building an RF analog of the Arduino.
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February 26, 2013

Intel foundry to make Altera FPGAs

Intel's announcement that it will make FPGAs for Altera in an upcoming 14nm finFET process will reshape the programmable logic, and foundry, businesses.
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February 21, 2013

ISSCC 2013: AMD constraints help tame Jaguar

Some conservative decisions were important parts of AMD's design strategy for the 28nm core that's just been specified in PlayStation 4
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February 20, 2013

ISSCC 2013: IBM adds digital logic synthesis methodology for System z

The paper on the 32nm upgrade to Big Blue's family of server chips also detailed how the company is tackling BTI.
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February 19, 2013

ISSCC 2013: AMD on how to make a Star Trek holodeck… eventually

Keynoter Lisa Su spun a whimsical idea to serious intent as AMD looks to promote its model for heterogeneous architectures
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February 14, 2013

Multicore-programming guide released

The Multicore Association has launched a guide to programming multicore systems in C and C++.
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