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June 5, 2012

DAC 2012: ARM tips subthreshold power-gating technique

Could subthreshold circuitry help extend the reach of power gating? Mike Muller said during his DAC keynote that the technique looks viable.
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June 5, 2012

DAC2012: Rethink tools licensing for cloud computing, EDA Industry told

Could more flexible licensing strategies for cloud-based EDA enable more efficient simulation and a new wave of business models?
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June 4, 2012

DAC2012: Blue Pearl partners Xilinx, develops grey-box approach to ARM cores

Blue Pearl is building alliances to bring its timing analysis tools to more users.
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June 1, 2012

DAC 2012: STMicro, Cadence, GlobalFoundries in 20nm AMS claims

The troops will be out in force next week to claim progress on 20nm AMS design flows that take manufacturability into account.
May 23, 2012

TI tool hands out low-power tips

Texas Instruments has put together a tool aimed at users of its MSP430 microcontroller family that will help cut the power consumption of their applications.
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May 14, 2012

Intel’s tapered fin reveals short-channel issues

A startup has analyzed the shape of Intel's fins and found the process is not quite as well-behaved as circuit designers would perhaps like.
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April 24, 2012

Xilinx revamps design software for new processes

Xilinx has created Vivado, a new set of tools to support sub-30nm FPGAs that, for advanced designs at least, will take over from its long-established ISE suite.
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April 2, 2012

Mixed-signal for the rest of us from Triad

The specialist AMS foundry Triad Semiconductor has married its ViaASIC drag and drop libraries to Mentor Graphics' SystemVision design environment.

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