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Among the papers that will be presented at the end of October, this year's DVCon Europe will demonstrate the benefits of taking good ideas from wherever you can in the pursuit of more effective verification flows.

At its DevSummit, Arm talked about the progress being made in Project Cassini, an initiative to bring cloud-style deployment and management tools to connected embedded systems.

SystemReady program takes server firmware and operating system compatibility concepts into the embedded and IoT space.

Graphics and AI specialist nVidia has been confirmed as the buyer of Arm from Softbank Vision Fund in a transaction worth up to $40bn, with the fund retaining a 10 per cent share in Arm if the deal completes.

TSMC is using its growing experience with EUV lithography to fill in sub-nodes between its major releases as it prepares to extend finFET technology to the forthcoming N3 process.

An RF Laboratories engineer provides some tips and techniques in the context of the PADS Professional suite.

Arm works with EDA to find new efficiencies based on extra CTL-based check in Questa runs.

Mentor adds Analog FastSPICE eXTreme innovations for designs facing increasing parasitic complexity and contact resistance challenges at cutting edge nodes.

Heterogeneous integration has the potential to overcome the yield and cost challenges presented by the growing headwinds associated with process scaling. But it may take a dramatic rethink in design approaches.

In a panel session at VLSI Symposia, AMD described how the economics have come down strongly in favor of multichip integration for multicore server processors.