EDA

April 10, 2018

Cadence tunes Virtuoso for 5nm and SIP

Cadence Design Systems has made enhancements to its Virtuoso mixed-signal layout tool at both the system-level and nanometer-design levels for its 18.1 release.
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April 10, 2018

Control test point counts for ISO 26262

The automotive safety standard targets 90% in-system test coverage. VersaPoint technology helps to simplify reaching your target.
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April 5, 2018

Leti releases photonics design kit for Synopsys PhoeniX OptoDesigner suite

PDK enables photonics prototyping on MPW runs and compatibility with volume production at STMicroelectronics at Crolles.
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April 5, 2018

Mentor aims to grow emulation with lower gate-count hardware

Strato emulator family adds modular boxes that can build from 640K and 1.25B gate-counts for automotive, mil/aero markets and 'digital twin' strategies.
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March 23, 2018

Layout schema generation speeds early-stage yield learning

LSG generates random design-like test vehicles to enable more detailed pre-ramp analysis for incoming nodes.
March 9, 2018

DATE 2018 preview: Mentor

DATE highlights for Mentor include a 90-minute workshop on achieving functional safety for autonomous driving.
February 28, 2018

Cadence and Imec tape out 3nm interconnect test chip

Cadence and Imec have worked together on a project to tape out a test chip to explore manufacturing and design-rule options for the interconnect on future 3nm processes.
February 27, 2018

Synopsys UFS 3.0 IP doubles bandwidth to flash

Faster, lower power flash interface IP with built-in encryption/decryption speeds access to embedded and removable storage.
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February 23, 2018

Mentor framework pulls devices into the cloud

With the aim of making it easier for embedded devices to cooperate in an IoT environment, Mentor has launched a cloud connectivity and management framework.
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February 21, 2018

Bulk transistor design aims for near-threshold power cuts

Semiwise, a startup founded by University of Glasgow professor Asen Asenov and former CEO of Gold Standard Simulations (GSS), has developed a low-power CMOS transistor technology suitable for ultralow-power sensor nodes.
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