DAC 2017 preview: Mentor
Mentor, a Siemens business, has released details on its varied activities at DAC 2017, ranging from panels to technical papers.
Standards
DVCon China looms as submission deadline for Europe approaches
The first Chinese edition of Accellera's conference series takes place in Shanghai next Wednesday (April 19).
EEMBC starts rollout of IoT wireless benchmarks
The benchmarking consortium EEMBC has released the first of series package designed to measure the energy efficiency of IoT wireless communications, kicking off with one for Bluetooth Low Energy.
DVCon US 2017 preview: Mentor Graphics
The major verification conference is looming and Mentor's participation will include tutorials that explore the latest in portable stimulus, SystemC, VIP and more.
VLSI Symposia issue calls for papers
Online paper submissions are now open for the 2017 Symposia on VLSI Technology and Circuits.
Benchmark effort to look at IoT security performance
EEMBC has launched a benchmarking effort to test the performance of security and crypto-functions on embedded devices.
Multicore Association to update performance-estimation standard
The Multicore Association has started work on the second version of its SHIM performance-modeling standard for SoCs.
Multicore standard works on fast communications
Work by the Multicore Association to provide a standard way for applications running on different processors to communicate with each other is leading to active implementations.
7nm finFET process techniques lead IEDM lineup
At the 62nd annual IEDM taking place in early December two of the leading groups in process development will take the wraps off their 7nm finFET technologies.
EEMBC updates automotive benchmark for scalability tests
EEMBC has released version 2.0 of its suite for measuring the performance of automotive powertrain tasks on multicore processors.