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As part of its move online during the pandemic, DVCon Europe is introducing what the organizers call Virtual Experience Rooms.

Mentor, a Siemens business, plans to expand the team working on the Aprisa place-and-route tool following the purchase of Avatar Integrated Systems, announced in July.

Small startup gets flexible cloud access to big iron to prove a novel processor architecture quickly.

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.

Cadence has developed a stimulus optimizer based on neural networks to try to improve the runtime of constrained-random verification runs.

Recent developments have made Open-RAN look more attractive as a way of implementing 5G systems. This is helping to drive a shift-left in verification and test.

The chair of Accellera’s IP security assurance working group expects the draft standard for hardening hardware core to be out by the end of the year.

Talks in the Design-on-Cloud Pavilion at this year’s DAC demonstrated how the question over its usage is not so much whether design could or should migrate to the cloud but how to optimize cost and performance when it’s there.

DTCO and 3D integration will dominate scaling in the coming decade, TSMC chief scientist Philip Wong claimed in his keynote at DAC on Monday

Breker has added a number of specialized apps to its library that deal with the verification of RISC-V processors, secure enclaves, and machine-learning designs.