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The DATE 2016 conference saw the launch of a competition to encourage novel designs using MEMS technology.

X-Fab Silicon Foundries has upgraded its 6in fab in Lubbock, Texas to handle silicon carbide wafers in parallel with existing silicon production.

Open-source hardware, in-field configurability, and a hardware-plus-services approach could protect margins as the IoT hammers down costs, says GSA report.

Mentor Graphics' recent deal with ARM illustrates how proliferation in design is influencing deals between tool and IP vendors.

About 1,600 new UVM System Verilog verification IP memory models will cut testbench development time and offer more time to increase coverage.

Verification specialist's DVCon activities are headlined by a panel on emulation and static verification.

Mentor Graphics chairman and CEO Wally Rhines will deliver the DVCon keynote as the vendor sets a deep agenda for the conference.

The Calibre vendor will have a strong technical presence at the leading lithography conference taking place in late February in San Jose.

Cadence has use physically aware placement in a test tool that promises less routing congestion for scan test and which increases the potential for stimulus compression.

Driving down energy consumption for the IoT, making portable stimulus deliver real benefits and the practical benefts of a globalizing DVCon.