EDA

As 2015's general chair for the Design Automation Conference, Anne Cirkel has looked to extend the attraction of the leading EDA, IP and embedded event.

May 19 is the deadline for 'I Love DAC' offering free access to exhibits and many events, panels and speeches at the 2015 Design Automation Conference.

Altera is revamping the Quartus II software for its FPGAs with a mapping and synthesis engine aimed at the upcoming Gen 10 products, as well as adding a C/C++ front-end for system-level design.

Intel 14nm finFET SoC process is among the highlights of the 2015 VLSI Symposia alongside research that looks at the integration of III-V and 2D materials for future processes.

Cabling and its weight are helping to drive integration and a shift towards wireless communication within cars, says NXP's automotive CTO.

Cadence Design Systems has launched a debug tool designed to improve the speed of bug hunting in SystemVerilog but which the company expects to grow into analog and post-silicon work.

Mentor Graphics is working on technology to analyse the effects of mechanical stress on integrated circuits, describing progress at the company's U2U conference.

The Design Automation Conference in San Francisco this year will again feature a day of half-day training courses provided by Doulos on Thursday, June 11 .

Mentor Graphics has launched Calibre xACT, a tool that uses deterministic algorithms to extract parasitics from complex finFET and other nanometer processes.

Deep learning offers the next major opportunity for specialist processors, Qualcomm's Karim Arabi claimed in his keynote at Mentor Graphics’ U2U in San Jose.