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Foundry licenses atomistic TCAD simulator to better understand key aspects of advanced process nodes.

Cadence Design Systems has developed an FPGA-based prototyping system that takes advantage of much closer alignment with its existing Palladium XP emulator to accelerate bring-up and support debugging across both platforms.

Cadence has launched a parasitic-extraction tool that takes better advantage of multiple computers and which has been certified for TSMC's 16nm finFET process.

FinScale has developed a design and process recipe for a finFET structure that the company claims is easier to make but which provides better performance than existing approaches.

Coverage and hardware acceleration can bring greater focus to the SoC-level checks needed to ensure that the final silicon works as expected – both issues tackled in an archived Cadence webinar.

Chinese foundry Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC) is to get a helping hand to develop a production-class 28nm process from Qualcomm Technologies.

As well as starting up a version for the European market, the Accellera Systems Initiative is taking DVCon to India in the early autumn.

STMicroelectronics is using the OpenPDK standard from Si2 to speed up the production and delivery of process design kits (PDKs) and asks for wider adoption by foundries.

Any conference can only be as good as the feedback it gets. And next year's DAC team is actively looking for yours. It'll be worth your time.

Accellera has released the latest version of the Universal Verification Methodology (UVM) class reference document, with additions to the way in which testbenches can handle messages and registers.