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At DAC 2014, Intel’s chief security architect Ernie Brickell described the processor maker’s approach to protecting hardware and software from hacks and attacks.

Whether you're going to DAC this week or not, it's worth remembering one of the other key factors that will inform your judgments on new tools.

Synopsys is porting its IP to a series of virtual prototyping kits in a plan to cut the amount of time that it takes to integrate new high-speed interfaces such as USB 3.0

If someone put a piece of RTL into your SoC designed to leak information to the outside world, or simply kill the device stone dead, could you spot it?

Imagination Technologies has set up an open-source effort that mirrors ARM's Linaro group and cut a deal with Oracle for Java optimization.

The automotive sector could become one of the key markets for 3D integration according to the head of Audi's progressive semiconductor program.

Cadence Design Systems has signed up for a licence to ARM cores that will let the EDA supplier optimize support for 32bit and 64bit Cortex processors in its tools.

Altera has revealed that the DSP blocks in the Arria 10 FPGAs contain the logic needed to make them work as IEEE754-compliant floating-point units.

ARM has decided to shift from using its in-house compiler technology to the open-source combination of Clang and LLVM.

Power converters are arriving on the market with the aim of simplifying the job of building energy-harvesting systems for wireless sensor nodes and the Internet of Things.