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June 2, 2014

Mentor’s Wally Rhines on tools as a cultural issue

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.
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June 2, 2014

Synopsys uses virtual prototyping kits to kick start IP integration

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
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May 29, 2014

Do not trust the cores, Trojans

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?
May 22, 2014

Imagination in push for Java and open source

Imagination Technologies has set up an open-source effort that mirrors ARM's Linaro group and cut a deal with Oracle for Java optimization.
May 20, 2014

Vorsprung durch 3D technik for Audi

The automotive sector could become one of the key markets for 3D integration according to the head of Audi's progressive semiconductor program.
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May 20, 2014

Cadence signs with ARM for core optimizations

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.
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April 24, 2014

Altera finds a way to cheaper floating point in FPGAs

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.
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April 8, 2014

ARM moves to open-source compiler

ARM has decided to shift from using its in-house compiler technology to the open-source combination of Clang and LLVM.
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April 4, 2014

Silicon suppliers home in on energy-harvesting sensor nodes

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.
April 2, 2014

MIPS-based board for Google wearables launched by Chinese chip company

Newton, a MIPS based board from Ingenic, is optimized for Android Gear smartwatches, wearables and IoT designs.
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