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Open-source hardware is going to change the way people buy computing capacity for data centers, says LSI's Rob Ober

Samsung Electronics is setting up a center in Silicon Valley to try to develop technologies that the company hopes will ultimately drive volume for its chipmaking operation.

The president and co-CEO of Synopsys provides his take on the mounting influence of software and physical effects in the creation of SoCs.

Texas Instruments has put together a tool aimed at users of its MSP430 microcontroller family that will help cut the power consumption of their applications.

The Yocto Project brings the 'ecosystem' concept to embedded Linux and the tool vendor's launch builds that idea out nicely.

Colin Walls of Mentor Graphics on a significant surprise in UBM’s latest market survey

This page brings together all of our coverage from Design Automation and Test in Europe 2012 in Dresden, Germany.

Concern over energy consumption could be the key to European companies moving back into the compute server market – or at least that's what the European Commission and researchers think is possible as social networks, GPS data and public video cameras pour data into a growing collection of online storage banks.

ARM has found that in its work on processor design looking at the system-design and process issues as well as the way software interacts with the machine can yield surprising results.

The high peak to average power ratios of LTE signals pose a power challenge to handset designers. Envelope tracking may help ease the problem.