IEF: Samsung wants a skunk-works
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.
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Aart de Geus on the changing face of EDA
The president and co-CEO of Synopsys provides his take on the mounting influence of software and physical effects in the creation of SoCs.
TI tool hands out low-power tips
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.
Yocto Project gets a useful shove from Mentor
The Yocto Project brings the 'ecosystem' concept to embedded Linux and the tool vendor's launch builds that idea out nicely.
The return of the ‘custom’ embedded OS
Colin Walls of Mentor Graphics on a significant surprise in UBM’s latest market survey
DATE 2012: Coverage roundup
This page brings together all of our coverage from Design Automation and Test in Europe 2012 in Dresden, Germany.
DATE notebook: Stack those servers high
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 decodes a surprising power benefit
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.
Can envelope tracking save LTE?
The high peak to average power ratios of LTE signals pose a power challenge to handset designers. Envelope tracking may help ease the problem.
Washington seeds market for unmanned aviation
Unmanned aerial vehicles have received a boost from a Senate vote, opening up opportunities for electronics designers.
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