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This week’s RISC-V Summit in California has seen an expansion to the open-source portfolio being built around the architecture as well as increased support from software vendors such as Wind River.

A white paper from Mentor, a Siemens business, shows the growing need for vehicle makers and their supply chain partners to create better links between hardware and software elements.

Xilinx has released the first version of its Vitis development environment as the company aims to capture a user base that is more used to software than hardware tools.

The ESD Alliance is adding design and transportation-systems streams to the Semicon Europa 2019 show.

Arm is among a group of automotive OEMs and component suppliers who have set up a consortium to try to coordinate the development of autonomous-vehicle electronics.

Mentor is active across the program at Arm TechCon with a range of conference and booth talks, demonstrations and presentations.

Siemens is combining recent acquisitions in novel ways, including one that will see a web-app development package interact more closely with Mentor's embedded offerings.

The digital-twin concept provides several avenues to achieving better safety analysis and is likely to benefit from Siemens' integration of Mentor activities.

Non-volatile alternatives to flash are finally moving out of the lab as Applied Materials launches production tools and Arm starts pushing MRAM.

Safety verification calls for increased collaboration across the supply chain, experts say. The challenge is finding ways to make that happen.