Mentor’s Wally Rhines on M&A ‘merger mania’
...and why the semiconductor industry hasn't been singularitied down to one MegaSemis Inc even if that's what M&A data suggests.
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Expanding role of UVM takes center stage at DVCon Europe
Tech Design Forum talked to the general and program chairs of DVCon Europe about the conference and how it seeks to show the expansion of IC verification methodologies to the system level.
Software puts deep learning onto embedded DSP
Ceva has launched a software package intended to streamline the porting of convolutional neural network implementations to the XM4 DSP core.
Tensilica vision processor cuts power through memory changes
Memory efficiency has driven the design of the latest video and image processor core developed by Cadence Tensilica.
Vertical structures to debut at IEDM 2015
A novel approach to 3D NAND will be among the presentations at the International Electron Device Meeting to be held in Washington, DC in December.
DVCon Europe initial technical program unveiled
DVCon Europe has published the technical program for its upcoming November conference in Munich, Germany.
IP and software portfolio introduced to speed IoT development
Low-power IP and software portfolio includes security hardware, Bluetooth and ISB interfaces, configurable processors and sensor subsystems
Synopsys extends FPGA-based prototyping to 1.6bn ASIC gates
Synopsys updates its FPGA-based prototyping system to offer more capacity, higher speed, faster bring-up, better ROI
Menta aims for TSMC 28nm with embedded FPGA cores
Menta has launched a family of off-the-shelf IP cores aimed at TSMC’s 28nm processes to provide reconfigurability for SoCs.
USB Type-C IP to ease end users’ frustration
Synopsys delivers reconfigured PHY IP to support reversible USB Type-C connector.