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July 3, 2014

IEA takes aim at network-device energy consumption

The International Energy Agency (IEA) has turned its attention to slashing the electricity demands of network-attached devices with a report that says manufacturers and service providers need to look at changes to protocols and features such as energy harvesting.
July 3, 2014

DVCon India heads to Bangalore

As well as starting up a version for the European market, the Accellera Systems Initiative is taking DVCon to India in the early autumn.
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July 2, 2014

OpenPDK accelerates design kit production at ST

STMicroelectronics is using the OpenPDK standard from Si2 to speed up the production and delivery of process design kits (PDKs) and asks for wider adoption by foundries.
June 25, 2014

Sensor-hub infrastructure moves to open source

With the aim of accelerating the development of applications and algorithms that harness sensor fusion, startup Sensor Platforms has released as open source its Open Sensor Platform (OSP).
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June 25, 2014

Don’t just whine – it’s time for you to help shape DAC 2015

Any conference can only be as good as the feedback it gets. And next year's DAC team is actively looking for yours. It'll be worth your time.
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June 25, 2014

Accellera releases version 1.2 of UVM

Accellera has released the latest version of the Universal Verification Methodology (UVM) class reference document, with additions to the way in which testbenches can handle messages and registers.
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June 20, 2014

14nm FD-SOI pushes strain and body bias for power savings

At the VLSI Technology Symposium a team led by STMicroelectronics described the techniques used for the upcoming 14nm FD-SOI to boost speed and density over the 28nm version.
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June 13, 2014

Path to 5nm plotted at DAC panel

Panel discusses Moore's law scaling beyond the 14nm node to 5nm, where economic, device, interconnect, materials, lithography and design issues abound
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June 12, 2014

Internet of Things: an opportunity, but for whom?

Building the internet of Things will demand collaboration and a healthy ecosystem
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June 10, 2014

Verilog-AMS release adds to power-aware analog modeling

Accellera has published version 2.4 of the Verilog-AMS standard for mixed-signal modeling and verification as the group works on a merger of the language with SystemVerilog.

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