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Synopsys has developed a digital signal processing (DSP) instruction set extension to its EM family and two cores that employ it.

If someone put a piece of RTL into your SoC designed to leak information to the outside world, or simply kill the device stone dead, could you spot it?

At DAC 2014, some 30 per cent of exhibitors are IP suppliers, offering design services or both, demonstrating how system-level design is about building on what has gone before.

NetSpeed Systems aims to cut SoC integration time using theories developed for much larger computer networks.

Digi-Key is to sell software developed by Mentor Graphics intended to widen access to PCB design and ease access to vital parts data.

Imagination Technologies has set up an open-source effort that mirrors ARM's Linaro group and cut a deal with Oracle for Java optimization.

Pulsic has developed an automated mixed-signal layout tool that uses multiple generated variants to let designers pick the best implementation.

The automotive sector could become one of the key markets for 3D integration according to the head of Audi's progressive semiconductor program.

Cadence has expanded the reach of its parallelized fastSpice engine and Spectre XPS tool to support general-purpose analog and mixed-signal designs.

Cadence Design Systems has signed up for a licence to ARM cores that will let the EDA supplier optimize support for 32bit and 64bit Cortex processors in its tools.