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April 7, 2014
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DAC 2014 offers free exhibit entry for three days

The 51st Design Automation Conference, to be held in San Francisco in early June, is offering free exhibit floor entry for the full three days.
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April 4, 2014

Silicon suppliers home in on energy-harvesting sensor nodes

Power converters are arriving on the market with the aim of simplifying the job of building energy-harvesting systems for wireless sensor nodes and the Internet of Things.
April 4, 2014
Transistors on IDTechEx Printed Electronics 2014 demonstrator

Conference demonstrator brings printed-electronics suppliers together

For its Printed Electronics conference, IDTechEx pulled together a team together with P&G to develop a collaborative demonstration of the technology.
April 3, 2014

Mentor’s User2User Silicon Valley conference this week

Registration is free-of-charge to attend Mentor, Oracle and Samsung keynotes and choose from nine technical tracks at one-day event.
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April 2, 2014

MIPS-based board for Google wearables launched by Chinese chip company

Newton, a MIPS based board from Ingenic, is optimized for Android Gear smartwatches, wearables and IoT designs.
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March 27, 2014

Automated driving: have you got 1000 centuries to spare?

Self-driving connected cars will drive a change in the way systems are architected for safety, according to Bosch research chief Michael Bolle.
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March 27, 2014

Intel and Altera extend foundry deal into interposer and full 3D

Deal quashes rumors that Altera was about to move its cutting edge production back to TSMC, but nor does it appear to be 'exclusive' for 3D products.
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March 27, 2014

Mentor’s Valor tightens PCB design-to-manufacture links

Valor NPI-based flow claims first in automating the passage of drawings to fabrication, and enabling dynamic DFM feedback from manufacturers.
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March 26, 2014

Even EUV faces a 1D future, says IMEC

IMEC's Rudy Lauwereins explained at DATE 2014 how 1D routing for self-aligned multiple patterning is likely to be inevitable even if EUV makes it into production fabs.
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March 26, 2014

Real Intent’s Ascent XV at the ‘fuzzy’ boundary between design and verificiation

Upgrade to Ascent XV X-propagation and reset optimization tool claims 10X runtime gain, deeper reporting, further integration with Verdi and more.
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