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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.

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

A massive MIMO processor being developed at Lund Unversity is serving as a testbed for a platform view that National Instruments is building for LabView.

What's in a millisecond? The difference between today's embedded systems and tomorrow's, Professor Gerhard Fettweis of TU of Dresden said at DATE 2014.

New data model and optimisation strategy, plus revised analysis engines update Synopsys's IC Compiler place and route tool

Mentor Graphics has bought Berkeley Design Automation (BDA), a specialist in analog, mixed-signal, and RF circuit verification using FastSpice.

SAR analog-to-digital converters promise better energy efficiency for a growing range of designs, as S3 Group has found.

New-look Xpedition flow launches with preview of layout features including better control over automation, 2D/3D views, and a UI even for 'casual' users.

For a new 32bit microcontroller family, FTDI Chip has decided to not follow the crowd into the ARM camp but go it alone with its own proprietary architecture

The Multicore Association is getting close to publishing the first version of a specification that aims to standardise the way processor designers can describe the available parallelism