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Leading vendors and users spoke of the challenges in developing today's SoCs when faced with a plethora of prototyping techniques - and the challenges that remain.

What is the legacy of the most famous textbook in chip design: Carver Mead and Lynn Conway’s Introduction to VLSI Systems? Although some core assumptions were misses and the silicon compiler concept was outcompeted by other ideas, more than 30 years on it remains a key blueprint for IC design.

The chip industry faces problems as foundries and the packaging industry compete over 3D technologies. If resolved, it could mean a new dawn in ASIC design.

The Internet of Things will drive the next phase for MEMS, greatly helped by a change in the way that the mobile phone interacts with its environment, says Benedetto Vigna of STMicroelectronics.

STMicroelectronics pushes on with FDSOI despite dissolution of ST-Ericcson joint venture that provided the lead customer for the process.

Mentor Graphics has release a version of its Flotherm tool that makes it possible to build accurate models of heat flow through electronic systems from initial concepts through to prototypes without the extensive manual rework that these analyses have needed traditionally.

Experts from Cadence and Synopsys talk about the implications for designers of the rise of ‘systems of systems’.

The purchase of Tensilica by Cadence Design Systems could prove the way that EDA and multicore-based system design come together.

Cadence Design Systems has announced on the eve of CDNLive Silicon Valley that it has decided to buy configurable-processor company Tensilica for approximately $380m in cash.

Lime Microsystems has decided to join the open-source hardware movement in the hope of building an RF analog of the Arduino.