March 7, 2013
Tanner EDA has completed the port of its HiPer Silicon design suite to work with the OpenAccess database, providing better interoperability with foundry process design kits (PDKs) and with other vendors’ IC design tools as well as providing better support for multiple users accessing the same design.
March 4, 2013
The Motor Industry Software Reliability Association (MISRA) is nearing publication of the latest version of its coding standard intended to make C safer for use in critical embedded systems.
February 26, 2013
Intel's announcement that it will make FPGAs for Altera in an upcoming 14nm finFET process will reshape the programmable logic, and foundry, businesses.
February 25, 2013
As DVCon begins, we interview Cadence's Qi Wang, who has led its efforts to converge the Common Power Format with its rival as the IEEE1801 standard is revamped.
February 23, 2013
The Multicore Association has published the MTAPI specification for a programming interface that aims to simplify the job of building applications that can not only use many cores running in parallel but schedule jobs dynamically depending on which types of core are available.
February 21, 2013
Some conservative decisions were important parts of AMD's design strategy for the 28nm core that's just been specified in PlayStation 4
February 19, 2013
TSVs and layers of organic electronics provide two ways to build medical sensors and prosthetics, as shown at ISSCC 2013.
February 19, 2013
Keynoter Lisa Su spun a whimsical idea to serious intent as AMD looks to promote its model for heterogeneous architectures
February 19, 2013
ISSCC expert panel highlights lowering power over energy sources and identifies the need to focus on the product rather than the technology
February 14, 2013
The Multicore Association has launched a guide to programming multicore systems in C and C++.
