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Texas Instruments has put together a tool aimed at users of its MSP430 microcontroller family that will help cut the power consumption of their applications.

Guest blogger Jeff Wilson discusses some of the subtleties involved in the effective use of dummy fill in deep sub-micron IC designs.

The EDA giant has accelerated and integrated its tool suites and broadened its verification IP catalog in its new look System Development Suite.

This newsletter highlights recently-added content on the site that addresses the connected areas of verification, prototyping and emulation. We’ve also added more overview EDA Guides on major design flow challenges.

Mentor Graphics' user event includes insights on constraints-driven design and the emerging OVM verification methodology in an eye-catching program.

Cutting the cabling to simplify the emulation process.

SpringSoft is trying a different approach to constraint-based design in a bid to improve the automation of custom and mixed-signal design, particularly on advanced process nodes.

Mentor Graphics' CEO Wally Rhines picked out the trends he says can boost design productivity and drive growth for tools vendors at the company's Silicon Valley User2User conference

Subtle data correlation and analysis techniques are helping to relate logic failures to particular types of manufacturing defect.

Qualcomm's director of engineering is among the panelists at the upcoming U2U event in Santa Clara who will look at the state of play for 3DICs and how design flows are bearing up to dealing with 3D integration.