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The CDN Live series of Cadence Design Systems user conferences begins with its Silicon Valley edition at San Jose's Doubletree Hotel on March 12-13.

The high peak to average power ratios of LTE signals pose a power challenge to handset designers. Envelope tracking may help ease the problem.

Unmanned aerial vehicles have received a boost from a Senate vote, opening up opportunities for electronics designers.

A reference simulator for the latest version of SystemC is now available for public review and comment, writes Accellera's Dennis Brophy.

The wait is over for the latest edition of the International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors (ITRS).

The Tech Design Forum is going through some more changes as we add features and resources.

Mentor Graphics’ Nucleus real-time operating system (RTOS) is already used in more than 2.3B handsets worldwide as well as a wide range of other markets and is now available in its third generation version. Key features of this release include: built-in power management that exploits hardware design techniques such as dynamic voltage and frequency scaling; […]

ARM’s annual west coast technical conference opens next Tuesday (October 25) and they’ve made some useful tweaks to how the three-day program will be presented. The first day is dedicated to chip design, while Wednesday and Thursday concentrate on software and systems, as well as modules and boards. For me, with ARM, the focus always […]

A busy day on the announcement front continues with this from GlobalFoundries and Mentor in the run-up to next week’s Global Technology Conference in Santa Clara. We’ll go under the hood on this more when the companies present the further details promised below on Tuesday. Meanwhile, here’s the release. WILSONVILLE, Ore., August 26, 2011 – […]

Just up on the wire services. Here’s the full press release. More on this major story later. Santa Clara, CA, Aug 26. Calypto Design Systems today announced it has acquired Catapult C Synthesis from Mentor Graphics Corporation (NASDAQ: MENT). The merger of two market-leading electronic system level (ESL) products, Catapult C Synthesis and Calypto SLEC […]