ITRS update goes online
The wait is over for the latest edition of the International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors (ITRS).
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Tech Design Forum is changing
The Tech Design Forum is going through some more changes as we add features and resources.
Mentor releases third gen Nucleus RTOS
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; […]
One week to ARM TechCon
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 […]
GlobalFoundries and Mentor Graphics in new ‘third generation’ DFM tie-up
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 – […]
Calypto acquires Catapult C Synthesis
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 […]
GlobalFoundries extends Santa Clara GTC deadline
GlobalFoundries has extended the online registration deadline for its Silicon Valley technical conference on August 30th and published the program for the day-long event. You now have until Wednesday (August 24th) to sign up for the Santa Clara Convention Center on the Global Technology Conference (GTC) site where you will find links to other stops […]
This Google-Motorola deal has made me feel very ‘Columbo’.
You’re not supposed to admit this as a hack, but I am struggling to understand the reasons behind Google’s $12.5bn buy of Motorola Mobility (MMI). It “bothers me” in a Peter Falk-way. There is an embedded systems component to this, but to get to it, we first need to work through some of the higher […]
Freescale Technology Forum 2011 – QorIQ AMP, strategy and software (and that’s just for starters)
As the 2011 Freescale Technology Forum wraps today in San Antonio, Texas, here are a few of my initial takeaways. They’re nowhere near comprehensive – it’s a huge (and hugely informative) event with 2,300 attendees and 350 hours of technical presentations. We’ll need to take another look at the conference in the next print Tech […]
Mentor adds support for latest Freescale QorIQ
Mentor Graphics has extended its Embedded Linux Platform to support Freescale Semiconductor’s new AMP series of QorIQ multicore processors. The QorIQ AMP (for ‘advanced multi-processing) series features a new multi-threaded 64bit Power Architecture e6500 core with enhanced acceleration, co-processing and new power management capabilities. The first device, T4240, has 12 dual-threaded cores for high-end dataplane […]