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July 20, 2020

Perforce buys Methodics

Version-control specialist Perforce Software has bought Methodics, which focuses on the lifecycle and traceability management of semiconductor IP.
July 20, 2020

Verifyter offers regression analysis for six months free

At DAC this week, Verifyter is offering a limited number of companies free six-month licences of its regression-analysis tool Pindown.
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July 13, 2020

Heterogeneous integration calls for new approaches

Heterogeneous integration has the potential to overcome the yield and cost challenges presented by the growing headwinds associated with process scaling. But it may take a dramatic rethink in design approaches.
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July 8, 2020

Scaling costs tip balance toward chiplets for AMD server processors

In a panel session at VLSI Symposia, AMD described how the economics have come down strongly in favor of multichip integration for multicore server processors.
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July 8, 2020

Arm returns to its roots

Arm is to return to focusing on semiconductor IP following the decision to spin out its IoT operations to separate groups within the Softbank empire.
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July 7, 2020

DVCon Europe goes virtual

The organizers of DVCon Europe have decided to turn the autumn verification conference into a virtual event this year.
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July 1, 2020

Sigasi creates SDK for custom editors

Sigasi has launched a software kit to provide inhouse tools builders and EDA vendors with a way to build in code-editing features.
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June 24, 2020

IEDM switches to virtual format for 2020

The organizers of the 66th annual IEDM have decided to hold the December conference virtually.
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June 23, 2020

Mentor to use UltraSoC acquisition to drive in-life learning

Siemens has agreed to acquire UK-based debug and on-chip instrumentation startup UltraSoC and will fold the operation into Mentor’s Tessent test-software product line.
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June 23, 2020

How to draw upon Mentor-Microsoft integration for embedded IoT

The combination of Embedded Linux and Azure is supported by services and technologies that speed the delivery and deployment of MCU-based projects.