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March 20, 2019

Microsoft offers free RTL for fast server compression

Not only has Microsoft decided to make a compression algorithm intended for data centers open source, the company the company is providing its own RTL to anyone who wants to implement it in silicon.
March 18, 2019

PCI may provide key to OCP chiplet standard

The ODSA Workgroup formed by Netronome and others is looking to adopt the PIPE standard for interconnecting chiplets as it starts work on a proof-of-concept module.
March 15, 2019

ES Design West registration opens

Registration has opened for the first ES Design West exhibition, which takes place alongside Semicon West in San Francisco in July.
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March 12, 2019

Free registration opens for DAC

The Design Automation Conference (DAC) has kicked off free registration for the exhibit floor at early June's Las Vegas event.
March 12, 2019

Mastering automotive complexity through generative design

The trend toward Level 5 fully autonomous vehicles poses major complexity, cost and change issues that Generative Design flows aim to address.
March 11, 2019

China Focus 3: The R&D template

5G has given Beijing a development template to use across its Made in China 2025 program.
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March 6, 2019

MACOM to use GlobalFoundries 300mm SOI for PICs

MACOM has decided to use GlobalFoundries' 90nm SOI process on 300mm wafers to build higher-integration optical-switching devices for servers.
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February 28, 2019

Graphcore licenses ESD protection from Sofics

Graphcore has licensed IP from Belgium-based Sofics to protect its Colossus GC2 processors from ESD.
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February 26, 2019

A hardware-centric approach to checking HLS code before synthesis

Tools that checks pre-synthesis C++ and SystemC code have historically had no understanding of hardware intent. The Catapult Design Checker fills that gap.
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February 25, 2019

China Focus 2: The Design Dilemma

Do China's ambitions as a world-class innovator face fundamental challenges as a result of the sector's existing economic infrastructure?