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June 19, 2018

Exploring the automotive industry’s requirements for data converter IP

What does it take to build data converter IP that will meet the reliability and functional safety requirements of the automotive industry?
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June 19, 2018

DAC 2018 preview: ESD Alliance

The Electronic System Design Alliance will discuss its recent decision to join SEMI and highlight DAC's new Infrastructure Alley.
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June 19, 2018

DAC 2018 preview: Baum

Power analysis specialist will showcase the 2.0 edition of its PowerBaum analysis and modeling suite at DAC.
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June 18, 2018

DAC 2018 preview: Verific

The parser specialist will demonstrate its recently announced INVIO integration to speed development around VHDL and SystemVerilog.
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June 18, 2018

Switch to orbit mode boosts MRAM on 300mm wafers

Imec will at this week’s VLSI Symposia describe how it fabricated a form of magnetic memory suitable for use as a non-volatile cache onto 300mm wafers using CMOS-compatible processes.
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June 14, 2018

Accellera signs off on SystemC control standard

Accellera has published version 1.0 of the SystemC Configuration, Control and Inspection (CCI) standard.
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June 6, 2018

Synopsys speeds PrimeTime with AI

Synopsys applies AI to speed PrimeTIme, as part of wider strategy to exploit machine learning to ease chip design
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May 24, 2018

Case study demonstrates 59% extra power savings for HPC

Taiwanese ASIC specialist Alchip discusses use of Mentor PowerPro for low power on 16nm 24x24 array HPC chip in detail
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May 23, 2018

Pillar transistor points to smaller SRAMs at 5nm

Imec and Unisantis Electronics have developed a process flow based on a vertical transistor with a gate on all sides they claim will lead to denser memories on a 5nm node.
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May 22, 2018

Arm Cortex-A processor team focuses on formal

Arm is on the way to making formal a fundamental part of its verification strategy for ARM Cortex-A processors.