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December 18, 2017

Third time lucky for iKettle security

IoT kettle maker changed its approach to bolster security, the company's CTO explained at the IoTSF conference in London.
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December 18, 2017

PCB tool rewrite to expand platform choices

Altium has rewritten its PCB-design software to improve graphics performance and provide the opportunity to port to non-Windows operating systems such as OS X.
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December 13, 2017

IC Manage expands big-data work

IC Manage is expanding its work on big data in EDA with the creation of a labs program that aims to work with clients on novel ideas for analyzing the gigabytes of output from chip-design tools.
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December 8, 2017

IP choice drives SSD controller design

Two-year-old design house make IP choice to use Synopsys DesignWare to build an enterprise SSD controller from scratch.
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December 7, 2017

Discover how ST adapted HLS for automotive imaging

ST has tweaked its standard HLS flow for ISPs to meet the requirements of ISO 26262
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December 6, 2017

European teams explore 3D integration tradeoffs

Two leading European research institutes presented their work on the feasibility and cost-effectiveness of monolithic 3D integration at this year's IEDM.
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December 6, 2017

Learn how to simplify power states in UPF

UPF power state tables have become unwieldy due to rapid growth in LP design. The new construct, 'add_power_state' enables better verification flows.
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December 1, 2017

Workshop sees the RISC-V ecosystem expand

The RISC-V workshop in California at the end of November 2017 provided the opportunity for Western Digital to commit its own work on processors for internal use to the open-source architecture and for the ecosystem of off-the-shelf cores and tools to expand.
December 1, 2017

X-Fab cuts flicker noise for 180nm process

X-Fab has added a process module to its wide voltage- and temperature-range 180nm mixed-signal process that supports a set of transistors with lower 1/f flicker noise.
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November 28, 2017

Near-threshold clock control aims to improve processor efficiency

Minima Processor is working on the first processor cores that will be customized to use its timing-control technology to push supply voltages into the near-threshold zone.
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