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GlobalFoundries intends to offer a 12nm FinFET process as a stepping stone from its 14nm process.

EEMBC has released a benchmark and initial results that analyze peripheral performance on microcontrollers.

ARM, Xilinx, Cadence Design Systems, and TSMC have agreed to produce a test chip for the CCIX project.

Codasip has added a processor core aimed at low-energy IoT nodes to its growing portfolio of customizable designs based on the RISC-V architecture.

DVCon Europe 2017 has announced two keynote speakers for the conference to be held in Munich, Germany in mid-October.

The latest major release of the EMB2 multicore library introduces C++ wrappers, plugins for GPU programming, and a variety of design patterns

Automotive test has never been easy. Safety made sure of that. But the move to autonomous vehicles is making it more challenging still.

Sonics has developed a version of its power-management IP core for SoCs that adds support for dynamic voltage and frequency scaling, along with the ability to tune settings according to temperature.

Cliosoft sees a merging of social features and design-data repositories as driving more efficient reuse in chipmakers, bringing them together in its recently launched DesignHub product line.

Placement-aware synthesis and an array of post-layout recovery steps have helped drive up the clock speed and silicon utilization of a series high-end SoCs on leading-edge processes developed by customers of Synopsys' implementation tools.