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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.

An emulator that extends the reach of hardware acceleration into the world of multiphysics analysis could result from the merger of Siemens PLM Software with Mentor.

ARM has expanded its DesignStart program by providing access to the Cortex-M3 as well as the M0 with no up-front licence fee.

Former Cadence CEO tells DAC the IoT will lead to a burgeoning of chip design starts, followed by a brutal consolidation.

UltraSoc has donated to the RISC-V Foundation a specification for processor trace to try to provide the ecosystem with a common way of exporting runtime data to software tools.

TSMC encapsulated the multiple chips assembled on a 1200mm2 silicon substrate to cut the chance of damage from warping with the company's CoWoS2 SiP technology.

EUV and fin optimization help build Samsung's upcoming 7nm process, the company discloses at the VLSI Technology Symposium.