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August 27, 2016

Creating a reference design flow for 10nm processes: video

Synopsys video details challenges of 10nm design and its collaboration with Samsung Semiconductor to build a full flow to address them.
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August 24, 2016

Cadence building photonics environment around Virtuoso

Cadence is creating a flow that the company believes will make it possible to bring greater predictability to photonics design.
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August 15, 2016

EEMBC updates automotive benchmark for scalability tests

EEMBC has released version 2.0 of its suite for measuring the performance of automotive powertrain tasks on multicore processors.
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August 15, 2016

SystemC materials move to Apache 2.0 license

Accellera has moved to an Apache 2.0 open-source license for all of the supplementary materials for its SystemC library.
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August 12, 2016

Chinese dates set for Asia-Pacific editions of Mentor Forum

Wally Rhines headlines as keynote at free technical events set for Shanghai on August 30 and Beijing on September 1.
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July 26, 2016

Cadence adds floating point to Fusion

Cadence Design Systems has added floating-point to its latest core intended for embedded signal processing.
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July 22, 2016

IEDM alters schedule to keep abreast of process updates

The International Electron Device Meeting has pushed back the deadline for its papers to get the latest developments in process and device design into the December conference.
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July 18, 2016

The IoT dream behind SoftBank’s ARM purchase

SoftBank cites IoT as its main reason for buying ARM, but could it change the relationship between customers and the processor designer?
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July 12, 2016

EEMBC looks into heterogeneous compute

EEMBC has turned its attention to heterogeneous computing with plans to create a new set of benchmarks.
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July 11, 2016

Mentor’s PADS family extended for AMS, DDR and electrical DRC

Mentor Graphics has added four new units to its PADS PCB family addressing increasing complexity in mainstream design.
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