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April 7, 2016

SNUG 2016: Intel, TSMC, GloFo back post-finFET research at UC Berkeley

But project lead Chenming Hu, 'finFET's father', has also highlighted important changes in the funding landscape for university research.
April 5, 2016

Cadence moves into safer design with Virtuoso changes

Cadence Design Systems has made additions to its Virtuoso mixed-signal design environment intended to improve design for manufacture and the ability of teams to create and test safety-critical systems.
April 4, 2016

HyperLynx made broader and easier to use

HyperLynx from Mentor Graphics has moved into a new generation with more integrated features beyond PI and SI, and an easier to use GUI.
March 31, 2016

Meet the Electronic System Design Alliance

The EDA Consortium is rebranding and extending its activities to better reflect all the tools and services that now comprise IC design.
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March 31, 2016

53rd DAC conference program announced

The 53rd Design Automation Conference has published its program for the upcoming event in Austin, Texas, which will include keynotes from AMD, nVidia, and NXP Semiconductors and tracks that connect electronics to biology.
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March 22, 2016

Spectrum analyzers aim for IoT projects

Tektronix has aimed a pair of RF instruments at the growing number of engineering teams trying to incorporate low-power wireless communications into their designs.
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March 16, 2016

MEMS contest launches at DATE

The DATE 2016 conference saw the launch of a competition to encourage novel designs using MEMS technology.
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March 15, 2016

X-Fab aims at lower-cost SiC with upgraded 6in line

X-Fab Silicon Foundries has upgraded its 6in fab in Lubbock, Texas to handle silicon carbide wafers in parallel with existing silicon production.
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March 15, 2016

Tek brings chips to the tips for high-bandwidth probing

Tektronix has moved the some of the active signal-conditioning to the tip to develop a probe for oscilloscopes that can handle bandwidths up to 20GHz and with less need for de-embedding techniques.
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March 11, 2016

GSA on how to reinvigorate silicon business models

Open-source hardware, in-field configurability, and a hardware-plus-services approach could protect margins as the IoT hammers down costs, says GSA report.