OpenAMP brings control to multicore SoCs
The Multicore Association has started work on standardizing a set of APIs that aim to simplify communications between processors in heterogeneous multicore SoCs
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DesignCon 2016 preview: Mentor Graphics
HyperLynx leads the way for vendor at DesignCon with booth demos and a day-long modeling and analysis seminar.
Qt tightens open-source licenses
The Qt Company has changed the licenses it supports on the open-source versions of its user-interface software framework, removing the LGPL2.1 version.
Prpl Foundation proposes security architecture
The Prpl Foundation has published a guide to techniques it claims will improve the security of embedded systems.
Accellera and Mentor’s Dennis Brophy talks standards targets and DVCon
Driving down energy consumption for the IoT, making portable stimulus deliver real benefits and the practical benefts of a globalizing DVCon.
GaN power makes progress at IEDM 2015
Researchers describe at IEDM 2015 how they are making gallium nitride fit into a wider range of power-handling applications and may even result in mass-market vertical transistors.
IEDM keynote: cost scaling will swap architectural changes for area
According to ARM's Greg Yeric in his keynote at IEDM, even with cost improvements for multiple patterning, fewer designs will see the benefit of further silicon node scaling. Savings will come from design.
Cortus adds hardware floating point to low-area processor family
Cortus has added to its version 2 architecture a processor core that offers hardware support for floating-point code.
Cadence partners for photonic IC design
Cadence Design Systems has worked with Lumerical Solutions and PhoeniX Software to develop a flow for designing photonic ICs based on the Virtuoso custom-design platform.
Three key ways to reduce silicon test costs
Mentor's Greg Aldrich describes how test's market leader is driving down cost in the billion-gate era by rethinking and extending existing technologies