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June 8, 2015

Smart lenses getting closer to live use

Google has moved to on-body tests of the the smart-lens platform it has been developing for the past few years while the team continues to experiment with embedded LEDs that react to blinks to help warn diabetes sufferers of sudden changes in glucose levels.
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June 8, 2015

Formal integration enhances bug-hunting for Cadence

Following the acquisition of Jasper Design Automation last year, Cadence Design Systems is widening the target base of applications for formal verification, covering tasks from bug hunting through accelerated simulation to 'superlinting'.
June 8, 2015

CEA-Leti adds partners to FD-SOI low-power design centre

Silicon Impulse program adds partners to ease industrialisation of ultra-low power IC designs based on FD-SOI processes
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June 8, 2015

Altera boosts density and pipelining in finFET FPGA shift

Altera is using a combination of Intel's 14nm process technology and multidie packaging to boost the logic-cell count for its FPGAs, together with a superpipelining strategy to help balance area and clock speed.
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June 8, 2015

DTCO tool aims to squeeze more out of older processes

Gold Standard Simulations (GSS) has launched a tool intended to help fabless chipmakers squeeze more out of existing processes rather than accept the risk and expense of moving to more advanced, finFET-based processes.
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June 8, 2015

Synopsys speeds automotive SoC qualification with IP launch

Synopsys develops portfolio of ASIL B ready IP, and invests in AEC-Q100 testing and TS 16949 quality management, to ease automotive SoC qualification.
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June 8, 2015

S3 aims at MIMO WiFi with smaller ADC core

S3 Group has launched the second in a family of low-power successive-approximation ADCs, with a design that supports sample rates up to 320MS/s.
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June 8, 2015

Synopsys to acquire Atrenta

Atrenta's SpyGlass line and others to be absorbed in Verification Continuum and Galaxy as part of EDA's latest major consolidation.
June 7, 2015

IBM plans to disrupt EDA market with cloud offering

IBM to offer end-to-end IC design flow on its own infrastructure in PAYG EDA model.
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June 7, 2015

Speedy software creation to show off custom-tool possibilities

Invionics will be using its software environment to create a custom tool within just two days at the 52nd DAC.
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