Are you ready for design for crime?
Designers will need to take crime into account as part of their design signoff process, Wally Rhines argued in his keynote at Mentor Graphics' U2U San Jose 2015 conference.
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Cadence updates OrCAD line with additions for PCB manufacturability and integrity
Cadence Design Systems has added five products to its OrCAD line of PCB-design tools that cover manufacturability, signal integrity and management, and introduced three feature updates.
Leakage analysis checks IP cores against crypto vulnerability
The Athena Group says it has developed countermeasures against side-channel attacks for its IP that offer the best protection currently available.
Mentor’s 2015 Valley User2User is less than two weeks away
IoT-themed keynotes from Mentor's Wally Rhines and Qualcomm's Karim Arabi headline vendor's User2User conference on April 21.
Xmos brings programmable networking to Gigabit Ethernet
Xmos has launched a series of microcontrollers based on its timesliced multicore architecture that adds Gigabit Ethernet interfaces.
DAC 52 keynotes focus on body-worn electronics and vehicle design
The 2015 Design Automation Conference in San Francisco will feature keynotes that focus on body-worn electronics such as Google’s Smart Contact Lens and automotive issues.
TI uses Cortex-M4F to provide low-power 32bit upgrade for MSP430
Texas Instruments has launched a family of ARM-based microcontrollers intended to act as a migration path from its low-energy 16bit MSP430 series, developing its own flash-capable 90nm process to implement them.
Mentor unites chip-to-package flow with Xpedition Package Integrator
Flow draws on existing strengths in Xpedition, Valor, Nimbic and Flotherm among others to optimize 3D design projects and improve cross-disciplinary communication.
ARM and Cadence agree to share IP access
ARM and Cadence have signed a deal that provides the IP teams at both companies with access to each other's cores.
China’s foundry outlook improves but still much to do
Foundry veteran Simon Yang told Semicon China while things are looking up the country cannot count on ‘traditional’ methods or advantages if it's to be a major chipmaker.