October 8, 2012
The EDA giant fills out its prototyping and verification line-up with a long-mooted acquisition, and is set to become the first of the 'big three' to offer an in-house soup-to-nuts flow.
October 4, 2012
The semiconductor industry is reaching a crunch point at which companies that form it have to work together much more closely, says Malcolm Penn of Future Horizons.
October 3, 2012
The scope of the Low-Latency Interface (LLI) developed by the MIPI Alliance is expanding as it heads towards version 2 – increasing the ways in which a single DRAM array can be shared between SoCs in a mobile phone.
August 6, 2012
TSMC follows Intel in taking a stake in ASML to accelerate development of EUV and 450mm lithography equipment.
August 6, 2012
The president and co-CEO of Synopsys provides his take on the mounting influence of software and physical effects in the creation of SoCs.
June 7, 2012
Expose your transaction-level innovations to the real world early on and catch bugs before simulation.
June 4, 2012
Verification drives system-level adoption as sales leap 76%. Virtual prototyping is also on the rise but there are gaps in the tool-set.
June 4, 2012
What are the chances that FD SOI will become a mainstream process for future nodes?
June 4, 2012
Blue Pearl is building alliances to bring its timing analysis tools to more users.
June 4, 2012
At last year’s DAC, leading EDA analyst Gary Smith said chip design had run into a big problem: it was already too expensive to be worthwhile for most companies. Soon afterwards, three companies rang to tell him that the figures were too pessimistic: it was not costing in the region of $75m but perhaps just […]