U2U notebook: five sources of EDA growth… and golf clubs
Mentor Graphics' CEO Wally Rhines picked out the trends he says can boost design productivity and drive growth for tools vendors at the company's Silicon Valley User2User conference
Commentary
Yocto Project gets a useful shove from Mentor
The Yocto Project brings the 'ecosystem' concept to embedded Linux and the tool vendor's launch builds that idea out nicely.
TSMC Altera heterogeneous integration is cool but is it 3D?
This looks more like 2.5D silicon interposer-based technology to us, though it is a major and necessary advance
Japan one year on: a need to rebuild exposed?
Beyond the earthquake, analyst IHS says the tragedy revealed systemic problems with an aging semiconductor fab base
DATE notebook: Electric motion
Robert Bosch is expecting to see major growth in electronics in cars over the coming decade. But most of that growth will not be coming from electric vehicles of the four-wheeled variety, said the company's automotive division president.
DATE notebook: EDA for the rest of us
Old processes don't necessarily equate to old tools, panelists argued at DATE, especially when a lot of future work will be done on more-than-Moore, 3DIC technologies.
By the numbers: investment, equipment, sales
We round up the latest headline forecasts and performance data from the Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA), manufacturers association SEMI and the Semiconductor Industry Association.
DATE notebook: Forget automation, give us acceleration
The CTO of one European design house wants better acceleration features from analog design tools, not automation that overrides their judgement.
TDF Circuits #1: BASIC sets clearer path to healthcare monitoring
Wearable healthcare monitoring systems are a fast growing market, and could surge when clearer device approval regimes are introduced globally. Despite that brake on growth, companies and research organizations continue to innovate in anticipation. The subject of the first TDF Circuits, a graphics-led series looking at innovative implementations, is a subset of the Bio-potential Acquisition […]
ARM decodes a surprising power benefit
ARM has found that in its work on processor design looking at the system-design and process issues as well as the way software interacts with the machine can yield surprising results.