Conferences

March 15, 2012

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.
March 15, 2012

CPTF notebook: From restricted to ‘proscriptive’ design rules

Ever increasing lithography challenges mean the next generation of design rules may concentrate on telling you just what you can rather than what you cannot do.
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March 15, 2012

CDN Live: Cadence’s Encounter revamp collates innovation

Performance boost claimed from streamlining optimization across synthesis and layout using modeling, novel CTS strategy and 20nm-ready features.
March 14, 2012

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.
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March 13, 2012

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.
March 13, 2012

DATE notebook: Stack those servers high

Concern over energy consumption could be the key to European companies moving back into the compute server market – or at least that's what the European Commission and researchers think is possible as social networks, GPS data and public video cameras pour data into a growing collection of online storage banks.
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March 13, 2012

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 […]

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March 8, 2012

ISQED focuses on systems, education and sensors

The International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED) enters its 13th edition later this month, running March 19-21 at Techmart in Santa Clara. Although ISQED traditionally concentrated on tools and IP blocks, its agenda has broadened as the industry has migrated to SoCs and full electronic systems where process and manufacturing interactions have come to […]

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February 29, 2012

Technical Newsletter #1: Common Platform, Samsung, ARM, Cadence

Our first email newsletter previews next month's Common Platform Technology Forum 2012 and features exclusive interviews with senior staff at Samsung, ARM and Cadence Design Systems.
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February 29, 2012

Full-flow 450mm line in 2015 says IMEC

Belgian research institute IMEC has stepped up its plans for 450mm development and now aims to have an operational full-flow pilot line by the end of 2015, according to president Luc Van den hove speaking at ISS Europe this week.
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