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EDA

  • EDPS (The Electronic Design Process Symposium) is Silicon Valley’s Hidden Gem, September 13-14, 2018

    For twenty-five years, EDPS—the Electronic Design Process Symposium—has been probing the very limits of design. While it formerly took place in exotic locale of Sand…

  • Meet You in Brussels?

    Imec, the Belgian research centre for nanoelectronics has an annual programme of Technology Forums. (Fora?) The European Flagship Forum is scheduled for the end of…

  • An Opening for MEMS PDKs

    Coventor recently announced the latest release of MEMS+, their MEMS EDA/CAD tool, and the timing was tough because it came just after I had an…

  • We are doomed

    I’ve written before on Future Horizon’s regular reviews of the state of the semiconductor industry. (The four horsemen). Malcolm Penn, the firm’s founder and CEO,…

  • Bashing Bugs on SoCs

    UltraSoC, the SOC debug company I wrote about a few weeks ago www.eejournal.com/archives/articles/20150728-ultrasoc/ is being pretty imaginative in their marketing. Today, they have launched a…

  • Designing Irregular Light

    Synopsys recently announced their latest update to their LightTools optical design suite, which we’ve looked at before. The… um… focus (sorry) of this release appears…

  • WiFi Three Ways from CEVA

    WiFi, Bluetooth, and Zigbee are vying for primacy, and none of them is likely to disappear anytime soon (if ever). WiFi is the granddaddy, and…

  • Design Management Goes Big Data

    What could you do if you had access to a ton of data about semiconductor design? Things like: How designs are structured Which modules are…

  • Cadence Refreshes Synthesis and Formal

    Cadence has announced a couple of major upgrades over the last month or two. They’re largely unrelated to each other – one is synthesis, the…

  • Goodbye Robert Dewar, Gary Smith

      In the last few days we have heard of the death of two major players. The first is Robert Dewar, one of the towering…