Cadence Supports NVMe
Last year’s new standard for connecting non-volatile memory via PCIe is now available in IP from Cadence. (Yesterday)
Graphene Quilts
UC Riverside researchers come up with a way to remove heat from GaN circuits. (10-May)
Powering Up Power Analysis
Apache addresses power analysis of 3D ICs and sub-20-nm behemoth chips. (8-May)
FPGA Prototype Debug Access
Synopsys tries to ease the tradeoff between trace capture speed and FPGA resource utilization. (7-May)
The New (Pro)Vocative
The New (Pro)Vocative @Readers: There’s a new way to be cool: constantly show the world that you use Twitter or know people that use Twitter or just notice that @ sign all over the place and figured out how to use it. 1 (7-May)
High-Sigma Simulations
Solido is offering a way to achieve high-sigma confidence on high-variation processes without requiring billions of simulations. (4-May)
Emulator in the Cloud
So you need to test out real software against your new OneChip2RuleThemAll SoC. But you blew too much of your funding on that all-hands Christmas bash in Cabo. Whatcha gonna do? (3-May)
Brighter LEDs
Cree touts its SC3 technology as yielding brighter LEDs. So what is it they know that no one else seems to know? (2-May)
New Emulator Help
Mentor upgrades to Veloce2 and adds a virtual peripheral capability. (1-May)
14 nm Waking Up
14-nm technology is in the sights of a number of different companies. (30-Apr)
Ready for More Inspection
KLA-Tencor has announced yet another wafer inspection tool. (27-Apr)
World’s Smallest Server?
If you could just buy a chip that already does all of your internet stuff for you, why would you bother with anything else? (26-Apr)
Audio Upgrade
CEVA upgrades TeakLite 4 for audio and voice applications. (25-Apr)
PolyCore Updates Multicore Tools
If you’re doing multicore and leave the simple world of SMP, things can get complicated really fast. PolyCore has just released the next version of their tools, which aim at simplifying what can be a complex process. (24-Apr)
What’s In a Name
“Define your terms” is a concept that’s rarely considered when discussing technology. And in some realms, confusion can result. Movea provides their own definitions of some sensor concepts. (23-Apr)