Making Software Better


Low-Power Engineering talks about what will make software more energy-efficient with Pete Hardee, marketing director at Cadence; Adam Kaiser, Nucleus RTOS architect at Mentor Graphics; Chris Rowen, CTO of Tensilica; Vic Kulkarni, senior VP and General Manager of Apache Design, and Bill Neifert, CTO of Carbon Design. [youtube vid=Jxquj8K8_BA] » read more

Not Everyone Feels The Pinch


By Ed Sperling In the midst of the longest and deepest downturn since the invention of the transistor, not everyone is doing badly. In fact, there are some bright spots across the electronics industry that seem to defy gravity, so to speak. In particular, design tools are doing well. When the industry is down, they’re typically down less because, as any successful executive in technolog... » read more