Week In Review: Design, Low Power

By Jesse Allen - 17 Jun, 2022 - Comments: 0

Tools, design, chips Altair, a provider of software and cloud services for CAE, HPC, simulation, and data analysis, acquired Concept Engineering, a provider of automatic schematic generation tools, electronic circuit and wire harness visualization platforms that provide on-the-fly visual rendering, and electronic design debug solutions. “Concept Engineering’s advanced, reactive visualizati... » read more

Week In Review: Design, Low Power

By Jesse Allen - 11 Dec, 2020 - Comments: 0

RISC-V RISC-V International CEO Calista Redmond provided an update on the state of the community during the annual RISC-V Summit: “RISC-V has had an incredible year of growth and momentum. This year, our technical community has grown 66 percent to more than 2,300 individuals in our more than 50 technical and special interest groups. We’re seeing increased market momentum of RISC-V cores, S... » read more

Week In Review: Design, Low Power

By Jesse Allen - 09 Oct, 2020 - Comments: 0

Arm spun out Cerfe Labs to develop and license new types of non-volatile memories based on correlated electron materials (CeRAM) and ferroelectric transistors (FeFETs). Arm CeRAM researchers will join Cerfe Labs and assume ownership of the Arm joint development project with Symetrix Corporation. Read more about the new company and its technology in Cerfe Labs: Spin-On Memory. Tools & IP ... » read more

Week In Review: Design, Low Power

By Jesse Allen - 12 Jul, 2019 - Comments: 0

Synopsys unveiled the latest version of its IC Compiler II place-and-route system, adding a common physical optimization infrastructure, new arc-based unified concurrent clock-and-data (CCD) optimization, physically-aware logic re-synthesis, and dynamic voltage drop-driven power shaping. Additionally, next-generation distributed parallelization, intelligent scenario management, efficient infras... » read more

The Week In Review: IoT

By Jeff Dorsch - 24 Feb, 2017 - Comments: 0

M&A ARM Holdings this week announced the acquisition of two firms, Mistbase and NextG-Com, to help bring narrowband Internet of Things technology to its chip designs. In addition, the company announced the development of ARM Cordio-N radios to reduce the complexity of adopting cellular IoT connectivity. Meanwhile, Blu Wireless Technology of the U.K. reported that ARM made an equity investment ... » read more

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Week In Review: Design, Low Power

Week In Review: Design, Low Power

Week In Review: Design, Low Power

Week In Review: Design, Low Power

The Week In Review: IoT

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