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Siemens Digital Industries Software is  to buy Excellicon the specialist provider of software for the development, verification, and management of timing constraints. The acquisition is intended  to improve power, performance  and area (PPA) in chips designed using Siemens’ EDA tools, to accelerate design closure, enhance functional and structural constraint correctness, improve productivity and address key gaps in the current workflows. ...

The 71st IEDM has issued a Call for Papers seeking the semiconductor industry’s best original work in all areas of microelectronics research and development, under the theme “100 Years of FETs: Shaping the Future of Device Innovations.” The 2025 IEDM will take place December 6-10, 2025 at the Hilton San Francisco Union Square hotel, with on-demand access to recorded presentations ...

Electronics Weekly is very pleased to announce the launch of EW BrightSparks 2025. The search begins for us to highlight some of the brightest and most talented young engineers in the UK today. Help us celebrate engineering! We are looking for the engineers – aged 30 or under – who are already making a difference in the UK in the ...

The 2025 market for Data Centre Interconnect (DCI) technology  is projected to grow 14.3% YoY  to over $40 billion, says TrendForce. DCI enables high-speed data transmission across short to long distances between two or more datacentres  Ciena leads in DCI deployment, with its telecom partners—Telia, e&, and Arelion—adopting the Wavelength Logic6 Extreme solution. Nokia’s PSE-6s optical engine achieves TB terabyte ...

PocketBeagle 2 has quietly been given a quad core upgrade. Initially built around Texas Instrument’s AM6232 IC, which has dual 64bit 1GHz Arm Cortex-A53 CPUs, the development board has been upgraded to TI’s AM6254, which has four of the same cores running at 1.4GHz, plus a 3D GPU that it did not have at the original launch. The change happened ...

Silanna Semiconductor has created a laser driver IC that can squeeze a 400W quad EEL (edge-emitting laser) module into 80mm2. SL2001 comes in a 14ball 1 x 3.5mm WLCSP (wafer-level chip-scale package) includes both a capacitor charging circuit and another block to dump that stored energy into the laser diode. Operating from a power source between 3 and 24V it ...

EnSilica, the mixed-signal ASICs specialist , has announced two Ku-band beamformer integrated circuits, the ENS92051 and ENS92052, designed for electronically steered antennas for user terminals used with LEO, MEO and GEO satellite constellations. The ENS92051 is the dual-beam Ku-band receiver (Rx) supporting eight channels with separate amplitude and phase control. The Rx carrier frequency range is 10.7 to 12.75 GHz ...

Intel is reported to be looking at off-loading its Network and Edge Group (NEX) to concentrate on PC and data centre, reports Reuters. Plans include both selling the unit and putting it into a partnership with another company. It is said that Intel has already talked to other companies about this plan. In April it sold 51% of Altera to ...

Nvidia and Infineon are getting together to establish a new architecture for power chips in AI data centres, The aim is to focus on creating a new architecture for power systems using centralised, HVDC distribution, specifically at 800V. At present, the power supply in AI data centers is decentralized. This means that the AI chips are supplied with power by ...

Wolfspeed is expected to file for bankruptcy within the next few weeks. The company is said to have about $6.5 billion of debt and has rejected various restructuring proposals from creditors. The plan is now to apply for a pre-packaged Chapter 11 bankruptcy procedure. The company ran into trouble when it lost both Tesla and Volkswagen as customers which resulted ...