EDA and IP

"SoCs have transformed the electronics industry, integrating a wide array of functionality and extreme performance into cost-effective, low-power platforms," said Hossein Yassaie

For electronics companies, knowing which intellectual property to protect and which can be used to generate additional revenue is important in driving value. CPA Global's Haydn Evans explains how to make those assessments.

The company aims to make thermal analysis of components, PCBs and enclosures part of the engineer’s design process and not the domain of thermal specialists

“With Tensilica, we will be able to provide designers with a more complete system-on-chip (SoC) solution,” said Lip-Bu Tan, president and chief executive officer of Cadence

ARM and Synopsys say they have taped out the first ARM Mali-T658 design using a 20nm process technology, ARM Artisan physical IP and shader functionality

Mentor Graphics is continuing its moves in to the embedded Linux market with the acquisition of certain assets from MontaVista for the development of Linux-based in-car multimedia systems

What do we mean by “the internet of things” and why is it becoming so important to software design

OpenGL ES is a royalty-free, cross-platform API for full-function 2D and 3D graphics on embedded systems - including consoles, phones, appliances and vehicles

Atego, the supplier development tools for safety-critical systems and software, has launched a database of software for publication and reuse

The mixed signal chip design tool addresses 20nm design issues such as layout-dependent effects (LDEs), double patterning, colour-aware layout and new routing layers