EDA and IP

ARM is shipping its hardware design tools to software developers in a bid to open up the market for games on phones and set-top boxes

Software re-use is leading to some horrendously clunky software being put into products, said executives at the Globalpress Summit conference in Monterey last week.

EW talks to Tony Harker, CEO of the ISLI about Scotland's place as a centre for design

A French EDA firm claims to have made a breakthrough in chip design with a tool which analyses noise for analogue and RF signals as well as digital elements of the design

Dialog Semiconductor is to set up a mixed-signal R&D centre in Edinburgh as it looks to develop power management and audio ICs for the mobile phone market

Tools for low power chip design and analysis have been unveiled by Magma Design Automation with the promise of cutting power by up to 25 per cent in advanced ICs

The semiconductor industry changed radically in mid-January, according to Wally Rhines, CEO of Mentor Graphics

Configurable processor designer ARC International expects to have its first multi-core processor licensee this year

Linux for industrial control applications is behind Wind River's decision to acquire the IP for RTLinux, one of the very few commercially-available hard real-time Linux technologies

Touch sensor specialist Quantum Research is looking into whether Apple has infringed any of its patents in the iPhone