SANTA CLARA, Calif.—The launch of Cadence's new Innovus Implementation System heralds “a new era” in physical implementation technology, breaking longstanding electronic system-design bottlenecks, according to Rahul Deokar, product management…

ARM University Program (AUP) and Xilinx University Program (XUP), together, organized a one-day workshop (ODW) on System-on-Chip (SoC) Design as part of their Faculty Development Program (FDP) initiatives in India on December 16, 2014. The workshop was…

Linux® has become a popular operating system in embedded products, and as a result is experiencing increased usage for system design and verification. This means that a new set of people, who are not traditional embedded software engineers, need to learn…

What exactly is rapid prototyping ?

Sometimes we get some great ideas; some ideas are forgotten due to it took too long to build other ideas.

But if we could just build our circuits as quickly as they came to mind, imagine how great that would be.

I recently…

     Photo modified by Greg Yeric from original by Eric Fischer.

I was recently invited to add some thoughts on technology scaling over at Ed Sperling's excellent semiengineering site.   Here is what I came up with:…