2020-03-26 - Brian Santo

EDA Sector Cools Off in Q4

The design industry grew over 8% last year, and it might weather the coronavirus downturn. Separately, the SIA said IC…

2020-03-26 - Sally Ward-Foxton

How Are Europe’s Engineers Adapting to Remote Working?

As nations go into lockdown in the hope of slowing the spread of Covid-19, we take a look at design…

2020-01-31 - Nitin Dahad

Test Access Opened to Every Die in 3D IC Stack

3D stacked ICs will deliver next wave of innovation as the industry scales past 7nm. A standardized design for test…

2019-07-25 - Dylan McGrath

De Geus, Still Hitting the Right Notes

Thirty-three years after helping found what is now the largest EDA vendor, Aart de Geus still loves the constant evolution…

2019-06-14 - Loring Wirbel

Engineers Join the Gig Economy

Consider advanced logic design: high-tech specialization was supposed to provide some immunity to being considered a short-term employment prospect

2019-06-10 - Nitin Dahad

Qualcomm is the Newest Investor in SiFive

RISC-V is heading for mobile. Qualcomm participated in SiFive's $65.4m funding round. We talked CEO Naveed Sherwani recently about the…

2019-05-27 - Junko Yoshida

Mentor Boosts AI Chips with AI

Mentor is all about Artificial Intelligence as the EDA industry heads into its annual Design Automation Conference.

2019-05-15 - Dylan McGrath

EDA Vendors Benefit from Diversification as Market Turns

Tool firms' diversification efforts starting to pay dividends as market enters downturn

2019-04-05 - Dylan McGrath

Cadence Expand into System Analysis Market

Cadence is moving beyond EDA into the systems analysis market, initially with an electromagnetic field solver but with plans to…

2018-07-17 - Nitin Dahad, EE Times

U.K.-based Software Firm Lands $14M Series B

Investors seeing value in Undo's record-and-replay technology for software debugging