Cadence has announced that Samsung Foundry and Globalfoundries are supporting its design tools for 20 and 14nm process node. The two foundries are providing SKILL-based process design kits (PDKs) for Cadence's Virtuoso Advanced Node. ...
New organizers are bringing a major road race back to Philadelphia earlier than expected thanks to some help from a congressman. Last month longtime race organizer Dave Chauner announced that the Philadelphia International Cycling Classic ...
The BRAIN Dealer Tour of San Francisco wrapped up Thursday with a 20-mile jaunt around the city, ably led by folks from the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition, who for the most part managed to route us around the steepest hills as we visited ...
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Computerworld - Apple on Friday shipped an update to Java 6 for Mac users running OS X Snow Leopard, matching Oracle's cadence for Java 7, which was patched the same day. Customers running OS X Lion or OS X Mountain Lion must update Java ...
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Cadence Design Systems is targeting designs for the 20nm process node with its latest tools in the Virtuoso suite. Called Virtuoso Advanced Node, the mixed signal chip design tool addresses 20nm design issues such as layout-dependent ...
Guillaume d’Eyssautier, formely CEO of picoChip, has been appointed CEO of RF MEMS specialist start-up DelfMEMS. DelfMEMS has just attracted $10.5m in ‘B’ Series financing from CDC Entreprises, Iris Capital, Capitalaria, ...
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Imec has worked with Cadence Design Systems to validate an automated 3D design-for-test tool for logic-memory interconnects in DRAM-on-logic stacks. The tool, which is based on Cadence Encounter test software, was verified on an ...
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IDG News Service - Starting with Java 8, to be released in September, the development team behind the widely used programming language plans to release a new version of Java every two years -- and stick to that schedule. The idea is to ...
LAS VEGAS, NV(BRAIN) — Garmin is introducing a variety of new products, including at least two new cycling computers, at this week's massive Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The new Edge 810 and Edge 510 and Garmin Connect ...
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Network World-Canonical QA coordinator Nicholas Skaggs announced that the company's popular Linux-based operating system,Ubuntu,would be moving to a substantially different release schedule. MORE LINUX:Top Linux-o-lanterns from around the ...
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Computerworld - Microsoft will speed up the release cadence of Windows, starting in 2013, to issue annual OS upgrades, according to reports on the Web today. But analysts believe that the new pace will be both difficult for Microsoft to ...
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As expected, Microsoft on Tuesday shipped a major preview of Internet Explorer 10 (IE10) for Windows 7, using a moniker that hints at a final release as early as next month. Called IE10 Release Preview, the sneak peek arrived early ...
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Mozilla Tuesday released Firefox 17, which debuts technology that lets developers integrate social networks -- for now, Facebook -- with the browser. The company also patched 29 security vulnerabilities, two-thirds of them marked ...
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Google has been dragged into adopting rival Microsoft's Patch Tuesday, fallout from an Adobe move last month. Earlier this week, Google updated its Chrome browser, quashing six bugs and as it often does, also updating Adobe's Flash ...
Apple's executive shake-up earlier this week is a sign that design is the "tip of the spear" for the company, but the reorganization won't disrupt the firm's product delivery and may produce some groundbreaking moves, analysts predicted ...
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