DAC: Cadence builds its cloud-based design world

Cadence Design Systems a cloud-based chip and system design tool portfolio which has both Cadence-managed and customer-managed environments. It brings the scalability of the cloud into play for developers allowing them to securely manage high complexity designs, with  scalable compute resources available in minutes or hours instead of months or weeks. The announcement was made ...

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Sponsored Content: LAYLA Opens Up The Asian Semiconductor Market To The West

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Facebook abandons internet drone project

Facebook is abandoning its plan to provide internet access via drones which will result in the closure of its drone building plant in Bridgwater in Somerset. The plant belonged to Ascenta, a UK drone building company bought by Facebook. The four year-old drone initiative, called Project Aquila, was seen as a way to bring internet ...

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Pickering produces industry’s smallest reed relay

Pickering Electronics of Clacton-on-Sea has produced what it claims is the industry’s smallest reed relay. The Series 124 is part of Pickering’s new ultra-high density 4mm2 TM reed relay range product line, which takes up the minimum board area of only 4mm x 4mm, allowing the highest packing density possible. Series 124 relays are also ...

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TUM researchers bring THz electronics nearer

TUM (Technical University of Munich) physicists Alexander Holleitner and Reinhard Kienberger have succeeded in generating electric pulses in the frequency range up to 10 terahertz using tiny, so-called plasmonic antennas and run them over a chip. Researchers call antennas plasmonic if, because of their shape, they amplify the light intensity at the metal surfaces. The ...

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Wafer demand for More than Moore devices growing at 10% CAGR

Wafer demand for More than Moore devices  is expected to grow at an almost 10% CAGR from 2017 to 2023, reports Yole Développement (Yole). 6 inch and 8 inch are forecast to represent more than 60% of More than Moore wafers’ total wafer consumption. Despite silicon’s dominance in the semiconductor area, alternative substrates are disrupting ...

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CML Microcircuits adds to Marine Comms line

CML Microcircuits has expanded its Marine Communications product line with  its DE70322T AIS Class B Demonstrator, including a reference design package. The DE70322T package is an enabler for manufacturers to develop a new state-of-the-art, small form factor AIS Class B transceiver with market-leading performance, achieve an easy route to certification and reach the target market ...

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Offline pulse-width modulation controller from ST

 ST’s  STCH03 offline Pulse-Width Modulation (PWM) controller combines high integration with accurate constant-current output using primary-side regulation enabling economical mobile chargers, power adapters, or auxiliary supplies to meet stringent eco-design limits for average efficiency and standby power. At heavier loads, the STCH03 maximizes efficiency by operating in quasi-resonant mode with zero-voltage switching (ZVS) controlled by ...

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China capex to outgrow EU/Japan this year

China companies will spend $11.0 billion in semiconductor industry capex in 2018, which would represent 10.6% of the expected worldwide outlays of $103.5 billion, says IC Insights. Not only would this amount be 5x what the Chinese companies spent only three years earlier in 2015, but it would also exceed the combined semiconductor industry capital ...

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DAC: Planning tools are based around unified hierarchical database

A relatively new company, Avatar, focuses on physical design implantation. It presented the Aprisa full functional block level place and route system, and Apogee, a top-down hierarchical prototyping floor planning and chip assembly tool. The tools are built on ATopTech technologies which were the subject of a lawsuit brought by Synopsys. Following that, the tools ...

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