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Siemens Devises Secure Way to Share IC Thermal Models to E-Supply Chain

Siemens Devises Secure Way to Share IC Thermal Models to E-Supply Chain

IC designers can now securely share thermal models across the supply chain—without compromising critical details about chip architecture.


News Jan 25, 2024 by Jake Hertz
Synopsys Acquires Ansys for $35 Billion, Bolstering Its Simulation Prowess

Synopsys Acquires Ansys for $35 Billion, Bolstering Its Simulation Prowess

Synopsys is set to acquire simulation software firm Ansys to further advance its systems design offerings


News Jan 24, 2024 by Ingrid Fadelli
12 Major Japanese Firms Team Up for Automotive SoC Research Initiative

12 Major Japanese Firms Team Up for Automotive SoC Research Initiative

As automobiles get more complex, the "Advanced SoC Research for Automotive" (ASRA) initiative teams up a dozen automotive, electrical, and semiconductor companies to further develop automotive SoCs.


News Jan 05, 2024 by Duane Benson
Editor’s Choice: Our Top 10 News Articles of 2023

Editor’s Choice: Our Top 10 News Articles of 2023

Looking back on the year, here’s a review of the most popular News articles on All About Circuits.


News Dec 31, 2023 by Jeff Child
Can There Be Any Doubt? In Our Industry, 2023 Was ‘The Year of AI’

Can There Be Any Doubt? In Our Industry, 2023 Was ‘The Year of AI’

While the rest of the world spent 2023 playing with ChatGPT, the electronics industry put AI into everything from processors to edge IoT chips to EDA tools.


News Dec 27, 2023 by Jeff Child
Flux Upgrades Its Copilot Tool Adding Multi-Modal AI Features

Flux Upgrades Its Copilot Tool Adding Multi-Modal AI Features

Released today, the upgrade brings improvements—including image capability—in Flux AI Chatbot giving designers a smarter virtual “engineering partner” to help with electronics PCB designs


News Dec 21, 2023 by Duane Benson
RISC-V Rollouts Abound at This Week’s North America RISC-V Summit

RISC-V Rollouts Abound at This Week’s North America RISC-V Summit

Reporting a “banner year” for adoption, these RISC-V developments show the versatility of the ISA.


News Nov 10, 2023 by Aaron Carman
Pulsiv Unveils Its Own Nomogram, a Graphical Tool for DCM Flyback Designs

Pulsiv Unveils Its Own Nomogram, a Graphical Tool for DCM Flyback Designs

With this new tool, engineers can quickly and accurately identify primary side inductance and minimum duty cycle—without complex equation-based methods.


News Nov 07, 2023 by Jake Hertz
Your 2023 Back-to-School Guide to All About Circuits’ Educational Resources

Your 2023 Back-to-School Guide to All About Circuits’ Educational Resources

Whether you are just starting your first year as an engineering student, working on a second or third degree, or simply want to brush up on key topics, All About Circuits has the resources you need: awesome textbooks, technical articles, calculators, and more for your EE studies.


News Oct 11, 2023 by Jeff Child
Keysight Unwraps EDA Tool Suite for Boosting RF and 5G Design Productivity

Keysight Unwraps EDA Tool Suite for Boosting RF and 5G Design Productivity

The Keysight EDA 2024 tool suite promises to provide end-to-end design, modeling. and simulation with “shift left” workflow tools designed to increase productivity in the RF/5G world.


News Sep 30, 2023 by Duane Benson
To Accelerate Edge Design, Cadence Introduces New NPUs and SDK to AI IP

To Accelerate Edge Design, Cadence Introduces New NPUs and SDK to AI IP

The new NPUs offload from any host processor to facilitate on-device edge computing.


News Sep 18, 2023 by Aaron Carman
From Synopsys to Google, New EDA Tools Apply Advanced AI to IC Design

From Synopsys to Google, New EDA Tools Apply Advanced AI to IC Design

EDA tools now employ the newest advances in AI to help designers accelerate the IC development process.


News Sep 11, 2023 by Jake Hertz
Zuken Releases Host of Upgrades to Flagship PCB Design Software

Zuken Releases Host of Upgrades to Flagship PCB Design Software

The latest CR-8000 release expands the design software's spectrum of signal integrity, power integrity, and electromagnetic compatibility analysis tools.


News Sep 05, 2023 by Aaron Carman
Qorvo Releases Free Circuit Simulation Software, QSPICE

Qorvo Releases Free Circuit Simulation Software, QSPICE

Built with power and analog engineers in mind, Qorvo's new QSPICE software shrinks overall runtimes and offers a reported 100% completion rate.


News Jul 27, 2023 by Jake Hertz
At DAC 2023, EDA Tools Roll Aimed at Next-gen IC Design and Verification

At DAC 2023, EDA Tools Roll Aimed at Next-gen IC Design and Verification

A slew of new electronic design automation (EDA) tools and resources for IC design and verification were debuted at last week’s DAC 2023 event. Here’s a sampling.


News Jul 17, 2023 by Darshil Patel
Siemens Cuts Down IC Development Time With New EDA Tool

Siemens Cuts Down IC Development Time With New EDA Tool

At DAC this week, Siemens is rolling out an IC design tool suite that it claims enables “correct-by-construction” design changes earlier in the cycle.


News Jul 10, 2023 by Jake Hertz
Samsung Foundry Solidifies Partnerships With Major EDA Companies

Samsung Foundry Solidifies Partnerships With Major EDA Companies

At this year’s Samsung Foundry Forum, the company revealed how it is strengthening ties with Synopsys, Cadence, and Ansys.


News Jul 03, 2023 by Jake Hertz
AMD Claims Planet’s Largest FPGA-based SoC for Emulation and Prototyping

AMD Claims Planet’s Largest FPGA-based SoC for Emulation and Prototyping

The company positions the new chiplet-based SoC as well suited for todays’ ever more complex chip designs.


News Jun 27, 2023 by Jake Hertz
Exclusive Interview: NYU Team Taps ChatGPT to Design Processor From Scratch

Exclusive Interview: NYU Team Taps ChatGPT to Design Processor From Scratch

Using plain English—not a hardware definition language—a group of researchers used generative AI to successfully design a microprocessor.


News Jun 16, 2023 by Jake Hertz
Flux Adds Automatic Impedance Control For Simplifying High-Speed Design

Flux Adds Automatic Impedance Control For Simplifying High-Speed Design

The company’s new automated impedance control feature aims to make high-speed design accessible for engineers of all levels.


News May 25, 2023 by Jeff Child