24/01/2019
For the past 20 years or more, companies involved in electronic design automation (EDA) have concentrated on creating innovative new algorithms to keep chip, board, and system designers as productive as possible, as systems have become incredibly ...
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24/01/2019
Artificial intelligence (AI) represents much more than a future in which computers can control their own destiny (and ours), otherwise known as the singularity. AI as we know it today is not fiction and represents a tremendous opportunity for ...
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20/11/2017
Thanks to the advances made possible by silicon, electronic systems now pervade almost every part of life. The advanced control that electronic design enables is now helping to transform the way products are designed. Take the automotive sector as ...
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20/11/2017
Content marketing is a term that is bandied about a lot these days – more colloquially, it is often expressed as: ‘Content is King‘. But what does that really mean – is it a trend or a short-lived fad? And why should design engineers care?
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20/11/2017
The world is entering a new phase of digital transformation. Earlier phases saw digital technology transform the workplace as PCs became ubiquitous, then people’s personal and social lives as the smartphone put a powerful microcomputer in their hand.
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17/11/2017
In just a few decades, our understanding of how innovation takes place within a corporate setting has taken a new shape; one the likes of Bell, Edison or Tesla would not recognise. Their worlds were defined by physically different inventions, ...
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17/11/2017
In the past decade, advancements in machine learning have given us facial recognition on social media, more reliable and capable self-driving cars, practical speech recognition, effective web searches and a vastly improved understanding of the human ...
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16/11/2017
Whether it’s to each other, to local mobile devices or to the cloud – or a combination of all three – there is a growing need to connect industrial devices in manufacturing environments. While wired approaches currently dominate, the benefits of ...
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16/11/2017
The Internet of Things (IoT) is already pervading our lives and its power requirements are as broad as the number of applications. At one extreme are the edge devices connected to The Cloud, such as smartphones, Wi-Fi doorbell cameras and smart ...
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15/11/2017
The Internet of Things has moved from being a vague concept five years ago to something far more concrete and many of the articles in this year’s edition of Outlook underline this. In the early days of the IoT, it was thought that it was just a ...
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15/11/2017
The rapid evolution and adoption of smartphones makes it hard to believe that these ubiquitous devices have only been around for just over a decade. Today, more than 1.2billion smartphones are sold worldwide, each with multi-media capabilities that ...
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27/10/2016
The electronics industry in the UK has evolved since the publication in 2005 of the Electronics Innovation and Growth Team’s (EIGT) report on its future. One of the findings of the EIGT report was that most trade associations purporting to ...
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27/10/2016
Not so long ago, the Internet of Things (IoT) was seen as a quiet revolution. More recently, IoT has hit peak hype and attracted a great deal of attention from the media, as analyst and vendor forecasts have been somewhat optimistic. Regardless of ...
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27/10/2016
There are two apparently opposing forces in multicore architecture: one to make software running on groups of processors work together better; the other is to isolate them from each other. Both come together in markets like automotive, where ...
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27/10/2016
Despite all the attention given to the digital domain, we live in an analogue world. And it’s one of the reasons – maybe the main reason – why there is said to be more than $1 worth of analogue devices on a board for every $1 of digital.
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27/10/2016
A straw poll of design engineers is quite likely to conclude that testing the products they design is becoming increasingly challenging. There’s a number of reasons for this; apart from component functionality becoming more complex and devices ...
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27/10/2016
In an industry that continues to reinvent itself, USB Type-C is the perfect example of taking a good technology and making it even more useful.
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27/10/2016
Storage technology is arguably the most exciting and dynamic sector in the data centre market today, with a rate of innovation which is faster than ever.
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27/10/2016
Do you remember when, in the dim and distant past, the world wide web had just been spun? An early and oft-quoted commentator described the internet as the world’s largest library in which all the books were on the floor and the lights were out. ...
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27/10/2016
With the explosive growth in mobile devices and society’s reliance on data processing and storage, it is no surprise that the demand for memory is skyrocketing. Nor is it a surprise that such a dynamic market is changing rapidly. Next generation ...
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27/10/2016
As traditional automotive design flows struggle to create complex SoCs, EDA companies are producing tools that treat the car as a ‘system of systems’.
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27/10/2016
The challenges facing design engineers aren’t getting any easier, but the industry is working hard to help solve them
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02/11/2015
The reformed Knowledge Transfer Network ensures all of your connections are in one place.
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02/11/2015
Integration and process technology are helping mixed signal and analogue developers to create innovative products for sectors from robotics to wearables.
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02/11/2015
The steps necessary to ensure full and mild hybrid vehicles get better market traction.
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