Shrinking technology nodes at lower product costs plus the rise of compute-intensive IOT applications help Menta’s e-FPGA outlook. Continue reading »

Criticalblue’s CEO David Stewart reveals how software driven hardware performance optimization moved them beyond the chip design world. Continue reading »

Three events from TSMC, ARM and JAMA Software highlight the breadth and depth of IP development that (hopefully) results in manual-less consumer apps. Continue reading »

IoT sensors breed a new future as technology fades into the background. Old industries are reformed, new applications light up and take flight while data stalls. Tomorrow begins today! Continue reading »

Time for another ChipEstimate.TV "Travel Log." This time, I cover highlights from the International Electronics (Dublin) Forum and the Imec Technology Forum. Continue reading »

This year’s Intel Developer Forum (IDF) in Beijing, China emphasized a push into intelligent embedded systems and communication-networking technologies. Continue reading »

Reviewing the list of first-, second-, and third-place winners reveals the technology direction of China’s university/industrial embedded-development community. Continue reading »

Has the move to thin and light mobile devices sidetracked the much hyped rise of parallel coding programs for many-core chips? Continue reading »

Cadence’s Jim Ready, founder of MontaVista, tries to bridge the software understanding gap between EDA designers versus embedded-application developers. Continue reading »

Although a boon to semiconductor sensor, analog and RF-wireless IP providers, few practitioners seem able to clearly define intelligent embedded systems. Continue reading »