EDA and IP

This week I sat down with Stephen Fairbanks, President of SRF Technologies and Co-Director at Certus Semiconductor. Certus is a valued member of IPextreme’s Constellations program.

Got an inventive mind and feel like making a few thousand pounds? Then you might have some fun with Marblar.com, a website that will go live in late August. The site will ask users to suggest lucrative uses for "underexploited" patented technologies - with cash prizes of up to £10,000 for the best ideas.

With Eastman Kodak’s long-awaited patent auction taking place tomorrow, it is rapidly becoming clear that patent portfolios should now be regarded as the single most valuable asset for technology companies.

Zuken's latest release of its CR-5000 PCB and IC Package design software has been optimised for FPGA development and for high-speed design

It's been a few years since we've emerged on the other side of the rabbit hole from the dramatic downturn of 2008-2009. Many things have changed in the world, including the state of high tech. I thought it would be interesting to speak with a diverse group of leading people in the semiconductor and IP market to get their sense on the industry today and how it has changed for their companies and where they think it may be going.

Reliable communication is vital in all types of transportation and in particular communication systems need to work effectively in marine vessels. Typically, a ship will use a number of transmitter-receivers or ‘transceivers’, for example a marine VHF radio, an automatic identification system Class B signal and an FM radio signal, with each transceiver normally requiring its own antenna.

Dan O’Dowd, founded Green Hills Software in 1982 and has been its president and CEO ever since. On the embedded software company’s 30th anniversary he talks to Electronics Weekly

Guest columnist Glenn Dukes, v-p of Synopsys professional services, suggests that the right combination of program management expertise, infrastructure support and soft skills enables design teams to reap the growth benefits of global design

Imagination had a 53% rise in profits to $57.7m and a 30% rise in revenue to $200m for the financial year to the end of April.

Virtual devices open door to affordable chip emulation, writes Jim Kenney