Chris Edwards
Chris Edwards is a freelance technology writer.
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Sani Nassif, the man in charge of tools and technologies at IBM Microelectronics, has a way of putting into perspective the looming problem for chip designers.
Mentor picks advisors to deal with takeover attempt
01 July 2008
Mentor Graphics has taken on Goldman Sachs and Merrill Lynch to advise on the unsolicited bid made by Cadence Design Systems to take over Mentor.
Chip designers need to watch their watts. But they are stymied by today's design techniques, says E&T.
Thanks to the use of more aggressive process technologies, large-memory 32bit microcontrollers are making inroads in embedded systems.
Cost pressures are forcing designers to put more analogue circuitry onto bleeding-edge silicon.
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