Exar serving high-growth areas with innovative value-added solutions

Exar Corp., established 1971, is headquartered in Fremont, USA, and has design centers in Silicon Valley and Hangzhou, China. Louis DiNardo, president and CEO, Exar, said that the company’s strategic model is to serve high-growth markets with innovative value-added solutions. He was speaking at the ongoing 13th Globalpress Electronics Summit in Santa Cruz, USA. Exar offers solutions that

IoT gathering pace as revolution: Guru Ganesan

IoT gathering pace as revolution: Guru Ganesan By 2020, there will be over 8 billion people on our planet. This will also bring tremendous innovations and challenges. ARM has been connecting intelligence at every level, said Guru Ganesan, president and MD, ARM India. He was delivering the guest keynote at the recently held CDNLive 2014

Plunify’s InTime helps FPGA design engineers meet timing and area goals!

Engineers designing FPGA applications face many challenges. Using Plunify’s automation and analysis platform, engineers can run 100 times more builds, analyze a larger set of builds and quickly zoom in on better quality results. Using data analytics and the cloud, Plunify created new capabilities for FPGA design, with InTime being an example. Kirvy Teo said:

Optic2Connect develops software for photonics!

Optic2Connect will be present at this year’s DAC. I caught up with Sean Seah, project manager, to find out more. First, what’s the company’s X factor and why? (What is it that makes your offering special and noteworthy – how are you different from competitors)? Optic2Connect develops software solutions for the photonics industry. The demand

Renesas aims to increase its MCU share in India

Renesas Electronics recently opened its India subsidiary in Bangalore. Elaborating, Sunil Dhar, managing director of Renesas Electronics India said: “We are glad to announce the opening of Renesas Electronics India Pvt Ltd, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Renesas Electronics Singapore Pte Ltd., located in Bangalore. “Since 2010, Renesas has been providing technical product support to its

Set up strong methodology teams to create better verification infrastructure: Synopsys

This is the third installment on verification, now, taken up by Synopsys. Regarding the biggest verification mistakes today, Arindam Ghosh, director – Global Technical Services, Synopsys India, attributed these as: * Spending no time on verification planning (not documenting what needs to be verified) and focusing more on running simulations or on execution. * No

Cadence: Plan verification to avoid mistakes!

Following Mentor Graphics, Cadence Design Systems Inc. has entered the verification debate. 😉  I met Apurva Kalia, VP R&D – System & Verification Group, Cadence Design Systems. In a nutshell, he advised that there needs to be proper verification planning in order to avoid mistakes. First, let’s try to find out the the biggest verification

Five recommendations for verification: Dr. Wally Rhines

It seems to be the season of verification. The Universal Verification Methodology (UVM 1.2) is being discussed across conferences. Dennis Brophy, director of Strategic Business Development, Mentor Graphics, says that UVM 1.2 release is imminent, and UVM remains a topic of great interest. Biggest verification mistakes Before I add Dennis Brophy’s take on UVM 1.2,

Three things in Indian semicon: Vinay Shenoy

There have been a variety of announcements made by the Government of India in the last one year or so. In the pre-90s period, the country showed just 1 percent GDP growth rate. It was adverse to FDI and had a regulated market. All of this led to deregulation under the late PM, PV Narasimha

Global semicon industry trends in 2014: Analog Devices

I recently met Sam Fuller, CTO, Analog Devices, and had an interesting conversation. First, I asked him about the state of the global semicon industry in 2013. Industry in 2013 He said: “Due to the uncertainties in the global economy in the last couple of years, the state of the global semiconductor industry has been