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Glossary: SOC

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A system-on-a-chip (SoC) is a microchip with the necessary electronic circuits to support a given system on a single integrated circuit. Typical uses for SoC include smartphones and wearable computers.
 
 

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Siemens Announces Excellicon Acquisition

Acquisition to bring advanced timing constraint capabilities to EDA design flow

Cadence Agentic AI Reduces SoC/System Engineering Time

Agentic AI spans multiple domains, including digital design, debug and verification, custom/mixed-signal design, printed circuit board and system design, Cadence reports.

Siemens‘ Symphony Pro Platform Expands Mixed Signal IC Verification

Siemens’ advanced mixed-signal simulation platform designed to boost productivity, company says.

Ansys Joins Intel Foundry Services Cloud Alliance

Ansys RedHawk-SC, Ansys HFSS and other multiphysics analysis solutions are selected for Intel Foundry Services’ new cloud alliance initiative.

Autonomous Trucking Pioneer Inceptio Technology Partners With Ambarella

Purpose is to deliver Level 3 automated driving, including surround camera and front ADAS perception with AI compute.

Synaptics Launches Katana Edge AI Kit

Aim is to boost AI vision development and sensor fusion applications for IoT.

Siemens Acquires UltraSoC

 Acquisition expands Xcelerator portfolio and creates data-driven product lifecycle management solutions for system-on-chip (SoC).

ANSYS Advances 5G, High-Performance Computing and AI Design 

ANSYS RaptorH brings the HFSS solver engine to silicon chip design teams.

Siemens Partners with Arm to Accelerate Mobility

Aim is to enhance mobility by redefining design capabilities for complex electronic systems.

AMD Announces Desktop and Ultrathin Laptop Processors at CES 2020

 AMD introduces 64-core HEDT processor AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X.

NAND Flash Finds a Home in the IoT

Advances in the technology now let NAND flash memory offer faster throughput, greater flexibility and better price points per byte, opening the door for its use as primary storage.

What AI Can Do for Electronic Design Automation

AI has begun to come into its own, making tremendous strides over the past few years. But for all its successes, applications of AI-like machine learning, neural networks and deep learning have been slow to find a place in electronic design…

Embedded World Explores New Frontiers

Annual embedded computing conference homes in on gathering and using data from the edges.

Designing the New Machine to Perform Data Analytics on the Edge

Designing machines that can perform edge analytics provides more value to the IoT.

Machine Learning Gives Us EDA Tools That Can Learn

The technology is making its mark on the semiconductor industry, opening the door for modeling and simulation to yield new levels of insight.

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