EDA and IP

The Eclipse Foundation announced updates to the Open VSX Registry, its vendor-neutral extension registry for tools built on the VS Code extension API. The registry is used in AI-enabled and cloud-based developer platforms, including Amazon’s Kiro, Google’s Antigravity, Cursor, IBM’s Bob, VSCodium, Windsurf and Ona (formerly Gitpod). A new pre-publication verification network will identify security risks. The framework enables the ...

Unifying embedded software files, datasheets and applications notes for Renesas’ RA family of MCUs, Renesas 365 is the company’s cloud-based environment for system development, device lifecycle management and concept validation. It is powered by Altium and, according to Renesas Electronics, is the first platform to bring silicon and systems together across an open ecosystem at scale. It allows engineering teams ...

Siemens Digital has brought out the Fuse EDA AI Agent system, an autonomous AI agent that plans and orchestrates multi-tool and multi-agent complex semiconductor, 3D IC and PCB system workflows that span across design, verification and manufacturing sign-off. Supporting Nvidia Agent Toolkit, advanced Nemotron models and Nvidia AI infrastructure, the Fuse EDA AI Agent manages workflows across Siemens’ EDA portfolio, ...

Axivion for CUDA has been announced by Qt Group as part of Nvidia’s Halos AI Systems Inspection Lab for automated safety checking of robots and autonomous vehicles. It provides continuous GPU/CPU code analysis measured against Nvidia guidelines and industry standards and generates the documentation needed by Halos for sign-off. It also enables the early detection of problematic issues to reduce ...

United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is requesting input from interested parties on the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) Riyadh Design Law Treaty (RDLT), adopted by WIPO member states on November 22, 2024, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The RDLT aims to streamline the global system for protecting designs and helping designers to more easily obtain protection from their designs, ...

Launched at MWC in Barcelona, the PentaG-NTN is a 5G-NTN (non-terrestrial network) modem IP subsystem for satellite user terminals supporting LEO and MEO constellations. It enables satellite operators, constellation and terminal developers to accelerate 5G-NTN services using the third-generation PentaG, production-ready 5G-Advanced baseband architecture. The modem integrates baseband hardware, L1 PHY software and verification assets into a single, reusable subsystem. ...

Test System Architect is a graphical toolset developed for signal path design and deployment by signal switching and simulation specialist, Pickering Interfaces. The toolset is available free of charge and can be used to design, confiture and visualise test architectures, explained Kyle Voosen, product marketing manager at Pickering Interfaces. Voosen said that the challenge faced by many customers today is ...

Developing adaptive robotic swarm systems that communicate and act autonomously, remains a challenge, say Samuel Bateman and Chris Froud. Using swarms of drones to autonomously perform critical or labour-intensive missions, such as assembling structures in challenging environments (e.g. field hospitals), monitoring large expanses of agricultural land for pests, structural health surveys, or for security purposes (e.g. intercepting other drones in ...

Cadence has launched the ChipStack AI Super Agent – agentic AI for front-end silicon design and verification. The Cadence ChipStack AI Super Agent claims to provide up to 10X productivity improvements for coding designs and testbenches, creating test plans, orchestrating regression testing, debugging and automatically fixing issues. “ChipStack represents a major leap in our design-for-AI and AI-for-design strategy, applying agentic ...

In the latest CHIIPs podcast, Thomas Andersen, vice president for AI and machine learning at Synopsys, shatters the threat of AI for design engineering jobs as he discusses the use of AI by the EDA industry. It will be most beneficial where there is reuse, he believes, outlining how AI can be taught a design, and self-learning will allow it ...