Design software is a core pillar in electronics development, enabling precise PCB layouts, advanced simulation, and seamless product validation. From cloud-based platforms to AI-powered EDA tools, design software innovations continue to streamline workflows for engineers and accelerate time to market. Major players are expanding capabilities to support IoT, 5G, and automotive applications. Design software also integrates with component libraries, boosting accuracy and collaboration across global teams. Electronics Weekly tracks essential updates, product launches, and market trends in design tools, helping readers stay competitive and informed in a rapidly evolving electronics landscape. Stay tuned for the latest design software news here.
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 ...
Rust applications can be Autosar software components on TC4x automotive microcontrollers, allowing Rust to run alongside C and C++, following a cooperation between HighTec EDV-Systeme, Elektrobit and Infineon. The three companies have created a development software bundle called ‘Drive Core Autosar (Rust)’, which includes: A version of Elektrobit’s Tresos Studio, including Tresos AutoCore Autosar-compliant basic software for automotive ECUs (control ...
Designers looking to optimise PPA (power, performance, area) are finding that optimisation engines can render original programmatic timing constraints unusable in their original form. At DAC 2025, Ausdia introduced Timevision OneSource which automatically generates a new version of block-level constraints after optimisation engines have worked on hierarchies, duplicate elements and performed advanced transformation. Such optimisations can save two weeks of ...
San Francisco: At last year’s DAC, Baya Systems emerged from stealth mode. At this year’s event, the design software company announced a switch fabric technology that is claimed to enable a x100 increase in node density. NeuraScale is designed to overcome critical scaling and data movement challenges in AI infrastructure that are driving advanced SoCs and emerging 3D chiplet-based designs, ...
Two software tools, Innovator3D IC and Calibre 3DStress, address chiplet integration and thermal management at the transistor level. Siemens Digital Industries Software announced the duo at DAC 2025. The Innovator3D IC suite advances 3D IC integration using AI to execute chip design and raise productivity, as designers increasingly reintegrate chiplets into high performance substrates, said the company. It enables IC ...
Embedded World 2025: Synopsys says its Virtualizer Native Execution prototyping tool will accelerate software development for edge devices. It extends the Virtualizer tool suite and model libraries to Arm hardware, allowing virtual prototypes to be built, executed and tested directly on Arm-based machines. The Native Element factor in the new tool means that users can execute virtual prototypes directly on ...
Synopsys has added the HAPS-200 prototyping and ZeBu-200 emulation system to its hardware-assisted verification (HAV) portfolio. Both the HAPs-200 and ZeBu-200 are based on the AMD Versal Premium VP1902 adaptive SoC and built on the company’s emulation and prototyping, or EP-Ready, hardware for use with reconfiguration and optimisation software. ZeBu Server 5 delivers scalability beyond 60bn gates, to target large ...
Segger has added an oscilloscope-like window to its SystemView embedded system analysis software to record variable data alongside runtime events. Called DataPlot, its graphs are synchronised with SystemView’s Timeline and CPU Load windows. Data can be sent in fixed point or floating-point formats and multiple variables can be recorded – each identifiable by a descriptive name and a different color ...
Nvidia has announced pre-trained, customisable AI workflows for creating customer service avatars, for data-mining pdf documents, and for virtual drug screening. They are the first three ‘NIM Agent Blueprints’, which the company said will be a catalogue of products to jump-start developers creating applications based on AI agents. They include sample applications built with Nvidia’s ‘NeMo’, ‘NIM’ and partner micro-services, ...
Programmierbare Logik & Systeme is offering debug and trace for NXP’s S32N55 16 core software-defined vehicle processor, announced yesterday. It is included in the 2024 version of UDE, the company’s universal debug engine. With UDE “the Cortex-R52 main cores and the Cortex-M7 auxiliary cores are all visible and can be controlled from one common debugger user interface”, according to PLS. ...
