The Mead-Conway methodology for designing VLSI ICs triggered the development of three dominant CAE companies – Daisy, Mentor Graphics, and Valid – which in turn led to the later development of the three dominant EDA companies – Cadence, Synopsys, and Mentor Graphics. These histories appear in Parts 3 and 4 of this article series. The…
Open hardware company Pine64 is adding a new option to its offer of low-cost, ARM-based devices for developers and end users. Star64 is a single-board computer based.