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NEC engineers advance hardware/software co-verification Claiming a new approach to hardware/software co-verification, researchers from NEC presented details about a combined simulation and emulation system at a Design Automation Conference paper session here. The approach integrates a C++ simulator with a low-cost FPGA-based emulator using shared register communications. Reporter's notebook from the Design Automation Conference A reporter's notebook from the Design Automation Conference in San Diego. Rhines: DFM best bet for EDA growth EDA growth comes from new methodologies, said Wally Rhines, Mentor Graphics CEO and EDA Consortium chair, at a Thursday keynote speech at the Design Automation Conference. Rhines said the most promising of these is design for manufacturability (DFM). Tactile engineering ramps for consumer apps Despite the many difficult engineering problems posed by haptic systems, a few companies are undaunted in the quest for integrating touch sense into information technology and its products BioBricks to help reverse-engineer life Leaders of a new movement are kicking off the first Synthetic Biology 1.0 conference at the Massachussets Institute of Technology this week. "Synthetic biology" is the blanket term for a multidisciplinary attempt to identify a class of standard operational components that can be assembled into functioning molecular machines. Statistical timing can boost IC performance, panelists say If IC designers had statistical timing tools, they would see significant improvements in performance, according to panelists at the Design Automation Conference Thursday. EDA industry at crossroads, execs say It's not your