“The age of point tools is over,” Aart de Geus, founder and CEO of Synopsys, told Electronics Weekly in 2005, “We think we’re going to see a massive decrease in the importance of point tools.” De Geus ...

Security remains an urgent concern for builders of any system that might tempt attackers, but designers find themselves faced with a bewildering array of security options. Some of those are point ...

Both the shaper and the planer are single-point tools that cut only in straight lines. They both make the same types of cuts. The shaper handles relatively small work. The planer handles work weighing ...