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Semiconductor IP Validation Gets Faster

Semiconductor IP Validation Gets Faster
by Daniel Payne on 04-03-2014 at 11:32 am

Semiconductor IP continues to grow in use for SoC design, and many chips can now use hundreds of IP blocks from multiple vendors. Validating the quality of the IP blocks is an important step in the design process, and you could perform manual validation and inspection of each new IP block at the expense of time and engineering effort.… Read More


EDAC Mixer: Sonoma Chicken Coop

EDAC Mixer: Sonoma Chicken Coop
by Paul McLellan on 04-02-2014 at 8:00 pm

Get together with your fellow industry peers and insiders at the monthly EDAC Mixer, to the benefit of local charities. You don’t need to donate anything, you just show up and pay for your own drinks. A portion of the proceeds will go to local charities, this month to the Resource Area for Teaching (RAFT), a San Jose based non-profit… Read More


Sketch Router and auto-assist PCB layout

Sketch Router and auto-assist PCB layout
by Don Dingee on 03-31-2014 at 6:30 pm

Archaic tech metaphors abound, stuck in the psyche of users everywhere. We still “dial” numbers, long after the benefit of a short pull area code disappeared. (Humans could dial 1, 2, or 3 a lot faster on a rotary phone, and there were fewer dialpulses for central office switches to decode – thus big cities with more phone traffic like… Read More


Sebastian Thrun: Self-driving cars, MOOCs, Google Glass and more

Sebastian Thrun: Self-driving cars, MOOCs, Google Glass and more
by Paul McLellan on 03-31-2014 at 4:00 pm

Sebastian Thrun gave a fascinating keynote at SNUG last week. It didn’t have that much to do with IC design but he discussed 3 projects that he had been involved with. Anyone would be happy to have just one of these projects on their resume but he has all these (and more).

The first is the Google self-driving car. This project actually… Read More


Automating Analog Verification in Virtuoso

Automating Analog Verification in Virtuoso
by Daniel Payne on 03-31-2014 at 2:00 pm

Digital designers have been automating the functional verification process for many years now, however when you talk to an analog designer about how they do verification you quickly realize that the typical process is quite ad-hoc and little automated. Necessity does create an opportunity so the software engineers at MethodicsRead More


Jasper Announces Sequential Equivalence Checking

Jasper Announces Sequential Equivalence Checking
by Paul McLellan on 03-31-2014 at 8:00 am

Jasper finally announced their sequential equivalence checking app this morning. I say finally because they haven’t really tried to keep it a secret. They talked about it at the end of last year the Jasper User Group meeting and it has even had a page on their website. But formally the product was announced today.

The new JasperGold… Read More


Bye-Bye DDRn Protocol?

Bye-Bye DDRn Protocol?
by Eric Esteve on 03-30-2014 at 11:34 am

In fact, this assertion is provocative, as the DDR4 protocol standard has just been released by JEDEC… after 10 years discussion around the protocol features. Yes, the first discussions about DDR4 have started ten years ago! Will DDR4 be used in the industry? The answer is certainly yes, and DDR4 will most probably be used for years.… Read More


Social Media at Atrenta

Social Media at Atrenta
by Daniel Payne on 03-27-2014 at 11:01 pm

Atrentais well-known for their SpyGlass software that enables SoC engineers to run early design analysis on RTL code and create a hardware virtual prototype for analysis prior to implementation. Visiting their website you quickly see that social media plays an important role in connecting with engineers as links for Facebook,… Read More


Applied Power Electronics Conference & Exposition 2014: "Less Power"

Applied Power Electronics Conference & Exposition 2014: "Less Power"
by Bill Jewell on 03-27-2014 at 11:00 pm

On the television show “Home Improvement”, Tim Allen’s character always sought “more power” for whatever project he was working on. The theme of the Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC) 2014 could have been “less power”. APEC 2014 featured five days of seminars and sessions including professional education,Read More


IP Challenges, FinFET, 3D-IC, and FD-SOI Updates

IP Challenges, FinFET, 3D-IC, and FD-SOI Updates
by Daniel Nenni on 03-27-2014 at 10:00 am

Semiwiki is proud to be a sponsor of EDPS 2014:

April 17 & 18, 2014
Monterey Beach Hotel, Monterey, CA

Sponsored by:
IEEE Computer Society of Silicon Valley (CS-SCV)
IEEE Computer Society
Design Automation Technical Committee (DATC)
Council on Electronic Design Automation (CEDA)

The Electronic Design Processes Symposium… Read More