I could have written the sequence of the title in reverse order, but no, design is the one which initiates the need of a particular flow and the flow needs support of EDA tools to satisfy that need. It’s okay if the design is small; some manual procedures and workarounds/scripts may be able to perform certain jobs. However, as the design… Read More
Electronic Design Automation
When Is a Good Time to Start Using High-Level Synthesis?
Of course if you are in the business of selling high-level synthesis (HLS) tools then the obvious answer is immediately. Start at 9am tomorrow morning. But a more realistic answer is when you are having to do something completely new. If you are working on a legacy design, perhaps with pre-existing IP, then moving the design up to … Read More
What Do Brazil and Sweden Have in Common?
Well, Sweden is not noted for its carnivals, Brazil is not noted for it’s tall blonde blue-eyed women, Sweden’s climate is not great for growing sugar cane and Brazil’s isn’t great for reindeer. Both countries speak languages with odd-sounding vowels but they are not the same language. But, ding, Jasper… Read More
How many consortia does POWER need to succeed?
Sometimes press releases just make me scratch my head. Today’s example comes from IBM: after tying PowerPC and Power.org in knots for almost 20 years with rules and restrictive licensing, IBM breaks ranks and sets up ANOTHER consortium with different players.… Read More
ClioSoft at GenApSys
GenApSys is a biotech company developing proprietary DNA sequencing technology. As part of that they develop their own custom sequencing chips. These have an analog component and like many people they use the Cadence Virtuoso analog design environment for this.
I talked to Hamid Rategh who is GenApSys’s VP engineering.… Read More
A Brief History of Docea Power
Founders
The founder, Ghislain Kaiser, spent about 10 years at STMicroelectronics, mainly in multimedia groups and for the wireless market. At this time, he was a power expert and tasked with making the chips use less power. The first thing he did was to look at what tools existed on the market. They wanted to use off the shelf tools… Read More
Scan the horizon, P1687 takes us higher
The tech standards cycle almost always goes like this: Problems or limits develop with the existing way of doing things. Innovators attempt to engineer solutions, usually many of them. Chaos ensues when customers figure out nothing new works with anything else. Competitors sit down and agree on a specification where things work… Read More
Pre-verified, Integrated Sensor IP Subsystem?
Last year, I said that the launch of ARC based complete sound system IP by Synopsys ring the bell for the opening of a new IP market segment, the “Subsystem IP”. This week, Synopsys has announced the availability of the DesignWare® Sensor IP Subsystem, a complete and integrated hardware and software solution for sensor control applications.… Read More
AMS IC Design at SilabTech
Through my contacts at SemiWiki I was introduced to a mixed signal IP company named SilabTech, and then decided to interview the founder and CEO, Sujoy Chakravarty.
Sujoy Chakravarty, CEO and Founder
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Schematic Capture and SPICE in the Cloud
A SemiWiki member mentioned CircuitLaba few months back so I took a look at it today and share my first impressions.… Read More
The Data Crisis is Unfolding – Are We Ready?