DesignCon brings together engineers from around the world that are interested in IC design, package design and board design, plus the signal integrity issues of creating high-speed systems. In just two weeks there’s a Special Interest Group(SIG) just for users of HSPICE in their tool flow, and it meets for three hours during… Read More
Electronic Design Automation
How to Develop Accurate Yet High Performance Models
In today’s environment of semiconductor design, SoCs are crammed with various IPs with multiple functionalities and processors integrated together. In such an event it has become necessary to model the system and verify on Virtual Platform before getting into actual design and fabrication. And that requires modelling of each… Read More
An Update on the OpenPDK for IC Design
IC designers use EDA tools to implement their logical and physical design, and these tools require foundry-specific information for:
- Design Rule Checking (DRC)
- Layout Versus Schematic (LVS)
- Library Symbols
- Parasitic EXtraction (PEX)
Social Media at Aldec
I’ve been blogging about EDA and Semiconductor companies using social media to create new ways to talk and listen to engineers, so today I looked at Aldec and how they are using social media. Aldec offers EDA products for: FPGA Simulation, functional verification, emulation, and MIL/Aero verification. Their Home page … Read More
Low Power @ DesignCon 2014
Taking place annually in Silicon Valley, DesignCon is the premier educational conference and technology exhibition for electronic design engineers in the high speed communications and semiconductor communities.
Created by engineers for engineers, DesignCon is the largest gathering of chip, board and systems designers… Read More
How to Optimize Analog IPs for High-end SoCs?
Gone are the days when analog design had its sweet space on a single chip. However, it’s the main driver in this new electronic world which is geared by Internet-of-Things, wireless, mobile, remote control and so on. How does an electronic device sense a touch by human, motion, temperature, sound etc.? It’s the analog circuitry … Read More
Mission Critical Role of Unmanned Systems – How to fulfill?
Do we ever imagine what kind of severe challenges mission critical unmanned systems in air, land and underwater face? They are limited in space and size; have to be light in weight, flexible in different types of operations and at the same time rugged enough to work in extreme climatic conditions. That’s not enough; amidst these … Read More
New Frontiers in Scan Diagnosis
As we move down into more and more advanced process nodes, the rules of how we test designs are having to change. One big challenge is the requirement to zoom in and fix problems by doing root cause analysis on test data alone, along with the rest of the design data such as detailed layout, optical proximity correction and so on. But without… Read More
Mastering the Magic of Multi-Patterning
I’ve been quite impressed that modern ICs use a lithography process with 193nm light sources to resolve final feature sizes at 20nm and smaller dimensions. We’ve been blogging about Double Patterning Technology (DPT) some 45 times in the past few years that enable 20nm fabrication, so one big question for me is, “How… Read More
ClioSoft at Arasan
Arasan recently adopted ClioSoft for data management (DM) for design and development of Arasan’s Silicon IP products. This morning I talked to Erik Peterson, Senior CAD and Verification Engineer AMS Design about their experiences bringing up ClioSoft.
Data management infrastructure is critical with engineering projects… Read More
Should Intel be Split in Half?