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Quality in Design Formats has become a must!

Quality in Design Formats has become a must!
by Daniel Nenni on 06-01-2013 at 6:00 pm

Fractal Technologies is a privately held EDA company with offices in San Carlos, California and Eindhoven, the Netherlands. The company was founded by a small group of highly recognized EDA professionals. The scope of Fractal Technologies is to check consistency and validate all different data formats used in your design and… Read More


The Ugly Stepchild of Physical Verification – Thermal!

The Ugly Stepchild of Physical Verification – Thermal!
by Daniel Nenni on 06-01-2013 at 3:00 pm

Thermal analysis has traditionally been given short shrift when compared to other more prominent issues facing chip designers. Invarian, to my eye at least, feels that the winds of change are in the air. Not that power or EM/IR issues will fade, that indeed is not the case and in fact quite the contrary, they are contributors to the… Read More


SemiWiki Top 10 Must See @ #50DAC List!

SemiWiki Top 10 Must See @ #50DAC List!
by Daniel Nenni on 05-31-2013 at 7:45 pm


This list was compiled by the SemiWiki bloggers highlighting emerging technologies that we have written about and that will be demonstrated at the Design Automation Conference next week. We highly recommend you investigate them further during your time in Austin and please let us know what you think.

Today SemiWiki has more than… Read More


Robust Reliability Verification: Beyond Traditional Tools and Techniques

Robust Reliability Verification: Beyond Traditional Tools and Techniques
by SStalnaker on 05-31-2013 at 7:10 pm

Robust Reliability Verification: Beyond Traditional Tools
by Matthew Hogan, Mentor Graphics

At all process nodes, countless hours are diligently expended to ensure that our integrated circuit (IC) designs will function in the way we intended, can be manufactured with satisfactory yields, and are delivered in a timely fashion… Read More


Cooley’s Cheesy Must See List for DAC is Out

Cooley’s Cheesy Must See List for DAC is Out
by Paul McLellan on 05-31-2013 at 6:23 pm

One of the other increasingly successful channels (besides Semiwiki of course) for EDA, IP and semiconductor companies to reach potential customers is John Cooley’s DeepChip. Every year he puts a lot of effort into trying to find out who is exhibiting what at DAC and which stuff seems like it is new and maybe important, and… Read More


ARM Partners with Carbon on Cortex-A57

ARM Partners with Carbon on Cortex-A57
by Paul McLellan on 05-31-2013 at 3:37 pm

Just in time for DAC, Carbon have announced that they have expanded their partnership with ARM to create and deliver models for the ARM Cortex-A57 processor and related IP. One piece of related IP is the Cortex-A53 which can be configured in big.LITTLE multi-core setups to achieve the sweet spot of higher performance and lower power.… Read More


10 years, 100,000 miles, or <1 DPM

10 years, 100,000 miles, or <1 DPM
by Don Dingee on 05-30-2013 at 10:00 pm

Auto makers have historically been accused of things like planned obsolescence – redesigning parts to make repairs painfully or even prohibitively expensive – and the “warranty time-bomb”, where major systems seem to fail about a week after the warranty expires. Optimists would chalk both those up to relentless innovation,… Read More


You can tune a piano, but you can’t tune a cache without help

You can tune a piano, but you can’t tune a cache without help
by Don Dingee on 05-30-2013 at 8:30 pm

Once upon a time, designing a product with a first generation SoC on board, we were trying to use two different I/O peripherals simultaneously. Seemed simple enough, but things just flat out didn’t work. After days spent on RTFM (re-reading the fine manual), we found ourselves at the absolute last resort: ask our FAE.

After about… Read More


SEMulator3D – A Virtual Fab Platform

SEMulator3D – A Virtual Fab Platform
by Pawan Fangaria on 05-30-2013 at 8:30 pm

Yes, it’s a pleasant surprise; it is Virtual Fabrication Platform, one of the new innovations in 2013. I was looking around for what kind of breakthrough technologies will be announced in DAC this year. And here I came across this new kind of innovative tool which can produce final virtual fabricated 3D structures after following… Read More


DAC lunch seminar: Better IP Test with IEEE P1687

DAC lunch seminar: Better IP Test with IEEE P1687
by Beth Martin on 05-30-2013 at 7:28 pm

What: DAC lunch seminar (register here)
When: June 5, 2013, 11:30am – 1:30pm
Where: At DAC in lovely Austin, TX

Dr. Martin Keim of Mentor Graphics will present this overview of the new the IEEE P1687 standard, called IJTAG for ‘internal’ JTAG.

If you are involved in IC test*, you’ve probably heard about IJTAG. If you … Read More