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Mobile devices are taking over the world. If you want lots of graphs and data then look at Mary Meeker’s presentation that I blogged about earlier this week. The graph on the right is just one datapoint, showing that mobile access to the internet is probably up to about 15% now from a standing start 5 years ago.
Of course, one obvious… Read More
Speed, capacity, accuracy – these are the three major EDA tool metrics that we pay attention to and that enable us to design and verify an SoC. Talk to any design or verification engineer and ask if they are satisfied with the time that it takes to simulate their latest design, or to verify that it meets spec and is functionally… Read More
A basic building block of any communication system today is the fast Fourier transform, or FFT. A big advantage of FPGA implementations of FFTs is they can be scaled and tuned for the task at hand, optimizing data flow, resource use, and power consumption. Scaled, that is, up to the clock speed of the FPGA – or so it would seem.
Today’s… Read More
It’s a common electrical rule that when large amount of charge gets accumulated, it tries to break any of its surrounding isolation. Although it wouldn’t have been prominent in 1980s or 90s, protection for ICs from such damaging effects is a must, specifically in large mixed-signal designs of today, working at different voltages… Read More
Going to Munich in May could be a very good idea, as it will give you the opportunity to listen to the keynote talk from Lip-Bu Tan. Who knows if you will learn in direct live the name of the next acquisition from Cadence in 2013, after Tensilica and Cosmic Circuits? In fact, there may not be new acquisition announcement, then this keynote… Read More
Mentor Graphics’ Best User2User Everby Beth Martin on 04-23-2013 at 5:45 pmCategories: EDA, Siemens EDA
Calling all Mentor users! Don’t forget to register for the U2U in San Jose on Thursday, April 25.
In addition to three worthy keynotes, you will find a more interactive and solution-focused day than in the past. There are sessions on place & route, custom/AMS, emulation, test and yield analysis, functional verification, Calibre… Read More
Forte Risesby Randy Smith on 04-23-2013 at 3:00 amCategories: EDA
Over the past few months there has been a bit of back-and-forth concerning the 2012 market data indicating that Forte Designs Systems had taken over the top spot (by revenue) in the high-level synthesis (HLS) market (see stories hereand here). Having worked in this segment for Synfora as VP of Marketing, and as a consultant to AutoESL,… Read More
If you are ever asked to organize a conference session do not hesitate, accept immediately and jump right in. When John Swan, EDPS General Chair, asked me to organize a day I hesitated. Fortunately he is not one to take no for an answer. It was an unforgettable experience on many levels and I hope to be involved with EDPS again next year.… Read More
I met Mike Sanie around DVCon time and planned to write a blog about the one year anniversary of Synopsys Discovery VIP which was announced during Aart’s keynote at DVCon in 2012. Eric covered it for SemiWiki here. But Synopsys had other stuff they wanted me to blog about and so it is a couple of months late. The 14th month anniversary… Read More
If there is a trend I can detect in verification in 2013, it is taking verification environments and making the user interface, scripts, and tools work uniformly across the whole spectrum of possible verification “substrates” from virtual platforms, FPGA boards, emulation, actual chips, RTL simulation and so … Read More
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