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Software Developers Turn to CacheQ for Multi-Threading CPU Acceleration

Software Developers Turn to CacheQ for Multi-Threading CPU Acceleration
by Lauro Rizzatti on 06-07-2021 at 10:00 am

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Three-year old CacheQ, founded by two former Xilinx executives and a clever group of engineers, produces a distributed heterogenous compute development environment targeting software developers with limited knowledge of hardware architecture.

The promise of compiler tools for heterogeneous compute systems intrigued… Read More


RealTime Digital DRC Can Save Time Close to Tapeout

RealTime Digital DRC Can Save Time Close to Tapeout
by Tom Simon on 06-07-2021 at 6:00 am

RealTime DRC

Over the years DRC tools have done an admirable job of keeping pace with the huge growth of IC design size. Yet, DRC runs for sign off on the full design using foundry rule decks take many hours to complete. These long run times are acceptable for final sign off, but there are many situations where DRC results are needed quickly when small… Read More


Chips for America Act – Funding Failures & Foreigners or Saving Semiconductors?

Chips for America Act – Funding Failures & Foreigners or Saving Semiconductors?
by Robert Maire on 06-06-2021 at 6:00 am

Government Bailout

-A repeat of the auto industry bailout of self inflicted issues?
-Not just money but systemic change is needed
-Perhaps chips need an Elon led revolution like autos & space
-Govt $ need focus not thrown into existing spend avalanche.

 

Are chips a replay of the auto industry bailout a decade ago? Deja Vu all over again.

The… Read More


Podcast Episode 23: What are chiplets and why are they gaining popularity?

Podcast Episode 23: What are chiplets and why are they gaining popularity?
by Daniel Nenni on 06-04-2021 at 10:00 am

Dan is joined by Krishna Settaluri, Co founder and CEO of Blue Cheetah. Krishna received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from UC Berkeley and masters and bachelors from MIT specializing in design automation of high-speed silicon photonic links using analog generator technology. Krishna has worked at Apple, Google, Caltech… Read More


CEO Interview: Prakash Murthy of Atonarp

CEO Interview: Prakash Murthy of Atonarp
by Daniel Nenni on 06-04-2021 at 6:00 am

Prakash Murthy of Atonarp

Prakash Murthy is the co-founder & CEO of Atonarp, a leading molecular diagnostics company HQ in Tokyo Japan. Murthy has two decades of experience in engineering management and entrepreneurial ventures. Murthy also co-founded Inspiration Technologies and C2Silicon Software and served as the CEO of Core Solutions Inc.… Read More


Speed Up LEF Generation Times on Huge IC Designs

Speed Up LEF Generation Times on Huge IC Designs
by Daniel Payne on 06-03-2021 at 10:00 am

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For IC designs there are many data formats used throughout the logical and physical design process, and one of those file formats is called LEF, an acronym for Library Exchange Format, created by Tangent, an early EDA company with Place and Route tools that was acquired by Cadence way back in March 1989. LEF generation times can become… Read More


Analog Sensing Now Essential for Boosting SOC Performance

Analog Sensing Now Essential for Boosting SOC Performance
by Tom Simon on 06-03-2021 at 6:00 am

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In today’s System-on-Chip (SOC), analog blocks are used in many places such as I/O cells for communication, PLLs for generating clocks, LDO’s for converting supply voltage to internal rail voltage, Sensors for qualifying external characteristics such as temperature, light, motion, etc. However new advanced designs now require… Read More


Cadence adds a new Fast SPICE Circuit Simulator

Cadence adds a new Fast SPICE Circuit Simulator
by Daniel Payne on 06-02-2021 at 10:00 am

SPICE spectrum. Fast SPICE

In the early years of Cadence their growth was bolstered through many well-timed acquisitions, however over the last several years I’ve noticed a distinctively different trend where they have internally developed EDA tools. I had a Zoom call with Jay Madiraju from Cadence, who markets their newly announced Fast SPICE … Read More


IP-XACT Resurgence, Design Enterprise Catching Up

IP-XACT Resurgence, Design Enterprise Catching Up
by Bernard Murphy on 06-02-2021 at 6:00 am

IP-XACT Resurgence

This standard has been around in one form or another for over ten years and was then arguably ahead of its time. RTL designers were confused: ‘We already have RTL. Why do we need something else?’ I also didn’t get it. Still, the standard plugged ahead among the faithful and found traction among IP vendors. Particularly as a common format… Read More


TSMC 2021 Technical Symposium Actions Speak Louder Than Words

TSMC 2021 Technical Symposium Actions Speak Louder Than Words
by Daniel Nenni on 06-01-2021 at 1:00 pm

TSMC Symposium 2021

The TSMC Symposium kicked of today. I will share my general thoughts while Tom Dillinger will do deep dives on the technology side. The event started with a keynote by TSMC CEO CC Wei followed by technology presentations by the TSMC executive staff.

C.C. Wei introduced a new sound bite this year that really resonated with me and that… Read More