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Next Generation Formal Technology to Boost Verification

Next Generation Formal Technology to Boost Verification
by Pawan Fangaria on 06-08-2015 at 12:00 pm

With growing complexities and sizes of SoCs, verification has become a key challenge for design closure. There isn’t a single methodology that can provide complete verification closure for an SoC. Moreover creation of verification environment including hardware, software, testbench and testcases requires significant … Read More


Synopsys to Acquire Atrenta

Synopsys to Acquire Atrenta
by Paul McLellan on 06-07-2015 at 11:17 pm

I was at the DAC kickoff this evening in the Intercontinental Hotel. I was talking to Dave DeMaria, the senior marketing guy at Synopsys and he told me of a couple of minor press releases due to hit the wire tomorrow morning, didn’t sound important enough to be blogworthy. Aart was there too although I didn’t speak to him.… Read More


5 Things Chipmakers Are Missing on the IoT

5 Things Chipmakers Are Missing on the IoT
by Don Dingee on 06-07-2015 at 7:00 pm

When the RISC movement surfaced in 1982, researchers analyzed UNIX to discover what instructions multi-user code was actually using, and then designed an instruction set and execution pipeline to do that better. Fewer instructions meant fewer transistors, which led to less power consumption – although in the original… Read More


Turning the Automotive Development Process Upside Down

Turning the Automotive Development Process Upside Down
by Daniel Payne on 06-07-2015 at 2:00 pm

Most of us drive automobiles and have a vague idea that the development of our cars takes many years, millions of dollars, is a proprietary process and require huge factories to produce. A relatively new company called Local Motors founded in 2007 has started to turn the automotive development process upside down because they do… Read More


ESD Protection Network Checking is Difficult But Necessary

ESD Protection Network Checking is Difficult But Necessary
by Tom Simon on 06-06-2015 at 6:00 pm

I’ve written before about anti-fuse non-volatile memory, where the gate oxide is intentionally damaged in order to create a readable bit of data, but this is what most circuit designers never want to have happen to their logic gates. However, since the advent of MOS transistors the issue of Electrostatic Discharge (ESD) and the… Read More


Vacationing with the Fabless Semiconductor Ecosystem!

Vacationing with the Fabless Semiconductor Ecosystem!
by Daniel Nenni on 06-05-2015 at 4:00 pm

The Design Automation Conference is the largest and most diverse event in the fabless semiconductor ecosystem. Next week in San Francisco you will see technology and people you have never seen before. You will benefit from the efforts of hundreds of thousands of semiconductor professionals like myself who have dedicated their… Read More


GlobalFoundries Adds RF to 28nm

GlobalFoundries Adds RF to 28nm
by Paul McLellan on 06-05-2015 at 7:00 am

The internet of things (IoT) or internet of everything is a term that is into the red zone on the hype-meter. But it does genuinely have something of substance behind the hype. The thing that is a little deceptive is that the IoT term makes it sound like it is a market, but in fact it is several different markets: medical, automotive, … Read More


Automate those voltage-dependent DRC checks!

Automate those voltage-dependent DRC checks!
by Beth Martin on 06-04-2015 at 10:00 pm

Because IC design and verification never gets simpler, verification engineers now have to comply with voltage-dependent DRC (VD-DRC) rules. What does this term mean, and what new challenges does it bring to the DRC task? I’d like to share what I learned during another water-cooler conversation with Dina Medhat, senior technical… Read More


Is Avago Chip Industry’s Cisco?

Is Avago Chip Industry’s Cisco?
by Majeed Ahmad on 06-04-2015 at 3:00 pm

If Ford is a reference model for value chain in the Industrial Age, Cisco is the icon of the twenty-first-century digital economy. The networking gear maker, who achieved phenomenal growth with the rise of the Internet, has been remarkably successful in snapping up and integrating scores of companies for products it could not … Read More


The Transistor is the Foundation of TCAD to Signoff

The Transistor is the Foundation of TCAD to Signoff
by Paul McLellan on 06-04-2015 at 7:00 am

At the most basic level, semiconductor design is all about transistors. Any report on a large microprocessor or mobile application processor is in awe about how many transistors it contains. Moore’s Law is all about the most economic way to manufacture transistors. Each process generation for the last decade and looking ahead… Read More