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Samsung’s Life of Pi @ Apache @ DAC

Samsung’s Life of Pi @ Apache @ DAC
by Paul McLellan on 05-20-2013 at 4:51 pm

Last week I talked to Eileen You of Samsung-SSI to get a preview on what they will be talking about at Apache’s customer theater at DAC. Their presentation is titledThe Life of PI: SoC Power Integrity from Early Estimation to Design Sign-off. The ‘PI’ stands for Power Integrity.

Samsung-SSI’s operations… Read More


Better, Faster, Cheaper: Evaluating EDA tools

Better, Faster, Cheaper: Evaluating EDA tools
by Randy Smith on 05-20-2013 at 3:30 pm

With DAC approaching, it is a good time for both EDA companies and their customers to take a deeper look at the evaluation process of EDA tools, and how EDA companies position their tools. I hope this is useful for customers and vendors alike.

When it comes to positioning EDA tools in the marketplace there are really only three meaningful… Read More


Tempus: Cadence Takes On PrimeTime

Tempus: Cadence Takes On PrimeTime
by Paul McLellan on 05-20-2013 at 7:00 am

Today Cadence announced Tempus, their new timing signoff solution. This has been in development for at least a couple of years and has been built from the ground up to be massively parallelized. Not just that different corners can be run in parallel (which is basically straightforward) but that large designs can be partitioned … Read More


Design Data Management – Key Winning Strategy!

Design Data Management – Key Winning Strategy!
by Pawan Fangaria on 05-19-2013 at 9:30 pm

In a complex semiconductor market today, characterized by ever increasing design size and complexity, long design cycle, rapid technological advancement, intense competition, pricing pressure, small window of opportunity, development and cross-functional teams spread across the globe and multiple design partners including… Read More


CEO Interview: Jens Andersen of Invarian

CEO Interview: Jens Andersen of Invarian
by Daniel Nenni on 05-19-2013 at 9:10 pm

Invarian is an interesting EDA company that sees a niche market opening in the physical verification space. There are a number of converging factors driving this opportunity. Electromigration and voltage-drop for full-chip analysis demands SPICE level accuracy with fast runtimes. Invarian solves that problem with macro … Read More


Complete Schedule of Synopsys 2013 DAC Events, Panels & Paper Participation (Free Food!)

Complete Schedule of Synopsys 2013 DAC Events, Panels & Paper Participation (Free Food!)
by Daniel Nenni on 05-19-2013 at 9:01 pm

Funny story, @ #49DAC I saw Aart with a very relaxed look on his face looking at the exhibit hall and in my mind he was thinking, “Mine, all mine!” But I digress……. Synopsys is the #1 EDA company for a reason and here is the supporting data for that hypothesis:

Synopsys is committed to accelerating Innovation… Read More


BDA Introduces High-Productivity Analog Characterization Environment (ACE)

BDA Introduces High-Productivity Analog Characterization Environment (ACE)
by Daniel Nenni on 05-19-2013 at 7:45 pm

Last week Berkeley Design Automation introduced a new Analog Characterization Environment (ACE) – a high-productivity system to ensure analog circuits meet all specifications under all expected operational, environmental, and process conditions prior to tapeout.

While standard cell characterization and memory characterization… Read More


Oasys Announces Floorplan Compiler

Oasys Announces Floorplan Compiler
by Paul McLellan on 05-19-2013 at 5:58 pm

Today Oasys announced the availability of Floorplan Compiler in the Oasys RealTime suite of physical RTL exploration and synthesis tools. This is actually a repackaging of a capability that has always been in RealTime Designer, and in fact has been an important aspect of how well RealTime Designer has performed in benchmarks … Read More


Dassault DAC Assault

Dassault DAC Assault
by Paul McLellan on 05-19-2013 at 3:25 pm

Dassault Systèmes is not a company entirely new to DAC, but with the acquisition of Matrix One (which had already acquired DesignSync) a few years ago and Tuscany Design Automation’s PinPoint last year they now have a richer portfolio to support various aspects of electronic design. By the way, Dassault is a French company… Read More


Supporting the Customer Is Everyone’s Job

Supporting the Customer Is Everyone’s Job
by Amit Varde on 05-19-2013 at 10:40 am

EDA software is quite different from off-the-shelf software. In most cases, customer requirements are unique and depend on the proprietary and complex design process, environments and standards developed and/or evolved by semiconductor design teams over a number of years. EDA software ends up being heavily customized to … Read More