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DAC: Chevy Volt Teardown

DAC: Chevy Volt Teardown
by Paul McLellan on 05-10-2012 at 7:03 pm

One DAC panel session that I am looking forward to attending is the Chevy Volt Teardown. This takes place at 1.30-2.30pm on Tuesday June 5th at the DAC pavilion (aka booth 310). Al Speier will be talking about a teardown that they did at Munro Associates where he is a senior associate. Unfortunately they won’t actually be tearing… Read More


RTDA at DAC: Scale to Millions of Jobs

RTDA at DAC: Scale to Millions of Jobs
by Paul McLellan on 05-10-2012 at 7:00 pm

RTDA is all about enterprise level scalability. Their three main products all scale to be able to handle the most demanding needs of large companies with large farms of servers. Of course there are some new refinements too.

LicenseMonitor can scale to 70,000 simultaneous checkouts with 1 billion checkout records in the database.… Read More


Only slight growth in 2012 semiconductor market

Only slight growth in 2012 semiconductor market
by Bill Jewell on 05-09-2012 at 11:24 pm

The world semiconductor market declined 2.2% in 1Q 2012 from 4Q 2011, according to WSTS. The market ended 2011 on a down slide, with 4Q 2011 down 7.7% from 3Q 2011. The year 2011 semiconductor market was up only 0.4%.

Three major events contributed to the weakness in 2011:

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  • March 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan disrupted
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    Apple Games Qualcomm’s 28nm Supply for Labor Day iPhone 5 Launch

    Apple Games Qualcomm’s 28nm Supply for Labor Day iPhone 5 Launch
    by Ed McKernan on 05-09-2012 at 11:17 pm

    You can see a lot just by looking – as Yogi Berra was quoted as saying. The past two weeks we have seen quite a bit that adds intrigue to the true nature of Qualcomm’s 28nm product shortage and how the effects will ripple through the mobile industry for the second half of 2012. Samsung’s bold announcement of their Galaxy S III smartphones… Read More


    Atrenta at DAC: Fast Lint, IP Kit and More

    Atrenta at DAC: Fast Lint, IP Kit and More
    by Paul McLellan on 05-09-2012 at 7:03 pm

    Atrenta will have a new look this year at DAC. I’m not quite sure what that means but we’ll all just have to go along and find out.

    They have three users talking about their use of Atrenta’s tools. All 3 of these presentations are in the user-track poster session on Tuesday June 5th 12.30-1.30pm in room 105 (which … Read More


    Customers Talk About Reliability, Low-Power and 3D

    Customers Talk About Reliability, Low-Power and 3D
    by Paul McLellan on 05-09-2012 at 1:13 pm

    At DAC in San Francisco this year, Apache once again have a mixture of presentations by customers on their use of Apache tools and presentations by Apache themselves on their products. Most of the customer presentations are given just once, but the product presentations are given multiple times over the three days.

    I think one of… Read More


    Sagantec Update: More EDA Consolidation!

    Sagantec Update: More EDA Consolidation!
    by Daniel Nenni on 05-08-2012 at 7:00 pm

    Adding sophisticated 2D dynamic compaction technology to address 20nm and 14nm challenges. Santa Clara, California – May 3 ,2012 – Sagantec today announced that it has acquired Dutch startup NP-Komplete Technologies BV (Eindhoven, The Netherlands) for its physical design compaction and migration solutions based on a sophisticatedRead More


    San Francisco Bars

    San Francisco Bars
    by Paul McLellan on 05-08-2012 at 6:00 pm

    If you are visiting DAC and want a drink in the evening then you are in an interesting city and you don’t have to go to a bar just like the ones in the city where you live. Here are a few unique places but take note, most of these places don’t serve any food, they are all about the drinks:

    Bourbon and Branch. It is an old speakeasy. You … Read More


    Is PHY IP really strategic? Just take a look at the various legal offensives running these days…

    Is PHY IP really strategic? Just take a look at the various legal offensives running these days…
    by Eric Esteve on 05-07-2012 at 12:02 pm

    Last week, at the same time I was writing a blog about PHY IP market, claiming that this market was shaken, several events happened – not on the pure business side, but on the legal side. This means that I will have to carefully check before using each word of this blog!

    If you remember, the blog conclusion was focusing on V Semiconductor,… Read More


    Achieving Rapid Verification Convergence of ARM® AMBA® 4 ACE™ Designs using Discovery™ Verification IP

    Achieving Rapid Verification Convergence of ARM® AMBA® 4 ACE™ Designs using Discovery™ Verification IP
    by Eric Esteve on 05-07-2012 at 3:17 am

    Synopsys is consolidating the company positioning on Verification IP. We have announced the launch of Discovery VIP in Semiwiki, in February this year, and we have commented about the acquisition of nSys and ExpertIO in January. This webinar, “Achieving Rapid Verification Convergence of ARM® AMBA® 4 ACE™ Designs using Discovery™… Read More