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EDA Industry Talks about Smart Phones and Tablets, Yet Their Own Web Sites are Not Mobile-friendly

EDA Industry Talks about Smart Phones and Tablets, Yet Their Own Web Sites are Not Mobile-friendly
by Daniel Payne on 04-09-2012 at 12:55 pm

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As a blogger I write weekly about the EDA industry and certainly our industry enables products like Smart Phones and Tablets to even exist, however if we really believed in these mobile devices then what should our web sites look like on a mobile device?

It’s a simple question, yet I first must define mobile-friendly before… Read More


EDPS: SoC FPGAs

EDPS: SoC FPGAs
by Paul McLellan on 04-09-2012 at 4:00 am

Mike Hutton of Altera spends most of his time thinking about a couple of process generations out. So a lot of what he worries about is not so much the fine-grained architecture of what they put on silicon, but rather how the user is going to get their system implemented. 2014 is predicted to be the year in which over half of all FPGAs will… Read More


EDPS: Parallel EDA

EDPS: Parallel EDA
by Paul McLellan on 04-08-2012 at 10:00 pm

EDPS was last Thursday and Friday in Monterey. I think that this is a conference that more people would benefit from attending. Unlike some other conferences, it is almost entirely focused around user problems rather than doing a deep dive into things of limited interest. Most of the presentations are more like survey papers and… Read More


Google Glasses = Darknet!

Google Glasses = Darknet!
by Daniel Nenni on 04-08-2012 at 9:00 pm

Google Project Glasses and Augmented Reality will be the tragic end to the world as we once knew it. As we become more and more dependent on mobile internet devices we become less and less independent in life. Consider how much of your critical personal and professional information (digital capital) is stored via the internet and… Read More


Designing for Reliability

Designing for Reliability
by Paul McLellan on 04-08-2012 at 8:06 pm

Analyzing the operation of a modern SoC, especially analyzing its power distribution network (PDN) is getting more and more complex. Today’s SoCs no longer operate on a continuous basis, instead functional blocks on the IC are only powered up to execute the operation that is required and then they go into a standby mode, … Read More


Synopsys Users Group 2012 Keynote: Dr Chenming Hu and Transistors in the Third Dimension!

Synopsys Users Group 2012 Keynote: Dr Chenming Hu and Transistors in the Third Dimension!
by Daniel Nenni on 04-08-2012 at 7:00 pm

It was an honor to see DR. Chenming Huspeak and to learn more about FinFets, a technology he has championed since 1999. Chenming is considered an expert on the subject and is currently a TSMC Distinguished Professor of Microelectronics at University of California, Berkeley. Prior to that he was the Chief Technology Officer of TSMC.… Read More


IP-SoC day in Santa Clara: prepare the future, what’s coming next after IP based design?

IP-SoC day in Santa Clara: prepare the future, what’s coming next after IP based design?
by Eric Esteve on 04-05-2012 at 10:16 am

D&R IP-SoC Days Santa Clara will be held on April 10, 2012 in Santa Clara, CA and if you plan to attend, just register here. IP market is a small world, and EDA a small market if you look at the generated revenue… but both are essential building blocks for the semiconductor industry. It was not clear back in 1995 that IP will become … Read More


Does Subsystem IP will finally find a market? ARC based sound subsystem IP is on track…

Does Subsystem IP will finally find a market? ARC based sound subsystem IP is on track…
by Eric Esteve on 04-05-2012 at 4:03 am

Will the launch of ARC based complete sound system IP by Synopsys ring the bell for the opening of a new IP market segment, the “Subsystem IP”? If you look at the IP market evolution, starting from standard cell libraries and memory compiler offering in the 1990’s, moving to commodity functions like UART or I2C in the late 1990’s to … Read More


Intel’s Fait Accompli Foundry Strategy

Intel’s Fait Accompli Foundry Strategy
by Ed McKernan on 04-05-2012 at 1:09 am

As many analysts have noted, it is difficult to imagine what Intel’s foundry business will look like one, two or even three years down the road because this is all new and what leading fabless player would place their well being in the hands of one who is totally new at the game. I would like to suggest there is a strategy in place that will… Read More


DAC Pavilion Panels

DAC Pavilion Panels
by Paul McLellan on 04-05-2012 at 12:00 am

Once again DAC has a full program of panel sessions that take place on the exhibit floor at the DAC pavilion, aka booth 310.

Gary Smith kicks off the program with his annual “What’s Hot at DAC” presentation on Monday, June 4th, from 9:15-10:15am. The rest of Monday’s pavilion panels are:

  • “Low power to the people,” a panel discussing
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