Podcast EP156: A Chat With Shankar Krishnamoorthy About Strategy and Outlook for EDA Development at SNUG

Podcast EP156: A Chat With Shankar Krishnamoorthy About Strategy and Outlook for EDA Development at SNUG
by Daniel Nenni on 04-21-2023 at 10:00 am

This is another special edition of our podcast series. SemiWiki staff writer Kalar Rajendiran spoke with Shankar Krishnamoorthy, General Manager, Electronic Design Automation Group for Synopsys at the recent SNUG meeting,

Shankar discusses how Synopsys is focusing on hyperconvergence and implementation of AI across the… Read More


Cadence Hosts ESD Alliance Seminar on New Export Regulations Affecting EDA and SIP March 28

Cadence Hosts ESD Alliance Seminar on New Export Regulations Affecting EDA and SIP March 28
by Bob Smith on 03-10-2023 at 6:00 am

ESD Alliance Export Seminar 2023

Anyone interested in learning about general trade compliance concepts or how export control and sanction regulations affect the electronic systems design ecosystem will want to attend the upcoming ESD Alliance export seminar. It will be hosted by Ada Loo, chair of the ESD Alliance Export Committee and Cadence’s Group Director… Read More


Building better design flows with tool Open APIs – Calibre RealTime integration shows the way forward

Building better design flows with tool Open APIs – Calibre RealTime integration shows the way forward
by Peter Bennet on 12-22-2022 at 10:00 am

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You don’t often hear about the inner workings of EDA tools and flows – the marketing guys much prefer telling us about all the exciting things their tools can do rather than the internal plumbing. But this matters for making design flows – and building these has largely been left to the users to sort out. That’s an increasing challenge… Read More


Podcast EP132: The Growing Footprint of Methodics IPLM with Simon Butler

Podcast EP132: The Growing Footprint of Methodics IPLM with Simon Butler
by Daniel Nenni on 12-16-2022 at 10:00 am

Dan is joined by Simon Butler, the founder and CEO of Methodics Inc, Methodics was acquired by Perforce in 2020, and he is currently the general manager of the Methodics business unit at Perforce. Methodics created IPLM as a new business segment in the enterprise software space to service the needs of IP and component based design.… Read More


Cracking post-route Compliance Checking for High-Speed Serial Links with HyperLynx

Cracking post-route Compliance Checking for High-Speed Serial Links with HyperLynx
by Peter Bennet on 12-15-2022 at 6:00 am

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SemiWiki readers from a digital IC background might find it surprising that post-PCB route analysis for high speed serial links isn’t a routine and fully automated part of the board design process. For us, the difference between pre- and post-route verification is running a slightly more accurate extraction and adding SI modelling,… Read More


The Role of Clock Gating

The Role of Clock Gating
by Steve Hoover on 11-28-2022 at 10:00 am

The Role of Clock Gating

Perhaps you’ve heard the term “clock gating” and you’re wondering how it works, or maybe you know what clock gating is and you’re wondering how to best implement it. Either way, this post is for you.

Why Power Matters

I can’t help but laugh when I watch a movie where the main characters are shrunk… Read More


STOP Writing RTL for Registers

STOP Writing RTL for Registers
by Steve Walters on 10-17-2022 at 6:00 am

Semifore EDA Software

After almost three decades in the EDA business, it is beyond my comprehension to understand why chip designers still hand-write RTL for complex register maps – chip designs with hundreds of registers and thousands of register fields.  In today’s silicon world where software is the key to chip-based product success, it is the register… Read More


The Increasing Gaps in PLM Systems with Handling Electronics

The Increasing Gaps in PLM Systems with Handling Electronics
by Rahul Razdan on 10-10-2022 at 6:00 am

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Product LifeCycle Management (PLM) systems have shown incredible value for integrating the enterprise with a single view of the product design, deployment, maintenance, and end-of-life processes.  PLM systems have traditionally grown from the mechanical design space, and this still forms their strength.

Meanwhile, due… Read More


Resilient Supply Chains a Must for Electronic Systems

Resilient Supply Chains a Must for Electronic Systems
by Dave Bursky on 09-01-2022 at 10:00 am

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The last few years have seen multiple disruptions in the supply chain in many industries. One of the key technologies that many fingers have pointed to is the semiconductor technology.  As products in all industries become more electronics based, semiconductors play a key role since no end system could function today without … Read More


EDA Product Mix Changes as Hardware-Assisted Verification Gains Momentum

EDA Product Mix Changes as Hardware-Assisted Verification Gains Momentum
by Lauro Rizzatti on 08-23-2022 at 10:00 am

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The Design Automation Conference, as always, is a good barometer on the state of EDA and my area of interest, verification. The recent DAC offered plenty of opportunities to check on trends and the status quo.

Remarkably, exhibitors and attendees were upbeat about the chip design landscape despite concerns about supply chain … Read More