Webinar: Achieve semiconductor quality excellence with a closed loop approach

Webinar: Achieve semiconductor quality excellence with a closed loop approach
by Admin on 05-31-2023 at 2:42 pm

One of the main difficulties currently facing our industry is the customer’s expectations, meeting a higher criterion for semiconductor quality. Using legacy processes makes this endeavor formidable. However, implementation of a digital transformation, that includes closed-loop strategy, can streamline development,… Read More


Siemens EDA on Managing Verification Complexity

Siemens EDA on Managing Verification Complexity
by Bernard Murphy on 04-13-2023 at 6:00 am

2023 DVCon Harry Foster

Harry Foster is Chief Scientist in Verification at Siemens EDA and has held roles in the DAC Executive Committee over multiple years. He gave a lunchtime talk at DVCon on the verification complexity topic. He is an accomplished speaker and always has a lot of interesting data to share, especially his takeaways from the Wilson Research… Read More


Webinar: How to improve product quality and reliability through vibration qualification testing

Webinar: How to improve product quality and reliability through vibration qualification testing
by Admin on 03-10-2023 at 8:11 am

Are you a manufacturer facing repeated product recalls? Are design issues causing delays in the production and delivery of products, and are you looking to understand potential design issues early in development? If yes, then we invite you to attend this webinar that will elaborate on improving the overall reliability and quality

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LIVE WEBINAR: FPGA Design/Verification Best-Practices for Quality and Efficiency

LIVE WEBINAR: FPGA Design/Verification Best-Practices for Quality and Efficiency
by Admin on 04-06-2022 at 1:34 pm

Abstract:

The FPGA design architecture is the single most important and primary factor in achieving development efficiency, quality and reliability. The difference between a good and a bad design architecture can be about 50% of the workload and a high degree of detected and undetected bugs. Most design architectures can be

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Back to Basics in RTL Design Quality

Back to Basics in RTL Design Quality
by Bernard Murphy on 11-03-2021 at 6:00 am

Deming min

Harry Foster waxes philosophical in a recent white paper from Siemens EDA, in this case on the origins of bugs and the best way to avoid them. Spoiler alert, the answer is not to make them in the first place or at least to flush them out very quickly. I’m not being cynical – that really is the answer though practice often falls short of ideal.… Read More


Open-Silicon Embraces the Latest ISO 9001 Specification with Certification by SGS

Open-Silicon Embraces the Latest ISO 9001 Specification with Certification by SGS
by Tom Simon on 11-07-2018 at 7:00 am

A quality standard that stays static and is not itself targeted for continuous improvement, is a standard that is breaking one of the first tenets of quality. This is why the ISO 9001 specification has been updated several times since its introduction in 1987. The first version was fairly modest. The most recent version was released… Read More


ISO 9001:2015 – Not Just for the Big Guys

ISO 9001:2015 – Not Just for the Big Guys
by Tom Simon on 12-02-2016 at 7:00 am

If you are like me, you remember the banners that large companies put up years ago when they achieved ISO 9001 compliance. It seemed at the time that this was something only for large companies. Since its introduction in 1987 ISO 9001 has both evolved as a standard and has become an achievement that not just large manufacturing companies… Read More


Quality in Hard IP

Quality in Hard IP
by Bernard Murphy on 11-15-2016 at 7:00 am

I was CTO at Atrenta, home of SpyGlass, for many years before the company was acquired by Synopsys, so I know a thing or two about IP quality, to paraphrase a popular commercial. The problem is that even in the best-run IP shops, errors happen. Sometimes they happen on simple changes, especially when you think “This IP has been very … Read More


Of distant dreams and violent delights

Of distant dreams and violent delights
by Don Dingee on 10-05-2016 at 4:00 pm

Another report today of a Samsung Galaxy Note 7 catching fire, this time an allegedly refurbished unit, takes us back to the turning point in Samsung mobile phone history. It’s not the first time a defective Samsung phone – or a pile of thousands of them – has been on fire.

Samsung Chairman Lee Kun-Hee issued a powerful edict to his mobile… Read More