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A New Strategy For Successful Block/Chip Design-Stage Verification
By David Abercrombie - 28 Mar, 2024 - Comments: 0

Achieving efficiency in integrated circuit (IC) design while maintaining design quality is not just a goal, but a necessity. Designers constantly strive to strike a balance between ever-tightening time-to-market constraints and the finite resources at their disposal, while ensuring the quality of their designs remains uncompromised. Traditionally, IC design flows have been depicted as a linear ... » read more

Maximizing Efficiency And Productivity: The Benefits Of Shift Left Verification For IP Designers
By Terry Meeks - 29 Feb, 2024 - Comments: 0

Intellectual property (IP) designers play a crucial role by creating reusable components that form the building blocks of larger integrated circuit (IC) designs. These components, whether developed in-house or acquired from specialized IP design companies, are essential for providing core functionality such as memory and standard libraries. However, designing and verifying IP is a complex and d... » read more

Five Digital Threads Unify And Simplify Electronic Systems Design And Manufacturing
By Matt Walsh - 25 Jan, 2024 - Comments: 0

By Matthew Walsh and Matt Bromley Digital transformation involves the integration of digital technologies and the reimagining of business processes to enhance operations, improve customer experiences, and drive innovation. Digital threads are a key component of this transformation, as they enable the seamless flow of data and information across various stages of a process, system, or organiz... » read more

Extending DTCO For Today’s Competitive IC Landscape
By Le Hong - 21 Dec, 2023 - Comments: 0

As semiconductor components continue to shrink, the challenges associated with design-for-manufacturing (DFM) and design-technology co-optimization (DTCO) increase. The complexity of the IC design and manufacturing process demands an extension of traditional DFM and DTCO techniques to overcome the systematic failures tied to complex design-process interactions. Designers need to accelerate d... » read more

Help, 3D-IC Is Stuck In A Country Song
By John Ferguson - 30 Nov, 2023 - Comments: 0

Every time I focus on three-dimensional (3D) integrated circuit (IC) design, I start hearing the Luke Bryan song “Rain Makes Corn, Corn Makes Whiskey.” Not because I need a strong drink to work with 3D-IC designs, but because there is a similar, although slightly more complicated, series of cause and effect issues that impact 3D-ICs. Pushing electrons through very thin metal wires and switc... » read more

Let’s Do The (IC Design) Time Warp Again
By John Ferguson - 26 Oct, 2023 - Comments: 0

For the most part, we’ve all been doing integrated circuit (IC) and system-on-chip (SoC) layout the same way for decades. Designers put together the design, be it intellectual property (IP), block, or full chip, then begin running physical verification. For design rule checking (DRC), this process consists of running all appropriate rule checks for the component on all available layouts. The ... » read more

A Shift Left Strategy Is One Part Of A Holistic Approach To IC Design Verification
By David Abercrombie - 28 Sep, 2023 - Comments: 0

The whole is more than the sum of its parts. –Aristotle A machine is nothing more than a collection of nuts, bolts, wheels, gears, wires, pipes, chains, and what have you. And yet, when they are all connected up properly, magic happens. Instead of a pile of parts, you have a car, or a dishwasher, or a nuclear reactor. The connections and interactions between all those parts turns the whole... » read more

Why Shift Left?
By Michael White - 24 Aug, 2023 - Comments: 0

As every integrated circuit (IC) design company knows, the faster a design can progress from implementation to signoff verification, the better the chances are of meeting tapeout schedules. Meeting tapeout schedules improves a company’s chances of reaching their market targets. But as companies create larger and more complex ICs and move to advanced process nodes, the challenge of achieving t... » read more

Context-Aware Analysis Can Automatically Protect Critical Nets And Devices During Fill Insertion
By Dina Medhat - 27 Jul, 2023 - Comments: 0

Context-aware physical verification (PV) is a relatively new addition to traditional PV flows, but it has quickly become a critical and essential technology that addresses the increasing complexity of geometrical checks used in both established and emerging integrated circuit (IC) technologies. Traditional electronic design automation (EDA) verification tools handle either the physical verifica... » read more

New Age Solution For Data Integrity And Authenticity
By Om Prakash - 27 Jun, 2023 - Comments: 0

With the advent of faster processing chips, the rate of data transfer has increased enormously. Be it artificial intelligence (AI), the Internet of Things (IOT), compute intensive analytics, or cloud computing, the demand for processing data in a fraction of a second is huge. Chips with superfast computing capabilities are used in applications where malfunctions can be life threatening, such as... » read more

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