November 2011 - Page 4 of 4 - Semiconductor Engineering

Experts At The Table: Managing Power At Higher Levels Of Abstraction

By Ed Sperling - 03 Nov, 2011 - Comments: 0

Low-Power Engineering sat down to discuss the advantages of dealing with power at a high level with Mike Meyer, a Cadence fellow; Grant Martin, chief scientist at Tensilica; Vic Kulkarni, senior vice president and general manager at Apache Design; Shawn McCloud, vice president of marketing at Calypto; and Brett Cline, vice president of marketing at sales at Forte Design Systems. What follows ar... » read more

Commoditizing Green

By Ed Sperling - 03 Nov, 2011 - Comments: 0

Over the past five decades, Moore’s Law has been a powerful guiding principle for shrinking process geometries and improving performance. But with performance now considered secondary to energy and power efficiency, the same forces that have worked to commoditize performance increases while slashing costs will be applied to saving battery life and drawing less energy from the wall. This i... » read more

More EMI Mitigation

By Ann Mutschler - 03 Nov, 2011 - Comments: 0

With electromagnetic interference a major design challenge today in any product that sends or receives a signal, determining how to lessen the impact of this phenomenon was addressed to a large extent in my article, “EMI Cuts a Wide Swath,” but there are a few additional techniques that are important to highlight. Erick Olsen, marketing director at NXP explained that higher performance c... » read more

The Bigger Picture

By Aveek Sarkar - 02 Nov, 2011 - Comments: 0

By Aveek Sarkar IC power consumption is dependent on its supply voltage. To reduce power consumption, and heat dissipation, IC designers strive to design for lower supply voltages. But the threshold voltage that controls switching in digital CMOS devices hasn't scaled accordingly from reliability and other considerations. As the supply voltage reduces down close to the threshold voltage of ... » read more

Using High-Level Synthesis To Manage Power

By Ed Sperling - 02 Nov, 2011 - Comments: 0

Low-Power Engineering talks with Apache Design's Vic Kulkarni, Tensilica's Grant Martin, Cadence's Mike Meyer, Calypto's Shawn McCloud and Forte Design's Brett Cline about the need for a higher level of abstraction to optimize power in ICs. [youtube vid=gpWacAhMYgo] » read more

DFM is a Competitive Weapon

By Mentor Graphics Staff Writers - 01 Nov, 2011 - Comments: 0

By Joe Davis, Mentor Graphics As my mom always told me, you always have a choice. The trick was, you had to be willing to accept the consequences of your decision. Don’t want to clean your room? Okay, but you can’t go out to play until you do. Easy enough to do the analysis on that one when you’re ten years old. But sometimes, understanding the consequences gets a little tougher, an... » read more

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