January 2012 - Page 2 of 4 - Semiconductor Engineering

Roundtable: What’s Changing In System-Level Design
By Ed Sperling - 26 Jan, 2012 - Comments: 0

System-Level Design talks about what's changing and what's needed with Juan Rey of Mentor Graphics: Yervant Zorian of Synopsys; Michael McNamara of Cadence; Prasad Subramaniam of eSilicon; and Ravi Varadarajan of Atrenta. [youtube vid=8siiKBKD0-k] » read more

New Electronic World Order
By Frank Ferro - 26 Jan, 2012 - Comments: 0

By Frank Ferro Analysts agree that much of the semiconductor growth over the next few years will be in the mobile market segments—smart phones, tablets and ultra-books, in particular. At the recent CES, there was no lack of these devices on display, all which are competing to cash in on the cachet that Apple has developed around these products. Although ultra-books will eventually just be no... » read more

Redefining Design Starts
By Ed Sperling - 26 Jan, 2012 - Comments: 0

For the past decade we have been hearing grim tales about the number of design starts shrinking and how that’s hurting EDA. While that makes for sensational headlines, reality is somewhat fuzzier and far less grim. The big shift that’s underway isn’t so much a decline in design starts as a rise in SoCs. But SoCs are never really created from scratch. They’re a combination of commerci... » read more

Power Matters
By Jon McDonald - 26 Jan, 2012 - Comments: 0

By Jon McDonald Power has been an active area of discussion for me recently. It's come up in a more concrete way than in past conversations: customers are more interested in discussing details and not as interested in the abstract concepts. An interesting outcome of this is that now we need more context, we need to understand what we mean when we talk about power analysis at the abstract, syst... » read more

36% of Semiconductor Fabs at Risk from “Ring of Fire”
By Adrienne Downey - 26 Jan, 2012 - Comments: 0

By Adrienne Downey It's called the "Ring of Fire". Actually more of a horseshoe shape, the "Ring of Fire" is an area of high seismic activity that extends from southeast of Australia north along the Pacific coast of Asia, crosses south of Alaska, and then continues south along the Pacific coast of all of North, Central and South America. According to Wikipedia, 90% of the world's earthquakes... » read more

Way, Way Beyond CES
By Tiffany Sparks - 26 Jan, 2012 - Comments: 0

By Tiffany Sparks This month, the eyes of the electronics industry were literally and figuratively on the Consumer Electronics Show. Reports put attendance for CES at upwards of 150,000 people. Just to put that figure in perspective, that’s roughly equivalent to the entire population of cities like Springfield, Mass., or Sioux Falls, S.D. (according to Wikipedia). And that’s actually large... » read more

Will It Really Work?
By Ed Sperling - 26 Jan, 2012 - Comments: 0

By Ed Sperling Estimates of how much time it takes to verify a complex SoC are still hovering around 70% of the total non-recurring engineering costs, but with more unknowns and more things to verify it’s becoming harder to keep that number from growing. Verification has always been described as an unbounded problem. You can always verify more, and just knowing when to call it quits is so... » read more

Packaging Community Takes on New Challenges through Industry Collaboration
By SEMI - 25 Jan, 2012 - Comments: 0

By Tom Salmon, senior director, SEMI As the semiconductor industry responds to increasing demands for lower power, higher performance and reduced form factor, packaging technologies are increasingly important.  This enhanced importance in the micro-electronics food chain is mirrored in a growth of the different segments of the packaging market.  According to the recently updated Global Sem... » read more

The Art Of Double-Indirect Sales And Product Marketing
By Frank Schirrmeister - 24 Jan, 2012 - Comments: 0

By Frank Schirrmeister The interaction between software and hardware development has been much discussed, with early software enablement being at the forefront of what system-level design in EDA tries to enable. The main reason why these discussions are so attractive to EDA – in my mind – is the impression that the number of software developers is significantly higher than that of hardware... » read more

Experts At The Table: Making Software More Energy-Efficient
By Ed Sperling - 20 Jan, 2012 - Comments: 0

By Ed Sperling Low-Power Engineering sat down to discuss software and power with Adam Kaiser, Nucleus RTOS architect at Mentor Graphics; Pete Hardee, marketing director at Cadence; Chris Rowen, CTO of Tensilica; Vic Kulkarni, senior vice president and general manager of Apache Design, and Bill Neifert, CTO of Carbon Design Systems. What follows are excerpts of that conversation. LPE: How d... » read more

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