May 2012 - Page 3 of 6 - Semiconductor Engineering

EDA’s Cloudy Vision
By Ed Sperling - 24 May, 2012 - Comments: 0

By Ann Steffora Mutschler Since the dawn of EDA, the industry has largely operated under a traditional software distribution model whereby the customer would run the software it licensed on its own hardware equipment. With the sophistication of advanced IT management techniques as well as education surrounding “The Cloud,” it may be safe to predict that engineers in the not-to-distant futu... » read more

System-Level Models Redefined
By Ed Sperling - 24 May, 2012 - Comments: 0

By Ann Steffora Mutschler It wasn’t that long ago that the promise of system-level models was an easy implementation path and the ability to then reuse the models in a different design, for a different target application. But how reusable are those models in reality? The answer depends on whom you ask. First, it is important to define what a system-level model is, noted Frank Schirrmeiste... » read more

Which Software To Use?
By Achim Nohl - 24 May, 2012 - Comments: 0

By Achim Nohl big.LITTLE processing refers to the concept of combining a high-performance ARM Cortex-A15 MPCore processor along with an energy-efficient Cortex-A7 processor. There were two primary use models recently introduced by ARM for big.LITTLE processing: task migration and MP. The big.LITTLE task migration use model is where the applications migrate between one cluster and another based... » read more

Soitec’s Wafer Roadmap for Fully Depleted Planar and 3D/FinFET
By Various Writers - 24 May, 2012 - Comments: 0

The following is a special guest post by Steve Longoria, Senior VP of Worldwide Business Development at Soitec.  It first appeared as part of the Advanced Substrate News special edition on FD-SOI industrialization. ~~ Today’s semiconductor industry is moving through several challenging transitions that are creating a significant opportunity for Soitec to bring incremental value to th... » read more

What’s On TV?
By Kurt Shuler - 24 May, 2012 - Comments: 0

By Kurt Shuler Could Apple TV revive the digital TV (DTV) market? That was the underlying question behind a trio of presentations given at yesterday’s Gartner Semiconductor Briefing at in San Jose. Three Gartner analysts outlined a path forward for our industry to innovate its way out of the morass that has become the digital TV market. Alfonso Velosa was the first analyst to present a... » read more

Clearing Up Cloud-Based SoCs
By Frank Ferro - 24 May, 2012 - Comments: 0

By Frank Ferro With each passing month, the cloud is taking the semiconductor market by storm—just like it did in the enterprise years ago. Take nVidia’s recent Kepler GPU announcement for cloud computing. This device provides low-latency access to the cloud for gaming, giving gamers performance and access to the latest content without being tied to a game console. Another example is Appli... » read more

The Next Frontiers
By Ed Sperling - 24 May, 2012 - Comments: 0

One of the interesting things about technology is that, at least from the outside, it’s hard to tell what’s actually changing. That’s not true on the inside, of course, where radical shifts are under way. The next big push in smart phones will be much greater intelligence. In the iPhone, Siri was just the tip of the iceberg. Future versions are likely to be much more interesting. Add ... » read more

Getting Ahead Of Yourself
By Jon McDonald - 24 May, 2012 - Comments: 0

By Jon McDonald Recently we've been doing some minor remodeling in our house—nothing requiring major contractors. It’s mostly smaller things that unfortunately require a significant amount of personal involvement. Over the course of the past few weeks we've had a number of "projects" that we've started, then had to undo what was done because we were interfering with another area of work. M... » read more

UVM Do’s And Don’ts For Effective Verification
By Various Writers - 24 May, 2012 - Comments: 0

With more than a year of production use, the Accellera Systems Initiative UVM is now clearly the methodology of choice for verification. The rush to adopt UVM has both matured the BCL quickly, producing UVM 1.1 and 1.1a bug-fix versions, as well as created a wealth of institutional know-how. Of course, the challenge with know-how is that it tends to be distributed among all the members of the c... » read more

Audio Subsystems For Efficient SoC Integration
By Various Writers - 24 May, 2012 - Comments: 0

Implementing advanced audio functionality in a system-on-chip (SoC) involves integrating a range of hardware and software components, including an audio processor, audio peripherals, software drivers, and audio processing software. In this white paper, we discuss the requirements for audio solutions for processing of high-definition (HD) multi-channel audio and detail the challenges involved in... » read more

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