May 2012 - Page 6 of 6 - Semiconductor Engineering


Experts At The Table: Hardware-Software Co-Design


By Ed Sperling System-Level Design sat down to discuss hardware-software co-design with Frank Schirrmeister, group marketing director for Cadence’s System and Software Realization Group; Shabtay Matalon, ESL market development manager at Mentor Graphics; Kurt Shuler, vice president of marketing at Arteris; Narendra Konda, director of hardware engineering at Nvdia; and Jack Greenbaum, directo... » read more

The Moore’s Law Effect


Tensilica CTO Chris Rowen sounds off on the role of DSPs in complex SoCs, the future of Moore's Law and the intersection of "big data" with personalized data in mobile devices. [youtube vid=3H9X0X6eO3Q] » read more

Anchors Away – Anchoring and Seeding in Double Pattern Design.


David Abercrombie Many aspects of how double patterning (DP) affects the designer depend on the methodology used and the level of control the designer wants. One extreme in methodology and control is full two-layer design, in which the designer decomposes the entire design and tapes out two masks. The designer has complete control of the coloring, but all the responsibility and work as well. T... » read more

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