October 2013 - Page 3 of 10 - Semiconductor Engineering

CSR In Semis
By Jack Harding - 24 Oct, 2013 - Comments: 0

For decades the largest industries in the world have deployed corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives that, on their surface, are designed to “give back” or “share the wealth” with the communities that have produced the labor force that drive their collective success. We also are told that CSR is good business and can be correlated with improved branding and greater profitabil... » read more

Halloween Is Going Mobile
By Tom De Schutter - 24 Oct, 2013 - Comments: 0

With the end of October around the corner, my children are frantically thinking about what they want to dress up as for Halloween. It is interesting that both of them chose a costume that has something to do with a mobile video game. My daughter will be dressing up as a red angry bird while my son wants to go as a wizard, where he is using clash of clans as the example of what a wizard should l... » read more

Start Verification Early To Avoid Pitfalls Later
By Ann Mutschler - 24 Oct, 2013 - Comments: 1

It is well understood – at least from a theoretical point of view – that design verification should start as early as possible. The reality is that that doesn’t always happen for a variety of reasons such as enormous time to market pressure, too many new features to add, lack of foresight and discipline among other things. But progress is being made. Harry Foster, chief scientist for v... » read more

Trending Back To ASICs
By Ann Mutschler - 24 Oct, 2013 - Comments: 0

True to its cyclical nature, the semiconductor industry is swinging back toward ASICs from more diversified approaches such as FPGAs. This dynamic is evident at companies such as Apple. “At one point we thought Apple was being a contrarian,” said Drew Wingard, CTO at Sonics. “Everybody else on the systems side was shedding their silicon people. The easiest counterpoint to what Apple wa... » read more

There’s A New Paradigm In Town
By Kurt Shuler - 24 Oct, 2013 - Comments: 0

I recently wrote an article in the October 9th issue of EETimes that appears to have rattled the semiconductor industry a bit. Entitled “Wake Up, Semi Industry: System OEMs Might Not Need You,” the article conveyed the fact that many system-level OEMs now have the capability — and desire — to develop their own application-specific chips. This may be news to many. But a simple review... » read more

A Night to Remember: EDA Back to the Future
By Graham Bell - 24 Oct, 2013 - Comments: 0

I had the pleasure to attend the EDA: Back to the Future event at the Computer History Museum on Oct. 16.   There were over 230 guests to raise money for the EDA Oral History Project at the Museum.   There were industry luminaries honored at the event, and I did red carpet interviews with many of them as they arrived including Joe Costello, Simon Segars, and Penny Herscher.  As I did the i... » read more

CDC Methodology For Fast-To-Slow Clocks
By Various Writers - 24 Oct, 2013 - Comments: 0

CDC checking of any asynchronous clock domain crossing requires that the data path and the control path be identified and that the receive clock domain data flow is controlled by a multiplexer with a select line that is fed by a correctly synchronized control line.  Meridian CDC identifies all the data and associated control paths in a design and will ensure that the control signals passing fr... » read more

Time To Rethink Verification
By Brian Bailey - 24 Oct, 2013 - Comments: 0

Verification traditionally has followed the path of the design team. When they change their methodology or tooling, verification engineers follow and attempts to incorporate it into their flow. The few times in the past when verification has attempted to lead, it has not ended well. An example of this was the attempt to get design teams using assertions. Assertions are proven to be valuable ... » read more

A Case Study: How A Call For SOS Improved Designer Productivity
By Various Writers - 24 Oct, 2013 - Comments: 0

Authors: Andrey Medushevskiy, CAD/PDK Manager; Konstantin Bragin, ASIC Verification Lead; Michail Kakoulin, Head IC Design Centre Milandr Moscow, Russia Milandr is a twenty-year-old product company based in Moscow, Russia, that builds high-reliability integrated circuit (IC) products for the aerospace, avionics, automotive, and consumer markets. Their product lines include microcontrollers... » read more

Virtual Prototypes For Early Software Development
By Various Writers - 24 Oct, 2013 - Comments: 0

In previous white papers, we've looked at the demands of the rapidly changing market and how the use of virtual prototypes has evolved to help meet them. In this white paper, we look specifically at the challenges of developing some of the hardware-dependent software layers - namely boot ROM code, OS bring-up, driver development - used in fast-evolving mobile devices and how to use virtual prot... » read more

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