March 2015 - Page 2 of 11 - Semiconductor Engineering

Designs Getting Squeezed
By Ed Sperling - 26 Mar, 2015 - Comments: 0

It's taking longer to get chips manufactured these days. At advanced nodes, there are more steps on the photomask side as a result of double and multi-patterning. And at established nodes, an explosion in demand for chips aimed at automotive and [getkc id="76" comment="Internet of Things"]—particularly on the industrial IoT side ([getkc id="78" kc_name="IIoT"])—has created demand-driven con... » read more

What Is Functional Accuracy?
By Ann Mutschler - 26 Mar, 2015 - Comments: 0

What it means to be functionally accurate in the context of [getkc id="104" kc_name="virtual platforms"] varies greatly, depending upon whom you ask and even when you ask them. But that doesn’t mean that functional accuracy isn’t useful. Jon McDonald, technical marketing engineer for the design and creation business at [getentity id="22017" e_name="Mentor Graphics"], expects to see a lot... » read more

Is SystemC Broken?
By Brian Bailey - 26 Mar, 2015 - Comments: 19

In order to perform architectural exploration, performance analysis and optimization, early validation of software, improved productivity in hardware development and many other tasks, the industry needs a viable [getkc id="104" kc_name="virtual prototype"]. That requires a suitable language in order to express necessary concepts at a high enough level of [getkc id="101" kc_name="abstraction"] s... » read more

Design By Architect Or Committee?
By Brian Bailey - 26 Mar, 2015 - Comments: 5

Everything we do is based on a language. It doesn’t matter if we are talking about design, verification, specification, software or mask data. They all provide a way to communicate intent, and then there are engines that work on the intent to produce something else that is desirable, also based on a language. Over time, the EDA industry has built up a hierarchy of languages from the most deta... » read more

NoC Reliability: Simplified
By Randy Smith - 26 Mar, 2015 - Comments: 0

Recently, the reliability features of on-chip network (NoC) IP have received much attention. One reason for this focus has been the rush of companies to get into the automotive electronics market and the explosion of new automotive features being implemented in electronic systems. While the details may vary, the high-level view of on-chip network reliability is really quite simple. At the ar... » read more

Fast Followers And The Value of Virtual Prototyping
By Tom De Schutter - 26 Mar, 2015 - Comments: 0

I am writing this blog while traveling though China. In this country of opportunities, new electronics companies show up regularly and some of them are quickly growing to become leaders in their application domain. Of course it helps if your local market is as big, if not bigger, than the U.S. and European market combined. The advantage of being a fast follower is that you can learn from th... » read more

Ecosystem Changes
By Ed Sperling - 26 Mar, 2015 - Comments: 0

Semiconductor Engineering sat down to discuss changes in the semiconductor ecosystem with Kelvin Low, senior director of foundry marketing at [getentity id="22865" e_name="Samsung Semiconductor"]; John Costello, vice president of product planning at [getentity id="22849" e_name="Altera"]; Randy Smith, vice president of marketing at [getentity id="22605" e_name="Sonics"], and Michiel Ligthart, p... » read more

Patents And EDA Making Waves
By Brian Bailey - 26 Mar, 2015 - Comments: 0

If the old adage “may you live in interesting times” is true, then lawyers must be wondering if they should be very happy or scared. The rate at which [getkc id="16" comment="patent"] law, and patents in general, are changing should give everyone pause – including the future competitiveness of the United States and the value of patents to EDA. The World Intellectual Property Organizati... » read more

System Design Enabling The Human Intranet
By Frank Schirrmeister - 26 Mar, 2015 - Comments: 0

Against the always-impressive backdrop of the French Alps, DATE took place earlier this month in Grenoble. DATE has quietly transformed from a European version of DAC into a very interesting technical conference with some very high-caliber attendees. This year, I had the pleasure to participate as session chair for the design tools section, themed “Designing Electronics for the Internet of Th... » read more

Speaking IoT In Many Languages
By Mike Gianfagna - 26 Mar, 2015 - Comments: 0

Let’s face it, Internet of Things (IoT) is a hot topic. Depending on whom you believe, it’s a $300 billion to $19 trillion market opportunity involving 25 billion to 100 billion devices by 2020. These are all huge numbers – they could make Alan Turing himself dizzy. The sheer size of these numbers means good things for the market in general, and for some companies in the tech sector speci... » read more

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