April 2017 - Page 2 of 11 - Semiconductor Engineering

Avoiding A $7.7B Chip Design Cost
By Frank Schirrmeister - 27 Apr, 2017 - Comments: 0

For years, the story about semiconductor development cost and about EDA contributions has been pretty simple. Cost has been, is, and will likely be for a while, the single biggest issue in scaling development for more complex designs. The next big leap for verification productivity will be the close integration of verification and design engines, both vertically and horizontally as I have writt... » read more

Historic FinFET/2.5D Firsts
By Mike Gianfagna - 27 Apr, 2017 - Comments: 0

Recently, I had an opportunity to watch the Academy Award nominated movie “Hidden Figures.” If you’re a geek at heart, you need to see this movie. It chronicles the strong contributions of three black women to the NASA space program during the 1960s. The civil rights backstory of the movie is powerful, but there is another aspect of the movie that stayed with me as well: all of the “fir... » read more

Why Is TCAM Essential For The Cloud?
By eSilicon - 27 Apr, 2017 - Comments: 0

With port speeds exceeding 100Gbps, route lookups that are fundamental to all routers have relied on ternary content addressable memories (TCAMs) to provide a lookup response within a clock cycle. However, TCAMs in discrete form are expensive, consume a lot of power, compete for precious real estate on the printed circuit board (PCB), and often lack required flexibility. Embedding a TCAM block ... » read more

Software Driven Test Of FPGA Prototype
By Krzysztof Szczur - 27 Apr, 2017 - Comments: 0

Most everyone would agree how important FPGA prototyping is to test and validate an IP, sub-system, or a complete SoC design. Before the design is taped-out it can be validated at speeds near real operating conditions with physical peripherals and devices connected to it instead of simulation models. At the same time, these designs are not purely hardware, but these days incorporate a significa... » read more

The Democratization Of CFD
By Mentor, a Siemens Business - 26 Apr, 2017 - Comments: 0

“Democratization” is a buzzword that has been circulating around the Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) community for some time. In this White Paper, Keith Hanna and Ivo Weinhold of Mentor Graphicsdefine the issue, establish the facts, look at the pros and cons of various technology solutions being offered in the market today, and then suggest some pointers for the future as the CFD industr... » read more

IC Validator Programmable EERC Mixed Mode Checking Technology
By Synopsys - 26 Apr, 2017 - Comments: 0

Traditional visual inspection or manual checking for electrical rule compliance is both time consuming and error prone. A new, comprehensive reliability solution is needed to reduce time to market, improve reliability and ensure longer device operation. This paper is a companion to the introductory IC Validator programmable Extended Electrical Rule Check (EERC) white paper on netlist domain che... » read more

Automotive SoC Maker Saves Time, Enhances Product QoS For Advanced Real-Time Video Image Recognition
By Arteris - 26 Apr, 2017 - Comments: 0

Automated driver assistance systems (ADAS) used to be expensive until Mobileye figured out how to use inexpensive cameras with advanced visual processing to help make cars autonomous. In this 4-page paper, created with the participation of Mobileye, you will learn how the world's #1 vision-based ADAS company uses Arteris FlexNoC interconnect IP to address demanding high bandwidth and low-latenc... » read more

Whatever Happened To High-Level Synthesis?
By Brian Bailey - 26 Apr, 2017 - Comments: 0

A few years ago, [getkc id="105" comment="high-level synthesis"] (HLS) was probably the most talked about emerging technology. It was to be the heart of a new Electronic System Level (ESL) flow. Today, we hear much less about the progress being made in this area. Semiconductor Engineering sat down to discuss this with Bryan Bowyer, director of engineering for high level design and verificati... » read more

Massive SoC Designs Open Doors To New Era In Simulation
By Cadence - 26 Apr, 2017 - Comments: 0

As system-on-chip (SoC) designs have grown in size, simulation technologies have had to evolve dramatically to keep pace. We’re now at an inflection point where both speed and capacity are essential and new simulation technologies are needed to meet the demands. In this paper, we’ll discuss how simulation has evolved and examine how new technologies such as the Cadence RocketSim Parallel Si... » read more

RF Device And Process Biz Heats Up
By Mark LaPedus - 26 Apr, 2017 - Comments: 0

The RF device and process technology markets are heating up, especially for two critical components used in smartphones—RF switch devices and antenna tuners. RF device makers and their foundry partners continue to ramp up traditional RF switch chips and tuners based on RF SOI process technologies for today’s 4G wireless networks. And recently, [getentity id="22819" comment="GlobalFoundri... » read more

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