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Brian Bailey is Technology Editor/EDA for Semiconductor Engineering.

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Transistor-Level Verification Returns
By Brian Bailey - 13 Jan, 2016 - Comments: 1

A few decades ago, all designers did transistor-level verification, but they were quite happy to say goodbye to it when standard cells provided isolation at the gate-level and libraries provided all of the detailed information required, such as timing. A few dedicated people continued to use the technology to provide those models and libraries and the most aggressive designs that wanted to stri... » read more

Verification Grows Up
By Brian Bailey - 05 Jan, 2016 - Comments: 2

Semiconductor Engineering sat down with a group of verification experts to see how much progress has been made in solving issues associated with the profession. Panelists included Mike Baird, President of Willamette HDL; Jin Zhang, VP marketing and customer relations for [getentity id="22147" comment="Oski Technology"] and Lauro Rizzatti, a marketing consultant and previously the general manage... » read more

Defining Sufficient Coverage
By Brian Bailey - 28 Dec, 2015 - Comments: 0

Semiconductor engineering sat down to discuss the definition of sufficiency of coverage as a part of verification closure with Harry Foster, chief scientist at [getentity id="22017" e_name="Mentor Graphics"]; Willard Tu, director of embedded segment marketing for [getentity id="22186" comment="ARM"]; Larry Vivolo was, at the time of this roundtable, senior director of product marketing for [get... » read more

Verification Grows Up
By Brian Bailey - 22 Dec, 2015 - Comments: 0

Semiconductor Engineering sat down with a group of verification experts to see how much progress has been made in solving issues associated with the profession. Panelists included Mike Baird, president of Willamette HDL; Jin Zhang, VP marketing and customer relations for [getentity id="22147" comment="Oski Technology"], and Lauro Rizzatti, a marketing consultant and previously the general manag... » read more

Inventing Christmas
By Brian Bailey - 22 Dec, 2015 - Comments: 0

Christmas has been a tradition in many countries for a considerable number of years. In fact, some of the associated decorations, such as the Christmas Tree, have their roots in 16th century Germany. So you would think that by now there would not be too many new inventions that pass the tests of being novel and non-obvious to those skilled in the art. A quick search using Google yielded more... » read more

Reflections On 2015
By Brian Bailey - 22 Dec, 2015 - Comments: 0

It is easy to make predictions, but few people can make them with any degree of accuracy. Most of the time, those predictions are forgotten by the end of the year and there is no one to do a tally of who holds more credibility for next year. Not so with SemiEngineering. We like to hold people's feet to the fire, but while the Pants-On-Fire meter may be applicable to politicians, we like to thin... » read more

Intento Design
By Brian Bailey - 21 Dec, 2015 - Comments: 3

While the United States is where most EDA developments have come from, there have been pockets of success at various places around the world and one that has produced more than most in recent years in France. Semiconductor Engineering spoke with [getperson id=" 11759 " comment ="Ramy Iskander"], founder and CEO and Eric Laurent, worldwide sales and business development for [getentity id="22905"... » read more

Chasing After Phantom Power
By Brian Bailey - 10 Dec, 2015 - Comments: 1

A lot of effort is being invested in power reduction techniques for mobile devices, where battery life is an important buying decision and power can translate into heat that can make a device uncomfortable to use. But are people willing to pay more for a device that consumes less power if it's plugged into a wall? And even if they are concerned about the power drawn during operation, what ab... » read more

Reflections On 2015
By Brian Bailey - 10 Dec, 2015 - Comments: 0

It is easy to make predictions, but few people can make them with any degree of accuracy. Most of the time, those predictions are forgotten by the end of the year and there is no one to do a tally of who holds more credibility for next year. Not so with Semiconductor Engineering. We like to hold people's feet to the fire, but while the "Pants-On-Fire" meter may be applicable to politicians, we ... » read more

Defining Sufficient Coverage
By Brian Bailey - 07 Dec, 2015 - Comments: 0

Semiconductor engineering sat down to discuss the definition of sufficiency of coverage as a part of verification closure with Harry Foster, chief scientist at [getentity id="22017" e_name="Mentor Graphics"]; Willard Tu, director of embedded segment marketing for [getentity id="22186" comment="ARM"]; Larry Vivolo was, at the time of this roundtable, senior director of product marketing for [get... » read more

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