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Brian Bailey

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Brian Bailey is Technology Editor/EDA for Semiconductor Engineering.

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With Responsibility Comes Power
By Brian Bailey - 12 Feb, 2015 - Comments: 0

The debate continues as to whether [getkc id="106" kc_name="power"] has risen to become a primary design consideration, or if it remains secondary to functionality and performance. What is indisputable is the rise in the importance of both power and energy conservation. As technology improves, additional aspects of the design flow are being affected. With that, the focus for power reduction is ... » read more

Accellera Adds Portable Stimulus Group
By Brian Bailey - 11 Feb, 2015 - Comments: 0

[getentity id="22028" e_name="Accellera"] created a working group for the portable test and stimulus, which would allow engineering teams to create the test once and be able to run it throughout the flow. This is a big deal in verification because it allows horizontal reuse of a [getkc id="55" kc_name="testbench"]. Test patterns run on the processors in a design and that enables the test to ... » read more

Software-Driven Verification (Part 3)
By Brian Bailey - 10 Feb, 2015 - Comments: 0

[getkc id="10" comment="Functional Verification"] has been powered by tools that require hardware to look like the kinds of systems that were being designed two decades ago. Those limitations are putting chips at risk and a new approach to the problem is long overdue. Semiconductor Engineering sat down with Frank Schirrmeister, group director, product marketing for System Development Suite at [... » read more

New Market Expectations For 2015
By Brian Bailey - 29 Jan, 2015 - Comments: 0

This year more than 26 people provided predictions for 2015. Most of these came from the EDA industry, so the results may be rather biased. However, ecosystems are coming closer together in many parts of the semiconductor food chain, meaning that the EDA companies often can see what is happening in dependent industries and in the system design houses. Thus their predictions may have already res... » read more

Tools And Flows In 2015
By Brian Bailey - 29 Jan, 2015 - Comments: 0

This year more than 26 people provided predictions for 2015. Most of these came from the EDA industry, so the results may be rather biased. However, ecosystems are coming closer together in many parts of the semiconductor food chain, meaning that the EDA companies often can see what is happening in dependent industries and in the system design houses. Thus their predictions may have already res... » read more

Tech Talk: Formal Discussion
By Brian Bailey - 28 Jan, 2015 - Comments: 0

Pratik Mahajan, senior R&D manager for verification at Synopsys, talks about how to use simulation plus formal verification. [youtube vid=TjO8up0nPGg] » read more

The Danger of Using Patents
By Brian Bailey - 23 Jan, 2015 - Comments: 2

As I have written about recently, [getkc id="30" kc_name="emulation"] is a hot topic for EDA and the number and length of lawsuits related to the technology is almost overwhelming. The latest phase has just concluded with a summary judgment against [getentity id="22035" e_name="Synopsys"] on Jan. 20. It all started in late 2012 when Synopsys, which had just acquired [getentity id="22738" e_nam... » read more

Manufacturing And Packaging Changes For 2015
By Brian Bailey - 22 Jan, 2015 - Comments: 0

This year more than 26 people provided predictions for 2015. Most of these came from the EDA industry, so the results may be rather biased. However, ecosystems are coming closer together in many parts of the semiconductor food chain, meaning that the EDA companies often can see what is happening in dependent industries and in the system design houses. Thus their predictions may have already res... » read more

What Will Change In Design For 2015?
By Brian Bailey - 15 Jan, 2015 - Comments: 0

This year more than 26 people provided predictions for 2015. Most of these came from the EDA industry, so the results may be rather biased. However, ecosystems are coming closer together in many parts of the semiconductor food chain, meaning that the EDA companies often can see what is happening in dependent industries and in the system design houses. Thus their predictions may have already res... » read more

Unraveling Power Methodologies
By Brian Bailey - 15 Jan, 2015 - Comments: 0

When working on articles, the editors at Semiconductor Engineering sometimes hear things that make them stand back and question what seems to be an industry truth. One such statement happened last month while researching a different article. The statement was: Most designs are not top-down, but in fact bottom-up when it comes to power management. The most used methodology today is that the RTL... » read more

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