A Combined Design And Verification Flow For Safety-Critical Designs
By Tom Anderson - 24 May, 2018 - Comments: 0

By Tom Anderson and Srikanth Rengarajan I welcome my co-author for today’s post, Srikanth Rengarajan, vice president of product and business development from Austemper Design Systems. We would like to focus on safety-critical designs, a topic very much in the news these days because of the public’s fascination with autonomous vehicles. This consumer category now joins medical electron... » read more

Analog Migration Equals Redesign
By Ann Mutschler - 24 May, 2018 - Comments: 1

Analog design has never been easy. Engineers can spend their entire careers focused just on phase-locked loops (PLLs), because to get them right the functionality of circuits need to be understood in depth, including how they respond across different process corners and different manufacturing processes. In the finFET era, those challenges have only intensified for analog circuits. Reuse, fo... » read more

Get Ready For Verification 3.0
By Brian Bailey - 24 May, 2018 - Comments: 0

Jim Hogan, managing partner of Vista Ventures, LLC, is perhaps the best-known investor in the EDA space. Recently, he has been focusing time and attention on verification startups, including cloud technology company Metrics, and Portable Stimulus pioneer Breker Verification Systems. This adds to his longer-term commitment to formal verification with OneSpin Solutions. These companies are part ... » read more

First Look At USB 3.2
By Eric Huang - 24 May, 2018 - Comments: 0

I’m super excited to write about and show to you the world’s first USB 3.2 demonstration. Go watch the video first and then read the rest. https://youtu.be/WPUvHeq_Sgs USB 3.2 hardware and software setup We implemented our USB 3.2 Device and Host in the HAPS-80 FPGA-Based hardware prototyping platform. The platforms use USB PHYs, which are implemented in a FinFET process node. ... » read more

Speeding Up High-Frequency Trading
By Sunil Sahoo - 24 May, 2018 - Comments: 0

The High-Frequency Trading (HFT) industry has received a lot of attention during the last few years. HFT is all about speed and minimizing latency: the faster you can run trading strategies and algorithms for analyzing minute price changes and executing trade orders, the higher the probability to win over competition. So the competition in this area is very fierce with market players continuous... » read more

Tech Talk: Traceability In Functional Safety
By Ed Sperling - 24 May, 2018 - Comments: 0

Dominik Strasser, vice president of engineering at OneSpin Solutions, talks about the impact of functional safety regulations on liability and traceability in automotive, rail, industrial, nuclear and machinery applications. https://youtu.be/2jWnId8jQJg » read more

CEO Outlook On Chip Industry (Part 1)
By Ed Sperling - 24 May, 2018 - Comments: 1

Semiconductor Engineering sat down with Wally Rhines, president and CEO of Mentor, a Siemens Business; Simon Segars, CEO of Arm; Grant Pierce, CEO of Sonics; and Dean Drako, CEO of IC Manage. What follows are excerpts of that conversation. L-R: Dean Drako, Grant Pierce, Wally Rhines, Simon Segars. Photo: Paul Cohen/ESD Alliance SE: What are the big changes ahead, and where do you see th... » read more

Choosing A Format For The Portable Stimulus Specification
By Mentor, a Siemens Business - 23 May, 2018 - Comments: 0

The Accellera Systems Initiative is currently defining a Portable Stimulus Specification (PSS) standard for verification models that can be used to generate appropriate tests for all levels and platforms automatically. The current draft of the standard includes two alternative input formats for these models. This paper examines the merits and challenges of both formats. To read more, click h... » read more

Measuring And Analyzing SoC Performance With Verdi Performance Analyzer
By Synopsys - 23 May, 2018 - Comments: 0

SoC performance is a key competitive advantage in the marketplace. The choice and configuration of SoC components—protocol IP and interconnects, is geared towards maximizing overall SoC performance. A case in point is the use of HBM (High Bandwidth Memory) technology and controllers. Currently in its third generation, HBM boasts high-performance while using less power in a substantially small... » read more

Quantum Effects At 7/5nm And Beyond
By Ed Sperling - 23 May, 2018 - Comments: 5

Quantum effects are becoming more pronounced at the most advanced nodes, causing unusual and sometimes unexpected changes in how electronic devices and signals behave. Quantum effects typically occur well behind the curtain for most of the chip industry, baked into a set of design rules developed from foundry data that most companies never see. This explains why foundries and manufacturing e... » read more

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