RTL Optimization Best Practices Help To Achieve Power Goals And Identify Reliability Issues Earlier


Designers face enormous challenges for low-power designs. Whether it is IoT at the edge, AI in the datacenter, robotics or ADAS, the demand for increased functionality and higher performance in SoCs is rapidly stretching power budgets to their breaking point. Power must be considered at every stage of chip design. Waiting to address power until late in the design cycle – post-netlist or durin... » read more

Do You Really Understand The Importance Of Parasitic Extraction In Chip Designs?


By Susanne Lachenmann and Petya Aleksandrova, Infineon Technologies, and Karen Chow, Siemens EDA One of the biggest challenges integrated circuit (IC) designers face in today’s complex designs is effectively managing the effects of parasitic elements such as resistance, capacitance, and inductance. Parasitic elements can significantly impact chip performance of a chip, making it critical f... » read more

No Hot Products


While marketers strive to launch the next “hot” product, engineers struggle to prevent literally hot products! A recent breakthrough in thermal modeling comes just in time as electronic component manufacturers and their OEM customers increasingly battle thermal design issues. Analog electronic component manufacturers have traditionally provided models in SPICE format so customers can sim... » read more

Fast, Accurate, Automated Via Insertion During Design Implementation Requires Foundry Rule Compliance


As the scaling of silicon technology proceeds, via resistance is becoming a dominant factor in integrated circuit (IC) yield, performance, and reliability. At advanced nodes, interconnects and via dimensions decrease, while the number of metallization layers increases. To moderate the impact of via resistance on yield and reliability and reduce electromigration (EM) and voltage drop (IR) effect... » read more

A New Approach To Design-Stage Layout Optimization Can Speed Time To Tapeout While Improving Power Management


The right tool for the job makes all the difference. Ever try hammering a nail in with a rock? How many nails did you ruin before you gave up? Or try to tighten a crucial bolt by hand? It takes forever, and you just can’t tighten it enough, so everything’s still kind of wobbly? Yeah, that’s kind of what it’s like trying to use an electronic design automation (EDA) tool to do a job it’... » read more

How To Answer Five Common Questions About Power Module Current Density


Power module current density is an important factor in determining the efficiency and performance of power modules. This article answers five common questions about power module current density so you can make informed decisions when designing a power module for your application. 1. How many wire bonds are required? Generally, a higher current density requires an increased number of w... » read more

Unblocking The Full Potential Of PCIe Gen6 With Shared Flow Control


As technology advances at a rapid pace, PCI Express (or PCIe) has grown tremendously, allowing data transfer up to 64 GT/s in Gen6. This technology is widely used in data centers, artificial intelligence and machine learning computing, high-performance computing accelerators, and high-speed applications—including high-end SSDs, automotive, IoT, and mil-aero. To fully utilize this high-spee... » read more

Low-Power IC Design Without Compromise


In the process of creating ICs, the digital implementation stage is focused on meeting the performance, power, and area (PPA) targets defined for the design. Traditionally, when talking about PPA metrics, “performance” has been the primary focus, with power and area recovered where possible, after meeting timing. But as designs have moved to smaller, more advanced process nodes, and as s... » read more

Everything, Everywhere, All At Once: Big Data Reimagines Verification Predictability And Efficiency


Big data is a term that has been around for many years. The list of applications for big data are endless, but the process stays the same: capture, process and analyze. With new, enabling verification solutions, big data technologies can improve your verification process efficiency and predict your next chip sign-off. By providing a big data infrastructure, with state-of-the-art technologies... » read more

Power Integrity Analysis For High-Performance FPGAs


Efinix high-performance Titanium field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) are custom-tailored for the computing demands of mainstream applications, targeting markets from intelligent edge devices to industrial automation to vision systems to edge servers and communications (figure 1). Efinix customers use the Titanium line of FPGAs to ensure their complex, high-performance designs minimize power ... » read more

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