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FinFET Vs. Tri-Gate
By Barry Pangrle - 05 Apr, 2012 - Comments: 0

By Barry Pangrle A large portion of the Common Platform Technology Forum, recently held in Santa Clara, was dedicated to presentations about 14nm process technologies and FinFETS. If you missed the event and are interested, many of the presentations are available from a link off of the Common Platform home page. Dick James wrote a nice article about GlobalFoundries’ claim that its FinFETS ar... » read more

Fundamentals For 3D IC Flows
By Ann Mutschler - 05 Apr, 2012 - Comments: 0

While true 3D ICs are a few years off, 2.5D is here. There are some key differences, namely that with 2.5D the interposer is a passive die, but there also are some fundamental shared requirements. Samta Bansal, senior product marketing for Silicon Realization at Cadence asserted that first, the digital, custom and package environments must be seamless. “There has to be a co-design between ... » read more

Whac-A-Mole Anyone?
By Atrenta - 21 Mar, 2012 - Comments: 0

By Mike Gianfagna It started as an arcade game in 1976 (according to Wikipedia), so it’s been around for a while—longer than system-on-chip (SoC) design for sure. It’s essentially a game of futility. A mole pops up and you whack it down with a hammer, only to have another mole pop up elsewhere. Figuratively, you fix one problem and another one pops up. So what does all this have to do wi... » read more

Shoot The Engineer
By Luke Lang - 08 Mar, 2012 - Comments: 0

By Luke Lang Many years ago as a junior engineer right out of college, my manager explain to me the concept of “shoot the engineer.” Engineers are trained to be perfectionists. We want to design the best mouse trap ever. However, the engineer that designs the first working mouse trap takes home the money. Given another day, another week, or another month, we can always improve upon our cur... » read more

Intel vs. AMD: Who’s Right?
By Barry Pangrle - 08 Mar, 2012 - Comments: 0

By Barry Pangrle It’s all about the system. One energy-efficient component doesn’t an energy-efficient system make. There were two big announcements recently made by the industry’s two x86 designers. One was by Intel announcing its new Sandy Bridge Xeon Processor E5-2600 product family, and the other one was by AMD announcing its planned acquisition of SeaMicro. Both of these announce... » read more

Intel’s Power Play
By Bhanu Kapoor - 08 Mar, 2012 - Comments: 0

By Bhanu Kapoor With the Ivy Bridge processor, Intel claims half the power at the same performance level or double the performance with the same power consumption as the Sandy Bridge processor. The implications of 2X performance-per-watt improvement will be significant for server, desktop, laptop, tablet, and smart phone applications. You can be operating at the same frequency while either... » read more

A Necessary Duo: IP And Assertions
By Ann Mutschler - 08 Mar, 2012 - Comments: 0

By Ann Steffora Mutschler Assertions are key to complete and accurate verification, as I dove into here, and there are implications for IP as well. In the case of an embedded processor core that is shipped out as an RTL by the IP vendor, and then used by an engineering team to create a cell phone SoC or to create a consumer SoC for a set-top box or what have you, that core goes into an end ... » read more

A Smart System Technology Renaissance
By Margaret Schmitt - 09 Feb, 2012 - Comments: 0

By Margaret Schmitt Leonardo da Vinci invented fantastic machines to revolutionize how man would live, work, wage war, and travel. Describing how he conceived these designs he said, “A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.” We currently are experiencing a renaissance of our own, with the rise of s... » read more

Virtual LP
By Luke Lang - 09 Feb, 2012 - Comments: 0

By Luke Lang Several months ago, I introduced the concept of virtual domain in association with hierarchical CPF. It is a relatively simple concept with a concise definition. It is powerful and flexible in supporting large designs with complex power architecture and hierarchical power intent. However, to the UPF coders, virtual domain is sometimes a mystery. I hope this blog will clear up any ... » read more

A Brief History Of Power Formats
By Barry Pangrle - 09 Feb, 2012 - Comments: 0

Barry Pangrle A lot has happened in the industry in the way of power format standards over the past seven years. I’m going to attempt to hit on some of the highlights over that time period, especially with regards to the “Big 3” EDA vendors to hopefully put it all into better context for our readers. Early on, circa 2005, Mentor Graphics was working on a power format referred to as th... » read more

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