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Follow The Investments
By Ed Sperling - 24 Apr, 2014 - Comments: 0

Where is design heading over the next few years. The best way to tell that is to find out where the development dollars are going, and foundries and tools always precede actual designs. The foundries are starting to spend money—lots of it—on finFETs and 28nm. And while they’re talking about 2.5D and 3D, the money isn’t going there just yet. In fact, there are two different processes ... » read more

The Fading Art of Person-to-Person Communication
By Mike Gianfagna - 24 Apr, 2014 - Comments: 0

Have you ever sat in your cube at work and received an email from the person sitting next to you? Have you watched your kids text their friends when they’re all in the same room? Face it, typing is replacing talking. All this always-on technology is contributing to the demise of simple, person-to-person communication. I sometimes wonder if future generations of well-to-do people will hire pro... » read more

SoC Assembly And IP Reuse
By Kurt Shuler - 24 Apr, 2014 - Comments: 2

I had the honor and opportunity to present at the 2014 Electronic Design Process Symposium in Monterey last Friday. This annual workshop is run by the IEEE Computer Society of Silicon Valley and the IEEE Council on Electronic Design Automation. There were more than 30 participants each day. Most of them very experienced people with lots of technical and business responsibilities. It was ... » read more

Ivy League Colleges Crumbling
By Brian Bailey - 24 Apr, 2014 - Comments: 1

Last week I attended a talk from David Pearce Snyder. Snyder is a data-based forecaster, or what some people call a futurist. He has consulted for many Fortune 500 companies and the government. This is part of a lecture series put on by the Institute for Science, Engineering and Public Policy and I got to attend because [getentity id="22017" e_name="Mentor Graphics"] is a sponsor of these talk... » read more

How To Shorten Hardware-Software Development Cycles
By Frank Schirrmeister - 24 Apr, 2014 - Comments: 0

Doing more hardware-software development prior to silicon promises significant productivity and time-to-market improvements. Part of this is shifting software development “to the left,” which can compress development Last month, I blogged about “The Great Shift to the Left,” and I pointed out some of the organizational challenges associated with compressing the development cycle usin... » read more

What Should I Build?
By Tom De Schutter - 24 Apr, 2014 - Comments: 0

The question in the title has been one of the most asked questions by my son lately. Or as my wife says, his brain is 90% focused on Minecraft and 10% on everything else. For those not familiar with Minecraft, it is a lego-like computer game or as the Minecraft website reads: “Minecraft is a game about breaking and placing blocks.” It has literally captured the imagination of my son and ... » read more

Inside SI2’s OpenPCell Workshop
By Steve Schulz - 03 Apr, 2014 - Comments: 1

In the last Standards and Beyond blog, we provided background on the Open Process Specification, including where pcells fit into the overall picture, and gave an invitation to the OpenPCell workshop being hosted by the Silicon Integration Initiative (Si2). The ensuing workshop, held on Jan. 29, was well attended with more than 35 companies represented across the globe. It was a gathering of man... » read more

Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 And The Progress of Technology
By Kurt Shuler - 31 Mar, 2014 - Comments: 1

Cable news has been continuously deluging us with lots of speculation regarding the fate of Malaysia Airlines flight 370. Most of us are drowning in a sea of jargon as TV talking heads express incredulity that, “with all our modern technology, a plane disappeared…” Although the disappearance of flight MH370 is a terrible tragedy, I see the larger context of our progress in commercial a... » read more

Get Ready For DVCon Europe
By Accellera - 28 Mar, 2014 - Comments: 0

By Martin Barnasconi DVCon Europe, a new conference and exhibition around design and verification, will be held Oct. 14-15 in Munich, Germany. Call for abstracts for DVCon Europe is open through April 8. The obvious question is why DVCon Europe. DVCon and its predecessor conferences have been held successfully in the Silicon Valley for more than 20 years. The conference is extremely success... » read more

EDA Resurgence Through Open Flows
By Neil Hand - 28 Mar, 2014 - Comments: 2

A couple of years ago I would talk to investors about startups in the systems space and overwhelmingly they were extremely negative: startups were dying; there was no investment; it was difficult to get products to market. This same conversation has happened in the past with infrastructure software, and is happening now with EDA in terms of stagnation, lack of innovation and lack of investment.... » read more

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