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Industry-Shaking Changes Ahead
By Kurt Shuler - 19 Dec, 2013 - Comments: 1

I’ve been closely following the increasing power of system OEMs (such as Apple, Google, Facebook and Microsoft) over players in the semiconductor industry with an eye toward understanding how this will affect others in the semi value chain. However, I haven’t paid as much attention to the root causes of why these changes are occurring. McKinsey & Company has provided our industry food f... » read more

Wanted: Standard Design Constraints
By Steve Schulz - 19 Dec, 2013 - Comments: 0

Lately, there has been increasing discussion in the industry about the need for a set of standards that specifically support an interoperable description of intent for analog and custom design, a.k.a. “analog design intent” standards. The driving need for such standardization is to enable far greater exchange of analog intent, with greater formalism and clarity, to greatly improve time-to-... » read more

Key Developments In 2013 And Crystal Ball Predictions For 2014
By Graham Bell - 19 Dec, 2013 - Comments: 0

There were a number of key developments in 2013 that stood out for me that I think would of interest to the Semiconductor Engineering audience:  We are now in the world of 8-core processors. Both the new Xbox One and the Sony PS4 sport 8-core AMD CPUs. And MediaTek has announced the MT6592, the first 8-core cell-phone chip that uses ARM A-7 processors running simultaneously at 2GHz. I know... » read more

Top 5 Trends For 2014
By Frank Schirrmeister - 19 Dec, 2013 - Comments: 0

My daughter’s and my traditional yearly cookie baking party last weekend reminded me of two things: There is still no easy recipe for system design and verification and – of course – the year is almost over again. Ouch. Let’s look back at 2013 first. Earlier this year we held a System to Silicon Verification Summit in San Jose, with an interesting technical keynote by Brian Bailey an... » read more

Flawed Research?
By Brian Bailey - 09 Dec, 2013 - Comments: 0

Soft errors were first talked about a long time ago and [getkc id="22" kc_name="memories"], which are the most susceptible to this type of error due to their finer geometries and tighter packing, have long included protection from such errors. But the scare has proven to be larger than the real problem. However, as geometries shrink, we are again hearing about the potential problems. Researc... » read more

Sometime More Is More And Less…
By Neil Hand - 22 Nov, 2013 - Comments: 0

Anyone who has been reading this blog has already figured out that as an ex-system designer, I am a fan of intelligent IP subsystems, and in a couple of my previous posts I already talked about how they make design easier by distributing the overall complexity. The other day however, I found myself trying to describe to a non-semiconductor person why this move is good and what benefits it de... » read more

Gartner Recommends Network-on-Chip (NoC) Technology For SoC Design
By Kurt Shuler - 21 Nov, 2013 - Comments: 0

In their latest Hype Cycle for Semiconductors and Electronics Technologies report, Gartner Research has taken the bold step of recommending that all enterprises involved in advanced SoC design should seriously evaluate network-on-chip (NoC) technology based interconnect fabric IP: “The technology has continued to receive a good amount of publicity along with continued adoption by leading S... » read more

Rethinking Old Sayings
By Jon McDonald - 21 Nov, 2013 - Comments: 0

One of my favorite quotes from Gary Smith is a few years old: “It’s the software, stupid!” That statement was made way back in 2006. While it was, and in some ways still is, very illustrative, I believe it also points to one extreme in the back and forth between focusing on hardware then software to differentiate our electronic systems. At the point in time Gary made the statement that... » read more

The Race For Better Verification
By Graham Bell - 21 Nov, 2013 - Comments: 0

SoC verification is gearing up for renewed competition among the big vendors and verification-only companies like Real Intent. They are delivering their next-generation SoC verification suites with a focus on specific areas of concern. Clock-domain crossing, X-verification and reset optimization, SDC correctness and consistency, are some of the areas that are receiving dedicated RTL analysis us... » read more

Where Dragons Roam
By Tom De Schutter - 21 Nov, 2013 - Comments: 0

For more than half a year now, I am living with two dragons at home. Luckily from the outside they look just like regular children, so we didn’t have to upgrade our house. But we have to remind our little dragons to switch to human languages when they talk to us. It is interesting, and also a bit sad, to realize that as we “grow up,” we lose the ability to let our imagination go wild a... » read more

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