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Counting Pennies
By Ed Sperling - 21 Nov, 2013 - Comments: 0

Even Intel may not have enough cash on hand to pay for a new state-of-the-art fab at 7nm. With fully equipped fabs expected to rise into the plus-$10 billion range over the next few process nodes, and each new process shrink jam-packed with a multitude of new problems, the momentum for continuing to shrink features appears to be slowing down. Technically, it’s possible to shrink transistor... » read more

Coming Up With The Wrong Formal Answer
By Brian Bailey - 21 Nov, 2013 - Comments: 0

It was a surreal moment. I was sitting in a conference room in Portland listening to a panel session about [getkc id="33" kc_name="formal"] methods. The topic was discussing the fact that there is insufficient education at the undergraduate level in formal methods and algorithmic approaches to verification. You can read about the panel here. In the question and answer session, a point was ma... » read more

Community, Collaboration And Standards
By Yatin Trivedi - 20 Nov, 2013 - Comments: 0

EDA tools/methodologies and semiconductor IP creation are strongly driven by standards. Dating back to the 1980s, standards have helped shape electronic design industry – from the way we design silicon to the way we do business. Indeed, [getentity id="22024" comment="Accellera"] was formed from a merger of two leading standards bodies in the early 1990s, [getentity id="22025" comment="VHDL In... » read more

The Hunt For The Next Application To Drive System-Level Design And Verification
By Frank Schirrmeister - 20 Nov, 2013 - Comments: 0

In recent years, most of my customer presentations highlighted some type of mobile device – system and system on chip (SoC) — to explain the challenges for system-level design and verification. But I also like to look into other application domains to understand how challenges may develop over time and to identify similarities and differences in challenges between application domains. Co... » read more

Are Designers’ X-Analysis Needs Different From Verification Engineers?
By Lisa Piper - 11 Nov, 2013 - Comments: 0

The propagation of unknown (X) states has become a more pressing issue with the move toward billion-gate SoC designs. Besides the sheer complexity of these designs, the common use of complex power management schemes increase the likelihood of an unknown ‘X’ state in the design translating into a functional bug in the final chip. This article describes a methodology that enables design an... » read more

Recycling Electronic Components As Fishing Lures
By Brian Bailey - 08 Nov, 2013 - Comments: 0

I have a regular search set up to help me find interesting and relevant [getkc id="16" comment="patent"] and patent applications within our industry and most of the time they are serious patents. Many come from the large EDA and semiconductor companies, systems houses and some from small startups attempting to protect their nascent technology. But one came up on my search today that was a litt... » read more

Look Who’s Crosstalking
By Ed Sperling - 24 Oct, 2013 - Comments: 0

One of the common complaints among hardware engineers is that software engineers don’t understand how to really optimize their code to take advantage of the hardware. And software engineers complain that hardware engineers live in the past, hardwiring everything that can be done better in software. Those debates will continue as long as there are distinct groupings for hardware and softwar... » read more

A Nobel Prize For Modeling And Simulation
By Brian Bailey - 24 Oct, 2013 - Comments: 0

This year, a Nobel Prize has been awarded for devising a computer model and simulation process. Bloomberg, which interviewed Marinda Wu by phone, said: “The models let us slow down…and let us look at them one piece at a time.” This enables them to optimize things. At this point you may be thinking one of three things. Either 1) I don’t remember that prize being awarded or, 2) at last ED... » read more

Don’t Quit Your Hardware Job
By Neil Hand - 24 Oct, 2013 - Comments: 0

At the recent Intel Developers Forum I was struck with the prevalence of software-defined architectures. Topics covered software-defined networking, software-defined storage, and the software-defined data center. It seemed that the concept of software-defined infrastructure was everywhere. It’s not unique to IDF, however. I suspect that at the upcoming ARM TechCon the trend will continue, but... » read more

CSR In Semis
By Jack Harding - 24 Oct, 2013 - Comments: 0

For decades the largest industries in the world have deployed corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives that, on their surface, are designed to “give back” or “share the wealth” with the communities that have produced the labor force that drive their collective success. We also are told that CSR is good business and can be correlated with improved branding and greater profitabil... » read more

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