category: System-Level Design

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Methodologies And Flows In A Rapidly Changing Market
By Ed Sperling - 29 Nov, 2018 - Comments: 0

A growing push toward more heterogeneity and customization in chip design is creating havoc across the global supply chain, which until a couple years ago was highly organized and extremely predictable. While existing tools still work well enough, no one has yet figured out the most efficient way to use them in a variety of new applications. Technology is still being developed in those marke... » read more

Patently Absurd
By Brian Bailey - 29 Nov, 2018 - Comments: 2

One thing I like about the holiday season is that it gives me the opportunity to be a little less formal and have a little fun. I find humor within the patent system. I can remember growing up and being told that our next-door neighbor was crazy—but brilliant because he had a patent. Everyone looked to him as though he was a technology god. Later in life I learned how easy it is to get a p... » read more

Heterogeneous Computing Raises The Bar For Functional Verification
By Raik Brinkmann - 29 Nov, 2018 - Comments: 0

If there’s one thing certain in chip development, it’s that every innovation in architecture or semiconductor technology puts more pressure on the functional verification process. The increase in gate count for each new technology node stresses tool capacity. Every step up in complexity makes it harder to find deep, corner-case bugs. The dramatic growth in SoC designs brings software into p... » read more

Virtual Design Chains At The EDA Forum
By Frank Schirrmeister - 29 Nov, 2018 - Comments: 0

The German edacentrum’s EDA Forum was held in Berlin, Germany, in early November. It was very interesting to see the design chain effects in the automotive domain, very visible in a panel yours truly was part of, together with Audi, Bosch, Infineon, MicroChip, Synopsys, Mentor, and the BMBF. Driven from the top of the design chain, the direction is clearly to go more virtual to optimize the c... » read more

Physical Verification In The Cloud
By Manoz Palaparthi - 29 Nov, 2018 - Comments: 0

Cloud computing is no longer “the next big thing”; it has become a mainstream tool for business across many industries. Our own industry of IC Design and EDA, however, has been watching the cloud trend closely from the sidelines. We have been cautious and have not embraced Cloud as much as other industries – until now. What changed this year? What is driving design companies and EDA tool ... » read more

Looking Beyond The CPU
By Brian Bailey - 29 Nov, 2018 - Comments: 0

CPUs no longer deliver the same kind of of performance improvements as in the past, raising questions across the industry about what comes next. The growth in processing power delivered by a single CPU core began stalling out at the beginning of the decade, when power-related issues such as heat and noise forced processor companies to add more cores rather than pushing up the clock frequency... » read more

Bare Metal Programming
By Ann Mutschler - 29 Nov, 2018 - Comments: 0

As the need for safety and security grows across application areas such as automotive, industrial, and in the cloud, the semiconductor industry is searching for the best ways to protect these systems. The big question is whether it is better to build security and safety into hardware, into software, or both. The answer isn't entirely clear yet, but one of the options under consideration is s... » read more

Supercomputers Are For Everyone
By Mike Gianfagna - 29 Nov, 2018 - Comments: 0

Our SerDes world tour continues. This past month, we demonstrated our 7nm 56G long-reach SerDes in Dallas and Israel. In Dallas, our demonstration included error-free operation in 56G PAM4 over a 30dB channel without forward error correction through an eye-popping five-meter cable. Many thanks to our partner Samtec for providing that cable, allowing backplane designers to now “reach beyond th... » read more

Cracking The Mixed-Signal Verification Code
By Satishkumar Balasubramanian - 29 Nov, 2018 - Comments: 0

Rapid digitization in IoT, automotive, industrial, and communication industry segments are fueling semiconductor industry growth. This growth follows the “More than Moore” paradigm, where new design starts are spread across mature to advanced manufacturing nodes based on end-application targets. With this digitalization, data has become the most valuable resource. Mixed-signal designs pl... » read more

IP Tracking and Management
By Brian Bailey - 29 Nov, 2018 - Comments: 0

Semiconductor Engineering sat down to discuss IP tracking and management with Ranjit Adhikary, VP of marketing for ClioSoft; Jim Bruister, director digital systems (since retired) at Silvaco; Marc Greenberg, product marketing group director at Cadence; and Kelvin Low, VP of Marketing at Arm. What follows are excerpts from that conversation. SE: What is the scope of the problem? What are ... » read more

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