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Turducken Lessons
By Ed Sperling - 26 Jan, 2012 - Comments: 0

By Doug Ridge So with the U.S. holiday season just having passed, it seemed that the topic of discussion and of many a holiday feast was the now infamous turducken. Yes, the somewhat crazy idea of stuffing a deboned chicken with seasoned stuffing and then stuffing that inside a deboned duck, which is itself stuffed inside a deboned turkey, was making its way into homes across at least North Am... » read more

Semiconductor Slowdown? Invest!
By Kurt Shuler - 26 Jan, 2012 - Comments: 0

By Kurt Shuler Samsung’s announcement that it is investing a company-record $42B in 2012 for technology development came as a bit of a shock to many in the financial and technology press. The size of this investment dwarfs that of any other company I know of, and even exceeds the expected technology investments of entire nations, such as the combined investments of the Japanese semiconductor... » read more

Roundtable: What’s Changing In System-Level Design
By Ed Sperling - 26 Jan, 2012 - Comments: 0

System-Level Design talks about what's changing and what's needed with Juan Rey of Mentor Graphics: Yervant Zorian of Synopsys; Michael McNamara of Cadence; Prasad Subramaniam of eSilicon; and Ravi Varadarajan of Atrenta. [youtube vid=8siiKBKD0-k] » read more

New Electronic World Order
By Frank Ferro - 26 Jan, 2012 - Comments: 0

By Frank Ferro Analysts agree that much of the semiconductor growth over the next few years will be in the mobile market segments—smart phones, tablets and ultra-books, in particular. At the recent CES, there was no lack of these devices on display, all which are competing to cash in on the cachet that Apple has developed around these products. Although ultra-books will eventually just be no... » read more

Redefining Design Starts
By Ed Sperling - 26 Jan, 2012 - Comments: 0

For the past decade we have been hearing grim tales about the number of design starts shrinking and how that’s hurting EDA. While that makes for sensational headlines, reality is somewhat fuzzier and far less grim. The big shift that’s underway isn’t so much a decline in design starts as a rise in SoCs. But SoCs are never really created from scratch. They’re a combination of commerci... » read more

Power Matters
By Jon McDonald - 26 Jan, 2012 - Comments: 0

By Jon McDonald Power has been an active area of discussion for me recently. It's come up in a more concrete way than in past conversations: customers are more interested in discussing details and not as interested in the abstract concepts. An interesting outcome of this is that now we need more context, we need to understand what we mean when we talk about power analysis at the abstract, syst... » read more

Will It Really Work?
By Ed Sperling - 26 Jan, 2012 - Comments: 0

By Ed Sperling Estimates of how much time it takes to verify a complex SoC are still hovering around 70% of the total non-recurring engineering costs, but with more unknowns and more things to verify it’s becoming harder to keep that number from growing. Verification has always been described as an unbounded problem. You can always verify more, and just knowing when to call it quits is so... » read more

The Art Of Double-Indirect Sales And Product Marketing
By Frank Schirrmeister - 24 Jan, 2012 - Comments: 0

By Frank Schirrmeister The interaction between software and hardware development has been much discussed, with early software enablement being at the forefront of what system-level design in EDA tries to enable. The main reason why these discussions are so attractive to EDA – in my mind – is the impression that the number of software developers is significantly higher than that of hardware... » read more

Verifying The Pieces
By Ed Sperling - 06 Jan, 2012 - Comments: 0

It’s not uncommon to hear engineers express disbelief these days that a complex device actually works. This is both a sign of amazing advancement in system-level design, as well as a scary revelation that’s surfacing from all parts of the design world. What’s behind this uncertainty is the growing complexity of devices, which has moved design well beyond the comprehension of a single e... » read more

Increase The Battery Mileage With Virtual Prototypes
By Achim Nohl - 15 Dec, 2011 - Comments: 0

By Achim Nohl With this post, I would like to continue the topic of my earlier post “Can we stop power-hungry bugs from clawing their way through application software stacks?” In my previous post, I wrote about the difficulties software developers face with writing battery-friendly software. I indicated that virtual prototypes (VPs) can address many of those challenges by providing visibil... » read more

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