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The Next SoCs
By Ed Sperling - 20 Oct, 2011 - Comments: 0

By Ed Sperling The number of changes that will hit the IC market over the next few years is almost staggering by any standard—past or present. In addition to the relentless pressure of Moore’s Law, there will be new materials, new structures, and new models for developing and packaging chips. System-Level Design asked executives from across the SoC ecosystem what will change, what’s d... » read more

Software Takes Control
By Ed Sperling - 20 Oct, 2011 - Comments: 0

By Pallab Chatterjee The idea that SoC and system design are a mix of hardware and software, in the form of both application software and firmware, has been in place for more than 60 years. But the emphasis is beginning to shift. The traditional approach has been to create the highest-performance circuit design, with some control options for flexibility, and then use this adaptable "platfor... » read more

Derivative Designs Demand Discipline
By Ed Sperling - 20 Oct, 2011 - Comments: 0

By Ann Steffora Mutschler By and large most designs today are derivatives, meaning they don’t start from a blank slate. And while that gives engineering teams a starting point, it also can make adding new IP blocks or changes to the design problematic, with the potential for increased routing and timing issues along with considerable pain to back-end engineers and delays in chip schedules. ... » read more

VIP: Behind The Velvet Rope
By Ed Sperling - 20 Oct, 2011 - Comments: 0

By Ann Steffora Mutschler Some years ago, as engineering teams began to incorporate more protocols into designs and as those protocols grew in sophistication and complexity in order to deliver additional performance, the verification task grew concurrently. At the same time, the design IP market was growing as complexity drove re-use of components, along with verification components—most com... » read more

Collaboration Grows
By Ed Sperling - 20 Oct, 2011 - Comments: 0

By Ed Sperling A series of recent announcements by the Big Three EDA vendors and their well-known partners from across the disaggregated SoC ecosystem is lending new credence to the impact of collaboration. While IDMs such as Apple, Intel, Samsung and IBM continue to blaze their own trail, developing in-house tools, methodologies, processes and chips, fabless companies working with foundrie... » read more

A Message From Steve Jobs
By Kurt Shuler - 20 Oct, 2011 - Comments: 0

By Kurt Shuler “I wanted my kids to know me. I wasn’t always there for them, and I wanted them to know why and to understand what I did.” This is how Steve Jobs answered his biographer when asked why he agreed to cooperate in the writing of his biography. Jobs’ statement was a kick in the gut when I first read it, and still elicits a gnawing pain in me. It drove home the point th... » read more

New Terms, New Problems
By Ed Sperling - 20 Oct, 2011 - Comments: 0

At the distant forefront of research there is very little marketing. After all, what’s the point? Until recently, much of this stuff was theoretical physics, and products weren’t even a consideration. It wasn’t until the past decade when we could actually see atoms. We had to theorize them. And it wasn’t until the past few years when we actually began taking stacked die seriously. Bu... » read more

eDRAM: No Brainer…But No Takers?
By Various Writers - 20 Oct, 2011 - Comments: 0

By Steve Hamilton Designers in the consumer electronics market—mobile in particular—are constantly looking for new ways to reduce cost and power while increasing performance. This is far from novel. With consumers’ unrelenting demand for more features at lower prices, you would think semiconductor companies would jump when confronted with a technology that gives them a real competitive e... » read more

Revelations From Italy
By Jon McDonald - 20 Oct, 2011 - Comments: 0

By Jon McDonald I am just back from vacation. My wife and I spent two weeks in Italy. While there we toured the Tuscan countryside, Florence and Rome. We had a rental car for the time in Tuscany. In Rome we didn’t keep the car. Watching the different types of cars and the way they were driven gave me a good analogy for an issue I’ve had a number of discussions on. As people think about ... » read more

Putting Kurzweil’s Singularity To The Mobile Test
By Frank Schirrmeister - 18 Oct, 2011 - Comments: 2

I have been fascinated by Ray Kurzweil’s book "The Singularity is Near"for a while (great book, the documentary “Transcendent Man” gives a great summary, and apparently a movie is coming up too). Bottom line Kurzweil is charting the accelerating rate of technology change. That chart hits the x-axis in 2045 and that’s the singularity as it is unclear what happens then. Do we have to adap... » read more

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