category: System-Level Design

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Who’s In Control?
By Ed Sperling - 26 May, 2011 - Comments: 0

By Ed Sperling A power shift is under way across the SoC world that ultimately determine who wins the business, who gets the biggest share and what technologies are ultimately used to get there. Complexity has reached a point where being able to pull the necessary pieces from a disaggregated supply chain is becoming much more difficult. That helps explain why all three of the major EDA comp... » read more

Infrastructure Needed For The “Internet Of Things”
By Ed Sperling - 26 May, 2011 - Comments: 0

By Pallab Chatterjee There has been a lot of buzz about the “Internet of Things” (IoT), the world being “constantly connected,” “wireless everywhere” and “ubiquitous connectivity.” These are great ideas and they’re driving the development of mobile and sensor-based devices. However, for the data to show up someplace, whether it is the cloud or a private repository, data netwo... » read more

Tri-Gate’s Fallout
By Ed Sperling - 26 May, 2011 - Comments: 0

By David Lammers Intel Corp. dropped a rock into the pond of transistor technology when it announced its 22nm tri-gate technology in San Francisco earlier this month. The ripples continue to move out from that event, with impacts on IDMs, foundries, and fabless semiconductor companies being closely studied. Now that Intel has come out of the closet with its tri-gate technology, “the found... » read more

The Upside Of Dark Silicon
By Ed Sperling - 26 May, 2011 - Comments: 0

By Ed Sperling For many years the real challenge in IC design was in shrinking the components and features on a piece of silicon without burning up the chip or destroying signal integrity. Chipmakers have become quite adept at this over the past few decades. Too good, in fact. Now they are faced with a different kind of problem—what to do with all that extra silicon. Just as the long dist... » read more

The Future Of ASICS In 3D
By Javier DeLaCruz - 26 May, 2011 - Comments: 0

By Javier DeLaCruz 3D technology is generating a lot of interest as a way to reduce NRE costs and speed time to market. This is still a nascent approach, so people are looking for a single standard in through-silicon vias (TSVs), primarily to reduce infrastructure costs. Unfortunately, I do not think this will be possible. There are at least two fundamentally different applications for 3D t... » read more

The Trouble With Tradeshows
By Kurt Shuler - 26 May, 2011 - Comments: 0

By Kurt Shuler There’s no doubt about it—industry tradeshow attendance is shrinking. If you don’t believe me, just look at the trends for a well-known tradeshow in the semiconductor industry, the Design Automation Conference. I’m not picking on any one show. I’m choosing DAC because I could find audited attendance numbers online for this show. Most other semiconductor industry trades... » read more

Cyclical Behavior
By Ed Sperling - 26 May, 2011 - Comments: 0

As we head into yet another DAC, this may seem like a bad case of déjà vu. While there’s plenty of new stuff—and even some new companies—there are some key trends that seem very familiar. Here are four to consider: 1. Cloud computing. For anyone who’s old enough to remember time-sharing on university computers, cloud computing should look very familiar. The scheduling is more so... » read more

Powering Forward Or Moon Walking?
By Frank Ferro - 26 May, 2011 - Comments: 0

By Frank Ferro How many of us would go back to watching television in black and white, or carry around a 10-pound laptop or cell phone that resembles the ones in original brick form? For most consumers, it would even be hard to turn back the clock on more recent innovations like Wi-Fi and digital cameras (finding a place to plug-in the lap, run wires through the house, carrying around film! Fi... » read more

ESL And FPGAs
By Jon McDonald - 26 May, 2011 - Comments: 0

By Jon McDonald I've been struggling to come up with a good way of answering a recent question: "Do ESL approaches provide benefits for FPGA design?" I have an initial gut answer that's somewhat unsatisfactory. Thinking through the subject I can see ways of looking at the question and getting both a “yes” and a “no,” but that's probably an indication my thinking is not yet clear enough... » read more

Executive Briefing: Wally Rhines
By Ed Sperling - 25 May, 2011 - Comments: 0

Mentor's Chairman and CEO sounds off about where the IC design challenges are, what needs to be done to fix them, and what new opportunities will unfold.   [youtube vid=UGkpCtRdZJ0]   » read more

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