category: System-Level Design

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Speeding Tickets
By Frank Ferro - 31 Mar, 2011 - Comments: 0

By Frank Ferro Speed sells. Bells and whistles are always intriguing and fun to have, but the driver for new products is usually speed. We want to move our phones to the 4G network for faster download speeds, or replace our 802.11g home router with the new 802.11n, we want a PC with a dual-core processor to replace the single-core processor, and the list goes on. Clearly speed is an easy way t... » read more

Applying Rules Differently
By Jon McDonald - 31 Mar, 2011 - Comments: 0

By Jon McDonald Over the past few months I’ve worked with a number of customers on new designs. Thinking about how these designs were evolving in the various organizations led me to an interesting epiphany related to the application of Gall’s Law to system design. Gall's Law is a rule of thumb from John Gall's Systemantics: How Systems Really Work and How They Fail: “A complex system ... » read more

The Future Of EDA…And DAC
By Ed Sperling - 31 Mar, 2011 - Comments: 0

System-Level Design digs into the future of the design automation tools industry and the Design Automation Conference with Cadence's Neil Hand, Atrenta's Mike Gianfagna and Springsoft's Johnson Teng.   [youtube vid=IYA2o0tzOZs] » read more

Engineering’s Growing Blacklist
By Ed Sperling - 25 Mar, 2011 - Comments: 0

The number of system-level design flaws is rising, and they’re not just little mistakes. These are high-profile errors that are making headlines all over the globe. While it’s debatable whether Toyota’s problem was a hardware or software design glitch, the simple fact is there was a design flaw somewhere. That’s true for the BP Gulf of Mexico leak, regardless of who’s responsible f... » read more

The Great Unknowns
By Ed Sperling - 18 Mar, 2011 - Comments: 0

Across the semiconductor industry—as well as many other end-product industries—there have been some well-documented and sober assessments of what impact the damage in Japan will have on business. In the EDA business, these kinds of numbers will be much harder to determine. Japan is a big consumer of EDA tools for the leading-edge process nodes, but with disruptions in power it will be d... » read more

Memory, Bandwidth And SoC Performance
By Ed Sperling - 24 Feb, 2011 - Comments: 0

By Ann Steffora Mutschler High-end SoC architectures today can contain dozens of processing engines—multiple cores from MIPS and ARM, DSPs from Tensilica and CEVA, and even graphics processors. But with so many cores there also is a need for enormous amounts of memory, and that has been creating some unexpected design problems, In many cases so much memory is required for an SoC that some... » read more

The Growing Importance Of Subsystems
By Ed Sperling - 24 Feb, 2011 - Comments: 0

By Ed Sperling A growing reliance on third-party IP is beginning to expand well beyond just IP blocks and into full subsystems, opening significant growth opportunities for companies competing in this market as well as enormous business and technical challenges. The IP market is ripe for this kind of convergence. Complexity at advanced process nodes coupled with time-to-market demands has e... » read more

The Enterprise Effect
By Ed Sperling - 24 Feb, 2011 - Comments: 0

By Pallab Chatterjee In the enterprise it’s all about speed and power—as in more speed and less power—and those changes are forcing shifts in the chip architectures as well as the processes used to develop those chips. At the Linley Data Center Conference the next generation of network control chips were discussed. The keys for the new networks are 10G data lanes to be used with 10G/4... » read more

Stuck In The Corners
By Ann Mutschler - 24 Feb, 2011 - Comments: 0

It’s common for semiconductor design teams to spend 60% to 70% of product development time on verification, which is why verification has bubbled to the top of the management chain as a concern. Executives worry about the predictability of their product development cycle because so much of it is dependent on successful execution of verification, the ability to achieve coverage closure and the... » read more

EDA Forecast: More Clouds
By Ed Sperling - 24 Feb, 2011 - Comments: 0

By Ed Sperling Design engineers and EDA vendors used to scoff at the idea of cloud-based tools, but no one is scoffing anymore. A decade after the idea of renting tools online fell flat, largely due to security concerns by chipmakers, all three of the major EDA players and some smaller rivals are taking cloud-based solutions very seriously again. There are several reasons for this change... » read more

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