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The New Multicore Approach
By Ed Sperling - 24 Feb, 2011 - Comments: 0

It’s probably too harsh to say that multicore has been a failure, but it’s flat-out wrong to say it has been successful. Multicore was an inevitable outgrowth of Moore’s Law. You simply can’t keep turning up the frequency for processors at advanced nodes without cooking the chip into oblivion. In theory, four cores running at a much cooler 1GHz should be better than one core running... » read more

The Turning Point
By Javier DeLaCruz - 24 Feb, 2011 - Comments: 0

By Javier DeLaCruz In the epic battle of cost and performance, MCMs (multi-chip modules) had generally lost to SoCs (systems on chip) due to higher package-assembly costs and lower performance. The tides are turning. Four factors have been in play in recently: Package assembly costs of MCMs have been dropping in recent years. MCM package technologies are becoming commonplace instead... » read more

Semiconductor M&A?
By Kurt Shuler - 24 Feb, 2011 - Comments: 0

Last week a friend of mine was giddy with joy as he exclaimed, “Semi M&A is back!” It seems Qualcomm’s acquisition of Atheros and Intel’s acquisition of Silicon Hive somehow changed the chemical makeup of his brain, transforming him from an eternal semiconductor market pessimist to a born-again optimist. Being someone who lives and dies by data, my initial response was, “Let’s s... » read more

Bridging The Gap
By Frank Ferro - 24 Feb, 2011 - Comments: 0

By Frank Ferro Today’s industry shows are feeling a lot like deja vu…tablets, tablets, smartphones, smartphones. The recent CES felt very similar to Mobile World Congress (MWC) with all the emphasis on smart phones and pad computing. When I first started attending MWC—it was called 3GSM in those days and held in France—semiconductor companies seemed somewhat misplaced because 3GSM w... » read more

The Missing Link
By Jon McDonald - 23 Feb, 2011 - Comments: 0

By Jon McDonald When something comes up once it may be an anomaly, but when the same thing comes up multiple times in a short period of time there's a good chance it is a more general trend. At Mentor we have tools focused on Systems Engineering and UML/SysML, as well as SystemC ESL/TLM focused tools. We have invested effort in integrating the tool flows, but I had not seen significant driv... » read more

Cloud Seeding
By Ed Sperling - 18 Feb, 2011 - Comments: 0

Selling EDA through a software-as-a-service model is hardly a new concept. It’s also not a particularly successful one. Despite some initial hype and sporadic attempts to revive it, the idea has fallen flat due to concerns about version control, security and an almost universal aversion to engineers having to send large files back and forth to a server. The approach is getting a new look, ... » read more

The Quest To Better Define Applications
By Ed Sperling - 27 Jan, 2011 - Comments: 0

By Ed Sperling For nearly five decades, just being able to get software to run on hardware and communicate with other systems was considered a feat of engineering. But with that part of the technology solved well enough, the next big challenge is to make sure that applications can run as efficiently as possible to maximize performance, minimize power consumption and limit the area required to ... » read more

Connecting System-Level Flows To Implementation Tools
By Ed Sperling - 27 Jan, 2011 - Comments: 0

By Ann Steffora Mutschler With the complexity explosion occurring in SoC design today, there is a relentless force to push design decisions further up in terms of abstraction. Resolving issues at the gate level is not possible any more because there just isn’t enough time or resources. Further, the resulting design may not even be competitive because optimization at the gate level can leave ... » read more

Tailoring IP, Tools And Flows
By Ed Sperling - 27 Jan, 2011 - Comments: 0

By Ann Steffora Mutschler As SoC and system complexity rises continually and software drives much more in a system, specific vertical application areas will require tailored IP and tool flows to allow designers to meet time-to-market demands. Today, many systems are designed around a platform, which contains most of the STAR IP—processors, GPUs, memory controllers, interconnects, memory s... » read more

What’s A Cell Phone?
By Ed Sperling - 27 Jan, 2011 - Comments: 0

By Ed Sperling Just because a smart phone is sold by Verizon or AT&T mobile no longer means that it will be used primarily as a phone. That distinction may sound trivial, but it has deep implications for the components that are used inside of these devices, how they’re used, and who wins the designs. Shifts such as this can also lead to broad changes in who buys the tools to develop t... » read more

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