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The GSA’s Big Opportunity
By Jack Harding - 28 Jan, 2010 - Comments: 0

By Jack Harding The Global Semiconductor Alliance, the GSA, is at the front lines of a great opportunity. As the semiconductor industry has become a 24-hour-per-day, seven-day-per-week flywheel of activity and innovation, there is only one organization in the world poised to keep pace. It was no stray coincidence that precipitated the renaming of the Fabless Semiconductor Association, the... » read more

Value Shift
By Ed Sperling - 27 Jan, 2010 - Comments: 0

System Level Design talks with Tom Quan of TSMC, John Koeter of Synopsys, Kalar Rajendiran of eSilicon and Phil Yastrow of Avago about where the value has shifted in the semiconductor design chain and why. [youtube vid=MvSaHSYDqVQ] » read more

Journey To The Center Of The Ecosystem
By Ed Sperling - 14 Jan, 2010 - Comments: 0

From the outside it looks like business as usual, but the race for board seats on the GSA has become particularly competitive this year. GSA originally was created as an organization for fabless companies, but you wouldn’t know that looking at its membership roster. It has evolved into a who’s who of the entire semiconductor supply chain, including everyone from foundries like TSMC and... » read more

Start Your Engines
By Ed Sperling - 14 Jan, 2010 - Comments: 0

For all intents and purposes, the downturn appears to be over. Like the California drought, it takes time to refill the reservoirs, but at least the economic base level is rising. All of the leading indicators in the semiconductor market point upward and to the right. iSuppli reports that distributor inventories are below average, which is particularly interesting given that the electronic... » read more

Coming Of Age
By Jack Harding - 17 Dec, 2009 - Comments: 0

By Jack Harding I recently participated in a panel hosted by TSMC.  The other panelists represented EDA, IP and Foundry market segments. We were asked to comment on new business models as a means to facilitate more design-starts in companies large and small and, otherwise, make it easier to be in this business with increasing NREs and greater complexity. To my delight the EDA guy talked... » read more

Slow Start To Software-As-A-Service
By Pallab Chatterjee - 17 Dec, 2009 - Comments: 0

By Pallab Chatterjee Can software as a service (SaaS) really work in the SoC design tools world? While many of the large EDA vendors continue to experiment with it, the future of this model isn’t especially promising. This is contrary to the overall trend among big software makers, which even in the large enterprise applications space are finding success with SaaS and the related cl... » read more

Estimates, Spreadsheets And Abstract Models
By Jon McDonald - 17 Dec, 2009 - Comments: 0

By Jon McDonald Lies, damn lies and statistics. Occasionally I get the impression that some engineers feel we’ve just taken that step beyond statistics in our ESL modeling. In a recent discussion I was very pointedly reminded of the subjective nature of abstract design and analysis. Like most predictions, you don’t really know what’s going to happen until it actually comes to pass. Us... » read more

Stacked Dies Gain Attention, But So Far Little Traction
By Ed Sperling - 17 Dec, 2009 - Comments: 0

By Ed Sperling For the better part of two decades there has been a steady stream of predictions about the abrupt end of Moore’s Law, but it now appears the formula for doubling the number of transistors on a die every couple years will simply dissipate rather than fall off a cliff. While companies such as Intel and IBM continue to develop road maps that extend their road maps all the wa... » read more

Making DFM Work Better
By Ann Mutschler - 17 Dec, 2009 - Comments: 0

By Ann Steffora Mutschler At 65nm, design for manufacturing optimization and analysis has mostly been an afterthought. At 40nm and beyond, DFM has been pushed well up into the design phase. There are good reasons for this shift. What emerged at the 65nm node were signoff tools that understand manufacturing used in semiconductor design, said Manoj Chako, a product director for digital si... » read more

Synthesis: Next Steps In SoC Design
By Ed Sperling - 17 Dec, 2009 - Comments: 0

Five experts sound off to System-Level Design on the state of synthesis and what's needed in the future: Shawn McCloud, product line director for Catapult C Synthesis at Mentor Graphics; Chris Eddington, director of marketing for system-lvel products at Synopsys; Brett Cline, VP of marketing at Forte Design Systems; Andy Biddle, director of business development at Magma and Sanjiv Kaul, executi... » read more

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