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Experts At The Table: Platform-Based Design
By Ed Sperling - 16 Apr, 2009 - Comments: 0

By Ed Sperling System-Level Design sat down with Simon Bloch, vice president and general manager of ESL/HDL Design and Synthesis at Mentor Graphics; Mike Gianfagna, vice president of marketing at Atrenta; and Jim Hogan, a private investor. What follows are excerpts of a lively, often contentious two-hour conversation.   SLD: What’s the starting point for designs in this world? Hogan: I... » read more

Pure Science, Plain And Simple
By Ed Sperling - 09 Apr, 2009 - Comments: 0

In a rather striking bit of irony, tools for creating semiconductors are able to use multicore architectures just fine. The problems these design tools are trying to solve can be parallelized to the point where simulations and models can be created in hours instead of weeks, or versus months in the case of Excel spreadsheets.   The real question, though, is whether the multicore designs th... » read more

What Happens When We Hit Bottom?
By Ed Sperling - 02 Apr, 2009 - Comments: 0

The economy appears to have hit bottom. This is good news, but there are caveats.   First of all, not all industries will recover at the same rate. Communications never fully recovered from the dot-com bubble. Anyone who bet big on a communications recovery has either switched careers or retired. Now it looks as if the auto industry will be dragging for some time, and companies that hitche... » read more

What Works…And What Doesn’t
By Ed Sperling - 02 Apr, 2009 - Comments: 0

Lisa Su, chief technology officer at Freescale, talks about the future of system-level design, what's working and where the problems are. [youtube vid=zw5dUTuO7DY] » read more

New Tools, New Economics
By Ed Sperling - 27 Mar, 2009 - Comments: 0

The race is on to get new development tools out the door, and starting next month you’ll begin seeing many more of them.   Timing is everything, and these tools have to be ready for the next round of chip development—even if the chips aren’t being designed yet. But given that electronics design has to precede an industry recovery by 6 to 12 months, at the very least, and chips and ot... » read more

Easing System Creation With Embedded Hardware Solutions And Standards
By Cheryl Ajluni - 27 Mar, 2009 - Comments: 0

By Cheryl Ajluni System creation is today an ultra-complex task. On one hand, developers are confronted with consumer demands for ever more functionality, better performance and increased power efficiency at a lower cost. On the other hand, they face stringent time-to-market requirements and changing standards, coupled with the need to accommodate a range of requirements pertaining to differen... » read more

Exclusive Research: What’s Happening With Third-Party IP
By Ed Sperling - 27 Mar, 2009 - Comments: 0

Analog and mixed signal IP began closing the gap with digital core IP in design explorations in the first two months of this year, a clear sign that multicore systems on chip have emerged as the dominant semiconductor model and that the architecture requires both types of IP. While it’s too early to tell this year what effect that will have on overall design activity—the economy is the rea... » read more

Taming The Multicore Beast
By Ed Sperling - 27 Mar, 2009 - Comments: 0

By Ed Sperling Multicore chips are here to stay. Now what? That question is echoing up and down the ranks of tools vendors, design engineers, software developers and even among people who measure the performance and efficiency of semiconductors. There is now a Multicore Expo and a Multicore Association that includes a who’s who of electronics. And there are lots of working groups developing... » read more

Thinking Digital To Design Analog, And Vice Versa
By Ed Sperling - 27 Mar, 2009 - Comments: 0

By Ed Sperling Until several years ago, analog was a world apart from digital. Analog engineers could comfortably avoid many of the issues of Moore’s Law, viewing it as a costly bad habit with an equally bad outcome. Most analog engineers gloated privately that they could still develop chips at 250nm, or at worst 130nm, while their digital counterparts were struggling to keep up with is... » read more

Exploring The Use Of Virtual Platforms At The Electronic System Level
By Cheryl Ajluni - 27 Mar, 2009 - Comments: 0

By Cheryl Ajluni System design is hard. That should not come as a surprise to anyone these days. With design geometries shrinking and device complexity on the rise, this fact is not likely to change anytime soon. One concept for easing that burden for system-level designers is the virtual platform. Granted, the concept itself is nothing new, but today it is being employed in ever more creativ... » read more

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