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What Will Change In Design For 2015?
By Brian Bailey - 15 Jan, 2015 - Comments: 0

This year more than 26 people provided predictions for 2015. Most of these came from the EDA industry, so the results may be rather biased. However, ecosystems are coming closer together in many parts of the semiconductor food chain, meaning that the EDA companies often can see what is happening in dependent industries and in the system design houses. Thus their predictions may have already res... » read more

Designing For Automotive
By Ann Mutschler - 15 Jan, 2015 - Comments: 0

As cars include an increasing amount of electronics and electronics subsystems, the number of design challenges involving reliability, cost and power are on the rise. “Reliability tops the list of concerns for the design team because when you put these electronics in, you must know if they are going to operate efficiently by themselves," said Aveek Sarkar, vice president of product enginee... » read more

Unraveling Power Methodologies
By Brian Bailey - 15 Jan, 2015 - Comments: 0

When working on articles, the editors at Semiconductor Engineering sometimes hear things that make them stand back and question what seems to be an industry truth. One such statement happened last month while researching a different article. The statement was: Most designs are not top-down, but in fact bottom-up when it comes to power management. The most used methodology today is that the RTL... » read more

New Challenges For Wearables
By Ed Sperling - 15 Jan, 2015 - Comments: 0

It was Dick Tracy’s wristwatch communicator that triggered the public’s appetite for wearable electronics. Introduced in a 1946 syndicated comic strip, the idea was so compelling that it inspired the release of hundreds of wrist-based devices ranging from walkie-talkies to calculators to GPS trackers, heartbeat and movement monitors. Yet despite the public’s fascination with this kind of ... » read more

Signal Integrity Issues
By Ed Sperling - 15 Jan, 2015 - Comments: 0

Semiconductor Engineering sat down to discuss signal integrity with Rob Aitken, research fellow at [getentity id="22186" comment="ARM"]; PV Srinivas, senior director of engineering for the Place & Route Division of [getentity id="22017" e_name="Mentor Graphics"]; and Bernard Murphy, chief technology officer at [getentity id="22026" e_name="Atrenta"]. What follows are excerpts of that conver... » read more

Signal And Power Integrity Cross Paths
By Ed Sperling - 05 Dec, 2014 - Comments: 2

Signal integrity and power integrity historically have been relatively independent issues, and engineers with expertise in one area generally operate independently of the other. But as more power domains are added to conserve energy and allow more features, as voltages are reduced to save battery life, and as dynamic power becomes more of a concern at advanced nodes, these worlds are suddenly m... » read more

Problems Lurk In SoC Boundaries
By Brian Bailey - 04 Dec, 2014 - Comments: 0

Interfaces always have been a problem, because only rarely does anyone have responsibility for them. Responsibilities generally are tied to functional blocks with the prevailing notion that if all blocks do the right thing, they will also behave correctly when brought together. Design teams that believe this eventually find out the fallacy of this assumption. To make matters worse, these are of... » read more

Cost Reduction, Power Management Get More Intense In IoT
By Ann Mutschler - 04 Dec, 2014 - Comments: 0

Power has become a consideration even if there is a plug in the wall. But for applications sitting out who knows where in the [getkc id="76" comment="Internet of Things"] (IoT), it is more than a consideration. It is one of the primary requirements, given the small size of these devices, rivaled only by cost. Reflecting on what brought the industry to this point, Aveek Sarkar, vice president... » read more

An Architectural Choice Overdue For Change
By Brian Bailey - 04 Dec, 2014 - Comments: 0

The past appears to be a lot simpler than the present and when we look into the future, the right decisions often look highly uncertain. This is the value of hindsight, but also includes the notion that the winner gets to write history. What semiconductors look like today could have been very different if different decisions had been made 20 years ago. What if the industry had adopted a paralle... » read more

Architecting For Optimal Interface IP Integration
By Ann Mutschler - 04 Dec, 2014 - Comments: 0

Semiconductor Engineering sat down to discuss the design and integration of complex interface IP with Ty Garibay, VP of engineering at Altera; Brian Daellenbach, president of Northwest Logic; Frank Ferro, senior director of product management for memory and interface IP at Rambus; Saman Sadr, director of analog design at Semtech; and Navraj Nandra, senior director of marketing for analog/mixed ... » read more

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