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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

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

Embedded Computing Down To Two Major Camps
By Ed Sperling - 27 Jan, 2011 - Comments: 0

By Pallab Chatterjee The 2011 CES show was highlighted by the large number of tablet computers and mobile devices that support Internet access. The form factor for these devices is based on use models, but the computing capabilities are based on the power and operational life between charges. The platforms are drawing diving lines between x86 cores vs ARM cores, and CPUs vs GPUs. While on t... » read more

Embedded Computing Down To Two Major Camps
By Ed Sperling - 27 Jan, 2011 - Comments: 0

By Pallab Chatterjee The 2011 CES show was highlighted by the large number of tablet computers and mobile devices that support Internet access. The form factor for these devices is based on use models, but the computing capabilities are based on the power and operational life between charges. The platforms are drawing diving lines between x86 cores vs ARM cores, and CPUs vs GPUs. While on t... » read more

Supply Chain Adjusts To Design At The System Level
By Ed Sperling - 16 Dec, 2010 - Comments: 0

By Ann Steffora Mutschler System-level design is impacting the supply chain at many levels. Software suppliers, IP providers, semiconductor companies, system integrators and OEMs are challenged to work ever more closely together and find a new balance of power for who controls what in the content of an SoC. “We see more and more the design chain driving how our tools work together,” Fra... » read more

Qualcomm Shies Away From High-k At 28nm
By Ed Sperling - 16 Dec, 2010 - Comments: 0

By David Lammers Qualcomm CDMA Technologies said it will not use a high-k/metal gate (HKMG) process for most of the chips it makes at the 28 nm node, sticking with a poly/SiON gate stack. The company described the rationale behind the strategy, which because of Qualcomm’s size will have a major impact on the foundry business, at the 2010 International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM) held in ... » read more

Version Control Nightmares
By Ed Sperling - 16 Dec, 2010 - Comments: 0

By Ed Sperling The rampant re-use of IP and the growing reliance on software to smooth over glitches is creating a nightmare in version control of everything from IP blocks to EDA tools. Version control has always been a problem in SoC design, of course. Tools have to be in sync with engineering teams that are spread across multiple continents and working on different pieces of the design e... » read more

System-Level Technology Conversations Shift To Deployment
By Ann Mutschler - 16 Dec, 2010 - Comments: 0

While much has been achieved to define a system-level design flow, more is still needed. Technology goals vary depending on the perspective of tool providers in terms of what needs to be done to realize the promise of a streamlined tool flow from TLM 2.0 down to GDS II. To many, 2011 will be an interesting year in the system-level design space as conversations with customers have shifted. �... » read more

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