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Progress Report: Nanoelectronics
By Cheryl Ajluni - 24 Sep, 2009 - Comments: 0

By Cheryl Ajluni In the world of system design, few technologies cut across as many lines as nanotechnology. Whether for use in better, cheaper sunglasses, sunscreen, next-generation body armor or regenerative medicine, its application seems limitless. It is so far reaching in fact that by 2015 some analysts predict the global market for nanotechnology will top $1 trillion. As Viviane Red... » read more

End User Report: Things To Do With Multicore
By Ed Sperling - 24 Sep, 2009 - Comments: 0

System-Level Design sat down with Lisa Su, senior vice president and general manager of Freescale’s networking and multimedia, to talk about changes in the communications sector and how that’s affecting design. What follows are excerpts of that conversation. By Ed Sperling SLD: Where does multicore fit into the Freescale world? Lisa Su: The difference between us and an AMD and Intel ... » read more

New Business Models Emerge
By Ed Sperling - 24 Sep, 2009 - Comments: 0

By Ed Sperling Globalization, complexity and the rising cost of chip development are changing business models across the semiconductor design world in some expected as well as some unusual ways. On a global basis, each new process node propels a new wave of disaggregation and disruption as the costs of design continue to skyrocket. What used to be under one roof is now shared by many. This ... » read more

End User Report: The Case For Formalizing Power Modeling
By Ed Sperling - 17 Sep, 2009 - Comments: 0

While the industry clearly agrees that power modeling is a necessity for next-generation semiconductor design at the transaction level, what is lacking is a standard way to exchange power models. Low-Power Design talked with David Hathaway, Senior Technical Staff Member at IBM Electronic Design Automation and Nagu Dhanwada, Senior R&D Engineer and Team Lead for Chip Level Power Analysis T... » read more

Pulling Power Out Of Thin Air
By Ed Sperling - 17 Sep, 2009 - Comments: 0

By Cheryl Ajluni It wasn’t all that long ago that voice communication via a traditional landline was the norm. At the time, consumers would have been hard pressed to imagine a world in which anytime, anywhere communication (voice and data) with a device no bigger than the human hand was possible. Many of those same consumers might today find it hard to conceive of a world in which their... » read more

Moore’s Law vs. Low Power
By Ed Sperling - 17 Sep, 2009 - Comments: 0

By Ed Sperling Moore’s Law and low-power engineering are natural-born enemies, and this dissension is becoming more obvious at each new process node as the two forces are pushed closer together. The basic problem is that shrinking transistors and line widths between wires opens up far more real estate on a chip, which encourages chip architects and marketing chiefs at chipmakers to take... » read more

Feel The (Low) Power
By Ed Sperling - 17 Sep, 2009 - Comments: 0

By Clive (Max) Maxfield When I designed my first ASIC way back in the mists of time (circa 1980), its power consumption was the last thing on my mind. You have to remember that we're talking about a device containing only about 2,000 equivalent gates implemented in a 5 micron technology. Also, I was designing this little scamp as a gate-register-level schematic using pencil and paper (I pr... » read more

End-User Report: Interoperability Still Lacking With System-Level Power Modeling
By Ann Mutschler - 27 Aug, 2009 - Comments: 0

All of the major EDA vendors and standards groups are pitching modeling as the next level of abstraction for advanced process nodes, but is it working as planned for the chipmakers? System-Level Design caught up with Frans Theeuwen, Department Manager for System Design at NXP Semiconductors Corp. to discuss system-level design and power modeling. By Ann Steffora Mutschler SLD: How long has N... » read more

More Cores, Different Approaches
By Ed Sperling - 27 Aug, 2009 - Comments: 0

By Ed Sperling The general consensus among software developers is that some applications will never be able to take advantage of multiple cores, but that certainly doesn’t mean system designers can’t figure out ways to use more cores. Nor does it mean that all cores are created equal. The picture that is emerging from multiple chipmakers shows the following trends: More cores have lim... » read more

Hot Chips 2009: It’s All About Multicore And Low-Power
By Pallab Chatterjee - 27 Aug, 2009 - Comments: 0

By Pallab Chatterjee The game has changed for processors. The goal now is data throughput, not higher gigahertz and more watts. That shift dominated the presentations at the Hot Chips conference this week. In previous years, the theme was higher single-core performance, more power and smaller geometries processes. This year it was all about multi-core and multi-power options as the realities ... » read more

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