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Extraction, Power And Final Silicon
By Ed Sperling - 12 May, 2011 - Comments: 0

By Ann Steffora Mutschler As semiconductor technology scales down, manufacturing effects are coming front and center, putting constant pressure on design teams to make sure that silicon can be modeled through the extraction process while performing analysis accurately. Extraction technology is one of the basic components needed to gain an accurate measurement of power, timing and signal int... » read more

Applications And Low Power
By Ed Sperling - 12 May, 2011 - Comments: 0

By Pallab Chatterjee As new process technologies are being developed to make devices smaller, they are also driving the operating power lower for the devices and systems. The goal is to reduce the power requirements for the system and hence increase the functional life on a single battery charge. This concept has worked in the semiconductor industry from 10-micron processes down to the 6... » read more

The Impact Of Triple Play
By Ed Sperling - 12 May, 2011 - Comments: 0

By Ann Steffora Mutschler Not so long ago there were multiple networks that supported different kinds of traffic—a telecommunications network based on high-reliability protocols, the Internet for burst-centric data traffic and video distribution networks. From the consumer standpoint that was highly inefficient. Managing three subscriptions from three service providers was unnecessary, w... » read more

Talk, Talk And More Talk
By Ed Sperling - 12 May, 2011 - Comments: 0

By Ed Sperling To anyone who owns a cell phone—and there are at least several billion people who claim that distinction these days—it’s not surprising that bad reception lowers battery life. More bars, while not the most accurate gauge of a signal, are at least an indication that you can extend the time between charges even if you’re watching streaming video. But work is under way a... » read more

‘What If’ In 3D
By Ed Sperling - 28 Apr, 2011 - Comments: 0

By Ed Sperling ‘What if’ questions have become standard across multiple pieces of the design chain for any SoC, but the number is multiplying at each new process node. When the industry begins moving to 2.5D and 3D over the next couple years, the number of tradeoffs will likely move from overwhelming to unmanageable. That will set in motion a number of efforts in semiconductor design. ... » read more

Mobile Applications Drive New Architectures
By Ed Sperling - 28 Apr, 2011 - Comments: 0

By Pallab Chatterjee The push toward mobility in consumer devices is having an impact on the entire component flow. Mobile devices are dominated by two key factors—an overriding power constraint and very high data bandwidth. The power constraints are on the mobile device side and on the cloud-based support server side. The high data bandwidth issues are due to the limited processing powe... » read more

EDA’s Big Challenge
By Ed Sperling - 28 Apr, 2011 - Comments: 0

By Ann Steffora Mutschler It is not news to anyone that the growth rate of the EDA industry has been less than impressive, to put it politely. Traditional EDA implementation tools have hit commodity status and something’s got to change. Thankfully, there are a host of challenges coming in the form of system-level (and higher) design, not to mention what will be required for true 3D chips. ... » read more

SoC Ecosystems Become More Tightly Integrated
By Ed Sperling - 28 Apr, 2011 - Comments: 0

By Ed Sperling SoC ecosystems are changing. Quality and focus are replacing volumes of names as companies that fund them begin to narrow down which partners add the most value and which markets they need to target. Establishing a ring of allies is nothing new, of course. IBM had its circle of most trusted software partners back in the 1970s when mainframes were the dominant computing platfo... » read more

The Multiple Faces Of Virtual Prototyping
By Ann Mutschler - 28 Apr, 2011 - Comments: 0

Virtual prototyping conjures either confusion or relief, so it should come as no surprise that some chip designers are still confused about the different types of prototypes on the market. “Virtual prototyping is going through a change right now,” explained Gary Smith, founder and chief analyst for Gary Smith EDA. “Today, users are using cycle-based tools to prototype sections of their... » read more

ESL Power Optimization Flow Requires Ecosystem
By Ann Mutschler - 14 Apr, 2011 - Comments: 0

The issue of power optimization today is very painful for many chip architects who are tasked with determining, meeting and holding to a tight power envelope. Questions concerning how well and to what extent power can truly be understood at the architectural level, let alone optimized, are the subject of debate. The ITRS’s most recent projection provides some insight as to current market d... » read more

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