Top Stories

Designs Getting Squeezed
Longer manufacturing time plus constrained capacity means designs now have to be finished earlier than ever before—sometimes months earlier.

What Is Functional Accuracy?
There is no simple answer, but IC design success still depends on it.

Is SystemC Broken?
It is said that everything in EDA takes 10 years to become adopted. SystemC is more than 15 years old and remains on the horizon. How broken is it?

Design By Architect Or Committee?
Design and verification are built upon standards, but who are the right people to create standards and when is the right time? These questions are more difficult to answer.

Ecosystem Changes
Experts at the table, part 1: How relationships companies have shifted and what happens when something goes wrong.

Blogs

Editor In Chief Ed Sperling observes that constraints in manufacturing could lead to some unexpected consequences, in Playing With Bubbles.

Technology Editor Brian Bailey questions the last time the legal world noticed what was going on in EDA, and points to why it should, in Patents And EDA Making Waves.

Open-Silicon’s Khushal Gondaliya explains how ring oscillators can be used to validate signoff methodology and silicon process, in Customized On-Chip Process Monitors.

Synopsys’ Tom De Schutter travels to China to find Chinese semiconductor companies focused on early software development for a competitive edge, in Fast Followers And The Value Of Virtual Prototyping.

Mentor Graphics’ John Park notes that as complexity grows, trying to figure everything out on a spreadsheet becomes a monumental task, in Chip-Package-Board Optimization: The Future Of Integrated Co-Design.

Cadence’s Frank Schirrmeister contends that wearables are just a stepping-stone toward a much bigger trend, with broad implications for society, in System Design Enabling The Human Intranet.

Sonics’ Randy Smith notes there are only four primary failure modes associated with NoCs, in NoC Reliability: Simplified.

eSilicon’s Mike Gianfagna sees a huge opportunity around the globe for the IoT, in Speaking IoT In Many Languages.

Arteris’ Kurt Shuler compares the interconnect fabric to the human central nervous system, in Focus More Attention On The SoC’s Central Nervous System.