Special Report
Will Open-Source Work For Chips?
So far nobody has been successful with open-source semiconductor design or EDA tools. Why not?
Top Stories
Uncertainty Rocks Chip Market
Semiconductor industry grapples with changes in markets, technologies and economics.
Electrical-Mechanical Tool Flow Revisited
Pros and cons of creating a combined database and user interface to bridge these disciplines.
Can Verification Meet In The Middle?
Experts at the Table, Part 1: The industry has long considered verification to be a bottom-up process, but there is now a huge push to develop standards for top-down verification. Will they meet comfortably in the middle?
News
EDA, IP Sales Up
IP shows biggest jump; Japan rebounds from a long slump.
Blogs
Editor In Chief Ed Sperling argues that the focus has shifted to what can be done with computing, opening up a whole new set of problems, in Looking Beyond Technology.
Synopsys’s Tom De Schutter observes that from cars to tools, it’s important to know your customers are happy, in Winning Customer Loyalty.
OneSpin’s Dave Kelf looks at how to handle timed assertions with formal apps, in The Secret To Good Comedy And SystemC Code Verification…Timing.
Cadence’s Frank Schirrmeister recounts a customer’s story of reducing the bring-up time of their first software release, in Balancing Emulation And FPGA-Based Prototyping For Software Development.
Aldec’s Henry Chan digs into how to keep a neat repository for a flexible testbench structure, in The UVM Configuration Database.
eSilicon’s Mike Gianfagna finds a growing interest in moving away from batteries, in Power To The People (Right On…).
NetSpeed’s Rajesh Ramanujam highlights what you need to worry about with interconnects, in From Game Theory To The Unified Theory of Coherency.
ARM’s Matt Sealey offers a hands-on approach for embedded C/C++ tools, in Digging Into Trace Data.
