Top Stories
Uncertainty Increases About What’s Next – Big changes are being caused by a confluence of many technology and business issues.
Will History Repeat Itself? – Is high-level synthesis really a disruptive technology? The jury is out.
Experts At The Table: The Future Of Verification – First of three parts: Raising the abstraction level and the effect on verification time; productivity measurements; the need to start verification earlier; concurrent issues; talk about a productivity gap resurfaces.
Trending Back To ASICs – The semiconductor industry is swinging back towards ASICs from more diversified approaches such as FPGAs.
Buying And Selling EDA Companies – Last of three parts: How to measure success, failure, and everything in between.
Time To Rethink Verification – Analysis: As bottom-up runs out of steam, companies need to start looking at a top-down approach.
Start Verification Early To Avoid Pitfalls Later – While it is agreed that verification should start as early as possible, it doesn’t always begin until simulation. This can be suboptimal for many of today’s massive and complex SoCs.
Latest News
Blog Review: Oct. 23 – Questions; legacies; interfaces; AMO TFT; puzzles; subsystems; interoperability; pictures; X-rays; 28nm’s staying power.
System Bits: Oct. 22 – Untangling nanotubes; Wi-Fi in cars; thermomagnetism.
HDMI 2.0 Specification For 4K TV Unveiled – New spec offers big market opportunity for consumer chipmakers as TV industry prepares for ultra-HD broadcast.
Video
New Pain And Inflection Points – Non-recurring engineering and mask costs will continue to jump at each new process node.
Blogs
Editor’s Note: Look Who’s Crosstalking – As more university programs combine electrical engineering with computer science, interesting things will happen.
What Were They Thinking: A Nobel Prize For Modeling And Simulation – It’s time for awards committees to take a look at sectors where the real innovation is happening.
Standards And Beyond: Lessons From The Big Apple – Low-power designs for all of us—and why standards may show the way.
Frankly Speaking: Verification 2.0: From Tool To Flow – Future verification will be based on use-case scenarios and systems, not just the hardware.
A View From The Top: Halloween Is Going Mobile – With the end of October around the corner, my children are frantically thinking about what they want to dress up as for Halloween.
The Way IC It: CSR In Semis – Giving back to the industry is a good thing—and something everyone should be thinking about.
Real Insights: A Night to Remember: EDA Back to the Future – Check out the oral history project at the Computer History Museum.
NoC NoC: There’s A New Paradigm In Town – Time to market is driving significant changes in OEM strategy..
Hand’s On Design: Don’t Quit Your Hardware Job – In a software-defined world, does anyone still care about the hardware? Answer: Yes.
Whitepapers
A Case Study: How A Call For SOS Improved Designer Productivity – A look at what followed when a Russian company realized its approach to design data management and version control would not scale.
Vista Virtual Prototyping – Vista Virtual Prototyping provides an early, abstract functional model of the hardware to software engineers even before the hardware design is implemented in RTL.
Virtual Prototypes For Early Software Development – Requirements, solutions and use cases to start developing software far in advance of hardware, break gating dependencies between layers in software and develop the silicon validation suite.
CDC Methodology For Fast-To-Slow Clocks – An examination of three critical checks: structural, formal and stimulation-based injected metastability.
