Top Stories
Stacked Die Moves From Drawing Board To Reality – 2.5D test chips being produced and characterized, but time frame for full production still in question.
Do Students Need More Formal Education? – A recent panel composed of people from industry and academia showed the differences between them about the importance of formal methods in education. One academic breaks ranks and talks about the realities of life.
Things To Consider With IP – Just because IP is supposed to be standard, doesn’t mean it can’t be tweaked. But what happens if you do tweak it?
Cracking The Tough Nut Using Formal Methods – The EDA industry has a message for researchers in formal methods: There’s a right way and a wrong way, and if you don’t pick the right method, formal can be hard to crack.
Experts At The Table: What’s Next? – Future changes will be significant, both in technology and how we use it. Expect more regulation, more unusual design, and more integration with software.
Video
Tech Talk: 2.5D Stacked Die – What’s the real motivation behind stacking die?
Blogs
Editor’s Note: Counting Pennies – The number of companies that can afford state-of-the-art fabs over the next few process nodes will shrink even further. That raises some interesting questions.
What Were They Thinking: Coming Up With The Wrong Formal Answer – What really matters with tools? Certainly not the underlying technology.
ESL Edge: Rethinking Old Sayings – It’s not just about the software anymore. It’s a lot more complex than that.
Frankly Speaking: The Hunt For The Next Application To Drive System-Level Design And Verification – Defining a system is getting harder because it incorporates far more than just the SoCs in the cloud servers, a smart phone or wearable sensors. Managing that complexity may be even more difficult.
Real Insights: The Race For Better Verification – Improving quality requires smarter debug reporting and tools that can find and fix those errors more quickly.
A View From The Top: Where Dragons Roam – Virtual prototypes are an engineer’s tools for living in an alternate world…and getting something done.
Setting The Standard: Community, Collaboration And Standards – Where to find standards downloads for the electronics industry and what they’re all about.
NoC NoC: Gartner Recommends Network-on-Chip (NoC) Technology For SoC Design – In their latest Hype Cycle report, Gartner Research has taken the bold step of recommending that all enterprises involved in advanced SoC design should seriously evaluate NoC technology.
Whitepapers
Improving Design Reliability By Avoiding Electrical Overstress – Using multiple voltages increases the risk of problems. Sophisiticated reliability checking is required, along with a unified rule deck and integrated debugging.
Verifying Cache Coherency Protocols With Verification IP – VIP’s effectiveness depends on its advanced features and the extent of its support for AMBA ACE protocol.
HDMI 2.0 Design And Verification Challenges – Designs face big challenges in regard to run time and memory consumption due to the size of HDMI frames. These challenges can be addressed with HDMI VIP.
