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What Goes Around Comes Around: Moore’s Law At 10nm And Beyond
By Greg Yeric - 13 Feb, 2014 - Comments: 2

Modified by Greg Yeric from original by Eric Fischer Gordon Moore penned his famous observation in an era when the people developing the process were also the people designing the circuits. Over time, things got more complicated and work specialization set in, but all was well in the world for many years as the fabs kept delivering on Moore’s Law. Yes, designers had to come up with lot... » read more

Blog Review: Feb. 12
By Ed Sperling - 12 Feb, 2014 - Comments: 0

Mentor’s Colin Walls adds his perspective to a recent survey by Jim Turley, asking which part of the embedded system development process engineers would rather not change. The choices were the chip, the OS and the tools. Any guesses as to the winner? Cadence’s Richard Goering conducts an interview based on a new branch of circular logic—the CERN supercollider where the Higgs Boson was... » read more

Designing An Efficient Multi-Core LTE-A Modem
By Various Writers - 12 Feb, 2014 - Comments: 0

LTE-Advanced represents the next generation mobile broadband, and in turn throws the challenge to the designers to create highly power efficient mobile devices capable of delivering these services. ARM, the leading supplier of embedded processors, physical IP and inter-connect fabric, along with CEVA propose a joint analysis looking at the design considerations that are required to realize the ... » read more

Week In Review: System-Level Design
By Ed Sperling - 07 Feb, 2014 - Comments: 0

Cadence agreed to buy Forte Design Systems for an undisclosed sum, adding further proof that the market for high-level synthesis and tools that run at higher levels of abstraction is finally hitting its stride. Behind this acquisition is a rising pain level due to increasing complexity in SoCs—IP integration, low power concerns and much more of everything, from transistors to memories—has f... » read more

Blog Review: Feb. 5
By Ed Sperling - 05 Feb, 2014 - Comments: 0

Mentor’s J. VanDomelen notes that the Mars colonization selection process has begun, with the actual colonization scheduled to begin in 2025. Remember to bring your own air, water, food, a sewing kit, and lots of reading material. You also may need leg weights for bone density maintenance. What happens if you build a processor using memory as the starting point? Cadence’s Richard Goerin... » read more

The Next Big Threat: System Security
By Ed Sperling - 31 Jan, 2014 - Comments: 0

No SoC ever will be totally secure, and no technology will stop experienced thieves who really want to get into a device. But chipmakers and IP companies are examining ways to at least make it more difficult—and at least in theory, far less lucrative. One big change, of course, is that a connected electronic ecosystem has made location irrelevant. In the past, crime was limited to where th... » read more

The Week In Review: System-Level Design
By Ed Sperling - 31 Jan, 2014 - Comments: 0

ARM and its ecosystem teamed up to create a server platform standard based on the ARMv8-A processor. The new Server Base System Architecture specification leverages a broad swath of companies in ARM’s ecosystem, including Microsoft, Red Hat, SUSE, Linaro, Citrix, AMD, Broadcom, Citrix and Cavium, as well as OEMs HP and Dell. ARM has been successful in leveraging an ecosystem to win the lion�... » read more

Blog Review: Jan. 29
By Ed Sperling - 29 Jan, 2014 - Comments: 0

ARM’s Ellie Stone returns from the Mobile Games Forum in London with some insights about where the future competition will come from. No. 4 on her list is the big surprise. Cadence’s Brian Fuller has unearthed an old black & white AT&T video that makes you wonder how they created wire. So that’s what happens when you heat a semiconductor with a Bunsen burner. What’s the real val... » read more

The Week In Review: System-Level Design
By Ed Sperling - 24 Jan, 2014 - Comments: 0

India's reliance on technology has created a huge demand for software in the country. IDC expects the market for enterprise software in India to grow 19%, and the market for collaborative applications to grow 13.5%. Growth is continuing across all business markets, turning India into a huge consumer of software rather than just a creator. The enterprise software market in India is dominated by ... » read more

The Next Big Threat: Manufacturing
By Ed Sperling - 23 Jan, 2014 - Comments: 0

The business adage that you’re only as good as your partners should be a core principle of doing business when it comes to security. But with a complex SoC you don’t always know all your partners, who financed them—or worse, who else they’re working with or working for. Consider this scenario: A band of sophisticated thieves grinds off the top of an SoC package, inserts probes to map... » read more

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