tag: ARM

Chip Startup Shuts Its Doors
By Mark LaPedus - 19 Dec, 2013 - Comments: 0

Calxeda, a high-profile developer of ARM-based chips for servers and other products, has shut its doors and effectively ceased operations. As part of the move, the startup has laid off nearly all of its 130 employees amid what it calls a restructuring period. Founded in 2008, Calxeda has raised around $103 million in funding, and has been selling ARM-based server chips in an emerging but inc... » read more

Making Modeling Less Unpleasant
By Brian Bailey - 19 Dec, 2013 - Comments: 1

How many times did your mother tell you to take your medicine? You knew two things: a) it would be unpleasant and b) it would be worth the few seconds of unpleasantness because of the benefits it would provide. It appears as if the electronics industry has the same issue with modeling. We talk about the benefits that having a system-level model would have — the ability to explore system archi... » read more

Tales From The Silk Road
By Jeff Chappell - 18 Dec, 2013 - Comments: 0

Recently I wrote a two-part article on the impact low-cost quad-core and octo-core mobile processors are having on the mobile handset market here in Asia. In it I briefly mentioned that many travelers and expats in this part of the world—this part being Southeast Asia, generally speaking—come here, among myriad other reasons, for the cheap electronics available. What prompted me to inves... » read more

The Week In Review: System-Level Design
By Ed Sperling - 13 Dec, 2013 - Comments: 0

A widely quoted report by Bloomberg said ARM might benefit from a major deal with Google, which is considering using ARM cores in its own processor designs. It's impossible to tell at this point whether Google actually will go through with developing its own chips, a move that would have monumental ramifications in multiple areas. For one thing it would give ARM a major entry into the data cent... » read more

Blog Review: Dec. 11
By Ed Sperling - 11 Dec, 2013 - Comments: 0

Synopsys’ Brent Gregory has developed a career growth checklist for computer science majors. They should hang this in the hallway at universities. Cadence’s Brian Fuller interviews Saar Drimer, a UK hardware engineer who has been experimenting with odd-shaped PCBs. According to Drimer, 45-degree angles aren’t always optimal. But what happens to all the expensive tools everyone has bee... » read more

The Week In Review: System-Level Design
By Ed Sperling - 06 Dec, 2013 - Comments: 0

Synopsys is closing in on the $2 billion mark, which would set a new record in EDA. The company posted strong financial results for its fiscal Q4 and fiscal 2013. For its fiscal year, revenue was $1.962 billion, up 11.7% from $1.756 billion in fiscal 2012. Net income for the year was $247.8 million, up from $182.4 million. For the most recent quarter, revenue was $504.9 million, up from $454.2 ... » read more

The Path To Power Signoff Is Getting Longer
By Ed Sperling - 06 Dec, 2013 - Comments: 0

Signoff on power used to be a fairly simple check-the-box kind of activity. Even if power budgets weren’t exactly met, they could usually be fixed in future iterations of a chip, whether that involved derivatives or new revs of the same chip. A number of things have changed since the much simpler days of 45/40nm and above, however. Power is now a market differentiator. In many cases, i... » read more

New Challenges Emerge With FinFETs
By Ed Sperling - 05 Dec, 2013 - Comments: 0

Working at advanced process nodes is always tricky. There are new things to worry about and more rules to deal with initially, yet the promised benefit is improved performance, power and area, or cost. But at the next process node, and the one after that, there are so many variables coming into play that trying to make sense of the PPA equation is becoming much more difficult. Early reports ... » read more

Seven Ways To Improve PPA Before Moving To FinFETs
By Ed Sperling - 05 Dec, 2013 - Comments: 0

Henry Ford wrote in his autobiography, “Any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants so long as it is black.” And for decades, the semiconductor industry has marched to a similar theme set by Moore’s Law. But with the transition to finFETs harder than it first appeared, questions are beginning to pop up that is fueling a new level of confusion. While the growing list of... » read more

Blog Review: Dec. 4
By Ed Sperling - 04 Dec, 2013 - Comments: 0

Mentor’s Harry Foster closes his epic study on functional verification with an interesting insight about the real value of industry studies—new questions. It’s hard to argue with that. Cadence’s Brian Fuller takes a shot at the people taking shots at Amazon’s drone delivery service (the term du jour is robots). It does sound cool, as long as they don’t deliver the kind of payloa... » read more

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