tag: Mentor Graphics

New Winners And Losers
By Brian Bailey - 24 Jul, 2014 - Comments: 0

During DAC 2013, Robert Colwell of DARPA said he was attempting to prepare the U.S. Dept. of Defense for what he believes is the cataclysm caused by the end of [getkc id="74" comment="Moore's Law"]. He asked the question, “What happens when we don’t have a new technology that doubles the number of transistors every couple of years?” Colwell believes that power is the primary reason why... » read more

High-Level Gaps Emerge
By Ann Mutschler - 24 Jul, 2014 - Comments: 0

Semiconductor Engineering sat down to discuss the attributes of a high-level, front-end design flow, and why it is needed at present with Leah Clark, associate technical director for digital video technology at Broadcom; Jon McDonald, technical marketing engineer at Mentor Graphics; Phil Bishop, vice president of the System Level Design System & Verification Group at Cadence; and Bernard Mu... » read more

Interpreting UPF For A Mixed-Signal Design Under Test
By Mentor, a Siemens Business - 23 Jul, 2014 - Comments: 0

This paper describes a methodology (as implemented in the Mentor Graphics Questa ADMS mixed-signal simulator) for interpreting the Unified Power Format (UPF) for analog mixed-signal designs coded in Verilog-AMS, VHDL-AMS, or SPICE. No changes to the UPF syntax or file are required. A complete implementation and a demonstration of its use in a sample case are provided as proof of concept. To ... » read more

Blog Review: July 23
By Ed Sperling - 23 Jul, 2014 - Comments: 0

Mentor’s John Day says that within the decade you will be able to contact a real person from your car. Hopefully that doesn't mean marketing people will be able to contact you while you’re stuck in traffic. Cadence’s Brian Fuller says the future of EDA in the automotive market isn’t just about chips. Think security, software and cost reduction. It’s not just SoCs that are going ... » read more

Week 6: Still In Wow-Land
By Anne Cirkel - 18 Jul, 2014 - Comments: 0

While the conflicts around the world are overshadowing my complete euphoria, I have to admit that I’m still in Fussball wow-land right now. Germany won the World Cup! What an amazing goal from youngster Mario Goetze! Here is what the 22-year-old forward from Bayern-Muenchen had to say after the game: “Andre [Schurrle] put in a superb ball and I was able to control it on my chest, then someh... » read more

DFM And Multipatterning
By Ed Sperling - 17 Jul, 2014 - Comments: 0

Semiconductor Engineering sat down to discuss DFM at advanced nodes with Kuang-Kuo Lin, director of foundry design enablement at Samsung Electronics; Jongwook Kye, lithography modeling and architecture fellow at GlobalFoundries; David Abercrombie, advanced physical verification methodology program manager at Mentor Graphics; Ya-Chieh Lai, engineering director for DFM/CLS silicon signoff and ver... » read more

Manage Supply Chains To Enhance ERP And MRP Operations
By Mentor, a Siemens Business - 17 Jul, 2014 - Comments: 1

The key for success in mass production is consistency and control of variables. One key variable that is difficult to control is the integrity of accounting for materials. Not all materials are used in the way that MRP intended and they are often used for products other than those intended. In addition to simple materials issues, demand patterns to the factory have changed significantly in r... » read more

The Week In Review: Design
By Ed Sperling - 17 Jul, 2014 - Comments: 0

Tools Cadence unveiled two new tools. The first is a rapid prototyping platform that the company claims will shorten bring-up time by 70%, with 4X improvements in capacity, with IEEE 1801 support for low-power verification through its emulation platform. The second is a single and multi-corner custom/analog extraction tool, which it claims will improve performance by 5X. The tool has been cert... » read more

It’s Time to Bring GDS “Reality” Into Routing Closure
By Jean-Marie Brunet - 17 Jul, 2014 - Comments: 0

By Nancy Nguyen and Jean-Marie Brunet Imported cells, whether macros, standard cells, or intellectual property (IP), are a common element of today’s integrated circuit (IC) designs. Historically, when designers incorporate these cells into a design, they import them using an abstract format defined by a layout exchange format (LEF) file. This abstract view provides basic information about th... » read more

Blog Review: July 16
By Ed Sperling - 16 Jul, 2014 - Comments: 0

Mentor’s Scott Salzwedel describes a conversation that could very well happen in the future and it raises an interesting idea. As medical electronics proliferate, will emergency medical teams need to include out systems engineers? Cadence’s Brian Fuller has a summer engineering project that resembles the Bridge Over the River Kwai. He should win an Oscar for this one. Ansys’ Bill ... » read more

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