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The “Virtual” Year Recap
By Tom De Schutter - 22 Dec, 2015 - Comments: 0

There is something compelling about arriving at the end of the year and reviewing what happened during the year. In principle nothing is really different and a date is just a date, but we humans created this sense of time through well-defined boundaries of hours, days, months and years and a year-end boundary is an especially big deal. At the end of the year, we like to reflect upon the past ye... » read more

Why Test Is Changing
By Ann Mutschler - 22 Dec, 2015 - Comments: 0

Test is undergoing a revolution in terms of how it is perceived, how it is performed and where it is done. For years, test was something of an afterthought. It was a separate operation that was done after the design was finished, or it was a self-contained module that had to be characterized for power, heat and electrical effects, but not much else. As more chips find their way into markets ... » read more

Reflections On 2015
By Brian Bailey - 22 Dec, 2015 - Comments: 0

It is easy to make predictions, but few people can make them with any degree of accuracy. Most of the time, those predictions are forgotten by the end of the year and there is no one to do a tally of who holds more credibility for next year. Not so with SemiEngineering. We like to hold people's feet to the fire, but while the Pants-On-Fire meter may be applicable to politicians, we like to thin... » read more

Scaling Automated Software Testing With Virtualizer Development Kits
By Synopsys - 21 Dec, 2015 - Comments: 0

In this whitepaper we will discuss how simulation-based Virtualizer Development Kits (VDKs) enable software to be tested in a system context much earlier, bridging the gap with unit and integration testing. Moreover, we will discuss how VDKs offer a more scalable solution as they consist of simulation models and hence alleviate the dependency on hardware labs. To read more, click here. » read more

Who’s Profiting From Complexity
By Ed Sperling - 21 Dec, 2015 - Comments: 0

Tool vendors' profits increasingly are coming from segments that performed relatively poorly in the past, reflecting both a rise in complexity in designing chips and big improvements in the tools themselves. The impacts of power, memory congestion, advanced-node effects such as process variation, [getkc id="160" kc_name="electromigration"] and RC delay in [getkc id="36" kc_name="interconnect... » read more

The Week In Review: Design/IoT
By Jesse Allen - 18 Dec, 2015 - Comments: 0

Tools, IP, & IoT Mentor Graphics updated its general purpose computational fluid dynamics product, adding improved mesh handling, an enhanced transient solver, a robust EDA interface, and an interface to Abaqus Finite Element Analysis (FEA) software for stress analysis. Arasan uncorked MIPI DSI v1.3 controller IP with support for Display Stream Compression, Sub links, Deskew, and Chec... » read more

Rethinking Memory
By Ed Sperling - 16 Dec, 2015 - Comments: 3

Getting data in and out of memory is as important as the speed and efficiency of a processor, but for years design teams managed to skirt the issue because it was quicker, easier and less expensive to boost processor clock frequencies with a brute-force approach. That worked well enough prior to 90nm, and adding more cores at lower clock speeds filled the gap starting at 65nm. After that, th... » read more

Blog Review: Dec. 16
By Jesse Allen - 16 Dec, 2015 - Comments: 0

Power from nuclear fusion just made the leap from sci-fi to the real world in this week's top five engineering tech picks by Ansys' Bill Vandermark. Plus, stacking chips tall, helping gunshot victims survive, and a shoe just for you. A world without paralysis? Rambus' Aharon Etengoff takes a look at one research group's latest advancement, a brain implant that allowed a paralyzed man to bypa... » read more

New Approaches To Low Power Design
By Ann Mutschler - 14 Dec, 2015 - Comments: 1

While Moore's Law continues to drive feature size reduction and complexity, a whole separate part of the industry is growing up around vertical markets in the IoT. While these two worlds may be different in many respects, they share one thing in common—low power design is critical to success. How engineering teams minimize power in each of these markets, and even within the same market, ca... » read more

The Week In Review: Design/IoT
By Jesse Allen - 11 Dec, 2015 - Comments: 0

Mergers & Acquisitions Zuken acquired one of its USA resellers, electrical applications provider Caetek. The company also developed software for harness manufacturers that integrated with Zuken's electrical wiring, control systems and fluid engineering toolset. The NXP-Freescale merger is, at last, official. The largest revenue source for the combined company will be automotive, proje... » read more

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