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The Week In Review: Design/IoT
By Jesse Allen - 20 Nov, 2015 - Comments: 0

Mergers & Acquisitions On Semiconductor signed a definitive agreement to buy Fairchild Semiconductor for $2.4 billion in cash, combining forces in the power semiconductor market. The deal is the latest in a series of acquisitions and combinations as companies position themselves for the IoT/IoE/IIoT, a world of connected devices that spans from industrial to automotive to smartphones. Comp... » read more

Blog Review: Nov. 18
By Jesse Allen - 18 Nov, 2015 - Comments: 0

Between anomalies in ancient Egyptian pyramids and algae genetically engineered to attack cancer cells, Ansys' Bill Vandermark covers a wide array of the sciences in his top five picks for the week. Plus, Disney says being a human antenna could have its advantages. Don't write the epitaph for Moore's Law just yet, says Mentor's Michael White. He takes a look at the technical and business cha... » read more

Do Circuits Whisper Or Shout?
By Ann Mutschler - 18 Nov, 2015 - Comments: 0

Maximizing SoC performance and minimizing power is becoming a multi-layered and multi-company challenge that depends on everything from ecosystem feedback and interactions to micro-architectural decisions about whether analog circuits whisper or shout. What used to be a straightforward architectural tradeoff between performance and power has evolved into a much more diffuse and collaborativ... » read more

The Week In Review: Manufacturing
By Mark LaPedus - 13 Nov, 2015 - Comments: 0

IC Insights released its preliminary top IC rankings in terms of sales for 2015. In the rankings, Intel remains in first place in terms of chip sales in 2015, followed by Samsung and TSMC. GlobalFoundries and UMC also moved up in the rankings. Beyond that, the market is in flux. “The pending mergers of Avago and Broadcom and NXP and Freescale will have a significant impact on future top-20 ra... » read more

The Week In Review: Design/IoT
By Jesse Allen - 13 Nov, 2015 - Comments: 0

Predictions Wally Rhines, Mentor Graphics' chairman and CEO, was presented with the Kaufman Award last night for outstanding achievement in electronic design. In his acceptance speech, he plotted the growth of the EDA industry at a consistent 2% of the semiconductor industry for the past couple decades. But he noted that with a shift to system design automation, that number would rise from t... » read more

Ecosystem Vs. Ecosystem
By Ed Sperling - 12 Nov, 2015 - Comments: 0

The massive consolidation that has been underway over the past couple years is about to slow down. Interest rates are expected to increase in the very near future—the Fed has been dropping hints about this for months—ending the era of cheap capital. The cost of borrowing already is creeping up in anticipation of this, and it's happening globally because money lending is a global industry. ... » read more

Overcoming The Design Bottleneck
By Brian Bailey - 12 Nov, 2015 - Comments: 0

SoCs control most advanced electronics these days and functionality, quality, power and security are a combination of both hardware and software. All throughout the development of today's complex systems, the memory hierarchy has remained the same—preserving the notion of a continuous computing paradigm. Today, that decision is leading to performance and power issues. There are several rea... » read more

One Flow To Rule Them All
By Brian Bailey - 12 Nov, 2015 - Comments: 0

The new mantra of shift left within EDA is nothing new and first made an appearance more than a decade ago. At that time there was a very large divide between logic synthesis and place and route. As wire delays became more important, timing closure became increasingly difficult with a logic synthesis flow that did not take that into account. The tools subsequently became tied much closer togeth... » read more

Upcoming Hurdles For The Semiconductor Industry
By Ann Mutschler - 12 Nov, 2015 - Comments: 0

Semiconductor Engineering sat down to discuss upcoming challenges and hurdles to overcome for the semiconductor industry with Vic Kulkarni, senior vice president and general manager, RTL Power Business at Ansys; Chris Rowen, Fellow and CTO, IP Group at Cadence; Subramani Kengeri, vice president, Global Design Solutions at GLOBALFOUNDRIES; Simon Davidmann, CEO of Imperas Software; Michael Buehle... » read more

Design, Test & Repair Methodology For FinFET-Based Memories
By Synopsys - 11 Nov, 2015 - Comments: 0

Like any IP block, memories need to be tested. But unlike many other IP blocks, memory test is not as simple as pass/fail. The advent of FinFET-based memories presents new memory test challenges. This white paper covers: The new design complexities, defect coverage and yield challenges presented by FinFET-based memories. How to synthesize test algorithms for detection and diagnosis of Fin... » read more

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