tag: ANSYS

Upcoming Hurdles For The Semiconductor Industry
By Ann Mutschler - 30 Dec, 2015 - Comments: 1

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

Blog Review: Dec. 24
By Jesse Allen - 24 Dec, 2015 - Comments: 0

Jeff Ravencraft, the President and COO of USB-IF, sat down for a video interview with Cadence's Jacek Duda to discuss the the role of the organization and what's in the works for USB. Check out the second part, too. Have all the avenues been exhausted in the search for greater layout productivity? Synopsys' Graham Etchells sees no revolutionary technology in the area since CALMA, but highlig... » read more

Bridging Hardware And Software
By Ann Mutschler - 22 Dec, 2015 - Comments: 0

Since the advent of embedded systems there has been a struggle between hardware engineers trying to understand the mindset of their software counterparts, and vice versa. That struggle is alive and well today—and it's costing everyone money. This divide is rife with passion, territoriality and misunderstanding. It has delayed tapeouts, created errors and inefficiencies that take time and e... » 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

Demystifying The IoT Opportunity
By Vic Kulkarni - 10 Dec, 2015 - Comments: 0

Today we live in a world based on connectivity and communication, in which a burgeoning network of electronic systems and devices helps us navigate our lives. While consumer applications such as smartphones, tablets and wearable electronics are more visible in our lives, a larger revolution is taking shape in the industrial and manufacturing arena. Business leaders are racing to benefit from... » read more

Low Power Design Analysis
By Ansys - 09 Dec, 2015 - Comments: 0

This paper presents a methodology for comprehensive power grid verification coverage, including identification of power grid weaknesses early in the design cycle. To read more, click here. » read more

Blog Review: Dec. 9
By Jesse Allen - 09 Dec, 2015 - Comments: 0

From spring-loaded knees to modular planes to a two-seater drone, there's a new world of transportation in this week's top engineering and technology picks from Ansys' Justin Nescott. As for disappearing worlds, check out the sun-like star getting eaten by a black hole. Cadence's Paul McLellan takes a look back at archaic terminology and even older standards, with a brief history of Calma to... » read more

How To Model Cars
By Ann Mutschler - 03 Dec, 2015 - Comments: 1

The most technologically advanced and comprehensive consumer product in the world today is not the smartphone. It's the automobile. This is easier to see once the hood is up and you can take a peek around. Today’s cars contain sophisticated motion systems, crash safety systems, climate control systems, driver assistance, and infotainment, to name a few. In semiconductor design, one of the ... » read more

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