tag: Arteris

Next Up: Touchless Screens
By Kurt Shuler - 28 Jul, 2011 - Comments: 0

By Kurt Shuler Gesture Recognition Qualcomm’s announcement this Monday that it has acquired assets from gesture recognition technology pioneer GestureTek makes it official: Gesture recognition based on video camera technology will be in phones sooner than we think. [caption id="attachment_7583" align="alignnone" width="716"] Source: TI and YouTube[/caption] Video-based gesture recognit... » read more

Virtual Prototyping Takes Off
By Ed Sperling - 30 Jun, 2011 - Comments: 0

By Ann Steffora Mutschler Skyrocketing software development costs, which for years have been “somebody else’s problem,” are now firmly part of the SoC development teams list of headaches. That has made virtual prototyping far more popular, particularly at 40nm and beyond, where engineers are looking at this approach as a way of managing complexity, doing architectural exploration and eve... » read more

Our STBs Really Suck (Power)
By Kurt Shuler - 29 Jun, 2011 - Comments: 0

By Kurt Shuler For all the work our industry does to implement sophisticated power management and conservation features in our chips and software, I was dismayed (and a little appalled) to read Saturday’s New York Times article, “Atop TV Sets, a Power Drain That Runs Nonstop.” Our industry’s dirty little secret is out, with help from the National Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and... » read more

The Upside Of Dark Silicon
By Ed Sperling - 26 May, 2011 - Comments: 0

By Ed Sperling For many years the real challenge in IC design was in shrinking the components and features on a piece of silicon without burning up the chip or destroying signal integrity. Chipmakers have become quite adept at this over the past few decades. Too good, in fact. Now they are faced with a different kind of problem—what to do with all that extra silicon. Just as the long dist... » read more

The Trouble With Tradeshows
By Kurt Shuler - 26 May, 2011 - Comments: 0

By Kurt Shuler There’s no doubt about it—industry tradeshow attendance is shrinking. If you don’t believe me, just look at the trends for a well-known tradeshow in the semiconductor industry, the Design Automation Conference. I’m not picking on any one show. I’m choosing DAC because I could find audited attendance numbers online for this show. Most other semiconductor industry trades... » read more

‘What If’ In 3D
By Ed Sperling - 28 Apr, 2011 - Comments: 0

By Ed Sperling ‘What if’ questions have become standard across multiple pieces of the design chain for any SoC, but the number is multiplying at each new process node. When the industry begins moving to 2.5D and 3D over the next couple years, the number of tradeoffs will likely move from overwhelming to unmanageable. That will set in motion a number of efforts in semiconductor design. ... » read more

IP Subsystems Are Nothing New
By Kurt Shuler - 28 Apr, 2011 - Comments: 0

By Kurt Shuler I’ve been hearing the term “IP subsystem” lately, and it seems to be the latest newfangled buzz word in the SoC semiconductor and IP industry, second only to “virtualization.” Much of the context for this growing interest in IP subsystems has been inspired from the work of Rich Wawrzyniak in his Semico Research report, “IP Subsystems: The Next IP Market Paradigm - Oc... » read more

Experts At The Table: Billion-Gate Design Challenges
By Ed Sperling - 01 Apr, 2011 - Comments: 0

By Ed Sperling Low-Power Engineering sat down to discuss billion-gate design challenges with Charles Janac, CEO of Arteris; Jack Browne, senior vice president of sales and marketing at Sonics; Kalar Rajendiran, senior director of marketing at eSilicon; Mark Throndson, director of product marketing at MIPS; and Mark Baker, senior director of business development at Magma. What follows are excer... » read more

The Quest For A Better IP Integration Methodology
By Ed Sperling - 31 Mar, 2011 - Comments: 0

By Ed Sperling With the amount of IP in SoC designs now hitting an estimated 70% to 90%, companies are scrambling to figure out a way to more consistently integrate that IP and to test that it will work as expected. This is easier said than done, however, for a number of reasons: There are numerous types of IP, ranging from I/O to logic and memory. Not all IP is of equal quality. ... » read more

Fishing For Ideas In A Bigger Pond
By Ed Sperling - 31 Mar, 2011 - Comments: 0

By Ann Steffora Mutschler From networking to optical modeling to open source software platforms, EDA engineers are drawing from a variety of disciplines to develop tools for chip design, stretching the technology beyond its original intent. To this end, Synopsys acquired Optical Research Associates (ORA) last fall to add optical design and analysis to its portfolio. The acquisition allowed ... » read more

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