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

Mergers & Acquisitions NXP added to its list of recent acquisitions with Athena SCS, a UK-based provider of embedded software and cryptography for smart cards and NFC. Lattice Semiconductor closed its all-cash $606.6 million acquisition of Silicon Image. Tools Cadence unveiled the Innovus Implementation System. The physical implementation tool sports massively parallel architect... » read more

Thermal Is Still Simmering
By Ann Mutschler - 12 Mar, 2015 - Comments: 0

With the ever increasing sophistication in today’s high-performance [getkc id="81" kc_name="SoC"]s on top of sheer physics of device manufacturing, thermal is a much bigger concern than ever before. It is well understood that thermal and power are closely related, and there exists a vicious cycle between leakage power and temperature: leakage goes up, temperature goes up; temperature goes ... » read more

The Interconnected Web Of Power
By Brian Bailey - 12 Mar, 2015 - Comments: 0

Tradeoffs between area and timing used to follow fairly simple rules. You could improve timing by adding area, and occasionally find an architectural solution that would decrease both at the same time. With physical synthesis the relationship became a little more complicated because an increase in area, say to make a drive larger or add another buffer, might upset the layout. That, in turn, cou... » read more

Automotive Drives Novel IP Demands
By Ann Mutschler - 12 Mar, 2015 - Comments: 0

In the past the automotive industry was a bit sleepy when it came to technologic innovations. Clearly, this is no longer the case. The automotive segment is now driving interesting capabilities and an unprecedented level of creativity by the IP and SoC engineering teams targeting this now-dynamic sector. Historically, electronics for automotive was very different from those aimed at consumer... » read more

Antennas Everywhere
By Ed Sperling - 12 Mar, 2015 - Comments: 0

A simple rule when it comes to electronics is that while digital circuits scale, antennas do not. That may not sound like a serious problem until you consider that as more devices get connected—cars, watches, industrial equipment—and they add more features that require interaction with the outside world, they need more antennas to make it all work. In the future, there literally will be... » read more

Where Did Auto Innovation Begin?
By Ann Mutschler - 12 Mar, 2015 - Comments: 0

As far as how the current wave of electronic innovation started happening in the automotive industry, the genesis is likely multi-faceted. During a recent conversation, Cadence Fellow Chris Rowen recalled that there was an underlying recognition that the big opportunity to add value to a vehicle came from electronic systems and a recognition that there was a theoretical capability, for examp... » read more

Rethinking The Cloud
By Ed Sperling - 12 Mar, 2015 - Comments: 0

Data center architectures have seen very few radical changes since the commercial introduction of the [getentity id="22306" comment="IBM"] System/360 mainframe in 1964. There have been incremental improvements in speed and throughput over the years, with a move to a client/server model in the 1990s, but from a high level this is still an environment where data is processed and stored centrally ... » read more

With Object-Based Audio, Dizzying Design Possibilities
By Brian Fuller - 12 Mar, 2015 - Comments: 0

Technology innovation can be dizzying—literally. Walk through a place as vast and cavernous as Mobile World Congress (and walk and walk and walk) and you can’t help but get wobbly at all the innovation in the building. But find your way to the Fraunhofer booth and things get even more interesting. Here, you take a seat outside the booth, slip on a virtual reality headset and settle ... » read more

Biz Talk: Funding Strategies
By Brian Bailey - 11 Mar, 2015 - Comments: 0

Michel Courtoy, VP of marketing and business development at Kilopass, and a former member of the M&A group at Cadence , talks with Semiconductor Engineering about EDA startups, where to find funding, how long it takes to get established, and new exit strategies. [youtube vid=RMkuMiqb10M] » read more

HDMI 2.0 Design And Verification Challenges
By Cadence - 11 Mar, 2015 - Comments: 0

High-Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) is an audio/video (A/V) trans- mission protocol, which is omnipresent in consumer electronics, personal computing, and mobile products. Modern-day requirements of big screen resolutions, 3D, and multi-channel/multi-stream audio have pushed display devices to use a completely digital, high-speed transmission media, requiring a multi-layered protocol li... » read more

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