Eco-Friendly Strategy

By Mentor Graphics Staff Writers - 12 Dec, 2012 - Comments: 0

By Jeff Wilson If you want a winning fill solution at 20nm, you need a robust ecosystem in place with three main players. Each player has a specific role and, particularly as the new technology is defined, the players need to work in close partnership. Why is the ecosystem so important at 20nm? Because of the technological challenges, including process variability and design complexity. The... » read more

Virtual IDM Progress Report

By Ed Sperling - 06 Dec, 2012 - Comments: 0

By Ed Sperling Complexity, tight power budgets, disaggregation of the supply chain and market fragmentation are conspiring to force much tighter partnerships among companies that develop different pieces of an SoC, as well as those that collaborate on even larger systems. This confluence of factors has forced the rules for how companies work together to be rewritten, but even within that frame... » read more

Making Important Choices

By Nithya Ruff - 25 Oct, 2012 - Comments: 0

By Nithya Ruff Last year, my daughter was a senior in high school, very busy finalizing her college selections and completing college applications. For anyone who has gone through this recently, it is not a trivial task to select a place where you will spend the next four years, a place that will shape your future and where you will be spending a good amount of your parent’s money. This expe... » read more

Experts At The Table: Stacked Die Reality Check

By Ed Sperling - 27 Aug, 2012 - Comments: 0

By Ed Sperling Semiconductor Manufacturing & Design sat down with Sunil Patel, principal member of the technical staff for package technology at GlobalFoundries; Steve Pateras, product marketing director at Mentor Graphics; Steve Smith, senior director of platform marketing at Synopsys; Thorsten Matthias, business development director at EVGroup; and Manish Ranjan, vice president of market... » read more

Experts at the Table: Stacking the Deck

By Ed Sperling - 23 Aug, 2012 - Comments: 0

By Ann Steffora Mutschler System-Level Design sat down to discuss challenges to 3D-IC adoption with Samta Bansal, product marketing for applied silicon realization in strategy and market development at Cadence; Carey Robertson, product marketing director at Mentor Graphics; Karthik Chandrasekar, member of technical staff in IC Design at Altera; and Herb Reiter, president of EDA2ASIC Consulting... » read more

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Eco-Friendly Strategy

Virtual IDM Progress Report

Making Important Choices

Experts At The Table: Stacked Die Reality Check

Experts at the Table: Stacking the Deck