tag: EDA

Design By Architect Or Committee?
By Brian Bailey - 26 Mar, 2015 - Comments: 5

Everything we do is based on a language. It doesn’t matter if we are talking about design, verification, specification, software or mask data. They all provide a way to communicate intent, and then there are engines that work on the intent to produce something else that is desirable, also based on a language. Over time, the EDA industry has built up a hierarchy of languages from the most deta... » read more

Chip-Package-Board Optimization: The Future Of Integrated Co-Design
By John Park - 26 Mar, 2015 - Comments: 0

Multi-die and three-dimensional packages have made breakout and routing of extremely high-pin-count devices on PCBs very difficult. Keeping track of all the signals and pins is also a task that has just about outgrown current methods. Many companies simply use a spreadsheet for tracking signals. With no central database or accurate device modeling and rule-based optimization, design intent is o... » read more

Tech Talk: IoT Design Changes
By Ed Sperling - 25 Mar, 2015 - Comments: 0

eSilicon's Lisa Minwell talks with Semiconductor Engineering about what's needed to push Internet of Things designs down to the microwatt range, and how to bridge the gap between what's available today and what's needed for the future. [youtube vid= bk3BgtJnFpg] » read more

Week 38: Finishing The DAC Program
By Anne Cirkel - 02 Mar, 2015 - Comments: 0

The DAC executive committee convened last week for a two-day meeting to finalize the technical program. We call this the Wintermeeting, which by tradition is usually held at a destination chosen by the general chair. This year it was my turn and I selected a dude ranch in Wickenburg, Arizona. While the meeting serves the purpose of locking down all the final details for the conference program, ... » read more

Mentor Graphics Buys Tanner EDA
By Ed Sperling - 26 Feb, 2015 - Comments: 4

By Ed Sperling & Brian Bailey [getentity id="22017" e_name="Mentor Graphics"] has just purchased [getentity id="22561" e_name="Tanner EDA"] for an undisclosed sum, according to sources close to the deal. The acquisition moves Mentor squarely into the analog and mixed signal tools world, while positioning it to play a much bigger role in the Internet of Things market. Mentor isn't t... » read more

Partition Lines Growing Fuzzy
By Ed Sperling - 26 Feb, 2015 - Comments: 0

For as long as most semiconductor engineers can remember, chips with discrete functions started out on a printed circuit board, progressed into chip sets when it made sense and eventually were integrated onto the same die. The primary motivations behind this trend were performance and cost—shorter distance, fewer mask layers, less silicon. But this equation has been changing over the past ... » read more

Week 36: A Trip To Houston
By Anne Cirkel - 13 Feb, 2015 - Comments: 0

I have to admit it, I am impressed. Actually “impressed” doesn’t really capture it. I’m awed. On Friday we had the DAC Technical Program Committee (TPC) meeting in Houston—147 members of the TPC spent the day discussing the submitted papers. It was quite a scene. All of us were in one large room, with each big table representing one subcommittee. By the end of the day in Houston, the ... » read more

Software-Driven Verification (Part 3)
By Brian Bailey - 10 Feb, 2015 - Comments: 0

[getkc id="10" comment="Functional Verification"] has been powered by tools that require hardware to look like the kinds of systems that were being designed two decades ago. Those limitations are putting chips at risk and a new approach to the problem is long overdue. Semiconductor Engineering sat down with Frank Schirrmeister, group director, product marketing for System Development Suite at [... » read more

Plunify: FPGA Design Closure
By Ed Sperling - 09 Feb, 2015 - Comments: 0

The number of EDA startups has plummeted around the globe, and nowhere is this more evident than in Singapore. In fact, there is exactly one EDA startup in that country—[getentity id="22672" e_name="Plunify"]—and even that isn't so new. Plunify started life in 2009 as a cloud-based startup, whose mission was to provide public cloud compute services to companies developing FPGAs. While th... » read more

Bigger Systems, Bigger Profits
By Ed Sperling - 29 Jan, 2015 - Comments: 0

Markets work in very mysterious ways. Technology that should be a slam dunk—think 2.5D with its promise of re-usable analog IP and faster performance, for example—are still hobbling along because no one wants to deal with the risk of a new architectural and manufacturing approach. They haven't even shown up yet in servers, where price is almost irrelevant. At the same time (no pun intended)... » read more

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