Experts At The Table: Does 20nm Break System-Level Design?


By Ann Steffora Mutschler System-Level Design sat down to discuss design at 20nm with Drew Wingard, chief technology officer at Sonics; Kelvin Low, deputy director of product marketing at GlobalFoundries, Frank Schirrmeister, group director of product marketing for system development in the system and software realization group at Cadence; and Mike Gianfagna, vice president of marketing at Atr... » read more

Merger In Progress


By Jon McDonald June's been an interesting month, I was at the Design Automation Conference, DAC, in San Francisco, then a week later, the Freescale Technology Forum, FTF. DAC is generally more of a hardware design conference, while FTF generally is a bit more focused on software and systems. This year I was surprised at the similarities in some of the discussions at both shows. At DAC ther... » read more

New Power Standards Ahead


By Ed Sperling Standards groups are beginning to look at power and other physical effects much more seriously in the wake of the dueling power formats—UPF and CPF—that have caused angst across the design industry. To put it in perspective, when CPF and UPF were first introduced power was something of an afterthought in design. At 65nm it ceased to be something that could be dealt with l... » read more

ESL Power Models


Low-Power Engineering discusses what's missing from the ESL tool chain with Ghislain Kaiser, CEO of Docea Power. [youtube vid=hV5viEgLIvA] » read more

Smarter Design Strategies


By Jon McDonald I had an interesting discussion with a customer recently. They were involved in the architectural specification of a fairly complex piece of silicon. They spent a significant amount of time designing the part to work under worst-case power characteristics and defining the power supply requirements for the device in this worst-case use mode. The conversation started with the ... » read more

Crunch Time


Never have so many things conspired to make design so difficult—at least not at the same time. At the center of this cornucopia of challenges is power, because more functions and more things now have to fit into a power budget that remains fixed. While some components in a complex SoC may run at lower voltages, you can be assured that others will run hotter and at higher voltages—at leas... » read more

Experts At The Table: ESL Reality Check


By Ed Sperling System-Level Design sat down to discuss electronic-system-level design with Stephen Bailey, director of emerging technologies for the design verification technology group at Mentor Graphics; Michael McNamara, vice president and general manager of Cadence’s System-Level Division; Ghislain Kaiser, CEO of DOCEA Power, and Shawn McCloud, vice president of marketing at Calypto. Wh... » read more

Experts At The Table: ESL Reality Check


By Ed Sperling System-Level Design sat down to discuss electronic-system-level design with Stephen Bailey, director of emerging technologies for the design verification technology group at Mentor Graphics; Michael McNamara, vice president and general manager of Cadence’s System-Level Division; Ghislain Kaiser, CEO of DOCEA Power, and Shawn McCloud, vice president of marketing at Calypto. Wh... » read more

Experts At The Table: ESL Reality Check


By Ed Sperling System-Level Design sat down to discuss electronic-system-level design with Stephen Bailey, director of emerging technologies for the design verification technology group at Mentor Graphics; Michael McNamara, vice president and general manager of Cadence’s System-Level Division; Ghislain Kaiser, CEO of DOCEA Power, and Shawn McCloud, vice president of marketing at Calypto. Wha... » read more

The Growing Need For A Systems Approach


By Gabe Moretti Electronic computing systems have gone through an evolutionary cycle since the invention of the mainframe, and the process is continuing. Semiconductor technology, mostly based on CMOS fabrication methods, has enabled an increase in design complexity and device functionality that have revolutionized the world. But 20nm processes may be the last that obey Newtonian physics. T... » read more

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