Experts At The Table: Black Belt Power Management


By Ann Steffora Mutschler With approximately 80% of SoC content reused from past designs or brought in from internal and external IP sources, a significant part of a design engineer’s job today is writing glue logic and verifying to make sure the integrated system communicates as dictated by the specification. Integration challenges continue to mount with the increasing amount of black ... » read more

Redefining Design Starts


For the past decade we have been hearing grim tales about the number of design starts shrinking and how that’s hurting EDA. While that makes for sensational headlines, reality is somewhat fuzzier and far less grim. The big shift that’s underway isn’t so much a decline in design starts as a rise in SoCs. But SoCs are never really created from scratch. They’re a combination of commerci... » read more

Design For Configurability


I admit it was a bit of a surprise to me to hear from a leading IP provider of the missteps that still befall design teams today as they seek to reuse IP, but it’s a little like rubbernecking. How do you not look? According to Grant Martin, chief scientist at Tensilica, “The biggest thing that people still don’t think about at the beginning of designing some new function is designing i... » read more

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