tag: Mentor Graphics

Developing Effective Design Strategies for Today’s Wearable Devices: Power Management
By Mentor, a Siemens Business - 21 Dec, 2015 - Comments: 0

As the next wave of wearable devices expands into a new class of revolutionary and innovative products, there will be a growing importance placed on the real-time operating system (RTOS) and corresponding middleware. Wearable System-on-Chip (SoC) processors require an operating system optimized for size and performance with power-efficient wireless connectivity options needed for machine-to-mac... » read more

Who’s Profiting From Complexity
By Ed Sperling - 21 Dec, 2015 - Comments: 0

Tool vendors' profits increasingly are coming from segments that performed relatively poorly in the past, reflecting both a rise in complexity in designing chips and big improvements in the tools themselves. The impacts of power, memory congestion, advanced-node effects such as process variation, [getkc id="160" kc_name="electromigration"] and RC delay in [getkc id="36" kc_name="interconnect... » read more

The Week In Review: Design/IoT
By Jesse Allen - 18 Dec, 2015 - Comments: 0

Tools, IP, & IoT Mentor Graphics updated its general purpose computational fluid dynamics product, adding improved mesh handling, an enhanced transient solver, a robust EDA interface, and an interface to Abaqus Finite Element Analysis (FEA) software for stress analysis. Arasan uncorked MIPI DSI v1.3 controller IP with support for Display Stream Compression, Sub links, Deskew, and Chec... » read more

Foundries Face Challenges in 2016
By Mark LaPedus - 17 Dec, 2015 - Comments: 2

Generally, 2015 has been a challenging year in the foundry business. For one thing, the foundry industry will register modest growth in 2015. In addition, the foundry customer base is consolidating. And on the leading edge, foundries took longer than expected to ramp up their 16nm/14nm finFET processes. So, after an eventful year in 2015, what’s in store for the foundry business in 2016? I... » read more

When Order Matters
By Mentor, a Siemens Business - 17 Dec, 2015 - Comments: 0

Debugging DP errors can be not only time-consuming, but also frustrating, when new errors seem to appear out of nowhere. The order in which you address DP errors can make a significant difference in the efficiency of your debug efforts. Learning the sequence of ordered DP debugging explained in this white paper can not only help you reduce the time you spend analyzing and fixing DP errors, but ... » read more

Resetting Expectations On Multi-Patterning Decomposition And Checking
By David Abercrombie - 17 Dec, 2015 - Comments: 0

As I said in Part 1 of this topic, it never ceases to amaze me how much confusion and misunderstanding there is when it comes to multi-patterning (MP) decomposition and checking. That entire first article only focused on the typical subjects I’ve had to discuss with customers regarding double-patterning (DP). I have to tell you that with the deployment of triple-patterning (TP) and quadruple-... » read more

Blog Review: Dec. 16
By Jesse Allen - 16 Dec, 2015 - Comments: 0

Power from nuclear fusion just made the leap from sci-fi to the real world in this week's top five engineering tech picks by Ansys' Bill Vandermark. Plus, stacking chips tall, helping gunshot victims survive, and a shoe just for you. A world without paralysis? Rambus' Aharon Etengoff takes a look at one research group's latest advancement, a brain implant that allowed a paralyzed man to bypa... » read more

The Week In Review: Design/IoT
By Jesse Allen - 11 Dec, 2015 - Comments: 0

Mergers & Acquisitions Zuken acquired one of its USA resellers, electrical applications provider Caetek. The company also developed software for harness manufacturers that integrated with Zuken's electrical wiring, control systems and fluid engineering toolset. The NXP-Freescale merger is, at last, official. The largest revenue source for the combined company will be automotive, proje... » read more

How To Choose A Processor
By Ann Mutschler - 10 Dec, 2015 - Comments: 0

Choosing a processor might seem straightforward at first glance, but like many engineering challenges it's harder than it looks. When is a CPU better than a GPU, MCU, DSP or other type of processor? And for what design—or part of a design? For decades, the CPU has been the default choice. “It is deliberately designed to be pretty efficient at all tasks, is straightforward to program, ... » read more

Chasing After Phantom Power
By Brian Bailey - 10 Dec, 2015 - Comments: 1

A lot of effort is being invested in power reduction techniques for mobile devices, where battery life is an important buying decision and power can translate into heat that can make a device uncomfortable to use. But are people willing to pay more for a device that consumes less power if it's plugged into a wall? And even if they are concerned about the power drawn during operation, what ab... » read more

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