Embedded FPGAs Come Of Age

By Ann Mutschler - 27 Feb, 2017 - Comments: 0

FPGAs increasingly are being viewed as a critical component in heterogeneous designs, ratcheting up their stature and the amount of attention being given to programmable devices. Once relegated to test chips that ultimately would be replaced by lower-power and higher-performance ASICs if volumes were sufficient, FPGAs have come a long way. Over the last 20 years programmable devices have mov... » read more

Find Your Way To San Jose Next Week… For DVCon, Of Course!

By Dave Kelf - 23 Feb, 2017 - Comments: 0

If you’re asked “Do you know the way to San Jose?” in the next few days, chances are it’s a newbie to DVCon. Everyone else in chip design verification knows the way to the annual Design and Verification Conference and Exhibition about to convene at the San Jose DoubleTree Hotel. This year’s program is stacking up to be an insightful and educational four days of tutorials, paper ses... » read more

Uncovering Unintended Behavior

By Brian Bailey - 03 Feb, 2017 - Comments: 0

Very few companies ever had to worry about security until recently. Over the past couple of years, we have seen increasing evidence that our connected systems are vulnerable. The recent distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, which made many Internet sites unavailable, has focused attention on Internet of Things (IoT) devices such as digital video recorders and cameras that have Internet a... » read more

Sigasi: Cleaner VHDL And SystemVerilog

By Ed Sperling - 30 Jan, 2017 - Comments: 0

Hardware engineers always have looked at software tools and methodologies with a certain degree of envy. While the hardware side has embraced the discipline necessary to get products right prior to release, in large part because it's too expensive to fix an error in hardware, the tools and languages are generally clunkier and the methodologies are much more rigid. Like software, they have to in... » read more

2017: Tool And Methodology Shifts

By Brian Bailey - 26 Jan, 2017 - Comments: 0

As the markets for semiconductor products evolve, so do the tools that enable automation, optimization and verification. While tools rarely go away, they do bend like plants toward light. Today, it is no longer the mobile phone industry that is defining the direction, but automotive and the Internet of Things (IoT). Both of these markets have very different requirements and each creates their o... » read more

Formal Verification Takes Safety-Critical Applications For A Drive

By Dave Kelf - 26 Jan, 2017 - Comments: 0

The high reliability of safety-critical chips for automotive applications is a well-known imperative for today’s higher-end cars and as driverless cars move closer to reality. Uber, in fact, is testing autonomous cars in Boston of all places, where aggressive driving reigns supreme and honking the horn is considered an art form. As automotive manufacturers realize that their differentiatio... » read more

2017: Manufacturing And Markets

By Brian Bailey - 12 Jan, 2017 - Comments: 0

While the industry is busy chatting about the end of Moore's Law and a maturing of the semiconductor industry, the top minds of many companies are having none of it. A slowdown in one area is just an opportunity, in another and that is reflected in the predictions for this year. As in previous years, Semiconductor Engineering will look back on these predictions at the end of the year to see ... » read more

CEO Outlook: Chip Design 2017

By Ed Sperling - 22 Dec, 2016 - Comments: 0

After two consecutive flat to slightly down years, the semiconductor industry is poised for growth in 2017. Cowan this month predicted 4.7% growth in semiconductor sales in 2017, while World Semiconductor Trade Statistics (WSTS) put that figure at 3.3%. And last month, International Business Strategies (IBS) pegged the number at 4.6%, according to statistics compiled by the Global Semiconduc... » read more

Solving Einstein’s Riddle Using Formal Verification

By Dave Kelf - 22 Dec, 2016 - Comments: 0

Attention all Sherlockians in the semiconductor industry! OneSpin Solutions challenges you to take on Einstein’s Riddle Intelligence Test below and spend the holidays puzzling it out, using the brand of formal verification software of your choosing. Three remote-controlled flying drones will be awarded to the three fastest solutions to the riddle that execute correctly on OneSpin’s DV-Ve... » read more

Formal’s Roadmap

By Brian Bailey - 12 Dec, 2016 - Comments: 0

Formal verification has come a long way in the past five years as it focused on narrow tasks within the verification flow. Semiconductor Engineering sat down to discuss that progress, and the future of formal technologies, with [getperson id="11306" comment="Raik Brinkmann"], president and CEO of [getentity id="22395" e_name="OneSpin Solutions"]; Harry Foster, chief verification scientist at [g... » read more

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3.5D: The Great Compromise

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Memory Fundamentals For Engineers

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