tag: PPA

Tech Talk: Configurable Logic
By Ed Sperling - 08 Oct, 2015 - Comments: 0

Cliff Lloyd, business development director at NXP Semiconductors, talks about designing in one part for many functions to reduce power consumption and cost. [youtube vid=ut5kCm0kNwE] » read more

Explosion Of Creativity
By Ed Sperling - 03 Sep, 2015 - Comments: 0

One of Steve Jobs' great revelations occurred while watching his young daughter use a computer with a graphical user interface. He observed that adults ask how to use a computer, whereas children ask what you can do with it. The semiconductor industry is experiencing one of those seminal moments with the Internet of Things/Internet of Everything. While work continues to ensure that electrons... » read more

Rethinking Power
By Ed Sperling - 14 May, 2015 - Comments: 0

Power typically has been the last factor to be considered in the PPA equation, and it usually was somebody else's problem. Increasingly it's everyone's problem, and EDA companies are beginning to look at power differently than in the past. While the driving forces vary by market and by process node, the need to save energy at every node and in almost all designs is pervasive. In the server m... » read more

How To Achieve Optimal PPA And Up To 10X TAT Gain In Your Next Digital Design Implementation
By Cadence - 13 May, 2015 - Comments: 0

For complex, advanced-node designs, there’s a tug-of-war brewing between oft-conflicting goals around performance, power, and area (PPA) and turnaround time (TAT). Both are important for design success, yet it can be difficult to achieve optimal PPA with the highest productivity—without making any tradeoffs. At the root of this problem is that with traditional place-and-route tools, designe... » read more

Tech Talk: Set-Top Power
By Ed Sperling - 19 Jan, 2015 - Comments: 0

Broadcom's John Redmond, associate technical director for digital video technology, talks with Semiconductor Engineering about what the next-generation set-top boxes will look like and how they will save power. The video was shot at Cadence's Low Power Summit. [youtube vid=Ov2GFrUTzts] » read more

What Will Change In Design For 2015?
By Brian Bailey - 15 Jan, 2015 - Comments: 0

This year more than 26 people provided predictions for 2015. Most of these came from the EDA industry, so the results may be rather biased. However, ecosystems are coming closer together in many parts of the semiconductor food chain, meaning that the EDA companies often can see what is happening in dependent industries and in the system design houses. Thus their predictions may have already res... » read more

Pushing The Performance Boundaries Of ARM Cortex-M Processors For Future Embedded Design
By Cadence - 08 Oct, 2014 - Comments: 0

One of the toughest challenges in the implementation of any processors is balancing the need for the highest performance with the conflicting demands for lowest possible power and area. Inevitably, there is a tradeoff between power, performance, and area (PPA). This paper examines two unique challenges for design automation methodologies in the new ARM Cortex-M processor: How to get maximum per... » read more

How To Reduce Implementation Headaches In FinFET Processes
By Leah Schuth - 11 Sep, 2014 - Comments: 0

In this era of compressed market windows and shrinking or changing technology, today’s engineers are always looking for ways to improve their overall product performance, power and area (PPA), while also decreasing their SoC design effort. The goal is to ease time-consuming and labor-intensive implementation tasks that will yield a reduction in design time, without sacrificing accuracy and op... » read more

Raising The Abstraction Of Power: Trends
By Ann Mutschler - 10 Jul, 2014 - Comments: 0

Given that design requirements for today’s SoCs go well beyond performance and area, energy efficiency and its impact on system design plays a major role for many end applications ranging from wireless sensor networks to autonomous vehicles as well as emerging applications in the Internet of Things market segment, where cooling capability is limited and expensive. For these reasons, a comp... » read more

Seven Ways To Improve PPA Before Moving To FinFETs
By Ed Sperling - 05 Dec, 2013 - Comments: 0

Henry Ford wrote in his autobiography, “Any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants so long as it is black.” And for decades, the semiconductor industry has marched to a similar theme set by Moore’s Law. But with the transition to finFETs harder than it first appeared, questions are beginning to pop up that is fueling a new level of confusion. While the growing list of... » read more

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