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The Week In Review: Design/IoT
By Jesse Allen - 27 Mar, 2015 - Comments: 0

Tools Mentor Graphics uncorked its new IC, package, and PCB co-design and optimization product. It includes a formal flow for ball grid array ball-map planning and optimization based on an "intelligent pin" concept and a multi-mode connectivity management system for cross-domain pin-mapping and system level cross-domain logical verification. Synopsys released a new tool for designing ASIP... » read more

Blog Review: March 25
By Jesse Allen - 25 Mar, 2015 - Comments: 0

From brain implants that recover memories to color-shifting shoes, Ansys' Bill Vandermark features sci-fi visions of the future that are becoming reality in his top five tech picks of the week. In the world of embedded software, is a black box better? Mentor's Colin Walls questions whether the advantages that come of having full access to source code outweigh the downsides. Cadence's Neel... » read more

Blog Review: March 18
By Jesse Allen - 18 Mar, 2015 - Comments: 0

How do you quantify effort spent in FPGA verification? Mentor's Harry Foster tackles the question in his latest installment of the Wilson Research Group functional verification study. A new frontier of design challenges is rapidly emerging, according to ARM CEO Simon Segars. Cadence's Brian Fuller brings us his keynote address at CDNLive. Synopsys' Tushar Mattu is back with more on AXI VI... » read more

Tech Talk: Mobile Security (Part 1)
By Ed Sperling - 17 Mar, 2015 - Comments: 0

Simon Blake-Wilson, of Rambus' Cryptography Research Division, talks with Semiconductor Engineering about mobile security and how the risk will escalate with the IoT in banking, data centers, entertainment and devices themselves. [youtube vid=EJ75T-SEp4U] » read more

Rethinking The Cloud
By Ed Sperling - 12 Mar, 2015 - Comments: 0

Data center architectures have seen very few radical changes since the commercial introduction of the [getentity id="22306" comment="IBM"] System/360 mainframe in 1964. There have been incremental improvements in speed and throughput over the years, with a move to a client/server model in the 1990s, but from a high level this is still an environment where data is processed and stored centrally ... » read more

Blog Review: March 11
By Jesse Allen - 11 Mar, 2015 - Comments: 0

How are sensors like a scallop's eyes? Rambus' Patrick Gill guides you through day in the life of the mollusk to show how inspiration for IoT was found in the sea. Cadence's Dimitry Pavlovsky discusses some of the intricacies associated with creating VIP for processor interconnect systems such as CHI, and how other tools are necessary to complete the task. Following Google's warning of a ... » read more

Architecting For Optimal Interface IP Integration
By Ann Mutschler - 10 Mar, 2015 - Comments: 0

Semiconductor Engineering sat down to discuss the design and integration of complex interface [getkc id="43" comment="IP"] with Ty Garibay, VP of engineering at Altera; Brian Daellenbach, president of Northwest Logic; Frank Ferro, senior director of product management for memory and interface IP at [getentity id="22671" e_name="Rambus"]; Saman Sadr, director of analog design at Semtech; and Nav... » read more

Tech Talk: The Enigma Machine
By Ed Sperling - 09 Mar, 2015 - Comments: 0

Paul Kocher, president of Rambus' Cryptography Research Division, shows off the famed World War II cypher device—the same machine used in the movie "The Imitation Game", and explains how and why the supposedly unbreakable code was cracked, and why that applies to current day security. [youtube vid=aKvpcUefok8] » read more

The Week In Review: Design/IoT
By Jesse Allen - 06 Mar, 2015 - Comments: 0

Mergers & Acqusitions Mentor Graphics acquired Tanner EDA, bolstering their position in tools for analog, mixed-signal and MEMs. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. NXP joins forces with Freescale. The merger carries a $16.7 billion price tag and potentially creates a new leader in the automotive and MCU markets. Standards Accellera sent UVM 1.2 off to the IEEE P1800.2 working... » read more

Full Steam Ahead For IoT
By Ed Sperling - 05 Mar, 2015 - Comments: 0

Criticism is rampant about the [getkc id="76" comment="Internet of Things"] being partially baked, ill-defined, or just a rehash of old ideas that never got off the drawing board. While there is some basis for that criticism, it really doesn't seem to matter. The semiconductor industry is in full pursuit of what many perceive to be the largest opportunity since the invention of the PC, the pub... » read more

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