tag: Siemens EDA

The Argument For Low Power In The Data Center
By Ann Mutschler - 16 Jul, 2009 - Comments: 0

By Ann Steffora Mutschler For budgetary and ‘green’ motives, enterprise IT customers are demanding higher energy efficiency from their servers. This ultimately rests on the shoulders of the processor designer as the MPU is a significant source of power usage. Interestingly, the hidden and ugly truth is that for most data center managers, the cost of electricity for that data center is... » read more

Challenges At 32nm And Beyond
By Ed Sperling - 16 Jul, 2009 - Comments: 0

Wally Rhines, chairman and CEO of Mentor Graphics, talks about what's changing in design, the effect of low power, and who's going to be doing the most advanced designs. [youtube vid=_hDk9bx4gXo] » read more

ESL…Is It What You Want Or What You Need?
By Jon McDonald - 25 Jun, 2009 - Comments: 0

Last week I was sitting in a meeting having an extended discussion on what information and benefits could be derived from an ESL transaction model of a system.  It reminded me of the words of those immortal philosophers, The Rolling Stones, “You can’t always get what you want, but if you try sometimes you just might find, you get what you need”.  I believe this is a philosophy that ne... » read more

Making Quality A Top Priority in Next-Generation Designs
By Cheryl Ajluni - 25 Jun, 2009 - Comments: 0

By Cheryl Ajluni With system design such a complicated task these days, it is increasingly likely that designers will inadvertently overlook some details of the design process, or worse yet, simply not have the time to address them adequately. Time is readily spent focusing on things like performance, area, timing, and power, but what about something a bit more esoteric in nature—namely, qu... » read more

Custom IC Design: They Call This Progress?
By Ed Sperling - 25 Jun, 2009 - Comments: 0

By Ed Sperling For decades, analog and digital engineers have lived in completely separate worlds. The lines are blurring between those worlds, though, in complex SoCs. So far, the transition has been difficult, and most engineers predict it will get worse at future process nodes. The basic problem is that each world has functioned independently of the other from the start. They use different... » read more

Problems In Multicore Design
By Jon McDonald - 27 May, 2009 - Comments: 0

Jon McDonald talks about the multitude of choices in multicore design and what to do about it. Click here to watch the video. » read more

Pain Points At 22nm And Beyond
By Ed Sperling - 27 May, 2009 - Comments: 0

By Ed Sperling The roadmap for 22nm has a giant pothole in the middle of it. That hole is supposed to be filled by extreme ultraviolet lithography, or EUV. Instead it is being patched up using immersion lithography, which is about to cause some monumental headaches for design teams. The difference is comparable to a surgeon using a chainsaw instead of a scalpel. The cut isn’t nearly as ... » read more

Formal Verification 101
By Various Writers - 27 May, 2009 - Comments: 0

By Clive "Max" Maxfield The first time I came into contact with the concepts of a digital hardware description language (HDL) and digital logic simulation, I inherently understood how it all "worked." The idea that the statements in the modeling language acted in a concurrent manner just seemed to make sense. By comparison, trying to wrap my brain around formal verification has always mad... » read more

Is ESL Formal Verification An Oxymoron?
By Jon McDonald - 29 Apr, 2009 - Comments: 0

“No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.” – Albert Einstein I’ve had a number of conversations recently trying to understand what verification means for ESL and higher level models. It seems that most of the people I talk to are looking for a guarantee, they want formal verification, a proof that the design is doing what it should... » read more

Intelligent Verification Offers Hope For “Smartening” Up Verification
By Cheryl Ajluni - 28 Apr, 2009 - Comments: 0

By Cheryl Ajluni As with death and taxes, when it comes to design some things are just inevitable. For one, as design geometries shrink, design complexity will continue to increase. For another, verification is the single most time-consuming and intensive part of the entire design cycle. While new tools and methodologies have enabled designers to work through many of the existing complexity i... » read more

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