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Experts At The Table: FinFET Questions And Issues
By Ed Sperling - 26 Apr, 2013 - Comments: 0

By Ed Sperling Low-Power/High-Performance Engineering sat down to discuss the current state and future promise of finFETs, and the myriad challenges, with Ruggero Castagnetti, an LSI fellow; Barry Pangrle, senior power methodology engineer at Nvidia; Steve Carlson, group director of marketing at Cadence; and Mary Ann White, director of product marketing at Synopsys. What follows are excerpts o... » read more

Beyond Software: The Virtual-Machine Supply System
By The SE Staff - 25 Apr, 2013 - Comments: 0

It’s no secret that EDA and IP companies have had to expand their coverage into the larger system market, thanks to changes in the semiconductor supply chain. Around 2000, the industry was very fragmented. Mobile-chip and IP vendors worked with handset makers, who then partnered with operating-system (OS) suppliers and finally network operators. The next 12 years resulted in various combinati... » read more

Taking Aim At Big Data
By Ed Sperling - 25 Apr, 2013 - Comments: 0

By Ed Sperling As the Internet of Things bridges the gap between the mobile and big data worlds, EDA and IP vendors increasingly are looking well beyond their usual boundaries. How successful they are at moving upward into a market that is far less price-sensitive remains to be seen. But from a technology standpoint, at least, the issues encountered by data centers and cloud providers are ... » read more

Reducing Wait Time
By Tom De Schutter - 25 Apr, 2013 - Comments: 0

By Tom De Schutter Last month we were all waiting for white smoke to emerge from the chimney on the roof of the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican. I am of course talking about the election of the new pope. I couldn’t help but see a parallel with how software developers are anxiously waiting for their software to run correctly and finally get past the series of seemingly never ending bugs (black ... » read more

Subsystems And Reuse
By Frank Schirrmeister - 23 Apr, 2013 - Comments: 0

By Frank Schirrmeister The last couple of weeks have been very busy with travel, customer meetings and presentations—DATE in Grenoble, CDNLive in San Jose and, most recently, EDPS in Monterey. Software enablement and IP sub-systems have been the key themes throughout these events, and during Gary Smith’s keynote at EDPS, I realized that subsystem reuse may be a significant step to solving ... » read more

Executive Briefing: Lip-Bu Tan
By Ed Sperling - 11 Apr, 2013 - Comments: 0

By Ed Sperling LPHP: From a high level, what are your customers doing differently these days? Tan: What system companies are looking for is time-to-market and differentiation. They want to differentiate on specific functions. IT has become very important in this process. And in terms of tools, they are looking for end-to-end solutions. Besides the advanced nodes and IP blocks, they are starti... » read more

Power? It’s The Apps, Stupid!
By Shabtay Matalon - 11 Apr, 2013 - Comments: 0

Shabtay Matalon When I bought my first iPhone, I envisioned using it mostly to make phone calls and occasionally to view e-mails and browse the Web. For navigation, I used a separate GPS. But all this changed when I realized that I can use the Waze App on my iPhone for real-time navigation or to play games while listening to music on a boring coast-to-coast domestic flight. These new “apps�... » read more

Experts At The Table: The Trouble With Low-Power Verification
By Ed Sperling - 29 Mar, 2013 - Comments: 0

By Ed Sperling Low-Power/High-Performance Engineering sat down to discuss low-power verification with Leah Clark, associate technical director at Broadcom; Erich Marschner, product marketing manager at Mentor Graphics; Cary Chin, director of marketing for low-power solutions at Synopsys; and Venki Venkatesh, senior director of engineering at Atrenta. What follows are excerpts of that conversat... » read more

Network Software Bring Up
By Tom De Schutter - 28 Mar, 2013 - Comments: 0

By Tom De Schutter With their latest Cortex-A processors, and especially the ARMv8 Cortex-A57 processor, ARM has provided the right scalability and performance required for network applications. Porting and developing software for these multicore/multi-cluster designs, however, is not a trivial task and cannot be done as an afterthought. That is the topic that Robert Kaye from ARM and I addres... » read more

Trying To Catch Up With Software Developers
By Frank Schirrmeister - 27 Mar, 2013 - Comments: 0

By Frank Schirrmeister The electronic design automation (EDA) industry has now been trying for at least a decade and a half to catch up with software developers, for two main reasons. First, there are so many of them that it would be great to expand EDA into that domain. Second, semiconductor companies, i.e. the core customers to which the EDA industry sells, have had to add more and more soft... » read more

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