Dawn Of The M2M Age


By Jack Browne With the unrelenting progress of Moore’s Law, the semiconductor sector has enabled technology to power today’s cloud computing model. For 30 years, the industry has been talking about the convergence of computing, control and communication. But today, people are mostly intrigued by the end user experience for their devices and how to connect to the Internet of things. The... » read more

Experts At The Table: Billion-Gate Design Challenges


By Ed Sperling Low-Power Engineering sat down to discuss billion-gate design challenges with Charles Janac, CEO of Arteris; Jack Browne, senior vice president of sales and marketing at Sonics; Kalar Rajendiran, senior director of marketing at eSilicon; Mark Throndson, director of product marketing at MIPS; and Mark Baker, senior director of business development at Magma. What follows are excer... » read more

The Quest For A Better IP Integration Methodology


By Ed Sperling With the amount of IP in SoC designs now hitting an estimated 70% to 90%, companies are scrambling to figure out a way to more consistently integrate that IP and to test that it will work as expected. This is easier said than done, however, for a number of reasons: There are numerous types of IP, ranging from I/O to logic and memory. Not all IP is of equal quality. ... » read more

Fishing For Ideas In A Bigger Pond


By Ann Steffora Mutschler From networking to optical modeling to open source software platforms, EDA engineers are drawing from a variety of disciplines to develop tools for chip design, stretching the technology beyond its original intent. To this end, Synopsys acquired Optical Research Associates (ORA) last fall to add optical design and analysis to its portfolio. The acquisition allowed ... » read more

Experts At The Table: Billion-Gate Design Challenges


By Ed Sperling Low-Power Engineering sat down to discuss billion-gate design challenges with Charles Janac, CEO of Arteris; Jack Browne, senior vice president of sales and marketing at Sonics; Kalar Rajendiran, senior director of marketing at eSilicon; Mark Throndson, director of product marketing at MIPS; and Mark Baker, senior director of business development at Magma. What follows are excer... » read more

Widening The Channels


By Ed Sperling Wide I/O—both as a specific memory standard and as a generic approach for on-chip networking—has been looked at for the past couple of chip generations as a way of improving SoC performance. Increasingly, it also is being used as a key strategy for reducing energy consumption. Wide I/O refers to a number of different approaches in on-chip networking, ranging from through-... » read more

Experts At The Table: Billion-Gate Design Challenges


By Ed Sperling Low-Power Engineering sat down to discuss billion-gate design challenges with Charles Janac, CEO of Arteris; Jack Browne, senior vice president of sales and marketing at Sonics; Kalar Rajendiran, senior director of marketing at eSilicon; Mark Throndson, director of product marketing at MIPS; and Mark Baker, senior director of business development at Magma. What follows are excer... » read more

Billion-Gate Chips


Low-Power Engineering examines hurdles ranging from power to cost in billion-gate IC designs with Arteris; Jack Browne, senior vice president of sales and marketing at Sonics; Kalar Rajendiran, senior director of marketing at eSilicon; Mark Throndson, director of product marketing at MIPS; and Mark Baker, senior director of business development at Magma. [youtube vid=0jum2ThIVzg] » read more

Experts At The Table: 3D Stacking


By Ed Sperling Semiconductor Manufacturing and Design sat down with Riko Radojcic, director of engineering at Qualcomm; Drew Wingard, CTO at Sonics; Michael White, senior product marketing manager for Calibre physical verification at Mentor Graphics; Jim Hogan, a Silicon Valley venture capitalist; Prasad Subramaniam, vice president of design technology at eSilicon; and Mike Gianfagna, vice pr... » read more

Experts At The Table: 3D Stacking


By Ed Sperling Semiconductor Manufacturing and Design sat down with Riko Radojcic, director of engineering at Qualcomm; Drew Wingard, CTO at Sonics; Michael White, senior product marketing manager for Calibre physical verification at Mentor Graphics; Jim Hogan, a Silicon Valley venture capitalist; Prasad Subramaniam, vice president of design technology at eSilicon; and Mike Gianfagna, vice pr... » read more

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