tag: Synopsys

Blog Review: May 19
By Jesse Allen - 19 May, 2021 - Comments: 0

Cadence's Paul McLellan checks out a project from Intel and DARPA to combine the eASIC structured ASIC technology with data interface chiplets and enhanced security protection, with manufacturing in the U.S. In a podcast, Siemens EDA's Ellie Burns and Michael Fingeroff discuss the gap between what the best AI applications can perform today versus the human brain and the challenges that hardw... » read more

Power Optimization: What’s Next?
By Brian Bailey - 17 May, 2021 - Comments: 2

Concerns about the power consumed by semiconductors has been on the rise for the past couple of decades, but what can we expect to see coming in terms of analysis and automation from EDA companies, and is the industry ready to make the investment? Ever since Dennard scaling stopped providing automatic power gains by going to a smaller geometry, circa 2006, semiconductors have been increasing... » read more

Week In Review: Design, Low Power
By Jesse Allen - 14 May, 2021 - Comments: 0

Siemens Digital Industries Software acquired Fractal Technologies, a provider of tools for IP validation and comparison checks of standard cell libraries, IO, and hard IP that reports mismatches or modeling errors, as well as comparing new IP releases close to tape-out. Siemens plans to add Fractal’s technology to the Xcelerator portfolio, joining the Solido software product family, which inc... » read more

Week In Review: Auto, Security, Pervasive Computing
By SE Staff - 14 May, 2021 - Comments: 0

Security A ransomware attack shutdown 5,500 miles of gas pipeline in the eastern United States for a week and sparked some panic buying and an executive order from U.S. President Biden. The Colonial Pipeline Co. paid nearly $5 million in ransom to Eastern European hackers, according to Bloomberg article. The hacker group DarkSide was responsible, members of whom the U.S. government believes li... » read more

11 Ways To Reduce AI Energy Consumption
By Bryon Moyer - 13 May, 2021 - Comments: 1

As the machine-learning industry evolves, the focus has expanded from merely solving the problem to solving the problem better. “Better” often has meant accuracy or speed, but as data-center energy budgets explode and machine learning moves to the edge, energy consumption has taken its place alongside accuracy and speed as a critical issue. There are a number of approaches to neural netw... » read more

Early Detection Of Reset Domain Crossing Errors
By Joe Mallett - 13 May, 2021 - Comments: 0

Many aspects of system-on-chip (SoC) designs are growing, including the numbers of gates, memories, clock domains, reset domains, power domains, on-chip buses, and external interfaces. A recent blog post focused on reset domain crossings (RDCs) and the requirements for effective pre-silicon verification of these trouble-prone structures. If properly applied, a solution meeting these requirement... » read more

HBM Takes On A Much Bigger Role
By Brian Bailey - 13 May, 2021 - Comments: 1

High-bandwidth memory is getting faster and showing up in more designs, but this stacked DRAM technology may play a much bigger role as a gateway for both chiplet-based SoCs and true 3D designs. HBM increasingly is being viewed as a way of pushing heterogenous distributed processing to a completely different level. Once viewed as an expensive technology that only could be utilized in the hig... » read more

Designing Secure and Trusted Silicon Using Shift-Left in Verification
By Synopsys - 12 May, 2021 - Comments: 0

Designing secure silicon requires the design to be stable at all times, it shouldn't enter unknown states at any time to make it vulnerable from the security point of view. This paper identifies different sources of instability such as combinational feedback loop, unguarded clock and reset crossing, unguarded power crossing, etc. These instabilities can lead to unknown value propagation and hig... » read more

Blog Review: May 12
By Jesse Allen - 12 May, 2021 - Comments: 0

Cadence's Claire Ying points to major changes in PCIe 6.0 as PAM4 signaling replaces NRZ to help double bandwidth, Forward Error Correction helps maintain data integrity, and various improvements are made to power consumption. Synopsys' Samantha Beaumont argues that automotive sensors are a major potential attack point and addresses some of the key areas of sensor vulnerability and the chall... » read more

In-Chip Sensing And PVT Monitoring: Not Just An Insurance Policy
By Ramsay Allen - 11 May, 2021 - Comments: 0

You wouldn’t drive an expensive car without insurance or take a flight in an aircraft without performing instrument and control surface checks. So why would you take the risk of designing a multi-million dollar advanced node semiconductor device without making sure you are aware of, and able to manage, the dynamic conditions that had the potential to make or break a silicon product? Advanced... » read more

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