Synopsys FPGA Platform: Enabling Faster Design, Verification and Debug of FPGAs


Field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) are no longer the co-processor of full-custom chips and application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs). Today's FPGA offerings include devices as large and complex as any ASIC system-on-chip (SoC) on the market. The dramatic increase in size, complexity and functionality means that many FPGA development teams are adopting ASIC-style design, verification ... » read more

Test On New Technology’s Frontiers


Semiconductor testing is getting more complicated, more time-consuming, and increasingly it requires new approaches that have not been fully proven because the technologies they are addressing are so new. Several significant shifts are underway that make achieving full test coverage much more difficult and confidence in the outcome less certain. Among them: Devices are more connected an... » read more

Week in Review – IoT, Security, Autos


Products/Services Rambus entered an exclusive agreement to acquire the Silicon IP, Secure Protocols, and Provisioning business from Verimatrix, formerly known as Inside Secure. Financial terms were not revealed. The transaction is expected to close this year. Rambus will use the Verimatrix offerings in such demanding applications as artificial intelligence, automotive, the Internet of Things, ... » read more

Week In Review: Design, Low Power


Rambus will acquire the Silicon IP, Secure Protocols and Provisioning business from Verimatrix, formerly Inside Secure. The secure silicon IP and provisioning solutions from both companies will be integrated into a single portfolio of products and the embedded security teams from Verimatrix will join Rambus. “Integrating the Verimatrix embedded security team into Rambus, a recognized leader i... » read more

Advantages Of LPDDR5: A New Clocking Scheme


Earlier this year, JEDEC released the new standard, JESD209–5, Low Power Double Data Rate 5 (LPDDR5). Those that contributed to the development of the standard come from a diverse technology background and represent both manufacturers and consumers of SDRAM memories. Now we have a new memory standard to help enable the future that requires more compute power, higher reliability, and lower pow... » read more

Challenges To Building Level 5 Automotive Chips


It’s an exciting time in the automotive space, and this is especially true when it comes to all of the activity around autonomous driving and the path to achieving full Level 5 autonomy. The technology is complex, the ecosystem seems to get more complex by the day, and simulating autonomous systems safely makes this an extremely fascinating area from an engineering perspective. At the heart o... » read more

IP’s Growing Impact On Yield And Reliability


Chipmakers are finding it increasingly difficult to achieve first-pass silicon with design IP sourced internally and from different IP providers, and especially with configurable IP. Utilizing poorly qualified IP and waiting for issues to appear during the design-to-verification phase just before tape-out can pose high risks for design houses and foundries alike in terms of cost and time to... » read more

Blog Review: Sept. 4


Synopsys' Taylor Armerding checks out Apple's newly expanded bug bounty program, with bounty payouts are increasing to compete with malicious actors, and why even with security-oriented development the practice of bug bounties will remain needed. Mentor's Colin Walls shares a few more embedded software tips, this time on external variables, delay loops in real time systems, and meaningful pa... » read more

Enabling Faster Design, Verification and Debug of FPGAs


Field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) are no longer the co-processor of full-custom chips and application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs). Today’s FPGA offerings include devices as large and complex as any ASIC system-on-chip (SoC) on the market. The dramatic increase in size, complexity and functionality means that many FPGA development teams are adopting ASIC-style design, verificatio... » read more

On The Cusp Of 5G


Carriers and chipmakers are celebrating the rollout of the first standards-compliant commercial 5G services. "We are, officially in the era of 5G," said John Smee, vice president of engineering at Qualcomm at the recent 5G Summit at IEEE's International Microwave Symposium (IMS) in Boston. Movement is happening on the commercial end. Major U.S. carriers Verizon, AT&T and Sprint have set ... » read more

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