tag: Synopsys

Week in Review: IoT, Security, Auto
By Jeff Dorsch - 08 Feb, 2019 - Comments: 0

Internet of Things McKinsey & Company identified 10 top trends in the Internet of Things. They include: IoT is a business opportunity, not just a tech opportunity; disciplined execution across multiple use cases is the path to value; and IoT is gradually enabling more subscription business models, but consumers are resistant. Louis Columbus of IQMS provides some IoT data points and id... » read more

VCSEL Technology Takes Off
By Kevin Fogarty and Ed Sperling - 07 Feb, 2019 - Comments: 1

By Kevin Fogarty and Ed Sperling Vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VCSEL) technology, a proven but mostly niche technology until recently, is suddenly a very hot commodity thanks to the introduction of facial recognition in phones and other mobile devices. VCELS primarily have been used as a low-cost way of tracking movement and transfering data in computer mice, laser printers and ... » read more

Achieving Flexible Processing Requirements For IoT End-Node Devices
By Graham Wilson - 07 Feb, 2019 - Comments: 0

The term Internet of Things (IoT), which used to be used broadly to describe almost all connected devices, can now be seen to fall into two segments: Critical IoT and Massive IoT. Critical IoT refers to mission-critical applications such as automotive communication, industrial machines, and medical procedures where low latency is crucial, while Massive IoT is related to the billions of connecte... » read more

Designing Networking Chips
By Ed Sperling - 07 Feb, 2019 - Comments: 0

Susheel Tadikonda, vice president of networking and storage at Synopsys, talks about what’s changed in the way networking chips are being designed to deal with a massive increase in data. One of those shifts involves software-defined networking, where the greatest complexity resides in the software. That also has a big impact on the entire design flow, from pre-silicon to post-silicon. htt... » read more

Issues In Designing 5G Beamforming Antennas
By Kevin Fogarty - 07 Feb, 2019 - Comments: 3

As 5G networking inches closer to reality, one of the more stubborn problems also will be one of the smallest. Several issues have yet to be cracked with beamforming and massive MIMO antennas, which will make millimeter wave (mmWave) spectrum—a key ingredient in 5G networks—work on multiple devices and base-station locations. Millimeter wave is problematic yet promising. Between bands 30... » read more

Open Source in M&A Due Diligence
By Synopsys - 06 Feb, 2019 - Comments: 0

Most companies involved with technology M&A understand the danger of open source risks in software. Today’s software contains significant amounts of open source—on average more than 50%, according to a 2018 Synopsys report. There are several ways to assess and manage open source risk in a transaction, with some more effective than others. Similarly, there are several approaches to open s... » read more

Blog Review: Feb. 6
By Jesse Allen - 06 Feb, 2019 - Comments: 0

Mentor's Harry Foster examines the impact of growing design complexity on how long designs spend in verification, the ratio of design to verification engineers on a project, and how they spend their time. Cadence's Paul McLellan checks out some of the emerging memory technologies and notes there's no clear indication which will dominate the market. Synopsys' Meenakshy Ramachandran checks ... » read more

MISing In Signoff
By Jim McCanny - 31 Jan, 2019 - Comments: 0

Timing signoff is critical to ensure your design will perform as expected before it is taped out. For many designs, signoff and subsequent ECOs are focused on the performance target and iterating to meet that.  Once the performance goals are met then the attention passes onto hold-time fixing and then, usually, quickly onto tapeout.  However, even after extensive signoff analysis, silicon fai... » read more

Using Memory Differently
By Ann Mutschler - 31 Jan, 2019 - Comments: 0

Chip architects are beginning to rewrite the rules on how to choose, configure and use different types of memory, particularly for chips with AI and some advanced SoCs. Chipmakers now have a number of options and tradeoffs to consider when choosing memories, based on factors such as the application and the characteristics of the memory workload, because different memory types work better tha... » read more

EDA Grabs Bigger Slice Of Chip Market
By Brian Bailey - 31 Jan, 2019 - Comments: 0

EDA revenues have been a fairly constant percentage of semiconductor revenues, but that may change in 2019. With new customers creating demand, and some traditional customers shifting focus from advanced nodes, the various branches of the EDA tool industry may be where sticky technical problems are solved. IC manufacturing, packaging and development tools all are finding new ways to handle t... » read more

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