tag: Synopsys

Blog Review: Sept. 14
By Jesse Allen - 14 Sep, 2016 - Comments: 0

Are wide bandgap lll-V power devices feasible? Applied's Ben Lee considers the challenges, and potential rewards, of silicon carbide and gallium nitride. DVCon India chair Gaurav Jalan chats with keynote speaker Alok Jain about the challenges of verifying complex SoCs, the unique verification needs of the IoT, and what might lie beyond UVM. From power intent abstraction to automatic power... » read more

Meeting Reliability For Automotive Applications With PCI Express
By Richard Solomon - 14 Sep, 2016 - Comments: 0

Automotive electronics such as powertrain and braking controls, Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS), and other vehicle operations platforms, where reliability is of utmost importance must meet stringent reliability standards. Even an automotive infotainment system is expected to perform flawlessly even under a variety of temperatures, humidity, and vibrations. Reliability is a key compone... » read more

Cars, Security, and HW/SW Co-Design
By Jeff Dorsch - 13 Sep, 2016 - Comments: 0

Semiconductor Engineering sat down to discuss parallel hardware/software design with Johannes Stahl, director of product marketing, prototyping and FPGA, [getentity id="22035" e_name="Synopsys"]; [getperson id="11411" comment="Bill Neifert"], director of models technology, [getentity id="22186" comment="ARM"]; Hemant Kumar, director of ASIC design, Nvidia; and Scott Constable, senior member of ... » read more

The Week In Review: IoT
By Jeff Dorsch - 09 Sep, 2016 - Comments: 0

Analysis After reading a blog post touting the Internet of Things for home security, Jon Hedren wrote this post detailing how IoT-based home systems can be easily compromised and could fail in multiple ways. “The IoT ‘dream’ as sold by the industry is pretty cool, but it’s still just a dream. For now, these devices remain generally shoddy, insecure, and easily breakable—and must be t... » read more

The Week In Review: Design
By Jesse Allen - 09 Sep, 2016 - Comments: 0

M&A Intel will acquire Movidius, adding the company's low-power vision processing unit to its growing computer vision efforts that include a depth-sensing camera and machine learning projects. At the same time, Intel is shedding cybersecurity unit McAfee (acquired in 2011 for $7.7 billion and re-named Intel Security in 2014). Intel will retain a 49% stake in the business with the 51% rem... » read more

GlobalFoundries Rolls Out 12nm FD-SOI Process
By Jeff Dorsch - 08 Sep, 2016 - Comments: 0

GlobalFoundries uncorked its 12FDX platform, incorporating a 12nm fully-depleted silicon-on-insulator process technology. The foundry’s Fab 1 in Dresden, Germany, will support customer development with the 12nm process, with product tape-outs scheduled for the first six months of 2019. The 12FDX technology follows the company’s 22FDX platform involving a 22-nanometer process. The foundr... » read more

Noise Killed My Chip
By Brian Bailey - 08 Sep, 2016 - Comments: 0

In the past, noise was considered an annoyance, especially for analog circuitry. But today chips are actually failing because insufficient analysis was performed. Noise types that used to be second-order effects are becoming primary factors that have to be considered. This is happening at the same time that noise margins are getting smaller, both in the amplitude and temporal dimensions. It ... » read more

Power Options And Issues
By Ann Mutschler - 08 Sep, 2016 - Comments: 0

In the quest to get SoC power right as early as possible in the design flow, it still holds true that the biggest impact occurs at the beginning of the project, with diminished results as a design progresses through the flow toward tapeout. [getentity id="22186" e_name="ARM's"] big.LITTLE architecture has gained a lot of traction here, prompting MediaTek to introduce its Tri-Gear big.Medium.... » read more

Integration IP Helps IP Integration
By Brian Bailey - 08 Sep, 2016 - Comments: 0

You might not know much about the MIPI Alliance if you aren't designing mobile phones, but you will soon. Other application areas are taking interest in what this group has accomplished. The alliance was founded in 2003 to create standards for hardware and software interfaces in mobile devices. Successful examples include a camera serial interface (CSI) and a display serial interface (DSI), ... » read more

Accelerate Time To Market With Change Impact Testing
By Synopsys - 07 Sep, 2016 - Comments: 0

QA teams don’t have time to test everything yet they can’t afford to ship buggy code. Teams waste precious resources on tests that have no relevance to the changes that were made to the application. And worse, there may be holes in the testing coverage which could lead to regression risk. Learn how Coverity can help organizations shrink their testing cycles and reduce regression risk by foc... » read more

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