tag: Synopsys

Uncertainty Rocks Chip Market
By Ed Sperling - 30 Jun, 2016 - Comments: 1

The semiconductor industry is undergoing sweeping changes in every direction, making it far more difficult to figure out which path to take next, when to take it, and how to get there. The next few years will redefine which semiconductor companies emerge as leaders, which ones get pushed down or out or absorbed into other companies, and which markets will be the most lucrative. And that coul... » read more

Electrical-Mechanical Tool Flow Revisited
By Ann Mutschler - 30 Jun, 2016 - Comments: 0

For many years, the design tool industry has entertained the idea of combining both electrical and mechanical design into a single user experience, with a single database as a foundation. Major tool vendors, at least on the electrical side, have taken the matter seriously and confirm that activities towards a single flow have been considered, particularly as the [getkc id="7" kc_name="EDA"] ... » read more

Can Verification Meet In The Middle?
By Brian Bailey - 30 Jun, 2016 - Comments: 0

Since the dawn of time for the EDA industry, the classic V diagram has defined the primary design flow. On the left hand side of the V, the design is progressively refined and partitioned into smaller pieces. At the bottom of the V, verification takes over and as you travel up the right-hand side of the V, verification and integration happens until the entire design has been assembled and valid... » read more

Will Open-Source Work For Chips?
By Brian Bailey - 30 Jun, 2016 - Comments: 2

Open source is getting a second look by the semiconductor industry, driven by the high cost of design at complex nodes along with fragmentation in end markets, which increasingly means that one size or approach no longer fits all. The open source movement, as we know it today, started in the 1980s with the launch of the GNU project, which was about the time the electronic design automation (... » read more

ISO 26262-Certified Solution For Testing of Safety-Critical Automotive ICs
By Synopsys - 29 Jun, 2016 - Comments: 0

Anti-lock braking systems, air bags, traction control, and electronic stability control are just a few examples of typical safety systems in current production cars. Next-generation safety systems, known as Advanced Driver Assistance Systems, or ADAS, are setting up the path for semi- and fully autonomous cars of the near future. Some ADAS technology uses a combination of cameras and radar to s... » read more

Blog Review: June 29
By Jesse Allen - 29 Jun, 2016 - Comments: 0

Ansys' Justin Nescott checks out the world's first electric highway for trucking in this week's top five tech picks. Plus, some cool houses, Boston Dynamics' giraffe-bot, and a drum kit in a backpack. Applied's Matt Cogorno takes a look at the challenges facing etch methods as devices keep getting smaller. Synopsys' Apoorva Mathur digs into the energy efficient aspects of the MIPI M-PHY a... » read more

The Week In Review: Design
By Jesse Allen - 24 Jun, 2016 - Comments: 0

Tools & IP Synopsys uncorked PHY and Controller IP for PCI Express 4.0 architecture, which the company says reduces latency by up to 20% and area by 15% compared to the previous implementation. The IP supports lane margining to assess performance variation tolerance. PLDA announced a PCIe 4.0 development platform, and provides a PCIe 3.0-x8 (upstream) to PCIe 4.0-x4 (downstream) Integ... » read more

Blog Review: June 22
By Jesse Allen - 22 Jun, 2016 - Comments: 0

A Lam Research writer investigates the challenges that lie ahead for interconnects and whether current technologies will find new life or be replaced by new strategies. There's a greater force powering Moore's Law, says Cadence's Paul McLellan, who points to the vast amount of transistors being used for memory. Mentor's Robert Bates considers the challenges of securing in-hospital network... » read more

Decoding The Brain
By Brian Bailey - 22 Jun, 2016 - Comments: 1

At the Design Automation Conference this year, Lou Scheffer, principal scientist for the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, gave a visionary talk entitled Learning from Life: Biologically Inspired Electronic Design. Scheffer is an IC design guy who came through Stanford and Caltech and worked for HP and [getentity id="22032" e_name="Cadence"] before switching to the medical field eight years a... » read more

Building Smart Homes On A Secure Foundation
By Mike Borza - 17 Jun, 2016 - Comments: 0

News outlets recently covered the new paper, “Security Analysis of Emerging Smart Home Applications,” and its findings about the security vulnerabilities in common “smart home” applications. Originally published in the 2016 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, the paper describes the operation of, and potential issues with, the programming framework in smart home devices on the marke... » read more

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