tag: Synopsys

Blog Review: June 3
By Jesse Allen - 03 Jun, 2015 - Comments: 0

An emergency torch that lets you breathe while escaping a smoke-filled building; a car that shrinks to fit into parking spaces that aren't quite big enough: from extreme situations to everyday activities, Ansys' Justin Nescott features devices designed to make life easier and safer in his picks for week’s top five engineering articles. Check out the prosthetic foot that takes commands from se... » read more

Emulation for Power
By Ann Mutschler - 01 Jun, 2015 - Comments: 0

Solving power problems in today’s leading-edge SoCs requires not only the best architectural choices but advanced tools and techniques to determine the right path to take. This equates to a combination of hardware emulation and power analysis/optimization software tools. Design teams today must have real-life scenarios to accurately predict the power impact of their architectural decisions... » read more

The Week In Review: Design/IoT
By Jesse Allen - 29 May, 2015 - Comments: 0

Mergers & Acquisitions Synopsys' list of security acquisitions grew with a definitive agreement to buy certain assets of Quotium, including the interactive application security testing product Seeker and its R&D team. The acquisition builds on static analysis technology from Coverity and Codenomicon's fuzz testing and software vulnerability assessment tools. Terms of the deal have no... » read more

M&A Season Now Officially Open
By Ed Sperling - 28 May, 2015 - Comments: 0

A year ago many people were making jokes quite openly about the IoT. It wasn't uncommon to hear quips about the Internet of Nothing, the Internet of Disconnected Things, the Internet of Cars, or some other variant that questioned just how connected everything would become. The tenor of the conversation has changed significantly in the past year. The jokes are fewer, the stakes are higher. An... » read more

What’s Different At 16/14nm?
By Ed Sperling - 28 May, 2015 - Comments: 0

Will finFETs live up to their promise? It depends on whom you ask, when you ask that question, and the intended application of a design. But across the semiconductor industry, there is general agreement that it's getting easier to work at the most advanced nodes as tools and flows are better understood and overall experience increases. There is no question that [getkc id="185" kc_name="finFE... » read more

Memory Design At 16/14nm
By Brian Bailey - 28 May, 2015 - Comments: 0

As we get older the memory may start to fade, but that is not a viable option if we are talking about embedded memory. Chips contain increasing amounts of memory, and for many designs memory consumes more than half of the total chip area. “At 28nm we saw a few people with greater than 400Mbits of memory on chip,” says Prasad Saggurti, product marketing manager for Embedded Memory IP at [... » read more

The Interconnect Bottleneck
By Ann Mutschler - 28 May, 2015 - Comments: 0

With communications playing a crucial role in the design and performance of multi-core SoCs, various interconnect structures have been proposed as promising solutions to simplify and optimize SoC design. However, sometimes things don’t go as planned and the interconnect becomes the bottleneck. “Under high utilization cases the DRAM will be over-constrained with requests from all the a... » read more

Full Coverage Or Full Monty
By Brian Bailey - 28 May, 2015 - Comments: 1

Without adequate coverage metrics and tools, verification engineers would never be able to answer the proverbial question: Are we done yet? But a lot has changed in the design flow since the existing set of metrics was defined. Does it still ensure that the right things get verified, that time is not wasted on things deemed unimportant or a duplication of effort, and can it handle today’s hie... » read more

Lazy Or Bored: The Outcome Might Be The Same
By Tom De Schutter - 28 May, 2015 - Comments: 0

I recently talked to an engineering manager responsible for system validation at a major automotive company. The topic was the continuous growth of software content and how to reach the right software quality. He explained that for the part he is responsible for, most software is created by his suppliers. But because the carmaker is ultimately held responsible for any issue with the car, he has... » read more

Demystifying the HDCP2.2 Authentication Process
By Synopsys - 27 May, 2015 - Comments: 0

This paper explains HDCP2.2 which is the latest generation content protection protocol. Our primary focus here is to explain how the authentication process on HDCP2.2, the various steps that are necessary in able to validate the receiver. The encryption on the keys in version 2.2 is more advanced than previous versions (HDCP1.X), which basically makes it harder to break. HDCP 2.2 is required fo... » read more

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