tag: Synopsys

Executive Outlook
By Ed Sperling - 19 Dec, 2012 - Comments: 0

By Ed Sperling The view from the top of companies is a like a high-level of abstraction for viewing the industry. While engineers get caught up in individual projects, or pieces of projects, CEOs and CTOs tend to see things from a much broader perspective. So what do they see as the big issues and developments over the next 12 to 24 months? System-Level Design asked industry leaders that q... » read more

Keeping Pace With Moore’s Law
By Ann Mutschler - 19 Dec, 2012 - Comments: 0

By Ann Steffora Mutschler As the number of transistors doubles with each move to a smaller manufacturing process technology, there are questions as to whether the current cadre of place and route tools will be able to keep in lock step. Have no fear, assured Saleem Haider, senior director of marketing for physical design and DFM at Synopsys. “For the increase in densities that we get with... » read more

Step On It
By Nithya Ruff - 19 Dec, 2012 - Comments: 0

By Nithya Ruff On a recent trip to Germany, I was a passenger in a car with my colleague Tom De Schutter on the German Autobahn. We had just landed in Frankfurt and were driving to Aachen, Germany. The anticipation of the potential speed at which we would drive created both excitement and anxiety in me. What I learned about driving on the Autobahn was eye opening with how Germany allows for sp... » read more

12 Design Techniques For Successful Integration Of Data Converter IP Into An SoC
By Various Writers - 19 Dec, 2012 - Comments: 0

To deliver the demanding performance and faster operation of today’s systems—from communication interfaces to high-image-quality video and multimedia systems—consumer applications employ digital signal processing extensively. Data converters form the interface between the real-world analog signals and the digital domain. They are, therefore, an essential element of the complete signal pro... » read more

Too Many Rules
By Ed Sperling - 13 Dec, 2012 - Comments: 0

By Ed Sperling The number of restrictive design rules that have to be dealt with by routers at 28nm and beyond has increased by several orders of magnitude compared with several generations ago, creating havoc in the automated tools world and slowing down the entire design process. At a time when market windows are shrinking, complexity is making it harder to meet even the old schedules. Th... » read more

Mix-And-Match Power Options
By Ed Sperling - 06 Dec, 2012 - Comments: 0

By Ann Steffora Mutschler Choices abound today when it comes to considering a node shrink. Fully depleted silicon on insulator (FD-SOI) and finFET technologies along with other advanced transistor options are being evaluated, both together and independently of the other. It is possible to implement finFET on bulk 28nm CMOS or finFET on an FD-SOI process, for example. It is also possible to imp... » read more

Virtual IDM Progress Report
By Ed Sperling - 06 Dec, 2012 - Comments: 0

By Ed Sperling Complexity, tight power budgets, disaggregation of the supply chain and market fragmentation are conspiring to force much tighter partnerships among companies that develop different pieces of an SoC, as well as those that collaborate on even larger systems. This confluence of factors has forced the rules for how companies work together to be rewritten, but even within that frame... » read more

Watch Out For The Cliff
By Synopsys - 06 Dec, 2012 - Comments: 0

By Cary Chin (to be sung to the tune of “George of the Jungle”) Along with superstorms, a still-limping economy, and people launching missiles and mortars at each other, the headline news of the day continues to include the impending "fiscal cliff." This is a completely artificial event that we created for ourselves more than 10 years ago, and it has been on our calendar ever since. It's ... » read more

Are There Enough Cooks In The Kitchen?
By Ann Mutschler - 06 Dec, 2012 - Comments: 0

We work in a fascinating industry, without a doubt, and I watch with interest to see the new technologies that the industry decides to adopt. finFETs and FD-SOI are some really cool technologies, in particular, with great promises. You might also know that we follow innovations in the world of chip design and manufacturing every week from academia and research institutes on all of our communiti... » read more

To Shrink Or Not To Shrink…And How Much?
By Ed Sperling - 29 Nov, 2012 - Comments: 0

By Ann Steffora Mutschler The 28nm semiconductor manufacturing node is in full swing with 20nm process development ramping quickly. As such, the industry has been looking ahead to the next node shrink to achieve the power, performance and cost advantages that a node shrink promises. However, as we are well aware by now, traditional CMOS planar technology is not scaling as it did in previous ge... » read more

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