tag: Synopsys

‘Good’ Vs. ‘Good Enough’
By Ed Sperling - 22 Jul, 2010 - Comments: 0

By Ed Sperling The decision for when a chip is ready for tapeout is changing—both in time and sometimes in terms of who’s actually making that decision—as the amount of software being developed by hardware companies continues to grow. At the root of this shift are two very different concepts about what constitutes a market-ready product. For SoC engineers, fixing bugs after a chip has... » read more

Getting Low-Power IP Integration Right
By Ed Sperling - 08 Jul, 2010 - Comments: 0

By Ann Steffora Mutschler When it comes to integrating multivendor IP, power concerns dominate the challenges that engineers face. To get it right however, there are definitely questions that should be asked when considering which IP to use, along with techniques to manage power complexity. When choosing IP, the following points should be considered: How mature is the IP being sold? Has... » read more

The Power Of IP
By Ed Sperling - 08 Jul, 2010 - Comments: 0

By Ann Steffora Mutschler As the number of design starts goes down the corresponding complexity of SoCs has gone up—and continues to grow. Everyone is looking at the value they can bring to the table as increasing proportions of SoCs are either reused from pre-existing IP within the company designing the chip or brought in from outside. Because is economically impractical to start an SoC... » read more

Keeping Models In Sync
By Ed Sperling - 08 Jul, 2010 - Comments: 0

By Ed Sperling Models and higher levels of abstraction have been hailed as the best choice for developing SoCs at advanced process nodes, but at 28nm and beyond even that approach is showing signs of stress. The number of models needed for a complex SoC has been growing at each new process node, which makes it much more difficult to keep them updated and in sync as the design progresses down t... » read more

End User Report: EDA Industry Realignment
By Ann Mutschler - 24 Jun, 2010 - Comments: 0

By Ann Steffora Mutschler The EDA industry has seen a number of large acquisitions as of late, most notably of Denali by Cadence, as well as CoWare, VaST and Virage Logic which were acquired by Synopsys, but just what impact does this realignment have on the biggest EDA customers? Commenting on these changes is Jean-Marc Chateau, director of system platforms and tools at STMicroelectronics, ... » read more

Connecting The Pieces
By Ann Mutschler - 24 Jun, 2010 - Comments: 0

By Ann Steffora Mutschler With the amount of IP blocks being integrated in SoCs today – in some cases as many as 100 blocks in a single chip – SoC design methodologies are shifting to address the new challenges this complexity brings. The good news is that these integration challenges has put the spotlight on the issues—along with the skyrocketing development costs for the creation, qual... » read more

The Future Of IP
By Ed Sperling - 24 Jun, 2010 - Comments: 0

By Ed Sperling The rapid consolidation of the IP business is raising big questions about who will be left, whether new companies will join, and what it means for chipmakers looking to buy IP. In a period of one month Synopsys bought Virage Logic, which had just finished a buying spree of its own with the acquisitions of ARC and the IP business of NXP, and Cadence bought Denali. So what exac... » read more

Synopsys Plus Virage: Combinatorics Or Common Sense?
By Jack Harding - 24 Jun, 2010 - Comments: 0

By Jack Harding It should be no surprise. The industry has been consolidating and expanding and consolidating for nearly 40 years. So when Virage Logic was gobbled up by Synopsys and Denali was ingested by Cadence, it is really a lot more of the same. Or is it? There is a difference. Synopsys has made it crystal clear that its definition of EDA now permanently includes IP. Not that acquirin... » read more

The Road To DAC: One-On-One With Aart de Geus
By Ed Sperling - 11 Jun, 2010 - Comments: 0

Synopsys CEO Aart De Geus sounds off about the future of design and where growth will come from in the EDA market.   [youtube vid=GO-9ILL9fDg] » read more

Synopsys To Buy Virage Logic
By Ed Sperling - 10 Jun, 2010 - Comments: 0

By Ed Sperling Synopsys bought Virage Logic today for $289 million, extending its IP portfolio well beyond just standard I/O and PHY into memory, logic and processor cores. The move strengthens Synopsys’ position as an all-in-one powerhouse with IP that can fit into an integrated flow. “A big part of the value is providing building blocks that work through the SoC flow,” said Joac... » read more

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