tag: Synopsys

Huge Challenges With Billions Of Things
By Ed Sperling - 07 Nov, 2013 - Comments: 0

Communication is poised in the next couple of years to cross a line between humans and things—things talking directly to other things as well as to people—setting in motion a series of technological, social and legal issues that will take years or decades to resolve. On one hand, this is made possible by leaps in processing performance and power management in mobile devices. In his keyno... » read more

Blog Review: Nov. 6
By Ed Sperling - 06 Nov, 2013 - Comments: 0

Mentor’s J VanDomelon provides some insights into a program to improve the working relationship between humans and robots, aka the Minotaur project. This is like sensitivity training for advanced weaponry. Synopsys’ Karen Bartleson rolls out part two of her discussion with Mike Malone about the phenomenon known as Silicon Valley. As with Moore’s Law, reports about impending doom, irrel... » read more

Experts At The Table: The Future Of Verification
By Ed Sperling - 04 Nov, 2013 - Comments: 0

Semiconductor Engineering sat down to discuss the future of verification with Janick Bergeron, Synopsys fellow; Harry Foster, chief verification scientist at Mentor Graphics; Frank Schirrmeister, group director of product marketing for the Cadence System Development Suite; Prakash Narain, president and CEO of Real Intent; and Yunshan Zhu, vice president of new technologies at Atrenta. What foll... » read more

The Week In Review: System-Level Design
By Ed Sperling - 01 Nov, 2013 - Comments: 0

Qualcomm bought some of Arteris’ IP assets and the bulk of its French design team, but Arteris remains a viable company with a NoC product, customers, and an infrastructure. ARM released a study, in conjunction with the Economist Intelligence Unit, that shows 75% of global business leaders are actively researching opportunities on the Internet of Things. The report says the five barriers f... » read more

Experts At The Table: Debug
By Ed Sperling - 31 Oct, 2013 - Comments: 0

Semiconductor Engineering sat down with Galen Blake, senior verification engineer at Altera; Warren Stapleton, senior fellow at Advanced Micro Devices; Stephen Bailey, director of solutions marketing at Mentor Graphics; Michael Sanie, senior director of verification marketing at Synopsys. What follows are excerpts of that conversation. SE: There are separate areas being created in devices, s... » read more

Blog Review: Oct. 30
By Ed Sperling - 30 Oct, 2013 - Comments: 0

Mentor’s Nazita Saye has stumbled on a phone that you can build yourself from various components. When something breaks, you simply change out what’s broken. Wasn’t that the concept behind the original Volkswagen Beetle? Cadence’s Brian Fuller launches into the discussion about 16nm headaches, including finFET parasitics, pin access and wire resistance. Looks like the transition to f... » read more

Week In Review: System-Level Design
By Ed Sperling - 25 Oct, 2013 - Comments: 0

Mentor Graphics unveiled an embedded hypervisor for automotive infotainment systems. This is a Type 1 hypervisor, meaning it runs next to the metal and below the OS. In contrast, Type 2 hypervisors run above the OS. Mentor’s hypervisor supports multicore processors and ARM’s TrustZone security. Synopsys rolled out Ethernet controller IP for the data center, focused on energy efficiency a... » read more

Experts At The Table: The Future Of Verification
By Ed Sperling - 24 Oct, 2013 - Comments: 0

Semiconductor Engineering sat down to discuss the future of verification with Janick Bergeron, Synopsys fellow; Harry Foster, chief verification scientist at Mentor Graphics; Frank Schirrmeister, group director of product marketing for the Cadence System Development Suite; Prakash Narain, president and CEO of Real Intent; and Yunshan Zhu, vice president of new technologies at Atrenta. What foll... » read more

Will History Repeat Itself?
By Brian Bailey - 24 Oct, 2013 - Comments: 0

Hands up — how many people read the books by Clayton Christensen, books such as The Innovator’s Dilemma? His books were talked about endlessly in the corridors of the EDA companies when they first came out. They all wanted to identify the next disruption and could find reasons why almost every new tool was going to be disruptive. For people not familiar with his work, his main premise wa... » read more

Buying And Selling EDA Companies
By Ed Sperling - 24 Oct, 2013 - Comments: 0

EDA, arguably more than any other industry, has been built on the backs of engineering breakthroughs by startups. In aggregate, those startups are the backbone of tools that have made cell phones smart and which helped improved gas mileage on automobiles. Through an almost continuous stream of acquisitions, these startups have added to the top-line valuation of big EDA companies, and despite th... » read more

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