tag: Synopsys

What’s Missing In Low-Power Verification
By Ed Sperling - 09 May, 2013 - Comments: 0

By Ed Sperling Ask two engineers what low-power verification is and you’ll likely get the same checklist that includes confidence in the overall design, good coverage, a long list of corner cases, and other items in a checklist. Ask them how to reach that goal you’ll almost certainly get different answers—or maybe no answers at all. Power has emerged as a ubiquitous concern in design,... » read more

Lessons Learned In 4G LTE
By Ann Mutschler - 09 May, 2013 - Comments: 0

By Ann Steffora Mutschler While 4G LTE has moved into the mainstream, there are lessons to be learned about these very complex modems, especially from the perspective of balancing power and performance. The road to mainstream wasn’t exactly smooth sailing. “4G LTE initially got a bad rap for battery life, for power consumption,” said Pete Hardee, low-power design solution marketin... » read more

Shades Of Green
By Ed Sperling - 09 May, 2013 - Comments: 0

By Ann Steffora Mutschler Ask five people in the electronics industry what ‘green’ means and you are sure to get five different answers. In the datacenter, the definition is a little clearer because big iron draws so many amps. But at the SoC level where does the industry stand? The answer is as multifaceted as an SoC itself, with some answers based more on one-upmanship than real met... » read more

Roundtable: Is The Chip Ready
By Ed Sperling - 09 May, 2013 - Comments: 0

Mobile devices demand complex chips—so complex to build that signoff has become something of a balancing act between what the verification teams believe is good enough and time-to market demands. Low-Power/High-Performance Engineering talked about this with Simbal Rafiq, director of engineering at Applied Micro; Robert Hoogenstryd, senior director of marketing for design analysis and signoff ... » read more

Does My Phone Dream?
By Synopsys - 09 May, 2013 - Comments: 0

By Cary Chin Starting with my commentary on the Tesla Model S last month (poor standby time before software update), I was thinking about how common a problem standby power is these days. Nearly all of our recently introduced smartphones have had similar problems (iPhone 5, Nexus 4, Galaxy S4, Lumia 900) running on virtually all operating systems (iOS 6.x, Android 4.2.x, Windows Phone 8). All ... » read more

Experts At The Table: The Growing Signoff Headache
By Ed Sperling - 09 May, 2013 - Comments: 0

By Ed Sperling Low-Power/High-Performance Engineering sat down to discuss signoff issues with Rob Aitken, an ARM fellow; Sumbal Rafiq, director of engineering at Applied Micro; Ruben Molina, product marketing director for timing signoff at Cadence; Carey Robertson, director of product marketing for Calibre extraction at Mentor Graphics; and Robert Hoogenstryd, senior director of marketing for ... » read more

Experts At The Table: FinFET Questions And Issues
By Ed Sperling - 26 Apr, 2013 - Comments: 0

By Ed Sperling Low-Power/High-Performance Engineering sat down to discuss the current state and future promise of finFETs, and the myriad challenges, with Ruggero Castagnetti, an LSI fellow; Barry Pangrle, senior power methodology engineer at Nvidia; Steve Carlson, group director of marketing at Cadence; and Mary Ann White, director of product marketing at Synopsys. What follows are excerpts o... » read more

Shifts In Verification
By Ed Sperling - 25 Apr, 2013 - Comments: 0

By Ann Steffora Mutschler Verifying an SoC requires a holistic view of the system, and engineering teams use a number of tools to reach a high degree of confidence in the coverage. But how and when to use those tools is in flux as engineering teams wrestle with increasing complexity at every level of the design, and a skyrocketing increase in the challenge of verifying it. There are no ... » read more

Beyond Software: The Virtual-Machine Supply System
By The SE Staff - 25 Apr, 2013 - Comments: 0

It’s no secret that EDA and IP companies have had to expand their coverage into the larger system market, thanks to changes in the semiconductor supply chain. Around 2000, the industry was very fragmented. Mobile-chip and IP vendors worked with handset makers, who then partnered with operating-system (OS) suppliers and finally network operators. The next 12 years resulted in various combinati... » read more

Taking Aim At Big Data
By Ed Sperling - 25 Apr, 2013 - Comments: 0

By Ed Sperling As the Internet of Things bridges the gap between the mobile and big data worlds, EDA and IP vendors increasingly are looking well beyond their usual boundaries. How successful they are at moving upward into a market that is far less price-sensitive remains to be seen. But from a technology standpoint, at least, the issues encountered by data centers and cloud providers are ... » read more

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