tag: Synopsys

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

Engineering Change Orders Revisited
By Ed Sperling - 29 Nov, 2012 - Comments: 0

By Ed Sperling The perennial nightmare of the marketing head reporting that a customer will buy a design—but only if it fits into a specific power envelope or has better performance or I/O—is all too familiar to engineering teams. In theory, using more third-party IP should help alleviate this problem because the IP can be changed out relatively easily. The reality, though, is that it�... » read more

Prototyping Now A ‘Must Have’
By Ed Sperling - 29 Nov, 2012 - Comments: 0

By Ann Steffora Mutschler No longer a ‘nice to have,’ FPGA-based prototyping is now indispensible for SoC and ASIC development. Semiconductor companies are investing in the infrastructure, the EDA tool chain, the human resources and everything needed to set up an entire department to focus on prototyping, emulation and validation. “We are seeing these customers invest in significant a... » read more

Traveling Light
By Nithya Ruff - 29 Nov, 2012 - Comments: 0

By Nithya Ruff I recently attended the Embedded Linux Conference in Barcelona representing Synopsys. I must admit, it is nice to have conferences in beautiful places so you can kill two birds with one stone. When not networking, speaking or sitting in sessions, I enjoyed seeing the beauty of Antoni Gaudi’s architecture, some great vegetarian restaurants like Juicy Jones and, of course, I enj... » read more

Experts At The Table: The Sky Isn’t Falling
By Ann Mutschler - 15 Nov, 2012 - Comments: 0

By Ann Steffora Mutschler Semiconductor Manufacturing and Design sat down recently to discuss how the industry is making 3D ICs a reality today with Sylvan Kaiser, chief technology officer at Docea Power; Steve Smith, senior director for 3D-IC strategy at Synopsys; and Ahmed Jerraya, director of strategic design programs at CEA-LETI. SMD: How far are we from having the models we need to ena... » read more

Spoiled By Moore’s Law
By Ed Sperling - 08 Nov, 2012 - Comments: 0

By Ann Steffora Mutschler Over the past 20 years, lithium ion has emerged as the predominant battery technology. While there are a few variants, it seems that for everything from smartphones to automobiles, the same basic technology is being used. Many other technologies that have come and gone over the years—nickel cadmium, nickel metal hydride come to mind in the recent past, but they ar... » read more

More Art Than Science
By Ed Sperling - 08 Nov, 2012 - Comments: 0

By Ann Steffora Mutschler Not so long ago, high-end digital devices were mostly just digital. Today large SoCs contain a significant amount of analog/mixed-signal content. And given that analog circuits have certain sensitivities different from digital blocks, there is a desire to convert some of those analog signals to digital to achieve power savings and take advantage of digital verificat... » read more

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