The fundamental difference between commercial FPGA-based emulators and emulators based on custom silicon lies in the core element that maps the design-under-test (DUT).
Emerging silicon photonics technology holds a great deal of promise in computing and communications for sheer performance, reduced power, and overall increases in bandwidth.
Josh Lee is president and CEO of Uniquify. Uniquify has developed IP for building high performance DDR subsystems. The systems are designed to deliver better performance, lower power and smaller area, it also solves the fundamental problem of...
Rich Goldman, VP of corporate marketing and strategic alliances at Synopsys, recently predicted the top five trends that are likely to drive the global semiconductor industry in 2014. Standards will help, or hurt, each of these trends.
Altium and Nimbic are working together to introduce Nimbic’s power integrity tool into its printed-circuit board (PCB) design tool, Altium Designer, to create a new power integrity solution, Altium PI-DC...
As the number of transistors on a chip continues to grow the importance of correct designs and verification of those designs becomes of paramount importance. EDA verification continues to rapidly evolve but formal verification is here now.
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Now that it takes $10 million or more to bring a device to market, focused ion beam (FIB) circuit edit has become strategically important for reducing costs, optimizing performance and functionality, mitigating risk, and speeding time-to-market...
Today's EDA companies now face the primary need for a verification flow that enables complete horizontal reuse of verification environments from concept to silicon and beyond.
2014 should be a very interesting year, with a breadth of activity across three technology nodes. 20 nm will move from the early-adopter crowd towards more mainstream production customers, while 16 nm/14 nm will see many test chips in preparation...
