EDN Executive Editor Ron Wilson explores how IC design teams really work: the struggle for power efficiency and performance, wrestling with semiconductor processes and design methodologies, the challenges of global design teams. How do we somehow herd architecture, IP, design and verification into a successful tape-out?
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Recent Posts
- Heard at SemiCon: Synopsys thinks only a village can raise SoC yields
- Heard at SemiCon West: how to look at diffusion profiles—the Scanning Microwave Microscope
- Heard at SemiCon West: 300 mm or 450 mm wafers—what do the models tell us?
- Heard at SemiCon West: Panelists debate one side of the 450 mm wafer question
- Heard at SemiCon West: what lies beyond double-patterning lithography: EUV, e-beam, imprint technology, or the end of history?
- Heard at SemiCon West: local active cooling for opto-electronics, power devices and SoCs—not to mention genetic engineering--moves closer to reality
- Virage Logic pushes into DDR3 territory with full interface IP
- Cadence C-to-Silicon synthesis may mark next round in ESL tools
- What recession? Planning SoC strategy in an uncertain economy
- Sonics offers another way to approach DRAM controller complexity: in the interconnect architecture
Recent Comments
- yvdp on Cadence C-to-Silicon synthesis may mark next round in ESL tools
- Greg on Heard at SemiCon: Synopsys thinks only a village can raise SoC yields
- dan on Heard at SemiCon: Synopsys thinks only a village can raise SoC yields
- Cicero on Cadence C-to-Silicon synthesis may mark next round in ESL tools
- bamaskas on Good enough data compression: Samplify could open the door to novel uses
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- The Tata People’s Car and the promise of automotive electronics (18)
- There’s lots of silicon in photovoltaic cells, but is there any gold for the electronics industry? (15)
- Cadence stalks Mentor: a possible explanation. (And no, it's not strategic.) (12)
- Nintendo Wii wireless problem illustrates RF communications issues (11)
- Will global recession hand the equipment industry to China? (10)
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