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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- Memcon panel explores low-power main-memory choices
- Altera spins Cyclone with low-power, design protection, and redundancy
- Mentor upgrades Catapult-C to deal with control logic and power management
- LSI brings LDPC technology to disk read-channels
- Solido adds well-proximity estimation to Variation Designer
- Calypto works with Virage on managing memory power
- Cypress, SpectraLinear go almost head-to-head on clock ICs
- CPU power management, systems architecture and market share: a not-so-subtle interaction
- Intel's Mayberry sketches in the roadmap for Intel process evolution
- Toshiba, TSMC show different directions at VLSI Symposium
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- basic optics on Heard at SemiCon West: what lies beyond double-patterning lithography: EUV, e-beam, imprint technology, or the end of history?
- realized on Intel's Mayberry sketches in the roadmap for Intel process evolution
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