Category: EDA
EDA
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Third-Generation Debugger
SpringSoft just announced the next major version of their popular Verdi debug tool. Calling it Verdi3, they say they’ve done some major upgrades in three…
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Better VIP Performance
As SoC designs have ballooned in size and scope, so has the effort required to verify them. A big part of what makes such large…
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MEMS Tool Upgrade
Back when we looked at CMOS-compatible MEMS, we also included a discussion of the MEMS design tools from Coventor. Those tools have just been upgraded.…
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IP in the Cloud
EDA has yet another cloud computing participant, but this is of a different flavor from what we’ve seen before. While most efforts to date have…
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Magma People and Products
At the time I commented on the announced Synopsys/Magma merger the other day, I had received no comment on the fate of products and people…
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And Then There Were Three
Back before the turn of the century, a brash new company called Magma came onto the scene. This was a time when chip design involved…
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BoardView Becomes SystemNav
Almost two years ago we looked at Magma’s newly-announced BoardView. The idea was to simplify the border crossing between chip and board when tracing signals…
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Describing User-Defined Faults
In today’s article on cell-aware fault modeling, we described how specific layout-dependent faults can be accounted for in the test suite, increasing the test coverage…
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Getting a Jump on Power Integrity
Apache announced their RTL Power Model (RPM) recently. The idea is that it lets designers understand their power and power integrity issues earlier in the…
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Another PCB Tool Refresh
Our feature this week talks about Zuken’s PCB tool redesign, and out of left field came another announcement of yet another PCB tool that has…