Category: EDA

EDA

  • A Clean, Well-Lighted Place for Models

    Software is becoming an increasingly important element in SoCs as embedded systems are integrated into single chips. Such a chip must ship with working software,…

  • Analysis by Braille

    As a technology, JTAG (or IEEE 1149.1) has been leveraged a lot of ways to do a lot of things that may not have been…

  • More Accurate I/O Models

    I/O models have become increasingly important as we’ve moved from dumb 5-V-swing full-rail CMOS I/Os (remember those?) to the tight, sensitive kinds of I/Os needed…

  • Catapult C Changes Hands

    High-level synthesis (HLS), somewhat synonymous these days with electronic system-level (ESL) design , has been a bloody business. Companies have come and, mostly, gone over…

  • IC Manage Fires Back

    So… the Methodics/IC Manage saga continues. Last week’s revelations must have caught them somewhat unprepared, so it took them some more time to provide a…

  • The Veil is Lifted on Methodics.Com

    You may remember something of a kerfuffle about Methodics, which uses the methodics-da.com domain, finding that a page at methodics.com that said that Methodics was…

  • The Clouds Converge

    We’ve been watching the cloud computing space, and Synopsys has been playing a visible role in exploring the public cloud for compute resource elasticity during…

  • The Old Switcheroo

    Way back in 2004, during the Vice Presidential debate, Dick Cheney urged listeners to go to “factcheck.com” to confirm that the campaign spin-checking organization would…

  • Sorting Through the Rubble

    Roughly a year ago we talked about Vennsa’s OnPoint tool for identifying what went wrong during verification when something goes wrong. I got an update…

  • Custom Chip Planning

    Digital designers have had semi-automated design flows for a long time; custom and analog designers, not so much. Pulsic recently announced that they’re taking some…