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Category: EDA

EDA

  • Is Someone Tampering with Your IoT?

    The stronger the hype, the likelier it will be accompanied by a “yesbut.” A yesbut is that nagging question that needs to be asked in…

  • Calypto Refreshes HLS

    High-level synthesis (HLS) recently got a round of improvement. Calypto’s Catapult 8 represents yet another fundamental renewal of an EDA tool for improving ease of…

  • BSIMProPlus Gets a Makeover

    Seems like there are two kinds of EDA tool announcements. Most of them introduce new capabilities – support for a new process node or a…

  • Beefed-Up Sensor Subsystem

    You may recall that, about a year ago, Synopsys released a sensor subsystem. You could think of it as the IP needed to implement sensors…

  • On the Scene: Almost-Instant Semi Quotes with eSilicon

    Historically, it has taken months, possibly many months to get a quote for semiconductor production. Lots of paper was involved – maybe a fax machine…

  • Verdi: Not Just for Debug Anymore

    There’s a bit of repositioning going on in EDA-land. It involves Synopsys’s popular Verdi tool, acquired through the SpringSoft purchase. Conceived as a flexible debug…

  • If This Is a Conference, then It Must Be November

    November would appear to be Conference Month. Of course, no one has conferences in the summer. Oh, wait! Semicon West does! OK, well, most folks…

  • Faster Extraction from Cadence

    Cadence recently announced new extraction tools, claiming both greater speed (5x) and best-in-class accuracy for full-chip extraction. And what is it that lets them speed…

  • Planning PCB, Package, and Die Together

    Silicon chips and the packages that house them have been steadily drawing closer to each other over the years. There are so many pins on…

  • Intelligent VIP

    This year’s DAC included a discussion with Arrow Devices. They’re a company exclusively focused on protocol VIP. They’re not a tool company (other than, as…