Category: EDA
EDA
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Improved FPGA Tool Results
A bit over a year ago, we looked at startup Plunify, who was marketing cloud-based FPGA tool instantiations. I talked to them again at the…
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Synopsys’s IP Initiative
IP used to refer to hardware designs that could be purchased off the shelf. Actually, at first they were designs that wouldn’t really work for…
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Mentor Unifies Verification
Seems like verification unification is in the air. We saw it recently with Synopsys, and now we have a move from Mentor. While Synopsys’ version…
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New SEMulator 3D Announced
Coventor recently released a new version of SEMulator 3D. We’ve looked at this tool before; it’s what they call a virtual fabrication platform – helpful…
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IC Compiler Reinvented
What if you could just… toss it all and start over? (OK, maybe all except the router?) If you’re Synopsys, you now know: you’d end…
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Cleaning Up the Verification Shop
It’s one thing if different tools from different divisions of the same company don’t talk seamlessly together. Generally considered poor form. While that used to…
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Emulation: 3B Gates, 3 MHz
In the first major emulator news since Synopsys gobbled up EVE, Synopsys announced the next generation of the EVE platform, ZeBu 3. And, as with…
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A New Coverage Concept
OneSpin announced a Quantify MDV product a few years back. With it, they defined a number of different coverage aspects – things that could be…