Category: EDA

EDA

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Ban Power Consumption

    “How much power does it consume?” This has been a key question ever since I started work as a product engineer many years ago. Heck,…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Internet of Things- This Season’s Trend

    Later this week I will be reporting on the embedded world conference, where the Internet of Things was the major topic. Just before embedded world…