Category: EDA
EDA
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Verification Moves to Database
It’s one of those things that I sort of assumed had been done a long time ago: using databases for design information. After all, Magma’s…
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Synopsys Does… Software?
Synopsys has gone shopping again, and this time they went to a completely different mall. They came back with Coverity. Just another acquisition? Nope… This…
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Smoother IP to SoC Prototyping
Synopsys recently announced their HAPS DX (Developer eXpress) product, and the story surrounding that release spoke to many of the things that Synopsys sees as…
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MEMS First Silicon Success
Some time back, AMFitzgerald and Silex, a MEMS consultancy and foundry, respectively, announced their “RocketMEMS” program in order to take steps to accelerate the notoriously…
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Simpler MEMS Models for ASIC Designers
Some time back, we took a look at the library of mechanical elements in Coventor’s MEMS+ tool for building MEMS device models. In the “be…
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Breker Supplements Simulation
We’ve talked about Breker’s C-level test generation tools a couple of times in the past. But the context for that discussion was simulation – the…
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SPICE-ing It Up
SPICE is pretty fundamental to circuit design. That’s obvious for cell and custom designers; for you digital folks, you get exempted only because a cell…
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Triple Patterning Explosion
The type of patterning to be used at a given technology node is determined layer-by-layer. At 10 nm, SADP is planned for metals, but contacts…
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New Synopsys DFT Offerings
It’s ITC time, and this is when many of the EDA and test folks roll out their new stuff. True to this pattern, Synopsys has…