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Category: EDA

EDA

  • Building Better Wizards

    Wizards are becoming more and more prevalent. Lest you’re concerned that Dumbledore’s relatives are coming to exact revenge, fear not: we speak here of wizards…

  • Characterization vs. Corners

    Once you’ve got a circuit that you think is what you want, you have to make sure it works across the entire range of conditions…

  • Imperas Gen 2

    Imperas has launched their second-generation virtual platform technology. In so doing, they’re adding more capability as well as restructuring their product offering. We’ve been following…

  • Sophisticated Variation Modeling

    As a newly-developed process is prepared for delivery into the production world, one of the last things that has to happen to effect a transition…

  • Challenging PrimeTime. Really.

    No one ever got fired for using PrimeTime to sign off a chip. Actually, I don’t know if that’s true, but from an EDA buyer’s…

  • Synopsys’s Embedded Vision

    In the shadow of the recent Embedded Vision Alliance summit, Synopsys tossed its hat into the vision ring with their new Embedded Vision Development System.…

  • Concurrent Sign-off Analysis

    I’m getting a sense that we’re back into the small-company-friendly phase of the EDA company cycle. A number of newcomers (which means they’ve been around…

  • Cadence gobbling up IP?

    The announcement that Cadence is planning to buy Evatronix marks the company’s fourth acquisition in a matter of months. One slipped under the radar, what…

  • Parallel Accurate SPICE

    SPICE has got to be one of the oldest tools still being used by designers. So you might expect it to be a mature market,…

  • Directing DSA

    DSA – Directed Self Assembly – is 2/3 natural and 1/3 artificial. The “self assembly” part (two of the three words, to make the scoring…