Category: Semiconductor
Semiconductor/IC
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New Tools for Managing IP
IP can be a pain in the butt. Any large company will presumably have tons of IP, some from inside, some from outside, being used…
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Switching Classes
High-level synthesis (HLS) has been all about C (or C++) to RTL. But when you’re validating your algorithm, it’s easier to work at the TLM…
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End-to-End Signal Analysis
When two chips talk to each other, they do so over a convoluted path that involves signals leaving a driver, going to a pad, up…
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Home-Brewed Emulators
When you need to verify test suites that drag on for millions (or billions) of clock cycles, it really helps to run them on some…
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A New 3D IC Manager
When Imec and Atrenta recently announced a design flow for planning and routing signals between different stacked ICs, I thought, “Wait, I’ve seen this before,…
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Allocating Spectrum
A couple years ago, in an article about clock-generated noise, we talked about Teklatech’s power-shaping feature, which, at the time, was designed to smooth out…
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Layering On
A long time ago we took a look at MRAM technology, and Crocus was one of the companies in play. Well, it’s been quiet since…
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Take it Outside
As flexible as FPGAs are, you would think that you could stuff debug logic in there to probe around the internals and figure out what’s…
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Quicker LTE Validation
Each new communications protocol adds to the complexity of its predecessor, and the 3GPP-LTE cellular standard is no exception. According to Synopsys, there are more…
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Stop Repeating Yourself
You may recall a while back – actually, a good while back – we looked at parasitic extraction tools and contrasted the field solver approach…