Category: Semiconductor
Semiconductor/IC
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Design Management Goes Big Data
What could you do if you had access to a ton of data about semiconductor design? Things like: How designs are structured Which modules are…
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Cadence Refreshes Synthesis and Formal
Cadence has announced a couple of major upgrades over the last month or two. They’re largely unrelated to each other – one is synthesis, the…
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Detailed RTL Power Analysis
If you want to minimize the power consumption of your system, you can’t wait until you have your design reduced to gates. Yeah, you can…
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New Toy in the Sandpit
EDA Playground is a neat idea. From your browser you can simulate chunks of SystemVerilog, Verilog, VHDL, C++, SystemC and other HDLs, using Aldec and…
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Rumors Intel Altera Deal is Close
The NY Post reported today that sources told them that an Intel/Altera deal was close, and could be done by the end of next week.…
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Differentiating Your IoT Widget – in Hardware
What does it take to be successful as a maker of an Internet-of-Things (IoT) edge-node product? This question doesn’t have an obvious answer, partly because…
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Cadence’s Faster Debug Idea
Cadence is proposing a new way to approach debug. It’s almost an obvious way, except that this isn’t how most debug has traditionally been done.…
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Faster NoC Tuning
In a sleepy little town of 4 or 5 houses, you can be pretty informal about how mail arrives at its destinations. People can come…
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Intel/Altera Agreement (Partially) Tells the Tale
We did a lot of speculation in our recent articles about the rumored Intel bid to buy Altera. One of the areas of most intense…