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Keep chip designs on the level with CMP simulation and dummy fill optimization

This case study shows how rising CMP simulation quality can be leveraged to detect the position and type of planarity hotspots before manufacture and verify the planarity of a layout.

Guides

  • Portable stimulus

    EDA - Standards, Technologies

    Accellera’s Portable Stimulus standard aims to improve verification efficiency and the reuse of test IP across the entire design life cycle.

  • Dynamic power optimization

    EDA - Techniques

    FinFETs present a number of problems with respect to dynamic power consumption. Design techniques are being re-evaluated to deal with the issue.

  • Monolithic 3DIC for SoC

    EDA - Technologies

    Monolithic 3DIC integration may provide a viable alternative to conventional 2D scaling for SoCs if manufacturing problems can be overcome.

Expert Insights

Adnan Hamid

Security: Making the unknown, known

Adnan Hamid is co-founder and CEO of Breker Verification Systems, and inventor of its core technology. He has more than 20 years of experience in functional verification automation and is a pioneer in bringing to market the first commercially available solution for Accellera’s Portable Stimulus Standard.

How to combine formal and dynamic verification within an app to uncover security vulnerabilities.

Scot Morrison

Delivering on security for Linux-based medical devices

How should you address the monitoring and resource challenges in maintaining security for Linux devices.

Ron Press

How to gain a competitive edge with advanced DFT

Learn how the latest design for test innovations deliver efficiency and profitability across the design flow.

EDA

  1. FeatIm P&R MaxLinear Mentor
    Article How MaxLinear got faster signoff DRC while optimizing reliability and manufacturability

    The RF and AMS specialist turned to design software that allowed it to run design checks during place and route.

  2. Article Make it easier to exercise state machines with SystemVerilog
  3. Expert Insight Verifying AI engines

PCB

  1. ECAD-MCAD collaboration - featured image
    Article The necessity and benefits of ECAD-MCAD collaboration for PCB design

    Collaboration across the electrical and mechanical domains leverages more tightly integrated and highly featured tools with richer data formats for greater accuracy and shorter time-to-market.

  2. Expert Insight Enabling the move to a system-centric view
  3. Article Tackling the design challenges of PCIe 5.0

IP

  1. Article Implementing high performance, low power Bluetooth Low Energy interfaces in SoCs

    A look at the complexiites of implementing a Bluetooth Low Eenergy interface in an SoC.

  2. Article Introduction to the Compute Express Link (CXL) device types
  3. Article Introduction to the Compute Express Link (CXL) protocols

Embedded

  1. Colin Walls
    Expert Insight Choosing an embedded operating system

    You cannot break your operating system choice down in something as simple as a flowchart but there are some headline criteria you should think about.

  2. Expert Insight System-of-systems validation for automotive design
  3. Expert Insight Self-test strategies for embedded systems

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