DAC 2012 Notebook
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June 7
Synopsys marries virtual and FPGA prototyping: Expose your transaction-level innovations to the real world early on and catch bugs before simulation.
June 6
A look inside Accellera’s UCIS: Accellera has approved version 1.0 of the Unified Coverage Interoperability Standard (UCIS). Here’s how it works.
Intel’s Ivy Bridge chip chop shop: Intel’s Ivy Bridge series of processors were designed from the outset to be split apart and recombined to create variants of the base platform..
June 5
Collaboration key to success at 20nm: Foundries can’t hand down design rules on tablets of stone any more, says GlobalFoundries’ Mojy Chian.
ARM tips subthreshold power-gating technique: Mike Muller’s DAC keynote included a hint on how to extend supply-gating to very low power circuits.
Rethink tools licensing for cloud computing, EDA Industry told: Could more flexible licensing strategies for cloud-based EDA enable more efficient simulation and a new wave of business models?
Sagantec offers lifebelt to 28nm users, path to 20nm libraries: Can process migration tools help the yield-challenged and speed the path to 20nm?
Avoid IP getting lost in translation: Do you know where your IP has been? Or where it’s going?
June 4
Google your way to DFM: DRC+ is well on its way to becoming an Si2 standard and will enable lithographic yield search engines
Interview: Mentor DFM chief Joe Sawicki on 20nm: Where’s the tool innovation already under way for the incoming node and what does it also mean for users of existing processes.
ESL: are we there yet? It’s been a tough slog getting ESL tools into the market, but Gary Smith says the pace is picking up.
Can FD-SOI shrink chips, solve FinFET issue for SoCs?: The SOI Consortium attempts to counter arguments that finFETs are the way to go.
Blue Pearl partners Xilinx, develops grey-box approach to ARM cores: Blue Pearl is building alliances to bring its timing analysis tools to more users.
June 3
The platforms are taking over: Platform-based design could reshape the IC design business, according to Gary Smith EDA’s Sunday evening talk.
June 1
STMicro, Cadence, GlobalFoundries in 20nm AMS claims: Test chip announced as flows begin to take shape. It’s going to be a busy week.
20(nm) questions: Mentor’s Michael Buehler-Garcia on how the main challenges at 20nm are already being addressed.
May 30
The Gary Smith EDA ‘What to see’ list is live: How to get hold of the analyst’s touchstone guide to the hottest tools at DAC.
Energetic Si2 finds time to look back: Throwing a 10th birthday party for OpenAccess at DAC won’t distract the organization from a near future focused on PDKs, 3D and DFM.
May 29
Atrenta to automate production of power-intent constraints: Updates to existing tools and new ones will help designers get the most bang for their joule.
Introducing Flexras Technologies: French start-up aims to take the pain out of FPGA prototyping with timing-driven partitioning.
Accellera takes first step to a real coverage standard: The Unified Coverage Interoperability Standard will get different vendors tools producing analysis-compatible coverage data. Who said, “And about time, too”?
OCP-IP moves to further ease reuse: The 3.1 specification goes out for review with features such as flexible memory barriers and transaction counting parameters.