Applications won’t find all the bugs, but they have their uses
Can applications provide useful input for verification? They can but not when run straight out of the box, panelists at DAC 2014 said.
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Intel’s security architect lays out protection plan
At DAC 2014, Intel’s chief security architect Ernie Brickell described the processor maker’s approach to protecting hardware and software from hacks and attacks.
3D and EDA need to make up for Moore’s Law, says Qualcomm
Qualcomm is looking to monolithic 3D and smart circuit architectures to make up for the loss of traditional 2D process scaling as wafer costs for advanced nodes continue to increase.
Remember 20nm? Qualcomm does
Qualcomm will present at VLSI Technology Symposium 2014 a version of TSMC's 20nm technology that uses design and process tweaks to reduce the number of double-patterned layers.
Chipmaking’s future: all of the nodes all of the time
The stall in Moore's Law caused by the rapid rise in cost of the advanced processes will shift more innovation to mature nodes Monday keynoters at DAC said.
Synopsys uses virtual prototyping kits to kick start IP integration
Synopsys is porting its IP to a series of virtual prototyping kits in a plan to cut the amount of time that it takes to integrate new high-speed interfaces such as USB 3.0
Post-silicon devices: maybe it’s in the way they move
A research-focused session at DAC 2014 looks at using coupled oscillators rather than charge transfer to process data.
Emulation ‘heart of ESL’
The emulator has become the cornerstone of embedded system level (ESL) design on SoC projects, analyst Gary Smith claimed in a speech ahead of DAC 51.
Synopsys adds vector DSP operations to ARC EM processor IP
Synopsys has developed a digital signal processing (DSP) instruction set extension to its EM family and two cores that employ it.
Do not trust the cores, Trojans
If someone put a piece of RTL into your SoC designed to leak information to the outside world, or simply kill the device stone dead, could you spot it?