U2U to assess state of 3DIC flow
Qualcomm's director of engineering is among the panelists at the upcoming U2U event in Santa Clara who will look at the state of play for 3DICs and how design flows are bearing up to dealing with 3D integration.
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Synopsys builds 3D into tool portfolio
At the SNUG event this week, Synopsys is taking the wraps off its plans to support 3DIC, with updates to tools for physical design and verification.
DATE notebook: Aldec builds in more support for VHDL methodology
Aldec has updated its Riviera Pro tool to provide more support for OS-VVM, the recently launched verification methodology for VHDL
DATE notebook: Help for heat-sensitive chips
Until the software is ready, it's often hard to tell when two neighbouring units on an SoC could combine to push the package past its maximum thermal point. Docea Power aims to help.
DATE notebook: Constraints smooth path for FPGA synthesis
Blue Pearl Software has extended its reach into the world of field-programmable gate array (FPGA) design and verification with a project that has culminated in a tighter integration between its timing analysis tools and the Synopsys Synplify Pro tool.
DATE notebook: Electric motion
Robert Bosch is expecting to see major growth in electronics in cars over the coming decade. But most of that growth will not be coming from electric vehicles of the four-wheeled variety, said the company's automotive division president.
DATE notebook: EDA for the rest of us
Old processes don't necessarily equate to old tools, panelists argued at DATE, especially when a lot of future work will be done on more-than-Moore, 3DIC technologies.
DATE notebook: Forget automation, give us acceleration
The CTO of one European design house wants better acceleration features from analog design tools, not automation that overrides their judgement.
DATE notebook: Stack those servers high
Concern over energy consumption could be the key to European companies moving back into the compute server market – or at least that's what the European Commission and researchers think is possible as social networks, GPS data and public video cameras pour data into a growing collection of online storage banks.
ARM decodes a surprising power benefit
ARM has found that in its work on processor design looking at the system-design and process issues as well as the way software interacts with the machine can yield surprising results.