Author Archives: TDF Staff

February 19, 2019

DVCon USA 2019 preview: SmartDV

The verification IP specialist is focusing on its new products for RISC-V verification and for emulation platforms next week in San Jose.
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February 11, 2019

DVCon USA 2019 preview: Mentor

DVCon USA is coming soon. Mentor's 2019 involvement includes a keynote from parent Siemens and a tutorial on managing your formal verification processes.
February 8, 2019

Taking an IoT edge design from proof-of-concept to prototype

A new paper describes a case study for a pressure-sensing IoT application based on the ARM DesignStart platform and Mentor IoT tool flow.
February 6, 2019

Safety and test IP heads for automotive AI applications

Automotive AI specialist FABU has licensed a portfolio of IP from Synopsys to help assemble ISO 26262-compliant SoCs
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January 21, 2019

Synopsys gets big-chip signoff boost from Innovium

Data-centre networking chip goes through full-chip design rule checking and layout-versus-schematic signoff on TSMC's 16nm finFET process in a day.
January 21, 2019

Video series details the physical verification process

Physical verification challenge of large SoCs on leading-edge processes detailed in video series
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December 31, 2018

Closing code coverage with a hardware-aware HLS-to-RTL flow

Closing code coverage from HLS has been tricky because the C++ tools were built for software not hardware. But that is changing.
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December 14, 2018

Synopsys announces DDR5 and LPDDR5 interface IP

Synopsys is targeting artificial intelligence (AI) and data centre SoCs as key application areas for the interface IP.
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October 29, 2018

Mentor extends Tessent for debug and automotive pattern generation

As ITC 2018 begins, Mentor addresses stringent ISO 26262 requirements and looks to bridge the gap in how IJTAG-based debug is structured.
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October 9, 2018

Synopsys takes TSMC design into the cloud; IP to 7nm, 5nm and automotive processes

Synopsys is taking IC design on TSMC processes into the cloud with the launch of the Synopsys Cloud Solution, which will run on platforms from Synopsys, Amazon Web Services (AWS) or Microsoft Azure.
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