DAC 2012: ARM tips subthreshold power-gating technique
Could subthreshold circuitry help extend the reach of power gating? Mike Muller said during his DAC keynote that the technique looks viable.
Tech Design Forum Briefing
Briefing Authors
Paul Dempsey
Paul Dempsey has been a technology journalist for 20 years. His work has also appeared in EETimes, Red Herring and specialist journals published by the Financial Times.
Luke Collins
Luke Collins is a freelance technology journalist with 22 years’ experience. He is a former Editor-in-Chief of Electronics Times in the UK, and co-founded the IP9x series of conferences.
Chris Edwards
Chris Edwards has spent two decades covering electronics and EDA. He is a former Editor-in-Chief of Electronic Engineering Times UK and electronics editor of the IET's Engineering & Technology.
DAC2012: 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?
DAC 2012: Avoid IP getting lost in translation
Do you know where the IP for your design has been? Or where it’s going? That’s the question a lot of CAD groups face as they struggle with regulatory, bug-fixing and yield issues.
DAC2012: Sagantec offers lifebelt to 28nm users, path to 20nm libraries
Can process migration tools help the yield-challenged and speed the path to 20nm?
DAC 2012: Google your way to DFM
The Silicon Integration Initiative (Si2) is targeting the end of the year for release 2.0 of its OpenDFM standard, which will include support for DRC+ and make it possible to build search engines for yield.
DAC 2012 Interview: Mentor DFM chief Joe Sawicki on 20nm
The 20nm node will be making headlines at DAC. What are the challenges, what’s being done about them and how could this work help engineers working at more mature nodes.
ESL: are we there yet?
Verification drives system-level adoption as sales leap 76%. Virtual prototyping is also on the rise but there are gaps in the tool-set.
DAC2012: Can FD-SOI shrink chips, solve FinFET issue for SoCs?
What are the chances that FD SOI will become a mainstream process for future nodes?
DAC2012: 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.
DAC 2012: The platforms are taking over
At last year’s DAC, leading EDA analyst Gary Smith said chip design had run into a big problem: it was already too expensive to be worthwhile for most companies. Soon afterwards, three companies rang to tell him that the figures were too pessimistic: it was not costing in the region of $75m but perhaps just […]