SpringSoft tackles analog automation with new twist on constraints
SpringSoft is trying a different approach to constraint-based design in a bid to improve the automation of custom and mixed-signal design, particularly on advanced process nodes.
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.
U2U notebook: five sources of EDA growth… and golf clubs
Mentor Graphics’ CEO Wally Rhines picked out the trends he says can boost design productivity and drive growth for tools vendors at the company’s Silicon Valley User2User conference
FinFET focus for June VLSI Symposia
Intel will reveal more details of its ‘Tri-Gate’ FinFET-based 22nm process at this year’s VLSI Symposium.
U2U links test and yield enhancement
Subtle data correlation and analysis techniques are helping to relate logic failures to particular types of manufacturing defect.
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.
Mixed-signal for the rest of us from Triad
The specialist AMS foundry Triad Semiconductor has married its ViaASIC drag and drop libraries to Mentor Graphics’ SystemVision design environment.
Making FPGA prototyping easier
The latest release of the Synplify Pro and Premier synthesis tools from Synopsys addresses stop-start delays and HDL experience issues when prototyping with programmable logic.
SNUG 2012 notebook: Critical mass takes ever more collaboration
Companies need to collaborate with partners, vendors, and the rest of the supply chain if they are to achieve critical mass, Aart de Geus tells Synopsys user meeting.
Yocto Project gets a useful shove from Mentor
The Yocto Project brings the ‘ecosystem’ concept to embedded Linux and the tool vendor’s launch builds that idea out nicely.
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.