February 27, 2015
How Synplify makes it easier to use IP in FPGA-based designs, and package your own IP for secure reuse, on Altera and Xilinx devices
February 25, 2015
Compliance with aviation’s hardware design standard is seen as a ‘tough ask’, but EDA’s own evolution has made that process easier than you may think.
February 24, 2015
High-performance audio processors will introduce consumers to an upgraded theater-quality audio experience.
February 3, 2015
Designers working on automotive ICs, to be built on established processes, can benefit from the power of design tools developed for advanced processes.
January 30, 2015
How ST Microelectronics uses Synopsys' VCS AMS, combining VCS functional verification and CustomSim, to verify one of its mixed-signal designs
January 26, 2015
Precise curved geometries are vital to making this emerging and cost-effective CMOS-based technology work. This primer explains its advantages and how litho tools are evolving to meet the challenges it presents.
January 20, 2015
Combining assertion-based verification techniques with emulation makes for easier debug, better coverage and greater functional efficiency.
January 13, 2015
Constraints are a vital part of IC design, yet the management and verification of constraints’ quality, completeness, consistency and fidelity to the designer’s intent is an evolving art.
January 7, 2015
A look at the challenges of designing chips for the Internet of Things, or IoT, and some of the responses to those challenges
December 8, 2014
CDC violations are now so complex that it takes a combined block and full SoC level verification strategy to catch and fix all the bugs