Siemens EDA

February 1, 2018
Design space exploration feature

Design space exploration finds hotspots during early process development

A new technique has been developed to catch potential new lithography issues when little design data is available for incoming nodes.
January 15, 2018
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Three ways to lift productivity during physical verification

How to get the best PV results by reducing computational demands; handling data more efficiently and exploiting parallelization.
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December 22, 2017

Improve custom/AMS design and productivity with in-design DRC

In-design DRC is a technique that frees up engineers from many of the challenges of delivering AMS design under ever more complex design rules.
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December 4, 2017
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Data-hungry applications demand emulation

Richard Pugh shows how the fast-growing market for drone silicon highlights emulation's power where high data volumes are critical.
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November 24, 2017
John Ferguson is the Director of Marketing for Calibre DRC Applications at Mentor, a Siemens Business, in Wilsonville, Oregon, with extensive experience in physical design verification. He holds a BS degree in Physics from McGill University, an MS in Applied Physics from the University of Massachusetts, and a PhD in Electrical Engineering from the Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology.

Assessing the true cost of node transitions

John Ferguson reviews the key capital metrics you need to review when deciding whether to move to a new process.
October 30, 2017
Debug case study for ARM/AXI based design

Case study: Verifying and optimizing software for power on SoCs

How emulation was used to debug out-of-spec power on a multicore ARM design using the AXI bus.
October 27, 2017
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Catch multi-patterning errors clearly at advanced nodes

How to address increasingly complex patterning issues and debug them efficiently as design moves toward 12 and 10nm.
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October 18, 2017
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How Channel Operating Margin helps Gigabit Ethernet PCB analysis

The COM methodology is being extended and more widely adopted across high-speed designs thanks to deeper tool integration.
Article  |  Topics: PCB - Design Integrity, - PCB Topics  |  Tags: , , , , , , , ,   |  Organizations: ,
October 14, 2017
Michael Chen is Director, Design for Security, in the New Ventures Division of Mentor, a Siemens Business.

Making security a profit center for silicon

The assumption has been that extra security eats into profit margins. But with some lateral thinking it can actually improve the bottom line.
September 21, 2017

Yield is money – and other truths of diagnosis-driven yield analysis

Diagnosis-driven yield analysis identifies the cause of systematic yield loss to speed the ramp-to-volume on new processes and improve yield on mature ones.

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