IC Implementation

April 30, 2015
Dr Lauro Rizzatti is an independent verification consultant. You can contact him at lauro AT rizzatti DOT com

Putting emulation on the map

Emulation is now served by all three leading vendors and is a hot topic for discussion among engineers. The major verification conferences need to follow suit.
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February 3, 2015
Marco Casale-Rossi is a senior staff product marketing manager in the Design Group at Synopsys.

Automotive ICs drive advanced design at established nodes

Designers working on automotive ICs, to be built on established processes, can benefit from the power of design tools developed for advanced processes.
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January 26, 2015
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How lithography simulations enable silicon photonics

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
Veloce2 emulator

Assertion-based emulation

Combining assertion-based verification techniques with emulation makes for easier debug, better coverage and greater functional efficiency.
October 31, 2014

A short introduction to IC Compiler II

A look under the hood of IC Compiler II, Synopsys' next-generation netlist-to-GDSII implementation system.
October 18, 2014
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Placement optimizations push power and clock on Cortex-M7 project

Soft blocking to prevent cell spreading and other placement-optimization techniques helped improve power and clock speed on a Cortex-M7 test chip designed by ARM and Cadence.
October 6, 2014
Power grid signal track blocking

ARM, TSMC design explores 16nm finFET issues

ARM and TSMC used an extensive pre-planning process, including a static analysis of each module's overall logic structure, to put together a 2.3GHz processor design based around ARM's main 64bit Big.Little pairing for the foundry's 16nm finFET process.
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September 18, 2014

Using optimized design flows to meet PPA goals for SoC processor cores

How tuning a design flow can help optimize SoC processor cores for power, performance and area - and make it possible to do different optimisations for different cores on the same SoC.
September 2, 2014
Intel's trigate is among the structures to be modeled by the revised BSIM4

Design enablement and entitlement for 14/16nm finFET processes

How EDA tools are evolving to make it possible to design with finFET processes.
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August 29, 2014
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Exploiting Verific tools and features at the right abstraction level

EDA vendors and internal CAD teams use Verific parsers for tool development. Here's how one company developed its strategy for this popular technology.
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