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.
EDA Topics
Enabling FPGA prototyping of large ASIC and SoC designs
How tool parallelism, automatic partitioning, deep debug memories and time domain multiplexing eases FPGA prototyping of large ASIC and SoC designs
Developing and integrating configurable GPU IP using FPGA-based prototyping
How Imagination Technologies used FPGA-based prototyping to develop its GPU IP and integrate it into a real world system
A better method for early and accurate power estimation
Early and accurate SoC power estimation is possible, says Broadcom, thanks to a technique that maps simulation results between gate and RTL representations
A review of model development for 10nm lithography
John Sturtevant looks at ongoing preparations for the incoming node and charts significant progress that has already been made.
Design reaches out from the edge
We are moving towards a "continuum of compute", ARM CEO Simon Segars said at CDNLive Silicon Valley, a trend that will reshape design.
DO-254 without tears
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.
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.
Mixed-signal verification of advanced SoCs using VCS AMS
How ST Microelectronics uses Synopsys' VCS AMS, combining VCS functional verification and CustomSim, to verify one of its mixed-signal designs
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.