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The first in a series of articles about using virtual prototyping techniques to achieve more effective debug.

Accounting for on-chip variation (OCV) has become a critical factor in assuring timing closure for nanometer-scale ICs and avoiding over-pessimistic margins.

This article looks at the way in which various representations of a block of a design have different implications in a UPF based power-aware hierarchical design flow.

3D-IC design is ready for take-off, following several years of intense collaboration to develop the necessary tools, methodologies and flows

How the company migrated to an OVM-based methodology to design and verify a 30 million-gate ASIC design, on the path to UVM.

Formal verification techniques are becoming more widely used as the size and complexity of SoCs and increases.

How Cisco eliminated iterations in the ASIC handoff of a gigahertz networking chip by using physically aware synthesis

Clock domain crossing bugs undermine the productivity gains of moving to block-based design, but can be tackled through hierarchical formal analysis.

IEEE 1801-2013 updates and refines the Unified Power Format for low-power VLSI design, reflecting changes in power modeling and verification.

How to design with finFETs, including the impact on standard cells, IP, SRAM; the effects of fin quantization; extraction and parasitics; AMS issues and more.