DATE notebook: EDA for the rest of us
Old processes don't necessarily equate to old tools, panelists argued at DATE, especially when a lot of future work will be done on more-than-Moore, 3DIC technologies.
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By the numbers: investment, equipment, sales
We round up the latest headline forecasts and performance data from the Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA), manufacturers association SEMI and the Semiconductor Industry Association.
DATE notebook: Three ways to tackle design complexity
DATE panelists discuss three ways to tackle design complexity: by moving to higher levels of abstraction; by making more subtle use of existing synthesis strategies; and by better organisation.
DATE notebook: Forget automation, give us acceleration
The CTO of one European design house wants better acceleration features from analog design tools, not automation that overrides their judgement.
DATE notebook: Stack those servers high
Concern over energy consumption could be the key to European companies moving back into the compute server market – or at least that's what the European Commission and researchers think is possible as social networks, GPS data and public video cameras pour data into a growing collection of online storage banks.
TDF Circuits #1: BASIC sets clearer path to healthcare monitoring
Wearable healthcare monitoring systems are a fast growing market, and could surge when clearer device approval regimes are introduced globally. Despite that brake on growth, companies and research organizations continue to innovate in anticipation. The subject of the first TDF Circuits, a graphics-led series looking at innovative implementations, is a subset of the Bio-potential Acquisition […]
DATE notebook: Collaboration key to advanced process nodes
Collaboration is becoming increasingly important to foundry companies as the development of advanced process nodes becomes more complex
DATE notebook: Mentor adds pattern recognition to GlobalFoundries’ DRC flow
Can pattern recognition improve deign rule checking at advanced nodes?
ARM decodes a surprising power benefit
ARM has found that in its work on processor design looking at the system-design and process issues as well as the way software interacts with the machine can yield surprising results.
Technical Newsletter #2: 14nm and Beyond, Low Power, Double Patterning, CPTF
In this issue Chris Edwards introduces our interviews with key speakers at next week’s Common Platform Technology Forum, and highlights our presence at Cadence’s CDN Live and Europe’s DATE conferences. Dr Mukesh Khare of IBM Research discusses the ‘Innovation Pipeline’ beyond 14nm. Kelvin Low of GlobalFoundries describes how fabless companies can exploit 28nm processes. Michael […]