Commentary

October 8, 2012

Synopsys buys EVE and the death of dogma

The EDA giant fills out its prototyping and verification line-up with a long-mooted acquisition, and is set to become the first of the 'big three' to offer an in-house soup-to-nuts flow.
October 4, 2012

IEF: “Industry will have to cooperate”

The semiconductor industry is reaching a crunch point at which companies that form it have to work together much more closely, says Malcolm Penn of Future Horizons.
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October 3, 2012

SAME: Memory-saving standard to expand

The scope of the Low-Latency Interface (LLI) developed by the MIPI Alliance is expanding as it heads towards version 2 – increasing the ways in which a single DRAM array can be shared between SoCs in a mobile phone.
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August 6, 2012

TSMC joins Intel as ASML investor to accelerate availability of EUV, 450mm lithography

TSMC follows Intel in taking a stake in ASML to accelerate development of EUV and 450mm lithography equipment.
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August 6, 2012

Aart de Geus on the changing face of EDA

The president and co-CEO of Synopsys provides his take on the mounting influence of software and physical effects in the creation of SoCs.
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June 7, 2012

DAC 2012: Synopsys marries virtual and FPGA prototyping

Expose your transaction-level innovations to the real world early on and catch bugs before simulation.
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June 4, 2012

ESL: are we there yet?

Verification drives system-level adoption as sales leap 76%. Virtual prototyping is also on the rise but there are gaps in the tool-set.
June 4, 2012

DAC2012: Can FD-SOI shrink chips, solve FinFET issue for SoCs?

What are the chances that FD SOI will become a mainstream process for future nodes?
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June 4, 2012

DAC2012: Blue Pearl partners Xilinx, develops grey-box approach to ARM cores

Blue Pearl is building alliances to bring its timing analysis tools to more users.
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June 4, 2012

DAC 2012: The platforms are taking over

At last year’s DAC, leading EDA analyst Gary Smith said chip design had run into a big problem: it was already too expensive to be worthwhile for most companies. Soon afterwards, three companies rang to tell him that the figures were too pessimistic: it was not costing in the region of $75m but perhaps just […]

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