Blog Review: Nov. 22
By Ed Sperling Cadence’s Jack Erickson adds another angle to make vs. buy: re-use. It’s still make vs. buy, but with the extra dimension of time. Mentor’s Colin Walls wants to know what the plural of...
View ArticleToo Many Standards, But Still Not Enough
By Ed Sperling The semiconductor industry has been one of the most prolific sectors in history when it comes to generating standards. Talk to any design engineer facing time-to-market pressures, new...
View ArticleBlog Review: Dec. 21
By Ed Sperling Just in time for the holidays. Cadence’s Tom Anderson finds some real-world assertions, including some embarrassing typos that can change the meaning—and value—of products. Details,...
View ArticleReverse Engineering
By Ed Sperling Fabs and foundries frequently have been the savior of flawed designs, fixing problems such as power and performance, identifying design issues and often developing solutions to those...
View ArticleThe Week In Review: Feb. 10
By Ed Sperling Japan’s SoC market, which has been a big market for advanced EDA tools, may be headed for a major consolidation. Renesas, Fujitsu and Panasonic are in talks to combine portions of their...
View ArticleMarket Catches Up With Verification IP
By Ed Sperling Ever since verification IP was introduced it was seen as something that should be given away with purchased IP. The result was limited investment by IP vendors, frustration on the part...
View ArticleThe Week In Review: March 16
By Ed Sperling Synopsys is working with Applied Materials on TCAD models for 14nm and 11nm logic and memory chips. The collaboration covers front-end-of-line to back-end-of-line reliability. The two...
View ArticleSoCs Go Mainstream
By Ed Sperling The monolithic ASIC, which has been the bread-and-butter of chipmakers for decades, is giving way to systems on a chip among mainstream chipmakers and at mainstream process nodes. This...
View ArticleBlog Review: March 28
By Ed Sperling Mentor’s Dennis Brophy looks back on the life of the man who first pulled him into the standards world, Don Loughry. It’s a good story and a great eulogy to one of the stars of the...
View ArticleEarly Integration Gains Steam
By Ed Sperling A subtle but important shift is under way inside of EDA. While vendors are still focused on solving some thorny issues at the front end of Moore’s Law, much of the R&D effort lately...
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