Recent Blogs

June Conferences: DAC and Symposium on VLSI Technology and Circuits

on April 24, 2012

Before we know it, it will be summer and that means conferences.

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Power integrity -- How much does it matter?

on April 17, 2012

If you have been following my month of power over on the EE Times EDA Designline, you will know that I have been featuring books that tackle the subject of power integrity.

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Time to rethink EDA flows and tool infrastructure

on April 5, 2012

Recently, I have had the pleasure of talking to a number of entrepreneurs within the EDA space and got to hear some of their concerns and recommendations for people thinking about starting a new company.

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News Spotlight

Netronome reduces SoC power use with timing tricks

May 14, 2012

Cadence Design Systems claims that Netronome designers achieved a 29 percent reduction in power consumption using Cadence's latest Encounter 11.1 technology thereby providing performance advantage on its low-power "green" SoCs targeting the secure virtual cloud and data center markets.

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Startup claims 'Holy Grail' of SoC design

April 23, 2012

The first automated software-to-chip dream came out of the closet Monday (April 23), when Algotochip Corp. (Sunnyvale, Calif.) claimed to be able to produce a system-on-chip (SoC) design from a C-code specification in just eight to 16 weeks.

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Design for power methodology

April 20, 2012

Power is a daunting challenge for modern system-on-chip (SoC) designs, from both the power consumption and power integrity perspectives.

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