EDN

ASIC design flow gives CPU core custom performance

The ever-increasing levels of CPU performance demanded by embedded applications and product design cycles that have often been reduced to only a few months, have made it important to produce ...
EDN

Test engineers must join ASIC flow early

Paul Taubman is a senior design engineer for Tality Corp., Cadence Design Systems' services organization. In this article he shows how test engineers should interact with designers in order to ...
Design-Reuse

Front-end analysis accelerates ASIC flow

The problem for Infrant Technologies, a young network storage IC company, was to figure out how to avoid the typical iterative design scenario. For our latest design, a 250-MHz network storage device ...
Design-Reuse

Altera's Structured ASIC Design Flow Now ITAR-Compliant for Military Applications

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- March 12 2007--Altera Corporation (Nasdaq: ALTR) today announced that the U.S. Department of State has certified that the company's HardCopy(R) II structured ASIC design and ...
Semiconductor Engineering

In-Design Rail Analysis Is A Beautiful Thing

As a long time designer, ASIC flows amaze me and making them better is my goal. Although a very complex and intricate process, each part of the ASIC flow abstracts the complexity underneath it to ...