A look at the impact of Intel’s foundry foray on EDA, IP industries
Like IC design, the EDA and IP industries are an intrinsic part of the IC manufacturing ecosystem spearheaded by semiconductor…
Synopsys launches industry’s highest performance neural processor IP
Synopsys' new DesignWare ARC NPX6 NPU IP delivers up to 3,500 TOPS performance for automotive, consumer, and data center chip…
Samsung Foundry adopts Synopsys and Ansys co-developed solution for advanced-node, energy-efficient chips
Samsung Foundry has achieved high silicon correlation with the jointly developed solution built on Synopsys PrimeTime signoff technology and Ansys…
IC design: A short primer on the formal methods-based verification
Design verification groups are using formal methods, though not consistently. Here is an insight on their practical advantages in IC…
SiliconExpert partners with Nexar to address component lifecycle issues
SiliconExpert is bringing comprehensive part data into the Altium PCB design tool workflows.
Understanding the specific use cases for Simulink and Stateflow
While both are capable of modelling and simulating a control algorithm on their own, using each of them for certain…
CAD models join PCB design platform
SnapEDA's library of CAD models is now part of Nexar's growing ecosystem of cloud-based PCB design tools.
Profile of a traceability tool promising automation in SoC designs
The tool identifies and fixes traceability gaps between disparate systems like requirements, specs, EDA and software code in SoC designs.
Realtek and Ansys accelerate complex IC design with advanced simulation workflow
Ansys RaptorH detects and reduces problematic electromagnetic interference and slashes modeling time up to 10x.
A primer on engineering change order (ECO) using Conformal
Here is a detailed treatment of the premask flatten Cadence Conformal ECO flow that is widely used in the semiconductor…