Blog Review: Dec. 15
By Ed Sperling
Cadence’s Pete Hardee breaks down the market into who’s dealing with low-power issues, how proficient they are now, and why everyone will have to become proficient in the future.
Mentor’s Tom Fitpatrick pulls together a cornucopia of verification articles from inside and outside of Mentor. There’s an awful lot of information here, so if you’re not doing anything for the holidays this might be a good place to spend a lot of time.
Synopsys’ Alex Seibelescu talks about the season of giving coverage. This is important stuff even though it isn’t exactly what the kids were expecting.
ARM’s Raviraj Mahatme looks at the return of 180nm. Get used to it. We may see 180nm around for a very long time if 3D stacking lives up to expectations for reusability.
Daniel Nenni, who is predicting consolidation for EDA companies, now sees a potential merger of Cadence and Mentor Graphics. Never say never, but you may want to keep a healthy level of skepticism here.
Peace has broken out in the world of PDK standards, at least so far as Mentor and Cadence are concerned. Cadence’s Richard Goering does a great job with the takeaways from a webinar. But where was the other big guy hiding?
Speaking of standards, Si2’s Steve Schulz rolls out part two of his five-year challenges. The focus this time is variation-awareness and IP block modeling. Schulz adds some needed perspective to these issues.
Cadence’s Nigel Bleasdale makes friends with parasitic effects. This sounds like a romp through the Amazon. Beware of what you can’t see.
Synopsys’ Karen Bartleson visits the IEEE Standards Association on awards night and comes away with some pictures of engineers wearing suits. Very unusual.
Cadence’s Tom Anderson looks at what’s hiding in the corner, and it isn’t pretty.
Semico’s Tony Massimini takes the Nissan Leaf for a test drive and ponders all the semiconductors that will be necessary to make it run smoothly. Electric vehicles are good for the design world.
Cadence’s Jason Andrews digs deep into a TLM 2.0 ARM Linux boot loader and what you need to know about it from a SystemC standpoint. This is great information for those working with ARM cores.
And finally, Verilab’s Jonathan Bromley, writing in VMM Central, looks at ways to use VMM 1.2’s configuration features. This is good insight for the VMM world.
Tags: ARM, Cadence, Mentor Graphics, Si2, Synopsys