The Week In Review: Nov. 11
By Ed Sperling
Mentor Graphics taped out a 20nm test chip with STMicroelectronics using its Olympus SoC place and route system and verified it using Calibre nmDRC. If the leading edge companies are this far along, it means they’re already starting to look at 14nm. Things should get very interesting from here. Mentor also turned out a verification solution for ARM’s Cortex processors and its AMBA bus that includes everything from simulation to emulation.
Apache Design introduced an RTL Power Model solution, which accurately predicts IC power behavior at the RTL level in context of the physical implementation.
Arteris won a deal with China’s Spreadtrum for high-speed chip-to-chip communication between mobile baseband chips and application processors.
Tags: Apache Design, ARM, Arteris, Mentor Graphics, Spreadtrum, STMicroelectronics