Blog Review: March 14
By Ed Sperling
Synopsys’ Karen Bartleson looks at standard IP, which will become critical as more third-party IP makes its way into SoCs. Third-party IP accounts for less than 50% of IP in designs, but that’s changing quickly—which is why all of the big three EDA vendors have a big stake in IP and VIP.
Mentor’s Nazita Saye expounds on some myths, notably earthquake weather, shirt-sleeve management—and the idea that CFD tools are difficult to use. Well, there had to be a relevant point somewhere in this.
Cadence’s Richard Goering sums up his chief’s keynote speech at CDNLive, which focused on cloud computing, early and deep collaboration, and drivers such as video and mobility. More chips equals more tools.
IHS iSuppli’s Richard Cooper backs up the video growth numbers. He said that movie consumption revenue will rise steadily through 2015. Big growth markets include Asia-Pacific, Latin America, and Central and Eastern Europe. But are they all dubbed?
Synopsys’ Eric Huang trumpets USB 3.0 while his colleague, Navraj Nandra, rings praise for changes in USB 2.0. Anyone for 1.0?
Mentor’s Colin Walls spills the beans on a UBM survey of embedded developers. The unusual trend is the increase in custom OSes. But what exactly is an OS these days?
Cadence’s Joe Hupcey rolls out a series of pictures and videos from DVCon. Check out the robot that solves Rubik’s Cube. So much for brain twisters. You now can outsource that frustration to a machine. But there’s something inherently odd about buying toys for machines.
DeepChip’s John Cooley reports on hardware forum discussions about 28nm process tweaks at TSMC. There doesn’t appear to be any lasting damage, but it is an indication of just how nervous customers are getting about production at leading-edge process nodes. TSMC, incidentally, says everything is “normal.”
Synopsys’ Doug Amos rolls out part two of his epic on keeping RTL clean while mapping SoC RAM into FPGAs. This part focuses on wrappers.
Cadence’s Kari Summers is back with another five-minute tutorial, this one on selective blockage in EDI 11. If you take small bites you’ll never need a Heimlich maneuver.
Tags: Cadence, DeepChip, IHS iSuppli, Mentor Graphics, Synopsys, TSMC