The Week In Review: Sept. 14
By Ed Sperling
Mentor Graphics updated UVM Connect, allowing it to be compiled to run with OVM. In case you’ve forgotten, Mentor and Cadence supported OVM, while Synopsys supported VMM. UVM is supposed to be the bridge between both these worlds, but it still isn’t fully baked yet—and some engineers are balking about learning everything from scratch.
Mentor also received certification for its Litho Friendly Design signoff tool for TSMC’s 20nm process.
Apple released its iPhone 5, offering substantially better performance and energy efficiency. But exactly how does that efficiency equate to battery life, particularly now that the company has reduced the thickness of the battery?
Intel took a similar route, focusing on low-power processors to change how people interact with their devices, starting with the Haswell architecture due out next year. The keynotes at this week’s Intel Developer Forum focused on new interfaces and more compute performance rather than extending battery life.
TSMC’s sales grew 2% in August compared with July, up 32% from August 2011. Revenues for the first eight months were up 16% compared to the same period in 2011.
A couple new books were released for verification engineers. One is the Mixed-Signal Verification Guide from Cadence. The second is SystemVerilog Assertions, which has been updated.
Tags: analog, Apple, Cadence, Intel, iPhone 5, Mentor Graphics, Mixed Signal, OVM, Synopsys, TSMC, UVM, Verification, VMM