System-on-programmable-chip technology has characteristics of both board-based design and ASIC-based system-on-a-chip ASIC design. The immediate attraction of SoPC is that, like a breadboard, the ...

The fabricated ASIC then undergoes a series of tests to ensure the theoretical design was executed correctly and that the finish product meets specification. Approximately 60% of fabricated ASICs are ...

Paul Taubman is a senior design engineer for Tality Corp., Cadence Design Systems' services organization. In this article he shows how test engineers should interact with designers in order to ...

Proven AI and HPC ASIC Design Flow Production-ready 3DIC cross-section Alchip’s newly available 3DIC design flow addresses power integration challenges, including static and dynamic IR drop ...

Designing your own integrated circuits as a one-person operation from your home workshop sounds like science fiction. But 20 years ago, so did rolling your own circuit boards to host a 600 MHz micr… ...

It appears that at least one of two things must happen in the ASIC flow as process geometries drop to 130 ... The question of what must happen at the RTL stage of the ASIC design process is much ...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, USA: Synopsys Inc. announced, through joint collaboration with Fujitsu Semiconductor Ltd, a faster, area-optimized and highly predictable Customized SoC (ASIC) design flow for ...

Anecdotal mentions of hefty sums of more than $25m just to buy one mask set and total design costs reaching into many hundred million dollars, seem to mark out ASIC design as a rich person’s game. But ...

The ASIC design flow, when viewed in a linear progression, hides the required interaction of processes (see Figure 1, below). The prototyping of a device requires information from earlier processes ...