Clocking constitutes one of the most important aspects of any block or SoC level design and its architecture needs to well defined and understood during the conceptualizing/planning phase of the ...

When discussing backup options, frequently we will mention cloning. There are two basic types of clones, block-level and file-level, and here are the differences between them. Topher Kessler MacFixIt ...

Achieving efficiency in integrated circuit (IC) design while maintaining design quality is not just a goal, but a necessity. Designers constantly strive to strike a balance between ever-tightening ...

This paper describes a new approach for chip design and system-level integration. A hierarchical RTL context-preserving insertion and connectivity methodology has been further implemented in EDA tool ...

The concept of applying a higher level of design abstraction to creative and engineering processes is so closely familiar that we probably take it for granted. From NC machines to SQL database systems ...

You see them at almost every user seminar or industry trade show workshop: the Methodology Managers from XYZ Corporation, who describe the system they use to help the company make sense of the ...

Today’s systems-on-chips (SoCs) integrate large numbers and varieties of intellectual property (IP) that come from multiple sources. Some are developed internally. Others come from one or more ...

In IC physical design, there is a tendency to focus on the synthesis and layout tasks, and to not give much consideration to the chip finishing tasks, at least not until the more pressing matters of ...

Clocking constitutes one of the most important aspect of block or SOC-level design and its architecture needs to well defined and understood during the conceptualizing/planning phase of the design. In ...