One of the key factors in the design and development of submicron chip designs is the setting of good physical and timing constraints, no matter what type of design methodology you use. Constraints ...

FPGA devices have grown to ASIC size and complexity, but traditional EDA tools and methodologies have failed to keep pace. Engineers designing high-end FPGAs are beginning to face the types of ...

Traditionally, printed circuit board (PCB) design engineers – and, more recently, designers of System-in-Package (SiP) assemblies – have captured their hardware designs using pages in a flat schematic ...

The move to system-on-chip (SoC) designs is expected to dramatically increase chip sizes from the already complex 10 million to 20 million transistors to more than 100 million transistors in fewer ...

This tutorial shows custom-IC designers how and where advanced custom signal-planning techniques can be used to potentially automate key design tasks that are now performed using manual methods The ...

Last month, I discussed two key features of the Common Power Format (CPF) that support hierarchical design methodology: boundary port and macro model. These are commands that need to be written to ...

September 11, 2013. Synopsys Inc. has announced the availability of its DesignWare STAR Hierarchical System, an automated hierarchical test solution for efficiently testing SoCs, including ...

Last month, I wrote in favor of top-down approach to coding the power intent. This month, let’s take a look at the bottom-up approach. With the top-down approach, we code the full-chip power intent ...