EDN

Synthesis needs to change to serve modern chip design

As EDA tools evolve, the resulting products try to increase automation. Unfortunately, the last great advance was from schematics to language-based design starting with the first synthesis tools in ...
EDN

TSMC Unveils IC Design Flow For 0.25-, 0.18-Micron Processes

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) today released what it believes is the first manufacturability-focused IC design flow that is silicon-proven in its 0.25-micron and 0.18-micron ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Secure Physical Design Roadmap Enabling End-To-End Trustworthy IC Design Flow

The FICS Research Institute (University of Florida) has published a new research paper titled “Secure Physical Design.” This is the first and most comprehensive research work done in this area that ...
Semiconductor Engineering

IC Test: Doing It At The Right Place At The Right Time

In the real world, we are slaves to our environment. The decisions we make are dependent on the resources available at any given time. In school, I remember coming up with a binary decision diagram ...