Shipping and distribution are essential to any company's profitability. Efficiencies gained in these areas can reduce costs, speed products to market and increase customer satisfaction. Unfortunately, ...

In Part I of this two-article series we described how the combination of logic libraries and embedded memories within an EDA design flow can be used to optimize area in CPU, GPU or DSP cores. In Part ...

Making sure that an SoC’s memory bandwidth is optimized is a crucial part of the design process today given its significance toward overall system performance. There are many ways to approach this ...

Set-Top-Box(STB) SoC designs are extremely complex with multi-million standard cells, higher core utilization of around 70-80 %, and multiple clock domains including high and low frequencies. An ...

Increasing complexity at advanced nodes makes it much harder to locate defects and latent defects because there is more surface area to cover and much less space between the various components in a ...

Mobile communications, multimedia and consumer systems-on-chip (SoCs) must achieve the highest performance while consuming the minimal amount of energy to achieve longer battery life and/or fit into ...