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 ...

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 ...

I'm fast approaching the one year mark with my current employer since I graduated last year. Previously, I did three four month work terms with them and they were for the most part interesting. I took ...

As technology continues to evolve, the need for semiconductor chips also increases. The semiconductor industry lies underneath much of the technological progress, powering devices and systems that ...

FPGA development teams are adopting ASIC-style design, verification and debug methodologies. Here are the necessary elements of such a flow. September 11th, 2019 - By: Synopsys Field programmable gate ...

This FPGA-Synthesis Tool Offers The Prototyping Capabilities Required By RF-Intensive Systems And A Migration Path To ASIC Product Design. Over a third of all high-end ASIC designers now use FPGAs for ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- March 12 2007--Altera Corporation (Nasdaq: ALTR) today announced that the U.S. Department of State has certified that the company's HardCopy(R) II structured ASIC design and ...

Nobel Laureate Bob Dylan observed, “You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.” Similarly, we can get a feeling for where our industry is going by attending to the flow of thought ...

Magma Blast Create SA, Blast Fusion SA and ChipX CX6000 Structured ASIC combine to reduce cost and cycle time of high-performance designs SANTA CLARA, Calif., Nov. 9, 2005 - ChipX, the structured ASIC ...

When all is said and done, the structured ASIC’s shorter development cycle may well be the deciding factor for your design team. With the emergence of 90-nm process technology, ASIC designers get to ...