EDA Tech Forum Journal—the premier EDA publicationEDA Tech Forum journal is a quarterly publication for the Electronics Design Automation community including design engineers, engineering managers, industry executives, and academia. EDA Tech Forum journal provides an ongoing medium in which to discuss, debate, and communicate the electronic design automation industry’s most pressing issues, challenges, methodologies, problem-solving techniques, and trends. |
December, 2005
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<Tech Forum>ESL/System CBehavioral IP reuse methodologySean Dart of Forte Design Systems outlines a more efficient alternative to RTL-led approaches to the reuse of intellectual property. Verified RTL to gatesAnalog verification IP and the next stage in the evolution of system-on-chipSandipan Bhanot of Knowlent considers the move to automate AMS IP verification. Digital/Analog ImplementationWhich ADC architecture is right for your applicationWalt Kester of Analog Devices begins a review of the benefits of the most popular architectures for the main ADC application spaces. Design to SiliconApplying some perspective to DFMMichael Smayling of Applied Materials provides a fab equipment supplier’s perspective on how to make design-for-manufacture really work. Design to SiliconMeeting yield enhancement challengesGreg Aldrich of Mentor Graphics outlines a yield-friendly diagnostic flow for the more detailed analysis of manufacturing defects. Tested component to systemEffects of InfiniBand fixture crosstalk on a synthesized eye diagramEugene Mayevskiy of Tektronix describes the correct data acquisition process to de-embed fixture crosstalk from synthesized eye diagram measurements. Best of DAC 2005A new canonical form for fast Boolean matching in logic synthesis and verificationEDA Tech Forum publishes the second of the two ‘best of’ papers from the 2005 Design Automation Conference. The contributors this quarter are Afshin Abdollahi and Massoud Pedram from the University of Southern California. <Commentary>Provocative thinkingStart hereThe industry needs more of it to cope with the changes now under way. Market analysisDFM will change the industry's business modelsBob Johnson, Nancy Wu, and Gary Smith of Gartner Dataquest take a cool, hard look at the commercial implications of a ‘hot button’ issue. IEEE/EDATaking a broad viewAl Dunlop, launch president of the IEEE’s new Council on EDA, talks about its aims and objectives. EncryptionIP protection under OASISThe successor to GDSII enables more efficient encryption, explains Thomas J.Grebinski of Oasis Tooling. |
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