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Check your system-level design assumptions at the door
Jon McDonald’s opinion piece, just published in the System-Level Design Community section of Chip Design Magazine’s site, is about assumptions built into the design of complex electronic systems....
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Who else wants to see a 60x speedup in DFM signoff on a 28nm design?
Rambus has announced that it achieved a 60x speedup in DRC for an IP design targeting a 28nm process technology using GLOBALFOUNDRIES’ DRC+ methodology. This approach to DRC is interesting because it’s...
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Where is the mainstream IC process technology today? 28nm? 40nm? 65nm?
EDA companies like Cadence focus on developing the latest tools for bleeding-edge process technologies—28nm and 20nm today—and that’s been the emphasis of my blog posts from last week’s Global...
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3-processor SoC for digital still cameras incorporates an ARM 1136J-S RISC...
One more process node click, from 45nm to 32nm, bumped the clock rate of the Ambarella A7L SoC’s on-chip ARM 1136J-S RISC processor core to 600MHz from 528MHz. But reading the press release, I get the...
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How fast can an ARM Cortex-A15 run? 2GHz in Samsung’s 32nm process...
At the eighth annual Samsung Mobile Solutions Forum held at the Westin Taipei, Taiwan, Samsung previewed the Exynos 5250 applications processor, which is based on a dual-core implementation of the ARM...
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IBM to manufacture 32nm SOI chips with eDRAM in new GLOBALFOUNDRIES Fab 8...
IBM is the first announced customer for GLOBALFOUNDRIES’ Fab 8 in Malta, NY. The companies plan to manufacture IBM’s 32nm SOI devices at the site using an SOI process technology. The new plant has...
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By the numbers: 20nm (and 40nm, 32nm, 28nm, and 14nm) design to be discussed...
There’s still time to register for CDNLive!, which is being held on March 13 and 14 at the Doubletree Hotel in San Jose, California so let me give you a few numbers to whet your appetite: 40nm, 32nm,...
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