March 20, 2012, ISQED, Santa Clara, CA—Venu Menon from TI talked about the special needs for analog designs. Digital designs have long taken for granted the high levels of abstraction and automation available for design, something that the analog world is starting to address. To set the stage, the real world is captured and measured…
March 19, 2012, ISQED, Santa Clara, CA—Cary Robertson and Rick Pier from Mentor described the challenges for extracting parasitics in designs below 28 nm. The designs need better extraction to ensure timing closure and manufacturability. As feature sized shrink, the different parasitic elements become more significant. Transistors accounted for about 35 percent of the parasitic…
March 16, 2011, ISQED, Santa Clara, CA– the second lunchtime talk at this year’s ISQED focused on custom physical design flows and tools. First, Richard Morse from SpringSoft described the trends and challenges in the latest generation of processes. Mobile driven consumer electronics, like cell phones, have a large amount of analog and RF circuitry…
March 16, 2011, ISQED, Santa Clara,Ca—Manas Saksena, director of technology at Marvell Semiconductor looked at the opportunities and challenges for the semiconductor industry in “smart homes”. The combination of wi-fi integrated with a microcontroller and memory enables extensions into new markets and applications. The emergence of the iPad and other tablet computers opens the house…
March 15, 2011, ISQED, Santa Clara, CA—Eshel Haritan, vice president from Synopsys described the benefits of developing systems by starting with virtual prototypes. This technology allows the early matching of hardware and software in a system design to speed up the design process and enable greater abilities for verification and debug. One challenge in systems-level…
March 15, 2011, ISQED, Santa Clara, CA—Fabian Pease, professor at Stanford talked about “how much longer can Moore’s law hold?” in his keynote talk. The amount of integration is not just the number of transistors and wiring that lithography and processing can put on a piece of silicon. Historically, integration has always been to reduce…
March 15, 2011, ISQED, Santa Clara, CA—Kamran Eshraghian, president of Innovation Labs in Perth, Australia and distinguished professor at World Class University in Korea talked about ” Multi-technology hyper-integration platform: the technology crystal ball” in his keynote address. Looking backwards and forwards allows us to imagine a future electronics industry. The world of electronics is…