By Tets Maniwa March 31, 2010—SNUG Santa Clara, CA—A panel at Synopys User Group (SNUG) looked at the issues associated with cloud computing and its implications for EDA. Hasmukh Ranjan of Synopsys moderated the panel whose members included: Scott Clark, director of engineering for information technologies at Broadcom, Kishore Singal scientist and IT manager for…
by Tets Maniwa March 24, 2010—ISQED, San Jose,CA—Ramanan Thiagarajah, senior director of product and test engineering at Inphi Corp. described the overall process Inphi uses to design and build very high performance memory solutions for server-class computer systems. He started by describing the transition from centralized mainframe computers to distributed arrays of smaller computers like…
By Tets Maniwa March 23, 2010—ISQED conference, San Jose, CA—Anton Domic, senior vice president and general manager at Synopsys presented “Test of the Future-Some Thoughts for the Next Decade” in a lunch talk. Since the ’70’s test equipment manufacturers have gotten between 2 and 4 percent of semiconductor sales for their testers. From just after…