The design specification is the most important step in the design flow as it details anything that needs to be considered or strict requirements that need to be met when designing the ASIC, these ...

The change to physical synthesis, aka SP&R, aka RTL-to-GDS-II, design tools for the 0.13-micron and 90nm process nodes is pulling several other methods and tools previously reserved for the highest ...

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 ...

Detailed and precise hierarchical design planning is essential to achieving closure on large designs. In this article we describe a new hierarchical design flow and its usage on a 3 million-gate chip.

The FICS Research Institute (University of Florida) has published a new research paper titled “Secure Physical Design.” This is the first and most comprehensive research work done in this area that ...

It is important to model an SoC well in advance to avoid costly over design or insufficient performance and to create a hardware emulation on which representative end user applications can be run. It ...

True or false: ASIC design follows a very straightforward path that begins with high-level architectural definition. It proceeds through RTL design and preliminary floorplanning. After synthesis, the ...