The past few years have seen substantial shifts in how logic content is delivered into electronic systems. The most dramatic of these changes is the sharp reduction of traditional ASIC design starts — ...

SAN DIEGO — IBM Corp. introduced a “variation-aware” IC timing flow targeted at ASICs in 130-, 90- and 65-nm design nodes at the Design Automation Conference here Wednesday (July 9). The flow ...

Mapping from a field programmable gate array (FPGA) to an application specific IC (ASIC) is subject to some limitations. This white paper identifies some of the most common limitations in this mapping ...

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 ...