EDN

Multimillion-Gate Physical Design

Cupertino, Calif. How do you design a 10-million-gate chip on a tight schedule? Not one gate at a time. Simon Bloch is president and CEO of Aristo Technology Inc., Cupertino, Calif. The recent winner ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Get To Know The Gate-Level Power Aware Simulation

The post-synthesis gate-level netlist (GL-netlist) based PA simulation input requirements are mostly the same as RTL simulation. However, the design under verification here is the GL-netlist from ...
Electronic Design

Design-For-Test Tool Eliminates Need For Gate-Level Scan

If there's a truism in design debug and test, it's that the earlier you can find a bug, the less costly it is to fix. Thus, finding bugs at RTL is far preferable to finding them after synthesis. With ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Writing Reusable UPF For RTL And Gate-Level Low Power Verification

The Unified Power Format (UPF) is used to specify the power intent of a design. Once written, the UPF file is applied at every stage of the design cycle — starting with the RTL, then the gate-level, ...
EDN

Sequential clock gating maximizes power savings at IP level

Power Management is one of the major chip design challenges amongst all the dimensions of the design cycle. It poses problems for packaging, portability, & reliability (PPR), e.g.,“high system cost of ...