D.E. Shaw Research is seeking a Physical Design Engineer in our Job of the Week. Unusually intelligent and accomplished ASIC physical design engineers are sought to join a New York-based ...

Techniques for IP reuse have become commonplace in the RTL design world. By contrast, physical design for reuse remains stuck at delivering restrictive “hard IP.†What is holding reuse-design back ...

. Tadahiko Yamamoto is Chief Specialist, Design Methodology Development Group, at Toshiba Corp. . Norikazu Ooishi is Specialist, Design Methodology Group, at Toshiba Corp. Physical designers moving to ...

In today’s highly competitive semiconductor industry, chip-design companies strive for competitive advantages by optimizing designs for PPA (Power, Performance, Area). Along with the functional logic, ...

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.

Even with simulation, critical failure modes like resonance-induced fatigue and connection looseness can emerge during ...

In this digital world, it may be hard for some to believe that there’s still a place for anything manual or physical—especially in the engineering realm. And, while it’s true that today’s technologies ...

Cyber-physical systems, such as autonomous vehicles, robots, and smart buildings, are engineering systems that rely upon the close interaction and seamless integration of cyber subsystems (e.g., ...