Two areas of the design flow seem to be the ripest for innovation going forward. One is the electronic system level (ESL) at levels of abstraction higher than RTL, and the other is the physical domain ...

This marks the 10 th DAC that I have covered as a blogger. At DAC 2008 in Anaheim, the industry had just come together behind the SystemC TLM 2.0 standard to enable virtual platforms, finally getting ...

I was delighted when reader and DI contributor Jim Brannan proposed writing up his base-3 DAC design. Like Charlieplexing, his idea makes use of tristate outputs to wring more information from a pin ...

This year’s Design Automation Conference will include an “alley” on the exhibit floor, but it won’t be a dark, narrow passageway we think of when we hear “alley.” Instead, the new Design ...

Sometimes it seems as though digital designers get all of the attention. In all of the excitement surrounding "gigaFLOPS," "22 nm," and such, there's still one crumb of comfort for we non-digital ...

In this exclusive series, Chipworks, one of the world's leading IC reverse-engineering houses, provides detailed functional and circuit analysis of significant new integrated circuits. Coupling actual ...