System Level Design talks with Tom Quan of TSMC, John Koeter of Synopsys, Kalar Rajendiran of eSilicon and Phil Yastrow of Avago about where the value has shifted in the semiconductor design chain and why
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Value Shift
http://chipdesignmag.com/sld/blog/2010/01/27/value-shift/
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Experts At The Table: Where The Money Is
System-Level Design sat down to discuss where the value has shifted in the supply chain with Tom Quan, director at TSMC; Kalar Rajendiran, senior director of marketing at eSilicon; John Koeter, vice president of marketing in Synopsys’ solutions group, and Phil Yastrow, product marketing manager at Avago. What follows are excerpts of that conversation
http://chipdesignmag.com/sld/blog/2010/01/28/experts-at-the-table-where-the-money-is/
As a design methodology activist, LLT Design noted:
" In the last 15 to 20 years alone design productivity has improved 580% through re-use and 336% through methodology improvements."
This is a quote from an interesting post any Design Methodology fan should not miss. Go read it and act:
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to ESL – Part 2 – Abstraction and Automation
Posted by Frank Schirrmeister on February 17th, 2010
We wish you all, a lot of prosperous projects for 2010 .
Season greatings and happy New Year.
Dec 24 2009
Loic Le Toumelin
LLT Design
An interesting article on SaaS (Software As A Service) in Chip Design Magazine
Darwin’s Theories on Electronic Design
The move to relying on SaaS solutions to provide business tools is driving the next level of evolution. Companies that embrace the change will survive and thrive; those that don’t will add to the pile of bones from our extinct ancestors.
1st Annual Workshop on MICRO POWER TECHNOLOGIES, October 22, Radisson Hotel, San Jose CA
http://www.micropowertech2009.com/
According to recent studies and estimates, the market for wireless sensor networks will reach approximately $5.7 billion by 2012. One of the main challenges for this market’s development is the emergence of technologies to power all of these wireless sensor nodes. Accordingly, micro power technologies have emerged as a hot technology area that can provide many lucrative investment and development opportunities.
Topics that will be covered at the workshop include:
• Energy scavenging for MEMS devices and microsystems
• Electrostatic, piezoelectric and electromagnetic energy conversion schemes
• Thermoelectric systems and micro coolers
• Photovoltaic systems
• Micro fuel cells and micro reactors
• Micro combustion engines for power generation and propulsion
• Materials for energy applications
• Micro power ICs and transducers
• Micro battery technologies
This workshop will ensure that you and your organization are optimally positioned and prepared for business development opportunities in this exciting and rapidly developing technology area.
http://www.micropowertech2009.com/
In this exchange between Ray Bingham, managing director of General Atlantic, a private equity firm, and Editor Ed Sperling, Ray explains a changing value equation for EDA. It’s not in selling to the customers, their numbers are in decline; it’s participating in the growing number of wafer-successes EDA makes possible. Bingham, the former CEO of Cadence Design Systems, takes a global look at the future.
Increasing Value for EDA
YouTube-Video
Day 1 of DAC:
“Hogan’s heroes: the long road to system-level sign-off”.
http://www.chipdesignmag.com/martins/
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Also from DAC 2009
Analog IP Integration Goes beyond a Single-Block Approach
print version