Probabilistic Timing Analysis

Because of shrinking feature sizes and the decreasing faithfulness of the manufacturing process to design features, pro…

VLSI Career counselling request form

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3D Integrated circuits

The semiconductor industry is struggling to maintain its momentum down the path of Moore’s Law, and it is becoming clea…

EDA Tools - VN-Cover Emulator Coverage Analysis for HW Emulation

VN-Cover Emulator by TransEDA enables engineers to obtain coverage on their SoCs in a hardware-accelerated environment …

EDA Tools - VN-Cover Coverage Analysis

VN-Cover by TransEDA is a code and FSM coverage tool that identifies any unverified parts of a simulated HDL design. VN…

Copyright notice - Please read

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Verilog and Specman 'e' Interview Questions

Question 1: Write a verilog assertion for the property that vector S of length 8 is always of even parity and the Hammi…

20 Cell phones with highest radiation levels

Cell phone radiation. Some consider it a heath-hazard of paramount importance. Others couldn't care less. Whichever…

GM Develops Augmented Reality Windshield

The entire windshield is turned into a transparent display to highlighting landmarks, obstacles and road edges on the w…

Top 25 Chip ranking for 2009

ISuppli's final global revenue ranking for the top 25 semiconductor suppliers in 2009, in millions of U.S. dollars…

SystemC AMS – A New Proposal For Mixed-Signal Verification

With increasing analog and mixed-signal content on systems-on-chip, design teams are looking for faster ways to run sys…

Logical and Physical Design Reuse

Electronics designs have become extremely complex and intricate, creating a need for software tools that support automa…

Interview Questions - A startup in California

A communication device receives a clock up to X MHz. Write a verilog to verify that the clock meets this timing require…

Logic Design Puzzle/Interview Question challenge

Consider the Boolean function F = ( x1 + x3 + x4 )(x2 + x3 + x4 )(x1 + x2 +x4)(x1 +x3 +x4)( x1 +x2 + x3 ). Find an…

e Interview Question

Packets dispatched can be of 3 network types: atm, ieee or Ethernet. The packets have a Boolean flag field which indica…

3G modems are $3.5 billion market in 2010, says In-Stat

Chip profitability jumps to decade high

Electronic System Level (ESL) Design using VaST tool

ESL design and verification is an emerging electronic design methodology that focuses on the higher abstraction level. …

FPGA Design Methods for Fast Turn Around

Today's FPGAs are doubling in capacity every 2 years and have already surpassed the 5 million equivalent ASIC gate …

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Magnetic Solder to Wire 3-D Chips

A new type of solder can be melted and shaped in three dimensions under the force of a weak magnetic field. Using a mag…

Being efficient while Working Remotely

I am sure many of you have worked off-site and telecommuted for employers using email, chat, and web-based collaboratio…

Silicon Nanophotonics to Make Your Gadgets Run Faster and Consume Less

IBM is replacing copper wiring with an avalanche of photons and electrons. They are now transmitting data streams betwe…

What is the destiny of the semiconductor industry?

Moore's Law continues to drive an inexorable increase in the number of transistors that can be integrated onto a si…

New widgets added on Blog sidebar #1

Dear Readers/Subscribers, Today we have added 3 New Widgets to 1. Comment live on topics of your interest without the …

Blog - How to Spot Suspicious VoIP signals

One way to steal data is to embed it in a voice call over the internet. Now network engineers are learning how to spot …

Faster Optical Switching Through Chemistry

Specially designed molecules could lead to all-optical data switches that could make the Internet far faster. New mol…

Making More Solar Cells from Silicon

A new manufacturing process could cut the cost of making crystalline silicon wafers for solar cells by 80 percent. The …

Bloggers Now Eligible For Press Passes In NYC

The New York City Police Department announced Tuesday that bloggers and others who publish on the Web will now be eligi…

Chip market boom makes analyst hike forecast

Bruce Diesen, analyst with Carnegie ASA (Oslo, Norway), has raised his forecast for 2010 chip market growth from 13 per…

Hacked Roomba will google your house

Swedish hackers have put together the GåågleBot: 'a 'home crawler' consisting of a vacuum roomba with an on…

Building high-speed wireless in Afghanistan out of garbage

Volunteers in Afghanistan -- both locals and foreigners from the MIT Bits and Atoms lab -- have been building out a wir…

Nokia Ovi store reveals Skype :-)

Attention all Nokia owners with 3G and WiFi connectivity: Today Nokia has added Skype to it Ovi arsena l and foreshadow…

How to Inexpensively Design an ASIC in 5 Weeks

If you have ever designed a standard cell ASIC from scratch, you probably still have the scars to show for it. Designin…

Reduce Power, Area and Routing Congestion

This paper , using an example design, demonstrates how to meet challenging performance, latency and bandwidth goals by …

How System-Level Trade-Offs Drive Data Converter Decisions

For both analog-to"digital converters (ADC) and digital-to"analog converters (DAC), system-level specificatio…

Improve Product Quality and Reliability with In-System Diagnostics

Product quality and reliability are first-order design requirements for any product development. This document describ…

How to Create a Touchless Slider for Human Interface Applications

Imagine being able to control electronics products at home and in the office, not with a direct touch but with the swee…

LTE-Advanced Technology Introduction

Since the year 2010 commercialization of the LTE technology is taking place. At the same time further enhancements of t…

Show Me the Next-Generation HDMI

The first part of this white paper explores the basic concepts behind HDMI, the markets it serves and its leadership ro…

A Lifecycle Approach to Quality Management

Success in ever more competitive worldwide marketplaces demands continually smarter products and systems, which in turn…

Designing Low Power, Multi-Primary Technology for Mobile Phone Displays

Displays have always been a major power consumer in mobile devices. In the past, one easy way to keep power demands in …

Major Benefits of IEEE-1149.7(Compact JTAG)

This paper provides a summary of the features and benefits from the new IEEE-1149.7 specification commonly referred to…

Checklist for Success with Multicore

The benefits of multicore are numerous, but to realize them you must avoid the common pitfalls by planning carefully an…

Fast, Easy, and Flexible Power for System Designers

Systems designers are having a difficult time developing power subsystems that supply all of their system's power n…

Improve Project Success with Better Information

Are we on target? Are we within budget? Are my projects contributing effectively to my operational objectives? How well…

Challenges for the 28nm half node: Is the optical shrink dead?

A half-node process has been routinely used to deliver incremental improvements in process control and hardware availab…

Debug and Validation of High Performance Mixed Signal Designs

Modern embedded and computing systems have become progressively more powerful by incorporating high-speed buses, indust…

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Software Engineering Academic Genealogy

Patents database: An easy and cost effective way to perform reverse engineering for chip designers

Reverse engineering is a very common practice in semiconductor business. Companies will barely admit doing it but every…