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Open-Source
The electronic design automation (EDA) tool industry is big business, and commercial licenses are extremely expensive. Open standards have driven many proprietary EDA technologies to be publicly released as free/libre open source software (F/LOSS) and some have become IEEE standards. In this article, author Arthur Low reviews the history of key advances in ICs and EDA tools. The common theme presented in this article for the driver of technology…
Timing
Because of shrinking feature sizes and the decreasing faithfulness of the manufacturing process to design features, process variation has been one of the constant themes of IC designers as new process nodes are introduced. This article reviews the problem and proposes a "probabilistic" approach as a solution to analysis and management of variability. Process variation may be new in the digital design framework, but it has long been t…
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Murugavel Ganesan
March 30, 2010
Open-Source
Fedora Electronic Lab (FEL) comes to fix one big problem in the opensource community. The problem is : there is no one who provides opensource EDA solutions for the real life. Although it is one problem, it is very complex in itself. In real life, designers use EDA software to design chips or circuit boards. Thereby the designer requires a set of hardware design tools to design his/her chips. However the same set of hardware design tools does …
Tools
Why is there a lack of usable open-source tools in the commercial EDA industry? The academic world has many tools to boast of but not many are industry worthy! Hypothetically, all the best software tools in the world should be Open-Source due to the kind of collaboration that can be leveraged from all the smart brains the industry can offer. Why is it not happening like other software specific applications? Why isn't there a IBM or SUN in th…
TCL for EDA
http://www.tclforeda.org/ The TCL for EDA project is an open-source repository of TCL/TK tools, applications, scripts and methodological articles. The TCL for EDA project targets different stages of chip design: from Verification to Project Management and up to Synthesis, Static Timing Analysis and Design-for-Test. Some of their offerings: Tools: Netedit - Verilog netlist editor/viewer Netman - Verilog netlist manager/viewer Pman - Project mana…
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The Editor's Desk
December 22, 2008
