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A Powerful Analog Verification Platform for Samsung Foundry’s Advanced Technologies

Image: Courtesy Samsung Foundry Having done IC development for over two decades, I can appreciate the complexities of foundry processes…

Siemens EDA at TSMC OIP

Siemens EDA at TSMC OIP 2021

Though the COVID19 pandemic swept the global economies around the world, semiconductor sales increased by 10% in 2020 fueled by…

Smart Power Designs: Reality or Buzz?

We are in a generation where “intelligent” devices are pervasive in our daily lives. We have come to expect them…

Improving Time-to-Market and Silicon Quality with a Streamlined IP QA Flow

Recently Felipe Schneider (from the Solido Crosscheck applications engineering team) and I hosted a live webinar on how to improve…

A Practical Approach to Utilizing the Open Model Interface (OMI) in Aging Analyses for Long Term Reliability Validation

Long term reliability has always been a focus for the automotive industry but is now expanding to include other application…

What is the winning formula for running library characterization on the cloud?

According to IDG’s 2020 Cloud Computing Study, 32% of IT budgets in organizations will be allocated to cloud computing this…

Thorough variation-aware verification: proving vital for modern power-efficient designs

Recently the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) awarded STMicroelectronics the “IEEE Milestone for Multiple Silicon Technologies on a Chip” for…

Addressing the Post-Layout Simulation Bottleneck for Analog Verification

Analog and mixed-signal designs are pervasive throughout the technology landscape today. The rapid growth in data expansion is driving an…

Producing and verifying 7/5/3nm IP Liberty models: the building blocks for leading-edge HPC, ML/AI and 5G designs

The first 5nm production chips have already been launched, such as Apple’s A14 Bionic, Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 888, and Samsung’s Exynos…