The design specification is the most important step in the design flow as it details anything that needs to be considered or strict requirements that need to be met when designing the ASIC, these ...

Paul Taubman is a senior design engineer for Tality Corp., Cadence Design Systems' services organization. In this article he shows how test engineers should interact with designers in order to ...

As in any other engineering activity, the design of semiconductor chips (ICs) encompasses several separate, but often closely coupled, design activities. Today's system-on-a-chip (SoC) development ...

How can designers speed up their design? Higher speed is needed to go from specification via design to production while feature-rich implementations increase design complexity. Frequently speeding up ...