Detailed and precise hierarchical design planning is essential to achieving closure on large designs. In this article we describe a new hierarchical design flow and its usage on a 3 million-gate chip.

The FICS Research Institute (University of Florida) has published a new research paper titled “Secure Physical Design.” This is the first and most comprehensive research work done in this area that ...

San Jose, Calif. – Design services firm ReShape Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.) will introduce a physical-design-automation system this week that it says will let designers turn around production layouts ...

As semiconductor technology pushes the boundaries of scale and complexity, traditional VLSI physical design methodologies are struggling to keep pace. The rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI), ...

SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Goodix, and Helic, Inc. today announced that the companies have collaborated to integrate Helic's VeloceRF™ RF device synthesis, RaptorX™ EM modeling and Exalto® ...

IROC Technologies was tasked by the European Space Agency (ESA) to assess the suitability of Ultra Deep Submicron (UDSM) technology nodes below 22 nm for space applications. IROC set out to build a ...

Until very recently, semiconductor design, verification, and test were separate domains. Those domains have since begun to merge, driven by rising demand for reliability, shorter market windows, and ...