While developing large-sized chips, “divide & conquer” techniques are used. This involves partitioning the design, implementing each block individually, and stitching them together at the top level.

This paper presents a new interface between the two main chips typically found in Wireless LAN (WLAN) devices: the digital baseband part (BB) and the radio transceiver part (RF). This interface is a ...

Static Timing Analysis (STA) is a key factor to validate while manufacturing a chip, where each design must go for setup and hold validation. In today’s era, technology nodes are shrinking and ...

The latest DDR4 SDRAM memory standard offers significant performance benefits for SoC designers. Graham Allan, senior product marketing manager for DDR at Synopsys, discusses some of the challenges ...

RISC-V is a general-purpose license-free open Instruction Set Architecture [ISA] with multiple extensions. It is an ISA separated into a small base integer ISA, usable as a base for customized ...

Structural coverage analysis is a method to ensure RBTs parse the code structure to verify every line of code for its correctness. RBTCA is used to determine the efficiency our tests verifying ...

This paper aims to share practical experience regarding building a power-optimized clock tree, determining the optimum targets for clock tree synthesis (CTS) and monitoring the quality of results (QoR ...

Over the past decade, we have seen generations of new products with increasingly sophisticated display feature sets. Each new generation pushes the boundaries of display technology even further with ...

Clock tree synthesis (CTS) plays an important role in building well-balanced clock tree, fixing timing violations and reducing the extra unnecessary pessimism in the design. The goal during building a ...

Electronics is everywhere, especially these days. Many times, as frequent users, we do not even notice a “paradigm change” in the things we use on regular basis. We use a fridge, but we do not care ...

SOC (System On Chip) and behavioural designs are integrating more systems and functions to meet market demands for improved user experience. More often than not, these systems and functions require ...