Many of today's large, complex designs can contain thousands of lines of Verilog or VHDL code. Quite often, teams of engineers—with some members possibly situated in disparate locations worldwide—will ...

Editor's Note: Mixed-signal design methodologies are central to design of SoCs targeting nearly all embedded applications. A new book, Mixed-Signal Methodology Guide, looks at key aspects of ...

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Undertaking the design of a system-on-a-chip (SoC) is complex enough on its own merits. As is ever more the case, when power consumption is the primary design constraint, it becomes a task of enormous ...

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Power supply noise and related issues have become critical for designs at 90nm and below due to the combination of several factors. Timing slowdown and functional failures are becoming common in these ...

Evidence is mounting that traditional “waterfall” methods used to develop complex ICs are reaching the breaking point. Consider that today: Some IC designs contain more than 100 blocks that must be ...

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