Design-Reuse

Describing the ASIC physical design flow

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 ...
Design-Reuse

Magma and ChipX Extend Integrated RTL-to-GDSII Design Flow to Next-Generation Structured ASIC Designs

Magma Blast Create SA, Blast Fusion SA and ChipX CX6000 Structured ASIC combine to reduce cost and cycle time of high-performance designs SANTA CLARA, Calif., Nov. 9, 2005 - ChipX, the structured ASIC ...
EDN

Full-Custom Design Seeps into ASIC Flow

The change to physical synthesis, aka SP&R, aka RTL-to-GDS-II, design tools for the 0.13-micron and 90nm process nodes is pulling several other methods and tools previously reserved for the highest ...
EDN

Test engineers must join ASIC flow early

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 ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Designing 2.5D Systems

As more designs hit the reticle limit, or suffer from decreasing yield, migrating to 2.5D designs may provide a path forward. But this kind of advanced packaging also comes with some additional ...