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 ...

FORT KNOX, Ky. - Critical thinking requires practice, creative thinking. Soldiers and key leaders of the 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division are actively applying Operational Art and ...

Today's mechanical design engineers are tasked with much more than conceiving and designing a functional product with structural integrity. Well-designed products are a culmination of many integrated ...

As chips move to ever-finer geometries, the active region (diffusion) shapes of neighboring cells can impact timing analysis and power calculations for the entire design. The LLE (Local Layout Effect) ...

In my previous blog entry, I continued my discussion of the “Reuse Methodology Manual for System-On-A-Chip Designs” (the RMM) by Michael Keating and Pierre Bricaud. This ground-breaking book on ASIC ...