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Faraday Adopts Incentia for ASIC Synthesis & Timing Flow

Runtime speed and capacity of Incentia’s logic, test and low power synthesis & timing software crucial for high-performance, complex design success HSINCHU, Taiwan, and SANTA CLARA, Calif. – June ...
EDN

Monterey adds Synplicity synthesis to ASIC design flow

SAN MATEO, Calif. — Claiming to have a full RTL-to-GDSII design flow at last, Monterey Design Systems has added logic synthesis to its Dolphin placement and routing system. The Dolphin-RTL synthesis ...
Electronic Design

FPGA Prototyping Tool Aligns With ASIC Flow

This FPGA-Synthesis Tool Offers The Prototyping Capabilities Required By RF-Intensive Systems And A Migration Path To ASIC Product Design. Over a third of all high-end ASIC designers now use FPGAs for ...
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Domino Logic in ASIC Design Flow - Detailed Methodology and Breakthroughs in High Speed Design Automation Approach

Geneva -- September 22,2008 - Engineers at STMicroelectronic have revealed how to use domino logic, a very fast circuit design style utilized in the highest performance custom designs,in an automated ...
EDN

Demonstrating ASIC IP performance and quality demands an FPGA-neutral design flow

Companies designing new system-on-chip (SoC) products are subject to ongoing market pressure to do more with less and achieve higher returns. The result is shrinking engineering teams, reduced design ...
Semiconductor Engineering

High-Level Synthesis: It’s Still Hardware Design

Hardware design using HLS is no different than the typical ASIC/FPGA design flow with the exception that C++/SystemC is being used along with HLS to create the RTL instead of hand coding it. The ...
Electronic Design

RTL-To-GDSII Flow Rolls For Structured ASICs

A collaboration between Magma Design Automation and ChipX has produced a unified RTL-to-GDSII structured ASIC design flow. Based on Magma's Blast Create and Blast ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Why Your FPGA Synthesis Flow Requires Verification

When you think about it, logic synthesis is a vital but rather intimidating part of modern chip design. This process takes a high-level description of intended functionality, written in an RTL ...