This column shows how to develop a fully refined use-case model. I hope some of the ideas about traceability and packaging are picked up by tool vendors (e.g., Rational, CA). The main concepts of this ...

Driven by consumer demand for “cheaper, faster, and better,” the semiconductor industry is continually pushing the migration to smaller process geometries. This continued scaling of complex designs ...

SAN FRANCISCO — The Accellera EDA standards organization said Tuesday (May 31) that its standard co-emulation modeling interface (SCE-MI) 1.1 was approved by the organization's board of directors last ...

Many 3D programs are very intimidating to new users because of either too many buttons or almost no options initially visible. In Rhino, the interface almost as familiar as opening up a word document.

Physical machines may question swap size boundaries trying to load large HDL designs. At the time simulation objects are built, memory requirements are formed depending on the space needed to run the ...