EDN

Focus Report: Physical Design

Much as good jazz is all about the synergy between different musical points of view, physical design is all about the synergy between point tools and the range of data that emerges from those tools.
Semiconductor Engineering

Secure Physical Design Roadmap Enabling End-To-End Trustworthy IC Design Flow

The FICS Research Institute (University of Florida) has published a new research paper titled “Secure Physical Design.” This is the first and most comprehensive research work done in this area that ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Hyperconvergence Of Design For Test And Physical Design

In today’s highly competitive semiconductor industry, chip-design companies strive for competitive advantages by optimizing designs for PPA (Power, Performance, Area). Along with the functional logic, ...
EDN

Physical design team tackles challenging SoC

When describing the complexity of deep sub-micron systems on chip (SoCs), most engineers and their managers tend to refer to a combination of gate count, amount of embedded memory, and frequency of ...