ED_EDA Alert Update_: You Say You Want a Revolution, You'll Find One In OVP
EDA Alert e-Newsletter | April 15, 2008
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You Say You Want a Revolution, You'll Find One In OVP
By Simon Davidmann, President and CEO, Imperas Ltd.
"You say you want a revolution? Well, you know . . . we all want to change the world."
John Lennon penned that opening line of The Beatles' "Revolution" in 1968. And it's just as relevant now as it was 40 years ago. The electronics industry stands on the threshold of an era of creative innovation as it rushes toward multicore system-on-a-chip (SoC) design.
Our editors have been busy! Come read their commentaries and check out exclusive videos from the Embedded Systems Conference, Mobile World Congress, APEC, and Embedded World exhibitions and see the technology of tomorrow from major players in the electronics industry.
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Implantable Materials and Advanced Ceramics
The aliphatic polycarbonates created by Cornell chemist Geoffrey Coates are safe and strong enough to be used in medical implants and devices. They're also used as extremely effective binders for the creation of non-oxide ceramics, which are often used as components experiencing high compressive stresses such as cam rollers in diesel engines, valves, seals, rotating parts and wear plates, abrasive powder blast nozzles, cutting tool tips, and more.
A European research project coordinated by the University of Verona, Italy, hopes to define a formal framework based on tight integration of design and verification through all the refinement steps of an embedded-platform design flow. The project, which spans specification through logic synthesis and software compilation, also aims to propose a modeling and verification flow that enhances and speeds up embedded platform design and configuration.
A set of four modeling extensions to Jasper Design Automation's Proof Accelerators provides for fast, and exhaustive, verification of intractable datapath designs. Jasper's JasperGold Proof Accelerators can be used to speed the functional verification of any complex chip design in which datapath, multiple clock domains, caches, and FIFOs pose challenges.
Hardware-Accelerated Spice Simulator Raises Speed/Accuracy Bar
Nascentric's OmegaSim GX is touted as the world's first hardware-accelerated Spice simulator. OmegaSim GX harnesses the raw computational power of NVIDIA Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) to provide fast transistor-level simulation with virtually no loss in accuracy.
Pyxis Technology, Silicon Canvas Set Interoperability Milestone
The dream of true EDA-tool interoperability—meaning simultaneous execution of two commercial tools within the same Unix process—has long eluded tool users, unless, of course, you’re talking about tools integrated as a proprietary combination from the same vendor.
ESC Silicon Valley: Learn Today, Design Tomorrow ESC Silicon Valley is where the global design engineering community gathers to learn, collaborate and celebrate innovation. Electronic Design will be at ESC, covering all the latest announcements from the event and broadcasting exclusive video footage with the industry’s moguls. We will be covering the event from top to bottom, so don’t miss out! Click here for our ESC Web page.
Webinar: Wireless Sensor Networks—A Survey Of Design Options Presented by Winland Electronics Inc. April 30 @ 2 pm ET
Developing a wireless sensor network can be an awesome challenge or a simple matter of picking the right module, depending on who you ask. Off-the-shelf solutions have certain advantages, but may not be the best overall solution to your problem. Home grown or custom solutions can be designed to overcome specific challenges, so they can be critical for certain projects. Learn more about the technical pros & cons of both options in this live course
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Read up on Communications/Test Editor Louis Frenzel's reviews and recommendations on two reference guides from the industiral networking industry. "Industrial Ethernet, 2nd Ed.," by P.S. Marshall and J.S. Rinaldi introduces how Ethernet carries the TCP/IP protocol suite, and there is also coverage on Ethernet hardware. The second book, "Industrial Data Communications, 4th Ed.," by L.M. Thompson, covers a rainbow of topics within the serial-data communications field.
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