Oftentimes, in order to save on the cost of IP, a company will select an encrypted netlist as the deliverable instead of the RTL source code. This is especially common among companies looking to ...

The significant burden of parasitics on the performance of post-layout verification forces design engineers to use additional techniques in order to match the requirements of next generation designs.

In the nanometer era, die areas are getting larger as the designs are getting more and more complex. In order to ensure the correctness of the implemented design, bigger layout databases needs to be ...

A lot of attention—and hype—has focused on bringing traditional office-productivity programs, such as the OpenOffice.org suite, to Linux. However, another important—and far less-hyped—area where Linux ...

Still using the same old test tools? New boundary scan software can improve your efficiency. Boundary scan PCB testing has been made easier by the new ProVision software application from JTAG ...