Virtual Prototyping
Accelerate pre-RTL embedded software development, hardware/software integration, and system validation
Architecture Design
Quickly explore tradeoffs in your SoC architecture to achieve optimal product performance and cost to avoid over- or under-design
FPGA-Based Prototyping
Accelerate the creation of your ASIC prototype with a high-speed hardware prototyping environment including a comprehensive software flow
Core Optimization
Differentiate your product with the right combination of performance, power and area for your most design-critical cores
Design Flow Deployment
Optimize your design flow to address the latest design challenges
Physical Design Assistance
Leverage our tape-out proven flows and project experience to implement your very-deep submicron chip
IP Integration & SoC Verification
Get to market faster and reduce SoC design and verification cost by applying best practices in RTL creation and functional verification
Guest: Brian Hunter, Sr. Consulting Engineer, Cavium
Host: Karen Bartleson, Sr. Director, Community Marketing, Synopsys Inc.
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Cavium’s Brian Hunter joined Karen to transparently talk about verification and UVM. Verification isn’t getting easier as today’s chip design sizes explode. Yet techniques, methodologies, and standards continue to evolve to provide solutions for verification engineers to keep pace. The Universal Verification Methodology, UVM, is at the forefront and industry is making the transition to employ it. Brian Hunter shares his first-hand experience with UVM and discusses its benefits and the industry’s transition.
Host: Karen Bartleson, Sr. Director, Community Marketing, Synopsys Inc.
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Want to know what smart teenagers think about technology? Interested in how technology plays a role in their everyday lives? What to hear what products they want in the future? Listen to four sharp teens tell us what’s on their minds.
Guest: Dan Kochpatcharin, Deputy Director, TSMC IP Portfolio Marketing Program
Hosts: Karen Bartleson, Sr. Director, Community Marketing, Synopsys Inc. and Kevin Kranen, Director, Strategic Programs, Synopsys Inc.
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TSMC offers some of the most advanced processes in the industry. They are used to manufacture many of the most complex semiconductors ever produced. Semiconductor IP is a key ingredient to successful System-on-Chip design. Both the processes and the IP face big challenges. Dan Kochpatcharin talks with us about the latest TSMC process technology, the challenges in designing in the latest technology, and why IP quality is imperative.
Guest: John Busco, Design Implementation Manager, NVIDIA
Host: Karen Bartleson, Sr. Director, Community Marketing, Synopsys Inc. and Pratima Easwar, Manager, Applications Consulting, Synopsys Inc.
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NVIDIA offers some of the most advanced chips on Earth. They go into more products and serve more markets than you might think. Big chips mean big business – both with big challenges. John Busco talks with us about the interesting applications for NVIDIA chips, the challenges in designing them, and some trends for the future of chip design and chip business.
Guest:Robert Geer, Vice President for Academic Affairs and Chief Academic Officer, Professor of Nanoscience, College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering at the University of Albany
Hosts:Karen Bartleson, Sr. Director, Community Marketing, Synopsys Inc., and Rich Goldman, Vice President, Corporate Marketing and Strategic Alliances, Synopsys Inc.
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Many of the technologies that we rely on every day are built on nanotechnology, whether it is chip technologies, medical or alternative energy. At CNSE Albany, a dual-use facility focused on research and interdisciplinary education in nanotechnology, there are many exciting developments underway. Robert Geer talks about this and academic paradigm changes required to support a new workforce.
Guest: Paul Tobin – Director, Central Verification, AMD
Host: Karen Bartleson, Sr. Director, Community Marketing, Synopsys Inc. and Shankar Hemmedy, Senior Program Manager, Synopsys Inc.
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In this highly interactive and stimulating session, Paul Tobin of AMD discusses their SoC verification challenges. As design complexity is increasing and schedules getting shorter and more inflexible, Paul and his team of world class verification engineers leverage innovative technologies and advanced methodologies to navigate the fierce crusade of verifying their complex SoCs. Paul highlights his team’s long term challenges and metric-driven verification planning and management, simulation technology, advanced SystemVerilog testbench, UVM, and verification IP which enable his team to stay ahead of the complexity curve.
Guests: Al Steier - Munro & Associates with Brian Fuller – EE Times
Host: Karen Bartleson, Sr. Director, Community Marketing, Synopsys Inc.
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At the 49th Design Automation Conference, a teardown is being done for the Chevrolet Volt. This advanced automobile is an electric vehicle that also offers a gasoline-powered generator to extend its range in the event that its 360V lithium-ion battery isn’t recharged. Al, Brian, and Karen talk about what’s inside the Volt, how it was dissected, and how it’s expected to evolve.
Hosts: Karen Bartleson, Sr. Director, Community Marketing, Synopsys Inc. and Chip Gale, Market Research Analyst, Synopsys Inc.
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The semiconductor industry is arguably the wildest industry in the world. Its amazingly fast pace, incredible technological advancements, and insatiable consumer appetite for more powerful yet cheaper electronic products can drive everyone involved crazy. Risto Puhakka, President of VLSI Research, talks about advancements in lithography, the challenges at 20 nanometers, and forecasts for the future.
Guest: Dr. Belle Wei, Dean, College of Engineering, San José State University and 2012 Recipient, Marie R. Pistilli Women in EDA Achievement Award
Host: Karen Bartleson, Sr. Director, Community Marketing, Synopsys Inc.
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These days, women comprise the same percentage of engineers as they did in the 1970s. Dr. Belle Wei, the Don Beall Dean of the Charles W. Davidson College of Engineering at San Jose State University is one of a small number of women deans of engineering in the United States. We discuss the current situation and what everyone can do to bring a better gender balance to the field of engineering.
Guests: Paul Dempsey, Chris Edwards, Luke Collins – Founders, The Curation Company
Host: Karen Bartleson, Sr. Director, Community Marketing, Synopsys Inc.
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You can do more as a team. The editors behind The Curation Company, the new operators of Tech Design Forum, aim to leverage a combined 60+ years of experience covering electronics system design to prove just that. But they are also bringing the “hot” new web-media approach of curation to the engineering media market. It’s all about structuring and developing content to make it easier for engineers to find what they need and, most important, get their jobs done. We sit down with TCC’s trio of Luke Collins (founder, IPxx conference series on semiconductor IP, Editor in Chief, Electronics Times UK), Paul Dempsey (Tech Design Forum), and Chris Edwards (EETimesUK, E&T) to find out how curation works and what changes it already means for Tech Design Forum.
Paul Dempsey, Chris Edwards, Luke Collins, Karen Bartleson
