Semiconductor Engineering

Logic Synthesis Basics For FPGA

In the early days of digital design, all circuits were designed manually. You would draw K-map, optimize the logic and draw the schematics. If you remember, we all ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Beyond Human Reach: Meeting Design Targets Faster With AI-Driven Optimization

The implementation flow for semiconductor devices is all about optimizing for power, performance, area (PPA), or some combination of these attributes. The history of this flow in electronic design ...
EDN

Synopsys enhances FPGA synthesis – 4X speedup plus team design capabilities

It's no secret that FPGAs just keep on getting bigger, and Bigger, and BIGGER. This is obviously good news in that greater capacity means that designers can do more with them … but the downside is ...
EDN

Synthesis needs to change to serve modern chip design

As EDA tools evolve, the resulting products try to increase automation. Unfortunately, the last great advance was from schematics to language-based design starting with the first synthesis tools in ...