EDN

Altera’s Structured ASIC design flow now ITAR-compliant for military apps

Altera Corporation has announced that the U.S. Department of State has certified that the company's HardCopy II structured ASIC design and manufacturing flow is compliant with International Trade in ...
EDN

Focus is on the best ASIC design flow

System-on-programmable-chip technology has characteristics of both board-based design and ASIC-based system-on-a-chip ASIC design. The immediate attraction of SoPC is that, like a breadboard, the ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Smart Early ASIC Design Prototyping And Analysis

The Power Delivery Network (PDN) is the backbone of ASIC design. It is used to supply clean power to active circuits in the IC. Voltage drop on the power rails can result in degraded performance, ...
Electronic Design

Carefully Weigh The Tradeoffs Of Cell-Based Vs. Structured ASICs

When all is said and done, the structured ASIC’s shorter development cycle may well be the deciding factor for your design team. With the emergence of 90-nm process technology, ASIC designers get to ...
Electronic Design

Structured ASICs

So what’s a STRUCTURED ASIC? A Structured ASIC is a type of integrated circuit that contains blocks of logic, called "tiles." These tiles reside in the die ready to be connected in a customizable ...