What do you need to design a chip of 40 billion transistors?
Today's bleeding edge EDA methodologies and tools are likely to be mainstream 8 years from now if they are to be relied on to design chips of 40 billion+ transistors at that time. This is the message Dr. Walden Rhines delivered in his keynotes to 2000+ engineers at 10 venues across Europe and India in the Solution Expo and User2User conference series of 2010.
The 2011 series of Tuesday Tech Talks will educate viewers on new design methodologies and emerging EDA solutions. Each topic in the program was highlighted by Dr. Rhines as a contributor to a 10x productivity gain the IC industry will need if it is to realize chips of 40B transistors. This series dives into four principle areas: high-level system design, verification, embedded software development, and back-end physical design and test.
About Tuesday Tech Talks
Tuesday Tech Talks offer audience participation with the opportunity to ask questions of an industry expert in real-time. You can be sure to hear the answers to challenging questions which will help your understanding of the day's topic.
Tuesday Tech Talks broadcasts every other Tuesday at times convenient for engineers in Europe and India.
- Europe
- 09:30 & 14:00 GMT
- 10:30 & 15:00 CET
- 11:30 & 16:00 EET
- India
- 14:00 & 18.30 IT
Spring 2011 Archives
Saving verification time using TLM modeling
On-demand Web Seminar: Today’s electronic systems embed one or more processors (with software!), bus, cache as well as more and more algorithm mapped in hardware in order to cope with performance requirements. View On-demand Web Seminar
CPU-to-CPU Communications in Multicore Designs
On-demand Web Seminar: Embedded designs incorporating several CPUs - either multiple cores on a chip, multiple chips on a board, or a combination of the two - are becoming increasingly common. It's no secret that software development... View On-demand Web Seminar
Improving System Specification with UML
On-demand Web Seminar: Introduction to UML: This Tuesday Tech Talk gives an overview of UML and how you can use it for specifications. It also considers xtUML and the benefits of using it during specification. View On-demand Web Seminar
Android, Linux and Real-time Development for Embedded Systems
On-demand Web Seminar: Many developers have selected Linux for embedded applications, taking advantage of its open source distribution and the very large range of middleware and drivers that are available. This session considers... View On-demand Web Seminar
System Modeling, Simulation & Analysis - A methodology to develop a reliable system
On-demand Web Seminar: Today’s cross-discipline systems require a highly coordinated development flow and design teams and tool environments must now interact in a multi-discipline, concurrent engineering design process... View On-demand Web Seminar
Advanced Formal Verification
On-demand Web Seminar: In recent years, formal verification has emerged as an alternative approach that addresses the main limitation of simulation-based verification: checking a small fraction of the behaviours of non-trivial... View On-demand Web Seminar
Beyond Physical Verification: Advanced Electrical Rule Checking on Layout
On-demand Web Seminar: As designs incorporate more mixed-signal content, the complexity of checks for issues such as Electrostatic Discharge has increased, and reliance on manual checking and time-consuming simulation becomes... View On-demand Web Seminar
Power Aware Verification
On-demand Web Seminar: Power aware verification checks that the planned active power management architecture and controls will operate correctly and will enable the design to operate correctly as the design transitions from one... View On-demand Web Seminar
Overcoming Complexity in the Physical Verification Signoff Process
On-demand Web Seminar: As we progress to ever smaller nodes, the number of rule checks keeps growing along with the complexity of the rules. Custom and AMS designers are experiencing more and more iterations, slowing down the... View On-demand Web Seminar
Tech Talk Archives
View presentation from past Tech Talk series. Each presentation is presented by an industry expert and lasts between 30-45 minutes.
10X Productivity Gains
CPU-to-CPU Communications in Multicore Designs
Embedded designs incorporating several CPUs - either multiple cores on a chip, multiple chips on a board, or a combination of the two - are becoming increasingly common. It's no secret that software development... View On-demand Web Seminar
Android, Linux and Real-time Development for Embedded Systems
Many developers have selected Linux for embedded applications, taking advantage of its open source distribution and the very large range of middleware and drivers that are available. This session considers... View On-demand Web Seminar
Advanced Formal Verification
In recent years, formal verification has emerged as an alternative approach that addresses the main limitation of simulation-based verification: checking a small fraction of the behaviours of non-trivial... View On-demand Web Seminar
Power Aware Verification
Power aware verification checks that the planned active power management architecture and controls will operate correctly and will enable the design to operate correctly as the design transitions from one... View On-demand Web Seminar
Improving System Specification with UML
Introduction to UML: This Tuesday Tech Talk gives an overview of UML and how you can use it for specifications. It also considers xtUML and the benefits of using it during specification. View On-demand Web Seminar
System Modeling, Simulation & Analysis - A methodology to develop a reliable system
Today’s cross-discipline systems require a highly coordinated development flow and design teams and tool environments must now interact in a multi-discipline, concurrent engineering design process... View On-demand Web Seminar
Beyond Physical Verification: Advanced Electrical Rule Checking on Layout
As designs incorporate more mixed-signal content, the complexity of checks for issues such as Electrostatic Discharge has increased, and reliance on manual checking and time-consuming simulation becomes... View On-demand Web Seminar
Overcoming Complexity in the Physical Verification Signoff Process
As we progress to ever smaller nodes, the number of rule checks keeps growing along with the complexity of the rules. Custom and AMS designers are experiencing more and more iterations, slowing down the... View On-demand Web Seminar
Design for Manufacturing
Curing Reliability Issues at the IC Design Stage
On-demand Web Seminar: This presentation offers an introduction to these problems and explains how advanced EDA tools can help integrate the reliability prediction capability in the design cycle itself. View On-demand Web Seminar
IP Scoring Using TSMC DFM Kits
On-demand Web Seminar: This talk proposes a method of scoring IP from cell to block level for DFM quality which provides a basis for building high DFM quality into your SoC and gaining maximum yield potential. View On-demand Web Seminar
Signoff Physical Verification in the Place and Route Flow
On-demand Web Seminar: This presentation delves into the sources of manufacturing variability, their effect on the traditional design and verification flows, and the emerging EDA solutions that fully integrate the design and... View On-demand Web Seminar
Engineering Integration Between PCB Design and Manufacturing
On-demand Web Seminar: The interface between design and manufacturing is a critical step in new product introduction (NPI). Inefficiencies in design/manufacturing collaboration such as extra preparation phases and design scrap/rework... View On-demand Web Seminar
Concurrent DFM Verification for PCB Fabrication
On-demand Web Seminar: Improving integration with your fabrication partner can significantly improve a company’s ability to deliver products to market faster, at lower cost and of higher quality. View On-demand Web Seminar
DFM Verification for PCB Assembly
On-demand Web Seminar: The assembly of a printed circuit board is typically the most expensive part of the manufacturing process. Not only are the components associated with the PCB expensive, but any errors not found until PCB... View On-demand Web Seminar
Process Improvement
Safety Critical Systems - Requirements Driven Design
On-demand Web Seminar: How do you know when your design is complete? When your functionality and verification results exactly meet requirements. View On-demand Web Seminar
Low Power
Power-Aware Silicon Test: Understanding Testing and Power-Sensitive Designs
On-demand Web Seminar: During this presentation we discuss the trends, drivers and solutions for power-aware test that have emerged. We will take a look at the technologies where power-aware test required, how designers are looking... View On-demand Web Seminar
How Physical Implementation realizes Power Intent
On-demand Web Seminar: Our discussion will focus on how to handle power intent within a Place and Route environment whilst meeting all design constraints, modes and corners for best QoR. View On-demand Web Seminar
System Level Power Considerations for PCB Design
On-demand Web Seminar: During this technical session we will look at common issues created by demands placed on the power distribution in today’s PCB designs. It will discuss techniques for delivering adequate voltage and... View On-demand Web Seminar
Power Efficient Design Challenges and Trends
On-demand Web Seminar: This presentation covers key aspects to the forces from a technology and market perspective that are driving designers towards better energy efficient designs. View On-demand Web Seminar
Power Aware Verification
On-demand Web Seminar: During this session, we will look at how new standards, verification tools and techniques can be applied to allow low power designs being verified much earlier at the RTL including the software components. View On-demand Web Seminar
2009 Webinars
Easier Debug of Processor-Based Designs
On-demand Web Seminar: During this presentation we will show how to efficiently debug software and hardware together by providing a solution which avoids launching simulation time and time again to figure out what went wrong. View On-demand Web Seminar
Digital IC Test: High Quality Testing requires Test Compression
On-demand Web Seminar: This presentation examines several compression solutions and determines the advantages and limitations of each technology in these areas. View On-demand Web Seminar
Low Pin Count Test with Embedded Compression
On-demand Web Seminar: This event will describe several methodologies that enable designers to reduce the number of pins and top level routing required for the application of high quality test. The focus will be on manufacturing... View On-demand Web Seminar
Verification Strategy for Mixed-Signal SoCs
On-demand Web Seminar: This Technical discussion will look into various tools available for Analog design verification, help understand underlying techniques and how they fit into SoC verification and how to take advantage of... View On-demand Web Seminar
Why is OVM and Hardware Acceleration Such a Viable Solution
On-demand Web Seminar: OVM promotes the use of untimed transaction-based testbenches for simulation and such an approach can be complimentary with hardware acceleration for both high performance and effective creation of system... View On-demand Web Seminar
FPGA Synthesis Techniques for improving Design Performance
On-demand Web Seminar: This webinar will discuss how synthesis technology has evolved to leverage device capabilities and help meet design closure. Topics will include knowing what optimizations to enable and when, physical synthesis... View On-demand Web Seminar
Flexible Technology for Mixed-Signal SoC Verification
On-demand Web Seminar: This webinar will discuss the evolution of digital SoC verification methodology and look at how analog verification can plug into and take advantage of new techniques. It will cover the various verification... View On-demand Web Seminar
What is “Intelligent Testbench Automation”?
On-demand Web Seminar: Discuss the methods behind Mentor’s intelligent testbench automation tool, Questa inFact. It will present how to apply different verification strategies without having to re-write the entire test... View On-demand Web Seminar