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• Denali co-founder says software, verification should be handled up front (Wednesday Oct. 12, 2005)
  Constituting as much as 90 percent of the effort expended on new designs, software content and verification strategy must be considered at the earliest stages, according Mark Gogolewski, chief technology officer at Denali Software Inc.
  
  
• IP selection (Monday Oct. 10, 2005)
  The semiconductor industry is entirely dependent upon the reuse of silicon intellectual property (IP) for the design of complex chips. That has been observed so often in recent years that to repeat it is to state the obvious.
  
  
• First, learn all the categories (Monday Oct. 10, 2005)
  Design teams take a huge variety of approaches to selecting intellectual property. That is clear from even a cursory conversation with IP vendors, even before any systematic data gathering.
  
  
• Designers talk about fitting cores (Monday Oct. 10, 2005)
  The best way to find out how real design teams are selecting and evaluating intellectual property is to ask them. That is precisely what EE Times intends to do in the IP Selection Industry Challenges program
  
  
• QIP metric streamlines the process (Monday Oct. 10, 2005)
  In a perfect IP reuse world, one would simply connect a third-party intellectual-property block, validate the interface with the rest of the system and successfully produce fully functional silicon. Unfortunately, this rarely happens in practice
  
  
• RBC analyst gives ARM solid marks on Coretex-A8 intro (Friday Oct. 07, 2005)
  RBC Capital Equipment analyst Garo Toomajanian Thursday (Oct. 6) applauded the introduction of ARM Ltd.'s Coretex-A8 processor, particularly the fact that it has already been licensed by five customers.
  
  
• Will Structured ASICs Be Successful? (Wednesday Oct. 05, 2005)
  What is a structured ASIC today? How about a platform ASIC or even an embedded array from the past?
  
  
• ASIC makers piece together their options (Monday Sep. 26, 2005)
  A decade ago, LSI Logic Corp. executives ushered reporters and analysts into a conference room to unveil the company's makeover and, by extension, a new way to tackle complex design
  
  
• The High Cost of Verification (Friday Sep. 23, 2005)
  Electronic News sat down to discuss the future of verification with Scott Sandler, president and CEO of Novas Software; Mark Gogolewski, CTO of Denali; Farhad Hayat, VP of marketing for Synopsys' verification group, and Lauro Rizzatti, general manager of
  
  
• Multiple processors mean multiple challenges (Monday Sep. 19, 2005)
  While a performance boost can be achieved by adding many processors to a system-on-chip, designers must be prepared to tackle the related speed bumps of software and hardware design
  
  
• Navigating the IP minefield (Monday Sep. 19, 2005)
  Having a comprehensive view of the competitive and IP landscape is vital. This can be extremely challenging without the proper processes and resources, especially since the biggest problem is not knowing what you don't know
  
  
• Analysis: Talwalkar puts stamp on LSI Logic (Friday Sep. 16, 2005)
  Abhi Talwalkar appears to be wasting no time letting the industry know who’s in charge now at semiconductor supplier LSI Logic
  
  
• China's tech parks fertile ground for IP (Monday Sep. 05, 2005)
  EE Times examines China's efforts to promote domestic IP creation by strengthening its network of science parks and technology clusters, including Beijing's Zhongguancun Technology Zone
  
  
• Balancing cost vs. security for embedded design (Monday Sep. 05, 2005)
  Balancing cost vs. security for embedded design
  
  
• Semiconductor IP market rising, says iSuppli (Tuesday Aug. 30, 2005)
  The market for semiconductor intellectual property (IP) is set to grow to more than $2.04 billion in 2009 from $1.2 billion in 2004, according to market research company iSuppli Corp.
  
  
• Interview - Warren East, CEO of ARM Holdings plc : Flexing ARM for disruptive change (Monday Aug. 29, 2005)
  Interview - Warren East, CEO of ARM Holdings plc : Flexing ARM for disruptive change
  
  
• China eyes 'creative' industries in IP push (Monday Aug. 29, 2005)
  As China reaches beyond its reputation as a destination for low-tech, ultralow-cost manufacturing, assembly and design, the country is getting creative
  
  
• EEs carp: OUTSOURCE THIS! (Monday Aug. 22, 2005)
  Like it or not, more and more engineers are being forced to come to grips with outsourcing, which has become the new religion of executive managers
  
  
• ARCHITECTURES: Digital synthesis enables complete clock control (Monday Aug. 15, 2005)
  Clock generation is a growing problem for many embedded systems
  
  
• With FSA Spice checklist in place, is oversight needed? (Friday Aug. 12, 2005)
  All of the major foundries have pledged to deliver the completed checklist with all Spice models by the end of the year. But what, or who, will ensure that foundries provide accurate information about their Spice models?
  
  
• CEO interview: with ARC's Carl Schlachte (Monday Aug. 08, 2005)
  EE Times met with Carl Schlachte (shown left), chief executive officer of ARC International plc, in London at the end of one of his visits to ARC’s base in Elstree.
  
  
• Slower processors can be better (Monday Aug. 08, 2005)
  When people talk about processor benchmarks, the conversation usually ends up being all about speed. Other metrics, such as energy efficiency, are often given less attention or are completely overlooked. The unspoken assumption driving these conversations
  
  
• Hardware, software design on collision course, panel finds (Thursday Aug. 04, 2005)
  Hardware, software design on collision course, panel finds
  
  
• ARC says patents ready to protect configurability (Wednesday Aug. 03, 2005)
  
  
  
• ARCHITECTURES: Chip spearheads customizable IP (Monday Aug. 01, 2005)
  The block diagrams for most moderate-sized systems-on-chip look just about the same. You have your CPU, a local bus with cache, a DRAM controller and maybe an accelerator, a bridge and a peripheral bus with a bunch of I/O controllers, ranging from simple
  
  
• MIPS, ARM pushing RISC/DSP cores in Taiwan (Thursday Jul. 28, 2005)
  Highlighting the increasing demands on consumer devices, especially portable systems, MIPS Technologies Inc. and ARM Ltd. are ratcheting up their efforts to persuade designers here to use combined RISC/DSP cores in the next wave of designs
  
  
• How to protect IP in offshoring craze (Monday Jul. 25, 2005)
  Clearly, the transfer of professional work overseas has increased enormously during the past five years. While the pros and cons of this strategy can be debated extensively, offshore outsourcing remains a fact of life, and in the global economy it is hard
  
  
• ARCHITECTURES: Handset integration strategies vary (Monday Jul. 25, 2005)
  
  
  
• Are ESL and DFM false hopes? (Monday Jul. 25, 2005)
  Observers hope that two technologies at opposite ends of the design cycle-electronic system-level (ESL) design and design-for-manufacturability (DFM)-will return the EDA industry to solid growth. But due to the nature of the ESL and DFM problems, that hop
  
  
• ARM resists calls to represent third-party IP (Wednesday Jul. 20, 2005)
  Just as many chip companies have outsourced designing their microprocessor architectures to ARM Holdings plc, so ARM is coming under pressure to provide access to more than just their own intellectual property (IP)