They said it couldn't be done, but Synopsys has imbued its PrimeTime 2009.12 static timing analyzer with the ability to run in multi-threaded and distributed multicore modes. Synopsys continues to ...

A year or two ago, it looked like statistical timing analysis might be the next great new thing in IC design. Now it's less clear–and a debate at the recent International Symposium on Physical Design ...

When the microprocessor and inexpensive ROM memory arrived in the early 1970s, building small, stored-program computing systems became practical. System designers learned that with the rapidly growing ...

(See box, “ Logic-analyzer specs: some things to look out for.”) The first logic analyzers were timing analyzers–essentially DSOs with large numbers of channels and displays capable of showing only ...