Verification and design engineers like to talk shop and discuss their experiences and visions. But even though engineers sharing stories around the water cooler (whatever form that takes—conferences, ...

Nobel Laureate Bob Dylan observed, “You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.” Similarly, we can get a feeling for where our industry is going by attending to the flow of thought ...

Structured ASICs require developers to re-program only the top level metal layers when customizing their designs, enabling faster development time and low unit cost. However, many structured ASICs ...

As technology continues to evolve, the need for semiconductor chips also increases. The semiconductor industry lies underneath much of the technological progress, powering devices and systems that ...

Steven Kawamoto, Sr. Marketing Manager, Custom LSI Solutions Unit, Gaku Ogura, Sr. Marketing Manager, Design Solutions Center, Richard Lee, Design Engineer, Design ...

I'm fast approaching the one year mark with my current employer since I graduated last year. Previously, I did three four month work terms with them and they were for the most part interesting. I took ...

1. In a big company, doing ASIC design verification for a WCDMA modem for 3G cellular chips. 2. Small company, doing Embedded Software Programming. Working on the design and implementation of layer 1 ...

Aparna Mohan is an accomplished Design Verification Engineer based in Austin, Texas. With a strong educational foundation, including a Master of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering from ...

Although structured ASICs promise a shorter schedule than standard-cell ASICs, this abbreviation comes at a price. Structured ASICs are more expensive on a per-unit basis, allow less customization, ...