PARIS — EDA and IP vendor Synopsys Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.) said it has extended its topographical technology in Design Compiler 2010 to produce physical guidance to its place-and-route solution, ...

Co-design, that is, designing software and hardware simultaneously, is one way of attempting to meet the computing-power needs of today’s artificial intelligence applications. Compilers, which ...

Based in the way in which my phone has been ringing off the hook over the last couple of weeks, all I can say is that the folks at Synopsys appear to have been working their little cotton socks off.

In this paper an optimized power gating design on a 55-nm Static Random Access Memory (SRAM) compiler is presented. Two low leakage modes: retention and sleep mode are discussed. The arrangement of ...