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    Apache at DAC: Customers Talk About Reliability, Low-Power and 3D 

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    Paul McLellan
    Published on 05-09-2012 11:13 AM
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    At DAC in San Francisco this year, Apache once again have a mixture of presentations by customers on their use of Apache tools and presentations by Apache themselves on their products. Most of the customer presentations are given just once, but the product presentations are given multiple times over the three days.

    I think one of the ...
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    RedHawk: On to the Future 

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    Paul McLellan
    Published on 05-01-2012 04:00 AM
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    For many, maybe most, big designs, Apache's RedHawk is the signoff tool for analyzing issues around power: electromigration, power supply droop, noise, transients and so on. But the latest designs have some issues: they are enormous (so you can't just analyze them naively any more than you can run a Spice simulation on them) and increasingly there are 3D designs with a whole new set of electrical and thermal effects that ...
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    Designing for Reliability 

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    Paul McLellan
    Published on 04-08-2012 06:06 PM
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    Analyzing the operation of a modern SoC, especially analyzing its power distribution network (PDN) is getting more and more complex. Today's SoCs no longer operate on a continuous basis, instead functional blocks on the IC are only powered up to execute the operation that is required and then they go into a standby mode, perhaps not clocked and perhaps powered down completely. ...
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    Power Issues for Chip and Board: webinar 

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    Paul McLellan
    Published on 03-10-2012 02:24 PM
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    Last month Brian Bailey at EDN moderated an interesting webinar about power issues. Unusually, it combined two different domains: doing things by modeling and actually taking measurements off real chips and boards. The two participants were Arvind Shanmugavel from the Apache subsidiary of Ansys, and Randy White from Tektronix.

    Nobody needs me ...
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    Power to the Drones 

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    Paul McLellan
    Published on 02-14-2012 04:01 PM
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    Unmanned systems are becoming indispensable to military forces and are used across all of land, sea and air. The generic name for such unmanned systems is UXS, usually UAS (air), UGS (ground) or UUS (underwater). The UAS is the most visible, both due to military strikes and the views of Japan after the Tsunami when areas were unreachable by ...
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    3D Standards 

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    Paul McLellan
    Published on 02-01-2012 03:06 PM
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    At DesignCon this week there was a panel on 3D standards organized by Si2. I also talked to Aveek Sarkar of Apache (a subsidiary of Ansys) who is one of the founding member companies of the Si2 Open3D Technical Advisory Board (TAB), along with Atrenta, Cadence, Fraunhofer Institute, Global Foundries, Intel, Invarian, Mentor, Qualcomm, ...
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    Power Issues for Chip and Board 

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    Paul McLellan
    Published on 01-29-2012 01:39 PM
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    Next week there are two Apache, a subsidiary of Ansys, events. At DesignCon there are a couple of workshops on chip-package-system (CPS). In addition to Apache themselves, each of the two workshops has a number of representatives of leading edge companies doing semiconductor design. I already blogged about ...
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