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    Laker Wobegon, where all the layout is above average 

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    Paul McLellan
    Published on 04-17-2012 02:00 AM
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    TSMC's technnology symposium seems to be the new time to make product announcements, with ARM and Atrenta yesterday and Springsoft today.

    There is a new incarnation of Springsoft's Laker layout family, Laker3 (pronounced three, not cubed). The original version ran on its own proprietary database. The second version added openAccess to the mix, but with ...
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    OpenAccess DB - Productivity and Beyond! 

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    Pawan Fangaria
    Published on 03-05-2012 08:00 PM
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    As I have been watching the developments in EDA and Semiconductor industry, it is apparent that we remain fragmented unless pushed to adopt a common standard mostly due to business reasons. Foundries are dictating on the rules to be followed by designs, thereby EDA tools incorporating them. Also, design companies needed to work with tools from different vendors. As a result various exchange ...
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    Verdi's 3rd Symphony 

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    Paul McLellan
    Published on 03-05-2012 05:00 AM
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    The first version of the debug platform Verdi (then called Debussy) dates back to 1996 over 15 years ago. The second version was released in 2002. And now SpringSoft is releasing the 3rd version Verdi3 which is a completely new generation. A tool environment like Verdi seems to need to be completely refreshed about every 5 or 6 years to take account of the changes in the scale of design and the issues ...
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    Mark Milligan joins Springsoft 

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    Paul McLellan
    Published on 12-06-2011 12:01 PM
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    Mark Milligan recently joined SpringSoft as VP Corporate Marketing. I sat down with him on Monday to get his perspective on things.

    He started life, as so many of us, as an engineer. He was an ASIC designer working on low-level ...
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    Blitz, blazing fast layout 

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    Paul McLellan
    Published on 11-29-2011 06:00 AM
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    One of the challenges with today's SoCs is that chip-finishing, putting the final touches to the SoC working at the chip level, stresses layout editors to the limit. Either they run out of capacity to load the entire chip, or they can handle the entire chip but everything is like wading through molasses, it takes an awfully long time ...
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    Austin and San Jose SCC 

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    Paul McLellan
    Published on 10-14-2011 01:35 PM
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    Don't forget the SpringSoft Community Conferences next week in Austin on Tuesday and in San Jose on Thursday. There is no charge and you even get a free lunch (see "no ...
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    Verdi: there's an App for that 

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    Paul McLellan
    Published on 10-03-2011 03:58 AM
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    Verdi is very widely used in verification groups, perhaps the industry's most popular debug system. But users have not been able to access the Verdi environment to write their own scripts or applications. This means either that they are prevented from doing something that they want to do, or else the barrier for doing it is very high, requiring them to create ...
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