Semiconductor Engineering

Logic Synthesis Basics For FPGA

In the early days of digital design, all circuits were designed manually. You would draw K-map, optimize the logic and draw the schematics. If you remember, we all ...
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Mentor’s first wave of new FPGA synthesis tools targets 50 million gate designs

WILSONVILLE, Ore. — Three months after disclosing an ambitious plan to redefine design software for field programmable gate arrays, Mentor Graphics Corp. here is preparing to ship its first beta ...
Semiconductor Engineering

HW Security: Flip-Flops Along Logic Gates to Prevent Synthesis Tools’ Structural Leakages (TU Dresden, Ruhr Univ. Bochum)

A new technical paper titled “Flip-Lock: A Flip-Flop-Based Logic Locking Technique for Thwarting ML-based and Algorithmic Structural Attacks” was published by researchers at TU Dresden and Ruhr ...
EDN

Synthesis needs to change to serve modern chip design

As EDA tools evolve, the resulting products try to increase automation. Unfortunately, the last great advance was from schematics to language-based design starting with the first synthesis tools in ...