D&R Industry Articles (March 2011)

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Vertically Integrated MIPI Solutions

The emerging MIPI standards are designed to ensure interoperability among devices and software that are used in products for the exploding hand-held market. The standards facilitate the interconnection of multiple, mixed-signal integrated circuit devices on a single hand-held product. Use of the standards ensures low power, low pin count and interoperability of all the devices in the system and easy integration.

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A 55-nm Ultra Low Leakage SRAM Compiler with Optimized Power Gating Design

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 power gating (P.G.) MOS is especially considered for the compiler design. The proposed method achieves an obvious advantage in leakage control of low leakage mode for memory compiler. Simulation data shows a 4× leakage reduction for retention mode, and a 50× leakage reduction for sleep mode for a 512k density instance compared to original design.

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Hardware Co-Verification using VMM HAL-SCEMI On ChipIT Platform

This article talks about VIP architecture requirement for achieving Hardware Accelarated Verification using on board generation, error checker, data checker and coverage collection, taking example of AHB Synthe-sizable VIP