What is bottom-up design?
| A design methodology whereby the designer starts with the most basic or primitive components and incrementally builds up the system into higher-level components. |
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| 2007-08-23 | Tundra Serial RapidIO switch wins Huawei design-in Tundra Semiconductor has announced that its Serial RapidIO switch was selected by Huawei Technologies for the latter's next-generation production systems. |
| 2002-09-03 | TTChip to use Mentor Graphics design tools TTChip has licensed Mentor Graphics' ModelSim design tools for the testing and simulation of its development systems. |
| 2007-09-04 | TSMC: Design issues call for industry partnership According to Kuo Wu, deputy director of the product and design service at TSMC's marketing division, the company is building a collaborative system in a bid to address the issues of increasing design complexities and costs. |
| 2010-11-17 | TSMC, IMEC, GSA award urges mixed-signal RF design TSMC, IMEC and the Global Semiconductor Alliance are coming together to support an annual award that highlights how engineering is an exciting and rewarding high-status profession. |
| 2007-06-28 | TSMC, Cadence team on 65nm wireless design flow Cadence and TSMC have teamed on nanometer wireless design and produced a new TSMC 65nm RF PDK compatible with the new Cadence Virtuoso custom design platform. |
| 2005-03-29 | TSMC to open design center in Shanghai, says report Taiwan Semiconductor Mfg Co. Ltd the world's largest foundry chip supplier, is planning to open a design-service center at its mainland Chinese factory in Shanghai, according to a Taiwan Economic News report, citing un-named executives at the wafer fab as sources. |
| 2002-04-16 | TSMC to offer SoC design-to-manufacturing services Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd is moving to better coordinate the design and manufacturing flow for SoC customers with the introduction of a development architecture called Nexsys. |
| 2008-06-12 | TSMC targets to unify 32nm design flow Facing the 32nm challenge, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd is putting the pedal to the metal with a new design-for-manufacturing scheme. |
| 2007-11-27 | TSMC taps Synopsys' design-to-mask data processing software TSMC has successfully implemented Synopsys' new PCX technology to reduce design-to-mask cycle-time for its advanced process technologies. |
| 2005-06-13 | TSMC releases reference design flow for 65nm processes Taiwan Semiconductor Mfg Co. Ltd has released version 6.0 of its reference flow, the sequence of EDA tools that the world's largest foundry recommends for its 65nm manufacturing processes. |
| 2012-10-11 | TSMC releases 20nm, CoWoS design reference The silicon-validated CoWoS Reference Flow enables multi-die integration to support high bandwidth, low power and can achieve fast time-to-market for 3D IC designs. |
| 2007-07-16 | TSMC pulls curtains off 45nm design process Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd unveiled its latest and most ambitious design methodology for IC production at the challenging 45nm node. |
| 2006-08-11 | TSMC increases investments in local design house, sensor foundry Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd has separately increased its investments in two Taiwanese companies—Global Unichip Corp. and VisEra Technologies Co. Ltd. |
| 2008-04-30 | TSMC IC design collaboration strategy stirs controversy TSMC has unveiled a new and possibly controversial strategy that involves more collaboration in the early stages of the IC design process. |
| 2007-06-07 | TSMC channels 'Flow' to deal with 45nm design challenges Foundry titan Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd (TSMC) claims that its latest design methodology increases yields, lowers risks and improves design margins. Reference Flow 8.0 supports the company's 45nm process technology with advanced standard cell, standard I/O, and SRAM compiler. |
| 2005-10-06 | TSMC approves X Architecture design Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) disclosed on Oct. 4 that they are ready to accept 90nm X Architecture designs. |
| 2002-05-30 | TSMC adopts Cadence's signal analysis for reference design flow Taiwan Semiconductor Mfg Co. has adopted Cadence Design System Inc.'s CeltIC signal-integrity analysis solution for its 0.135m reference design flow. |
| 2003-07-11 | Triquint, Agilent design kit to speed IC design TriQuint Semiconductor and Agilent Technologies Inc. have introduced a next-gen design kit, which accelerates IC design and simulation. |
| 2008-09-02 | Trio cooks up RTOS-based reference design platform IAR Systems, NXP Semiconductors and Micrium will be launching a new reference design platform intended for RTOS-based, ARM-powered embedded systems for industrial applications. |
| 2006-02-03 | Trio combine for Wi-Fi/cellular handset ref design Quorum Systems, TTPCom and Analog Devices have collaborated on a GSM/Voice-over-Wi-Fi dual-mode handset reference design. |
| 2003-05-12 | Trinamic stepper modules simplify motor control design Trinamic Microchips GmbH's TMCM series of stepper modules for stepper motor control eliminates chip-level design, thus reducing the design time and cost, while simplifying the design of application-specific motor controllers. |
| 2000-12-11 | Trigger design ideas for diac replacements This application note addresses some alternative trigger circuits where in most cases, the part cost is the same or less than the diac they replace. |
| 2005-06-16 | Trends, challenges in systems design Basic system-design methodologies are changing to enable the parallel design of the FPGA and PCB for optimum system cost, performance and cycle time |
| 2009-03-25 | Trends in high-performance power-supply design for automotive infotainment This article provides a practical framework for selecting and optimizing power-supply architectures for automotive infotainment electronics. |
| 2010-01-29 | Transitioning to next-gen automated design tools Operators must also deal with issues caused by the multiservice and multitechnology environment. Automated planning tools have proven to be the solution for such challenges. |
| 2004-06-15 | Transition to 90nm raising tough design issues Experts delving into 90nm design and process development explored a crucial question: How will the average design team handle 90nm design? |
| 2012-05-23 | Transformations of board design landscape beyond 10G As systems demand interfaces capable of handling four-channel and 10-channel paths to 40/100G Ethernet, universal adoption of 10GBase-KR seems plausible. |
| 2013-02-28 | Transform smartphone design into POS terminal Know how to design a low-cost POS equipment with numerous value-added features. |
| 2012-05-18 | TowerJazz reference design flow tips Cadence tech for power management TowerJazz's Reference Flow 2.0 power management analog/mixed-signal reference design flow integrates power management devices with control logic. |
| 2010-08-31 | TowerJazz qualifies Magma's mixed-signal design platform Magma's Titan software and TowerJazz's foundry technology provide mutual customers with a design and manufacturing solution that accelerates the design-to-silicon process and achieves first-time silicon success. |
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