They said it couldn't be done, but Synopsys has imbued its PrimeTime 2009.12 static timing analyzer with the ability to run in multi-threaded and distributed multicore modes. Synopsys continues to ...

When the microprocessor and inexpensive ROM memory arrived in the early 1970s, building small, stored-program computing systems became practical. System designers learned that with the rapidly growing ...

Let's assume that you need to simultaneously look at the inputs and outputs of a 16-bit counter to determine a timing error, but you have only a 2-channel scope – how do you look all of the required ...

(See box, “ Logic-analyzer specs: some things to look out for.”) The first logic analyzers were timing analyzers–essentially DSOs with large numbers of channels and displays capable of showing only ...