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June 2008

Will IBIS-AMI Save SerDes Channel Modeling?

With many high-speed interfaces going beyond 5 Gbps traditional simulation and modeling techniques for SerDes channels are not sufficient anymore. Can the proposed IBIS-AMI specification provide the modeling framework needed to solve interoperability issues for designers?

 

Feature Articles
Design Tips
Solving Over-Clocking Issues with IBIS Models

Guest author Robert Haller from Enterasys Networks discusses how to solve over-clocking in IBIS models and provides some quick tips on how to avoid over-clocking.


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Perspectives
Perspectives On IBIS

For this month’s Perspectives, we talked with Michael Mirmak, who has been the IBIS Open Forum organization’s chair since June of 2003 and served as the senior editor for the IBIS Modeling Cookbook for IBIS Version 4.0.


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Insights
IBIS Quality

Find out what the IBIS Quality Task Group is trying to do about quality issues in IBIS models. Mike Labonte from Cisco, chair of the IBIS Quality Task Group, covers the history of quality issues in IBIS and the new IBIS Quality Checklist.


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Columns
Hardware Cafe
Is Synopsys Getting Into PCB Design?

With the recent announcement that Cadence wants to buy out Mentor Graphics the whole EDA industry is in a frenzy. What could a Cadence-Mentor merger mean for hardware engineers that do PCB design? And does Synopsys have an ace up it's sleeve?

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EDA Insights
June 2008 Column

In this month's column Daniel Payne gives a run down of the latest news from some of the biggest EDA vendors! Find out what's happening in the Chip, Package, Board EDA design space and why multi-core is the new hot topic.

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