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I have no clue about computer chip design and manufacturing. So I trolled VentureBeat's readers with a challenge: Explain to me how Apple's switch from third-party chip manufacturers to its own in-house design for the A4 chip that powers the new iPad tablet computer makes the iPad better, either for Apple or for iPad customers.

Integrated circuits (IC), often called chips, combine multiple discrete electronic devices onto a single substrate utilizing the capabilities of semiconductor materials. The development of the digital portions of an IC can be divided into several stages, including: functional design and verification physical design and verification packaging manufacturing test

Chip Design Verification | S2C

Chip designers do their best to use the latest cocktail of ip level verification techniques and tools, and EDA companies continually innovate new verification tools, design flows, and pre-verified silicon IP, in a valiant effort to achieve the elusive goal of achieving chip design verification perfection.

After cashing Intel's check and appearing more competitive than expected against Clarkdale 2010 is like a fresh start for AMD. The news gets better. Late last year AMD said that before the end of 2010 it would be sampling its first APU (Accelerated Processing Unit) - codenamed Llano. Today AMD is announcing that the first Llano samples, built on Global Foundries 32nm high-k + metal gate, SOI process will be sampling to partners in the first half of this year.

IP is the building block of today's complex designs. No matter if you are designing an IP for commercial sales or internal project needs, having a fully validated IP is essential. IP should be tested with a large number of test patterns, validated in a real system environment and be run using real software. Furthermore, IP that is created for external users should be easily demonstrated and evaluated to minimize system-on-chip (SoC) integration time. Today's global market has increased the need for secure IP evaluation. IP customers should have the ability to evaluate IP extensively before a purchase is made while IP providers need a way to safely deliver IP for evaluation without risk of piracy.

The Virtex™ UltraScale+™ FPGA VCU118 Evaluation Kit is the ideal development environment for evaluating the cutting-edge Virtex UltraScale+ FPGAs. Virtex UltraScale+ devices provide the highest performance and integration capabilities in a FinFET node, including both the highest serial I/O and signal processing bandwidth, as well as the highest on-chip memory density.