Top Stories
Power Management Heats Up
Thermal effects are now a critical part of design, but how to deal with them isn’t always obvious or straightforward.
2.5D Becomes A Reality
Experts at the table, part 1: Lower power, better bandwidth and smaller form factor propel advanced packaging into commercial use; cost is still rather murky.
Analyzing The Integrity Of Power
Making sure the power grid is strong enough to sustain the power delivery.
Bridging The IP Divide
Part 1: A lot has changed since the emergence of the IP-based methodology and it is currently going through a major update.
Blogs
Editor In Chief Ed Sperling contends that compute architectures will start wrapping around the memory rather than the processor, in It’s All About DRAM.
Executive Editor Ann Steffora Mutschler finds a lot of emphasis being placed on power modeling, despite lingering concerns, in Are Models Always The Answer?
ARM’s Charles Dittmer and Prithi Ramakrishnan question whether we can get to Bluetooth without batteries, in Bluetooth Smart: Doing (A Lot) More With Less.
Teklatech’s Tobias Bjerregaard looks at silicon measurements that are relevant to IoT designs, in Power Integrity Optimization Cuts RF Substrate Noise.
Mentor Graphics’ Ellie Burns observes that dynamic power becomes the dominant contributor to power consumption as designs move to finFET technology, in An Introduction To Reducing Dynamic Power.
Synopsys’ Marc Greenberg notes that to deploy LPDDR4 effectively requires an understanding of the fundamental changes in its architecture, in Using Multi-Channel Connections For Optimized LPDDR4 Power & Performance.
