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Top Stories

Key Drivers In New Chip Industry Outlook
CEOs and analysts examine winners and losers and where demand is shifting.
Published on May 4th,  2020 by Ed Sperling

The Murky World Of AI Benchmarks
What works for one application may be wholly inadequate for another; accuracy may vary by use case.
Published on April 30th,  2020 by Ann Steffora Mutschler

Inevitable Bugs
What differentiates an avoidable bug from an inevitable bug? Experts try to define the dividing line.
Published on April 29th,  2020 by Brian Bailey

Practical Processor Verification
When creating a new processor, how much verification is required? Setting the right ROI is important.
Published on April 23rd,  2020 by Brian Bailey

Using Processor Trace At The System Level
More on-chip interactions and design heterogeneity is rekindling interest in a well-worn technology.
Published on April 23rd,  2020 by Ann Steffora Mutschler

Re-Imagining The GPU
How a basic processing element is being transformed by RISC-V, partitioning and inferencing.
Published on April 23rd,  2020 by Susan Rambo And Ed Sperling

Medical, Industrial & Aerospace IC Design Changes
Strict quality, safety and security requirements and increasing complexity are pushing companies to adopt some leading-edge commercial approaches.
Published on March 30th,  2020 by Ann Steffora Mutschler

Software-Defined Hardware Gains Ground — Again
AI applications are prompting chipmakers to take another look at different options for reconfigurable hardware.
Published on March 26th,  2020 by Ann Steffora Mutschler

Do You Trust Your IP Supplier?
How secure is the IP that you are integrating into your system? Accellera wants to help with that.
Published on March 26th,  2020 by Brian Bailey

3nm: Blurring Lines Between SoCs, PCBs And Packages
The end of Moore's Law is providing options for shifting what goes where and how it gets designed.
Published on March 2nd,  2020 by Ann Steffora Mutschler

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Round Tables

Portable Stimulus And Digital Twins
Experts at the Table: How Portable Stimulus plays with the digital twin and the drive toward system-level coverage.
Published on November 25th,  2019 by Brian Bailey

RISC-V Markets, Security And Growth Prospects
Experts at the Table: Why RISC-V has garnered so much attention, what still needs to be done, and where it will likely find its greatest success.
Published on November 18th,  2019 by Ed Sperling

Migrating 3D Into The Mainstream
Experts at the Table: The creation of complex, packaged systems affects everything in the design flow and requires a systems approach.
Published on October 31st,  2019 by Brian Bailey

RISC-V Challenges And Opportunities
Who makes money with an open-source ISA, the current state of the RISC-V ecosystem, and what differentiates one vendor from the next.
Published on October 24th,  2019 by Ed Sperling

Extending Portable Stimulus
Experts at the Table: With the initial standard in place, what can we expect in terms of broadening its scope to other domains and applications?
Published on October 16th,  2019 by Brian Bailey

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Multimedia

Rising Packaging Complexity
Why advanced packaging is still so difficult.
Published on May 19th,  2020 by Ed Sperling

Speeding Up Verification Using SystemC
How HLS plus formal can significantly reduce optimization and debug time.
Published on March 23rd,  2020 by Ed Sperling

Timing Closure At 7/5nm
Why shifting left in a complex design is critical.
Published on March 17th,  2020 by Ed Sperling

Banking On FPGA Prototyping
Where the biggest savings are in ASIC design.
Published on March 4th,  2020 by Ed Sperling

Fusing Implementation And Verification
Re-using Tcl scripts to reduce cost and potential errors.
Published on March 2nd,  2020 by Ed Sperling

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