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AI Testing: Pushing Beyond DFT Architectures
By Rahul Singhal - 27 May, 2021 - Comments: 0

Every day, more applications are deploying artificial intelligence (AI) system to increase automation beyond traditional systems. The continuous growth in computing demands of AI systems require designers to develop massive, highly parallel AI processor chips. Their large sizes and types of applications have a significant impact on their design and test methodologies. With thousands of repeated... » read more

Hyperconnectivity, Hyperscale Computing, And Moving Edges
By Frank Schirrmeister - 27 May, 2021 - Comments: 0

As described in “The Four Pillars of Hyperscale Computing” last year, the four core components that development teams consider for data centers are computing, storage, memory, and networking. Over the previous decade, requirements for programmability have fundamentally changed data centers. Just over a decade ago, in 2010, virtual machines would compute user workloads on CPU-centric archite... » read more

The Road To Domain-Specific Accelerators
By Roddy Urquhart - 27 May, 2021 - Comments: 0

For about fifty years, IC designers have been relying on different types of semiconductor scaling to achieve gains in performance. Best known is Moore’s Law, which predicted that the number of transistors in a given silicon area and clock frequency would double every two years. This was combined with Dennard scaling, which predicted that with silicon geometries and supply voltages shrinki... » read more

Invent A New Way To Do Your Job
By Hagai Arbel - 27 May, 2021 - Comments: 0

My friends own a farm in the southwest of France, and though I spent most of my recent decades around big cities, my village-raised roots are sending me working in the fields every time I have the time. I don’t really care what I’m assigned to, as long as soil, the nearby forest trees, and the sky (preferably blue) will take part. If the job consists of repeating actions, I like to come up ... » read more

Signoff DRC In P&R Lets You Get Better Products To Market Faster
By Srinivas Velivala - 27 May, 2021 - Comments: 0

Trust is generally a reflection of quality. You trust someone, be it an individual or a company, because they have, over time, consistently performed high-quality work. You trust a product because your past experience with that product has been positive, or the experiences of lots of other people have been positive. With that said, quality comes in shades and percentages. Most of us will happil... » read more

NoCs In Authoritative MPSoC Reference
By Kurt Shuler - 06 May, 2021 - Comments: 0

The MPSoC Forum, sponsored by IEEE and other industry associations, hosts an annual conference in beautiful places around the planet. It is dedicated to showcasing renowned academic and industry experts in multicore and multiprocessor architectures. The goal is to explore trends in system-on-chip (SoC) hardware and software architectures and applications. An additional purpose is to consider th... » read more

The Case For FPGA Equivalence Checking
By Rob van Blommestein - 06 May, 2021 - Comments: 0

Formal Equivalence Checking (EC) has become a standard part of the ASIC development flow, replacing almost all gate level simulation with a rigorous consistency check between pre- and post-synthesized code. In the Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) space, EC is still a relatively new concept, but is rapidly becoming important given the large devices being employed today. For the largest FP... » read more

Adding Value To Open-Source RISC-V Cores With Verification
By Lee Moore - 22 Apr, 2021 - Comments: 0

By Steve Richmond (Silicon Labs), Mike Thompson (OpenHW Group), and Lee Moore (Imperas Software) Modern SoC verification has matured to the point that some are suggesting the use of the word ‘prototype’ when referring to the first silicon samples is now unnecessary. This is due in part to the commercial EDA industry, which has provided the innovation and tools used throughout the design... » read more

Hyperconnectivity And The Path To 6G
By Frank Schirrmeister - 22 Apr, 2021 - Comments: 0

Some may view the recent uptick in the news about next-generation wireless networking, specifically 6G, with some healthy skepticism as 5G is “just rolling out.” But when looking at the timelines, it becomes clear why 6G is critical and is also excellent news for electronics, and by extension, the design of semiconductors and systems. The same key elements that transformed the data center t... » read more

Heterogeneous Computing Model Delivers Order-Of-Magnitude Performance Breakthrough
By Samad Parekh - 22 Apr, 2021 - Comments: 0

By Srinivas Kodiyalam (NVIDIA) and Samad Parekh (Synopsys) With the ever-increasing demand for more computing performance, the HPC industry is moving towards a heterogeneous computing model, where GPUs and CPUs work together to perform general-purpose computing tasks. In this heterogeneous computing model, the GPU serves as an accelerator to the CPU, to offload the CPU and to increase comput... » read more

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