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Developers Turn To Analog For Neural Nets
Replacing digital with analog circuits and photonics can improve performance and power, but it’s not that simple.

IC Security Threat Grows As More Devices Are Connected
Awareness increases, but so does the complexity of systems and the potential attack surface.

Battle Brewing Over Automotive Display Protocols
Different options and standards will take years to sort out.

Blogs

Arteris IP’s Kurt Shuler looks at the role of the network-on-chip in ensuring total system safety, in NoCs In Authoritative MPSoC Reference.

Flex Logix’s Vinay Mehta digs into how a flexible architecture can maximize performance in a convolutional neural network, in Why Reconfigurability Is Essential For AI Edge Inference Throughput.

Rambus’ Thierry Kouthon explains why understanding AI workflows will help you recognize security risks and where cyberattacks can occur, in Securing AI/ML With A Hardware Root Of Trust.

Synopsys’ Rupal Gandhi examines how automotive systems are transforming, putting more demands on a single point of potential failure, in Meeting Automotive Functional Safety Requirements With GPIOs.

Even non-safety related automotive systems need higher reliability than many other consumer electronics. Siemens EDA’s Matthew Hogan and Dina Medhat sketch out what you need to know, in Circuit Reliability Verification For Automotive Electronics.

OneSpin’s Rob van Blommestein spells out a method for ensuring that synthesis optimizations don’t introduce new bugs, in The Case For FPGA Equivalence Checking.

Cadence’s Avijeet Singh walks through the process of finding and fixing key signal integrity issues without learning complex signal-integrity tools, in Using In-Design Analysis Flows To Resolve Signal Integrity Issues.