Top Stories

Uses, Limits And Questions For FPGAs In Autos
Where it works, where it doesn’t, and where the choices get fuzzy.

Hardware Attack Surface Widening
Cable Haunt follows Spectre, Meltdown and Foreshadow as potential threat spreads beyond a single device; AI adds new uncertainty.

Bigger, Faster, More Diverse And Expensive
Synopsys’ CEO examines the fundamental shifts in design and markets.

Blogs

Editor In Chief Ed Sperling questions the value proposition for the fastest versions of 5G, in Millimeter Wave: A Bridge Too Far?

Rambus’ Tim Messegee warns that with the vast number of connections it will enable, 5G networks will have increased attack surface that adversaries can try to exploit, in Security Is Key When AI Meets 5G.

Mentor’s Doug Burcicki contends that as complexity rises in response to consumer demands, a siloed approach to vehicle development will no longer be sustainable, in Automotive Industry On Course To Disruption And Evolution.

Synopsys’ Stelios Diamantidis talks about how ML can enable self-optimizing tools that look for DRC hotspots, EM/IR distribution, and more, in Machine Learning… Everywhere.

Flex Logix’s Geoff Tate explains why all the TOPS in the world are of little use if software can’t use them efficiently, in Software Is At Least As Important As Hardware For Inference Accelerators.

Cadence’s Paul McLellan describes how little problems gets progressively worse over new process generations, eventually requiring integrated tools to address, in Signal Integrity Through The Years.