Top Stories

Inference Moves To The Network
Speeding up response by processing between the edge and the data center.

Vehicle Communications Network Is Due For Overhaul
Security is becoming bigger risk as vehicle automation increases; fixes and alternatives are in the works.

Making Sense Of PUFs
What’s driving the resurgence of physically unclonable functions, and why this technology is so confusing.

Blogs

Editor in Chief Ed Sperling finds competition heating up within the automotive supply chain as companies vie for differentiation, in The Great Auto Race Goes Internal.

Rambus’ Gijs Willemse explains how to create a secure bi-directional link between Ethernet-connected devices, in Securing Data In Motion With MACsec.

Maxim Integrated’s Andrew Baker highlights existing technology, from sophisticated sensors to AI, that can enable clinical-grade medical wearables for remote health monitoring, in COVID-19 Pandemic Highlights Importance Of Remote Patient Monitoring Technologies.

Flex Logix’s Geoff Tate points out how specific optimizations to embedded FPGAs, already known for their flexibility, are opening up new possibilities, in Increasing eFPGA Adoption Will Shape eFPGA Features/Benefits.

Mentor’s Puneet Sinha digs into where new innovations and improvements for Li-ion battery technology are needed and how digital twins can help, in Simulation-Driven EV Battery Pack Design And Manufacturing In The Decade Of Vehicle Electrification.

Cadence’s Paul McLellan reviews how three major phases in the development of EDA tools forecast the need to adapt to modern computing fabrics, in A New EDA Paradigm Emerges In Computational Software.

Synopsys’ Rich Collins proposes a way to reduce the implementation complexity of low-cost, low-power wide-area communications for embedded IoT devices, in Optimizing Embedded Narrowband IoT Modem Solutions To Meet IoT Connectivity Challenges.