Top Stories
New Shifts In Automotive Design
How electric vehicles, autonomous driving and car sharing are impacting chip design.
Where Is Energy Harvesting?
Sensors that have to be smart enough for networking and security have power conservation all set, following a decade of focused effort by chipmakers.
New Market Drivers
Experts at the Table, part 1: The industry is changing. Who is driving the market today and what new requirements do they have?
Blogs
Editor In Chief Ed Sperling finds debate beginning to stir up over the choices that machines make, in Artificial, With Questionable Intelligence.
Executive Editor Ann Steffora Mutschler argues that attention to detail will be critical in automotive designs because of the numerous safety, reliability and security requirements, in Committing To Automotive.
Rambus’ Asaf Ashkenazi notes that while limited compute resources and a complex ecosystem make edge security tough, chip-to-cloud solutions could help, in Securing IoT Edge Devices.
Achronix’s Alok Sanghavi explains how to gain the benefits of reconfigurable technology without the power penalty of going off-chip, in eFPGAs Accelerate Data-Centric Processing.
Mentor’s Scot Morrison contends that while the industrial IoT shows much promise, the current state of SDKs could pose a major problem, in Addressing The Productivity Gaps In IIoT.
Marvell’s Tal Mizrahi shows how to sort through different telemetry approaches for the optimum solution, in How To Build A Modern Network.
Synopsys’ Mike Thompson looks at why utilizing ASIL-ready IP processor designs is an important step toward functional safety, in Achieving ISO 26262 Certification With High-Performance Processors.
Flex Logix’s Geoff Tate digs into how to optimize embedded FPGA designs by using dedicated software tools, in Introduction To eFPGA Software.
Other News
TEL Sells Packaging Tool Unit
ASM Pacific to buy TEL NEXX amid consolidation in the packaging tool biz.