Top Stories
Cracking The Auto IC Market
Race is on to grab a share of this growing market, but it’s not so simple.
Finding Security Holes In Hardware
Emphasis on performance, backward compatibility and system complexity are creating vulnerabilities that are difficult to fix.
IIoT Edge Is A Moving Target
Industrial Internet Consortium defines use scenarios, not standards, of IIoT edge computing.
Blogs
Editor In Chief Ed Sperling zeroes in on what needs to happen to make next-gen wireless technology ubiquitous, in 3 Big Challenges For 5G.
Executive Editor Ann Steffora Mutschler finds a twisty path to building automotive chips, including selling a vision to customers, in Getting To Automotive Grade.
Mentor’s Omar El-Sewefy points to verification challenges for photonics ICs, from false DRC errors to the absence of a SPICE source netlist, in Physical Verification For Silicon Photonics: Don’t Panic!
Arteris IP’s Kurt Shuler explains how to eliminate system bottlenecks and improve efficiency by using a cache between functional blocks and external memory, in A Primer On Last-Level Cache Memory For SoC Designs.
Synopsys’ Robert Vamosi argues that for autonomous driving to become a reality, the early stages of vehicle electrification must become more robust, in Build In Functional Safety Early.
Achronix’s Volkan Oktem digs into eFPGA configuration and how long the process should take, in Deriving Configuration Time For eFPGAs.
Flex Logix’ Geoff Tate looks at how eFPGAs measure up on inferencing, in Flexible, Energy-Efficient Neural Network Processing At 16nm.
