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Usage Models Driving Data Center Architecture Changes
The way the world is accessing data is changing. The data center is evolving to adapt.

The Problem With Benchmarks
What makes a good benchmark and who should create it? This is an issue the industry has been slow to address, but progress is being made.

Servers Are Becoming More Heterogeneous
Servers today feature one or two x86 chips, or maybe an Arm processor. In 5 or 10 years they will feature many more.

Blogs

Fraunhofer IIS’ Dirk Mayer and Roland Jancke explain how model-based systems engineering can help minimize the growing amount of energy consumed by IoT devices, in Design Support For A Green IoT.

Siemens EDA’s Madhur Bhargava explains when it might be necessary to stay on an older edition of the UPF standard, along with how to avoid migration challenges when going from one version to another, in The Many Flavors Of UPF: Which Is Right For Your Design?

Ansys’ Theresa Duncan and Michael Blattau observe that although thermal cycling, vibration, and mechanical shock and drop are major causes of electronic failure, reliability can be improved with a combination of simulation and physical testing, in Modeling PCBs For Common Causes Of Failure.

Rambus’ Tim Messegee lays out how Compute Express Link provides a means of connecting a wide range of heterogeneous computing elements, in CXL: Sorting Out The Interconnect Soup.

Arm’s David Maidment warns that despite increased awareness about security, some smaller companies still face challenges in expanding their security efforts, in Certification And Collaboration Key To Closing IoT Security-Perception Gap.

Synopsys’ Taruna Reddy and Vin Liao suggest a power estimation method that occurs earlier in the development cycle with nearly the same accuracy, in Know Your Own Power, Early And Accurately.

Cadence’s Tyler Lockman demonstrates how to quickly fan out the most complex of component interfaces with reusable blocks of routing, in A New Way To Create Structures.