Top Stories
Gearing Up For 5G
This new communications standard could transform architectural decisions across the industry, but not right away and not necessarily in obvious ways.
Adapting Mobile To A Post-Moore’s Law Era
New techniques, architectures and approaches are making up for a reduction in scaling benefits.
Why Analog Designs Fail
Analog circuitry stopped following Moore’s Law a long time ago, but that hasn’t always helped.
Blogs
Editor In Chief Ed Sperling contends that processing speed is now a geopolitical issue, which could help solve one of the thorniest problems in computing, in Arms Race In Chip Performance.
Rambus’ Frank Ferro explains why a new memory standard is so critical for everything from AI to ADAS, in The Promise of GDDR6 and 7nm.
Synopsys’ Gary Ruggles helps you understand the gotchas in moving to PCIe 5.0, in Getting Ready for 32 GT/s PCIe 5.0 Designs.
Mentor’s Hossam Sarhan and Alexandre Arriordaz demonstrate how to achieve better performance reliability in analog circuits, in Automated Analog Design Constraint Checking.
Moortec’s Ramsay Allen muses about what a difference a few degrees can make, in How To Reduce Thermal Guard-Banding.
